2025 AFC U-17 Asian Cup

The 2025 AFC U-17 Asian Cup will be the 20th edition of the AFC U-17 Asian Cup (including previous editions of the AFC U-16 Championship and AFC U-17 Championship), the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the men's under-17 national teams of Asia.

2025 AFC U-17 Asian Cup

Tournament details
Host country	Saudi Arabia
Dates	3–20 April
Teams	16 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	4 (in 2 host cities)
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On 24 May 2024, the AFC announced that Saudi Arabia would host the tournament.^[1]

A total of 16 teams will play in the tournament. The top eight teams of the tournament (i.e. all quarter-finalists) will qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Qatar as the AFC representatives besides Qatar who qualified automatically as the host.^[2]

Japan are the title holders, having won the title in 2023.

Qualification

Main article: 2025 AFC U-17 Asian Cup qualification

Qualification matches were played between 19 and 27 October 2024.^[3]

Qualified teams

A total of 16 teams including hosts Saudi Arabia qualified for the final tournament.

Team[4]	Qualified as	Appearance	Previous best performance
Saudi Arabia	Hosts	12th	Champions (1985, 1988)
North Korea	Group A winners	12th	Champions (2010, 2014)
Afghanistan	Group B winners	3rd	Group stage (2018, 2023)
South Korea	Group C winners	16th	Champions (1986, 2002)
Thailand	Group D winners	13th	Champions (1998)
Uzbekistan	Group E winners	11th	Champions (2012)
Japan	Group F winners	17th	Champions (1994, 2006, 2018, 2023)
Australia	Group G winners	8th	Semi-finals (2010, 2014, 2018)
United Arab Emirates	Group H winners	8th	Runners-up (1990)
Yemen	Group I winners	8th	Runners-up (2002)
Tajikistan	Group J winners	5th	Runners-up (2018)
China	Best runners-up	16th	Champions (1992, 2004)
Vietnam	2nd best runners-up	9th	Fourth place (2000)
Indonesia	3rd best runners-up	7th	Fourth place (1990)
Iran	4th best runners-up	13th	Champions (2008)
Oman	5th best runners-up	11th	Champions (1996, 2000)

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Venues

4 stadiums in 2 host cities will be used to play the tournament:

Jeddah
King Abdullah Sports City Stadium	Prince Abdullah Al Faisal Sports City Stadium
Capacity: 60,000	Capacity: 25,000
Location of the stadiums of the 2025 AFC U-17 Asian Cup (Saudi Arabia) Jeddah Taif
Taif
King Fahd Sports City Stadium	Okadh Sport Club Stadium
Capacity: 20,000	Capacity: 1,500

Draw

The draw of the final tournament was held on 23 January 2025 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four teams, with the teams seeded according to their final rankings across the previous three editions (2016, 2018, 2023), with the hosts Saudi Arabia automatically seeded and assigned to Position A1 in the draw.^[5]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Saudi Arabia (hosts)  Japan  South Korea  Iran	Australia  Yemen  Uzbekistan  Tajikistan	Thailand  Vietnam  Oman  Afghanistan	China  Indonesia  North Korea  United Arab Emirates

Squads

Main article: 2025 AFC U-17 Asian Cup squads

Group stage

The group winners and runners-up advance to the quarter-finals and qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Tiebreakers

Teams are to be ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tie-breaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings:^[6]

1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
4. If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
5. Goal difference in all group matches;
6. Goals scored in all group matches;
7. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams were tied and they met in the last round of the group;
8. Disciplinary points (yellow card = 1 point, red card as a result of two yellow cards = 3 points, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points);
9. Drawing of lots.

All match times are in local time, UCT (UTC+3).

