2025 ASEAN U-23 Championship

The 2025 ASEAN U-23 Championship (officially the ASEAN U-23 Mandiri Cup 2025 for sponsorship reasons) is the 5th edition of the ASEAN U-23 Championship (previously known as the AFF U-23 Championship), organised by ASEAN Football Federation (AFF). The tournament will be held from 15 to 29 July.^[1][2][3] Vietnam are the two-time defending champions, having won the 2022 and 2023 editions.^[4]

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

To be announced.

The tournament will be held in 2 venues in Greater Jakarta.

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

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

1. Points obtained in all group matches;
2. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
3. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
4. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
5. 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;
6. Goal difference in all group matches;
7. Goals scored in all group matches;
8. 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);
9. Disciplinary points
   • Yellow card: −1 point;
   • Indirect red card (second yellow card): −3 points;
   • Direct red card: −3 points;
10. Drawing of lots.

Only one second-placed team will qualify for the semi-finals.

Result against fourth-placed team in Group A will be not considered for this ranking.

In the knockout stage, the penalty shoot-out was used to decide the winner if necessary.

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