The 2025 ASEAN U-23 Championship (officially the ASEAN U-23 mandiri Cup 2025 for sponsorship reasons) was the 5th edition of the ASEAN U-23 Championship (previously known as the AFF U-23 Championship), the biennial international youth football championship organised by ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) for the men's under-23 national teams of Southeast Asia. The tournament was held in Indonesia from 15 to 29 July.[1][2][3]
The two-time defending champions Vietnam[4] defeated hosts Indonesia 1–0 in the final, thereby successfully defending their 2022 and 2023 title and winning their third title overall.[5]
Qualified teams
There was no qualification phase. The following teams, from 10 out of 12 member associations of the AFF, entered the tournament:[1]
Players born on or after 1 January 2002 are eligible to participate. Each national team had to submit a squad of 23 players, three of whom had to be goalkeepers. If a player was injured or ill severely enough to prevent his participation in the tournament before his team's first match, he could be replaced by another player.
Match officials
Naufal Adya Fairuski
Ryan Nanda Saputra
Koji Takasaki
Mohammed Sami Al-Ismail
Mohd Usaid Jamal
Mohd Zulfiqar
Pansa Chaisanit
Lê Vũ Linh
Nguyễn Mạnh Hải
Venues
The tournament take place in two stadiums across northwestern part of Greater Jakarta.
Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Goals scored in all group matches;
Penalty shoot-out if only two teams had the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and were tied after applying all criteria above (not used if more than two teams had the same number of points, or if their rankings were not relevant for qualification for the next stage);
Disciplinary points
Yellow card: −1 point;
Indirect red card (second yellow card): −3 points;
The Yanmar Top Goalscorer award was given to Indonesia's Jens Raven, who scored 7 goals throughout the tournament including a double hat-trick against Brunei.[10]
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Vietnam (3rd title)
Indonesia 
Thailand 
Philippines 
