2025 CAFA U-17 Championship


The 2025 CAFA U-17 Championship was the third edition of the CAFA U-17 Championship, the international youth football championship organized by Central Asian Football Association for the men's under-17 national teams of Central Asia. The tournament took place from 24 to 31 May 2025 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. All six CAFA member associations participated in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2009 eligible to participate.
Afghanistan were the defending champions, having won the previous year's final; however, they failed to retain the title after being eliminated early following two defeats in the group stage.

Participation

Participating teams

For the second consecutive year, all six member associations of the CAFA fielded teams in the final tournament.

Seeding

The 6 teams were drawn into two groups of three teams, with seeding based on their performance at the previous edition. Seeding was shown in parentheses. Host Uzbekistan was automatically seeded to Pot 1 and placed in the first position of Group A.

Draw

The draw took place on 23 May 2025.
The draw resulted in the following groups:

Group stage

The match schedule was released on May 23rd, after the draw was conducted.
All times are local TJT.
;Tiebreakers
Teams were ranked according to points, and if tied on points, the following tie-breaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings:
  1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  4. If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
  5. Goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Goals scored in all group matches;
  7. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams were tied and they met in the last round of the group;
  8. Disciplinary points ;
  9. Drawing of lots.

Group A

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Group B

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