2025 ASEAN U-23 Championship

2025 ASEAN U-23 Championship
Kejuaraan ASEAN U-23 2025
Tournament details
Host country	Indonesia
Dates	15–29 July
Teams	10 (from 1 sub-confederation)
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Vietnam (3rd title)
Runners-up	Indonesia
Third place	Thailand
Fourth place	Philippines
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	51 (3.19 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Jens Raven ; (7 goals)
Best player(s)	Nguyễn Đình Bắc
Best goalkeeper	Muhammad Ardiansyah
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Last updated August 20, 2025

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]

Qualified teams

There was no qualification phase. The following teams, from 10 out of 12 member associations of the AFF, entered the tournament:^[1]

Team	Appearance	First appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance
Brunei	3rd	2022	2023	Group stage (2022, 2023)
Cambodia	5th	2005	2023	Fourth place(2019)
Indonesia	3rd	2019	2023	Champions(2019)
Laos	4th	2005	2023	Third place(2022)
Malaysia	5th	2005	2023	Fourth place(2005, 2023)
Myanmar	4th	2005	2023	Third place(2005)
Philippines	5th	2005	2023	Group stage (2005, 2019, 2022, 2023)
Thailand	4th	2005	2023	Champions(2005)
Timor-Leste	5th	2005	2023	Third place(2022)
Vietnam	4th	2019	2023	Champions(2022, 2023)

Did not enter
Australia
Singapore

Draw

The group stage draw was held on Bali, Indonesia at 10:00 local time (UTC+8).^[6]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Vietnam Indonesia (H) Thailand	Malaysia Cambodia Myanmar	Philippines Laos Timor-Leste	Brunei

Schedule

All matches were played from 15 to 29 July.

Stage(s)	Matchday	Group A	Date	Group B, C	Date
Group stage	Matchday 1	2 v 3, 1 v 4	15 July 2025	2 v 3	16 July 2025
	Matchday 2	4 v 2, 3 v 1	18 July 2025	3 v 1	19 July 2025
	Matchday 3	1 v 2, 3 v 4	21 July 2025	1 v 2	22 July 2025
Knockout stage	Round		Matches		Date
	Semi-finals
			B1 v C1/A2		25 July 2025
			A1 v B3-C3/C1		25 July 2025
	Third place play-off		SF1 loser v SF2 loser		28 July 2025
	Final		SF1 winner v SF2 winner		29 July 2025

Squads

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
Muhammad Usaid Jamal
Muhammad Zulfiqar
Pansa Chaisanit
Lê Vũ Linh
Nguyễn Mạnh Hải

Venues

The tournament take place in two stadiums across northwestern part of Greater Jakarta.

Bekasi	Jakarta
Patriot Candrabhaga Stadium	Gelora Bung Karno Stadium
Capacity: 30,000	Capacity: 77,193

Bekasi Jakarta

Group stage

The group winners and the best runners-up advanced to the knockout stage, which began with the semi-finals.

All times are local, WIB (UTC+7).

Tiebreakers

The ranking of teams in the group stage was determined as follows:

Points obtained in all group matches;
Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
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;
- Direct red card: −3 points;
Drawing of lots.

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Indonesia (H)	3	2	1	0	9	0	+9	7	Advance to knockout stage
2	Philippines	3	2	0	1	4	1	+3	6	Advance to knockout stage
3	Malaysia	3	1	1	1	7	3	+4	4
4	Brunei	3	0	0	3	1	17	−16	0

Source: ASEAN United FC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

15 July 2025