2026 ASEAN Championship
The 2026 ASEAN Championship, commonly referred to as ASEAN Hyundai Cup™ 2026 for sponsorship reasons, or simply ASEAN Cup 2026, will be the 16th ASEAN Championship, the biennal international men's football championship of Southeast Asia organised by the ASEAN Football Federation and will be the 1st edition under the name ASEAN HYUNDAI CUP™. The tournament will celebrate as the 30th anniversary of the competition.
The event will be held in July and August on the summer season for the first time, instead of the traditional monsoon season near the year-end.
It remains unclear how the FIFA ASEAN Cup announced in October 2025 would relate to the ASEAN Championship.
Vietnam are the defending champions after winning the 2024 final against Thailand.
Format
The 2026 ASEAN Championship will follow format since 2018. In the current format, the nine highest ranked teams would automatically qualify, with the 10th and 11th ranked teams playing a two-legged qualifiers. The 10 teams would be split in two groups of five and play a round robin system with each team playing two home and two away fixtures. The top two sides of each group will advance to the knockout stages consisting of two-legged semi-finals and finals. Away goals rule would not be applied since the last edition.Qualification
Nine teams automatically qualified to the ASEAN Championship final tournament. They were separated in respective pots, based on performance of the last two editions.Brunei and East Timor, the two lowest-performing teams will play a two-legged qualifier to determine the 10th and final qualifier.
Qualified teams
| Team | Appearance | Previous best performance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11th | Group stage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16th | Runners-up | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15th | Group stage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16th | Winners | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16th | Fourth place / Semi-finalists | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15th | Semi-finalists | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16th | Winners | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16th | Winners | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16th | Winners | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Flag of None.svgDrawThe draw took place on 15 January 2026 at RCTI+ studio in Jakarta, Indonesia at 16:00 UTC+7.The pot placements followed each team's progress based on the two previous editions. If the results are equal, the most recent tournament will be given priority. Defending champion, Vietnam were automatically placed in A1, while Thailand were placed in B1. Due to political tension between Thailand and Cambodia, the latter was automatically drawn to Group A. At the time of the draw, the identity of the team that secured qualification was unknown and was automatically placed into Pot 5.
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