Football at the 2025 SEA Games

Football at the 2025 SEA Games
Event details
Games	2025 SEA Games
Host country	Thailand
Dates	3–18 December
Venues	5 (in 4 host cities)
Competitors	TBA
Men's tournament
Teams	10 (from 1 sub-confederation)
Women's tournament
Teams	9 (from 1 sub-confederation)
Editions
← 2023 2027 →

The football tournament at the 2025 SEA Games will be held from 3 to 18 December in Thailand. The men's matches will held in Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Songkhla city, while the women's matches will held in Chonburi. Associations affiliated with FIFA 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 (born on or after 1 January 2003) with no overage players being allowed like the 2023 tournament.

The draw will be held on October 2025, which the venue for the draw will be comfirmed later.

Competition schedule

To be comfirmed.

Venues

A total of 5 venues in Thailand will be used to host the football matches. Songkhla and Chiang Mai (the 1995 main venue) will host the men's group stage, Bangkok (the first time in Rajamangala Stadium, which before hosted in Supachalasai Stadium) will host the knockout stage, while Chonburi will host the women's tournament. Notably, no matches will be played in Nakhon Ratchasima (venue of 2007), due to the city will host the Para Games the next year.

Men's tournament			Women's tournament
Knockout Stage	Group Stage		Group Stage	Group Stage and Knockout Stage
Bangkok	Songkhla	Chiang Mai	Chonburi
Rajamangala Stadium [1]	Tinsulanon Stadium [2] [3]	700th Anniversary Stadium [4]	IPE Chonburi Stadium [5]	Chonburi Stadium [5]
Capacity: 51,560	Capacity: 30,000	Capacity: 17,909	Capacity: 11,000	Capacity: 8,680
Bangkok Songkhla Chiang Mai Chonburi

Participating nations

Nation	Men's	Women's
Brunei
Cambodia
Indonesia
Laos
Malaysia
Myanmar
Philippines
Singapore
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Vietnam
Total: 10 NOCs	9	9

Men's tournament

Main article: Football at the 2025 SEA Games – Men's tournament

• All times are Thailand Standard Time (UTC+7).

Women's tournament

Main article: Football at the 2025 SEA Games – Women's tournament

• All times are Thailand Standard Time (UTC+7).

Medal summary

To be comfirmed.

References

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