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Saudi Arabia (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Knockout stage and 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup
2	Uzbekistan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Thailand	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	China	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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

Uzbekistan	v	Thailand

3 April 2025

18:00

King Fahd Sports City Stadium, Taif

Saudi Arabia	v	China

3 April 2025

20:15

Okadh Sport Club Stadium, Taif

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China	v	Uzbekistan

6 April 2025

18:00

Okadh Sport Club Stadium, Taif

Thailand	v	Saudi Arabia

6 April 2025

20:15

King Fahd Sports City Stadium, Taif

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Thailand	v	China

9 April 2025

20:15

Okadh Sport Club Stadium, Taif

Saudi Arabia	v	Uzbekistan

9 April 2025

20:15

King Fahd Sports City Stadium, Taif

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Japan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Knockout stage and 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup
2	Australia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Vietnam	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	United Arab Emirates	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 4 April 2025. Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Australia	v	Vietnam

4 April 2025

18:00

Okadh Sport Club Stadium, Taif

Japan	v	United Arab Emirates

4 April 2025

20:15

King Fahd Sports City Stadium, Taif

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Vietnam	v	Japan

7 April 2025

18:00

Okadh Sport Club Stadium, Taif

United Arab Emirates	v	Australia

7 April 2025

20:15

King Fahd Sports City Stadium, Taif

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Japan	v	Australia

10 April 2025

18:00

Okadh Sport Club Stadium, Taif

Vietnam	v	United Arab Emirates

10 April 2025

18:00

King Fahd Sports City Stadium, Taif

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	South Korea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Knockout stage and 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup
2	Yemen	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Afghanistan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Indonesia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 4 April 2025. Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

South Korea	v	Indonesia

4 April 2025

18:00

Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium, Jeddah

Yemen	v	Afghanistan

4 April 2025

20:15

King Abdullah Sports City Stadium, Jeddah

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Indonesia	v	Yemen

7 April 2025

18:00

Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium, Jeddah

Afghanistan	v	South Korea

7 April 2025

20:15

King Abdullah Sports City Stadium, Jeddah

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South Korea	v	Yemen

10 April 2025

20:15

King Abdullah Sports City Stadium, Jeddah

Afghanistan	v	Indonesia

10 April 2025

20:15

Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium, Jeddah

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Iran	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Knockout stage and 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup
2	Tajikistan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Oman	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	North Korea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 5 April 2025. Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Tajikistan	v	Oman

5 April 2025

18:00

Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium, Jeddah

Iran	v	North Korea

5 April 2025

20:15

King Abdullah Sports City Stadium, Jeddah

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North Korea	v	Tajikistan

8 April 2025

18:00

King Abdullah Sports City Stadium, Jeddah

Oman	v	Iran

8 April 2025

20:15

Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium, Jeddah

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Iran	v	Tajikistan

11 April 2025

20:15

Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium, Jeddah

Oman	v	North Korea

11 April 2025

20:15

King Abdullah Sports City Stadium, Jeddah

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	13 April 2025
					17 April 2025
	14 April 2025
									20 April 2025
	13 April 2025
					17 April 2025
	14 April 2025

Quarter-finals

	v

13 April 2025

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	v

13 April 2025

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	v

14 April 2025

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	v

14 April 2025

Semi-finals

	v

17 April 2025

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	v

17 April 2025

Final

	v

20 April 2025

Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 World Cup

The following nine teams from AFC qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup; Qatar qualified automatically as the hosts.

Team	Qualified on	Previous appearances in FIFA U-17 World Cup1
Qatar	14 March 2024	7 (1985, 1987, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2005)
	April 2025
	April 2025
	April 2025
	April 2025
	April 2025
	April 2025
	April 2025
	April 2025

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

See also

• 2025 AFC U-20 Asian Cup

References

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3. "AFC Competitions Calendar (Jul 2024 - Jun 2025)" (PDF). AFC. 15 May 2024.
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5. "AFC U17 Asian Cup™ Saudi Arabia 2025: #AFCU17 draw to determine Saudi Arabia 2025 battles". the-AFC. Retrieved 2025-02-18.
6. "AFC U17 Asian Cup 2023 Competition Regulations" (PDF). AFC. Retrieved 8 June 2023.