Football at the 2025 SEA Games


The football tournament at the 2025 SEA Games were held from 3 to 18 December in Thailand. The men's matches were held in Bangkok and Chiang Mai city, while the women's matches was held in Chonburi. The draw took place in Bangkok on 19 October 2025.
Associations affiliated with the ASEAN Football Federation might send teams to participate in the tournament. There were no age restrictions on women's teams. For men's teams, the age limit were under-22 with no overage players being allowed like the 2023 tournament.
[Vietnam women's national Association football|football team|Vietnam] were the four-time women's defending champions, but got defeated by the Philippines in the gold medal match. Indonesia were the men's defending champions but did not get past in the group stage. For Thailand, this is the fourth conclusive times that neither men's nor women's teams failed to achieved gold medal, the first time since 1967 the men's team failed to achieve gold medal on their home soil, and the first time ever the women's team failed to achieve gold medal on their home soil.

Competition schedule

The competition schedule was announced on 3 November 2025. The final match schedule was confirmed by the AFF on 2 December 2025.
GSGroup stage½Semi-finalsBBronze medal matchFGold medal match

Venues

A total of 4 venues in Thailand was used to host the football matches. Chiang Mai will host the men's group C match, Bangkok will host the group A and B and knockout stages, while Chonburi will host the women's tournament. Notably, no matches will be played in Nakhon Ratchasima, due to the city will host the Para Games the next year.
Originally, Tinsulanon Stadium in Songkhla was scheduled to hosted the Group B of men's tournament, but due to the floods caused by Cyclone Senyar, all group B matches have to move to Rajamangala Stadium in Bangkok as replacement.