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	4 (in 3 host cities)
Competitors	TBA
Men's tournament
Teams	9 (from 1 sub-confederation)
Women's tournament
Teams	7 (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 and Chiang Mai city, while the women's matches will held in Chonburi.

Associations affiliated with the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) 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 was held on 19 October 2025.

Competition schedule

To be confirmed.

Venues

A total of 4 venues in Thailand will be used to host the football matches. Chiang Mai (the 1995 main venue) will host the men's group C match, Bangkok (the first time in Rajamangala Stadium, which before hosted in Supachalasai Stadium) 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 (venue of 2007), due to the city will host the Para Games the next year.

Originally, Tinsulanon Stadium in Songkhla was schedule 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.

Men's tournament		Women's tournament
Group A and B matches and Knockout Stage	Group C matches	Group Stage and Knockout Stage
Bangkok	Chiang Mai	Chonburi
Rajamangala Stadium [1]	700th Anniversary Stadium [2]	IPE Chonburi Stadium [3]	Chonburi Stadium [3]
Capacity: 51,560	Capacity: 17,909	Capacity: 11,000	Capacity: 8,680
Bangkok Chiang Mai Chonburi

Participating nations

Nation	Men's	Women's
Brunei
Cambodia
Indonesia
Laos
Malaysia
Myanmar
Philippines
Singapore
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Vietnam
Total: 9 NOCs	9	7

Men's tournament

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

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

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Thailand (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Advance to knockout stage
2	Timor-Leste	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Possible knockout stage based on rankings
3	Singapore	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 3 December 2025. Source: SEA Games
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Vietnam	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Advance to knockout stage
2	Malaysia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Possible knockout stage based on rankings
3	Laos	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 3 December 2025. Source: SEA Games
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Indonesia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Advance to knockout stage
2	Myanmar	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Possible knockout stage based on rankings
3	Philippines	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 5 December 2025. Source: SEA Games
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Ranking of second-placed teams

Pos	Grp	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	A	Second place Group A	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Advance to knockout stage
2	B	Second place Group B	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	C	Second-place Group C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: SEA Games
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Wins; 5) Lower disciplinary points total; 6) Drawing of lots.

Women's tournament

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

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

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Thailand (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Advance to knockout stage
2	Singapore	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Indonesia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Cambodia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew

First match(es) will be played: 4 December 2025. Source: SEA Games
(H) Hosts

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Vietnam	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Advance to knockout stage
2	Myanmar	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Philippines	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Malaysia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 5 December 2025. Source: SEA Games

Medal summary

To be confirmed.

References

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