The 2025 AFC U-17 Asian Cup qualification was an international men's under-17 football competition which was held to decide the participating teams of the 2025 AFC U-17 Asian Cup.

Draw Of the 47 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) member associations, a total of 44 teams entered the competition. Saudi Arabia as the hosts of the final tournament did not participate.

The draw was held on 13 June 2024 at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia at 14:00 local time (UTC+8).

The 43 teams were allocated to three groups of five teams and seven groups of four teams, with teams seeded according to their performance in the 2023 AFC U-17 Asian Cup final tournament and qualification (overall ranking shown in parentheses; NR stands for non-ranked teams). A further restriction was also applied, with the ten teams serving as qualification group hosts drawn into separate groups.

Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4Pot 5

Notes

Teams in bold qualified for the final tournament. (H): Qualification group hosts (W): Withdrew after draw

+Did not enter

Player eligibility Players born on or after 1 January 2008 were eligible to compete in the tournament.

Schedule The matches were played between 19 and 27 October 2024.

rowspan="2" Group A-CGroup D-G, I, JGroup HDateMatchesDateMatchesDateMatchesMatchday 119 October 20243 v 25 v 423 October 20241 v 42 v 323 October 20243 v 1Matchday 221 October 20244 v 15 v 325 October 20244 v 23 v 125 October 20242 v 3Matchday 323 October 20241 v 52 v 427 October 20241 v 23 v 427 October 20241 v 2Matchday 425 October 20242 v 53 v 1 colspan="4" rowspan="2"Matchday 527 October 20244 v 31 v 2

Groups In each group, teams played each other once at a centralised venue.

Tiebreakers Teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 7.3):

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 were tied and they met in the last round of the group; 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); Drawing of lots.

Group A All matches were held in Jordan. Times listed are UTC+3.

Group B All matches were held in Cambodia. Times listed are UTC+7.

Group C All matches were held in China. Times listed are UTC+8.

Group D All matches were held in Thailand. Times listed are UTC+7.

Group E All matches were held in Chinese Taipei (Taiwan). Times listed are UTC+8.

Group F All matches were held in Qatar. Times listed are UTC+3.

Group G All matches were held in Kuwait. Times listed are UTC+3.

Group H All matches were held in Laos. Times listed are UTC+7.

Group I All matches were held in Vietnam. Times listed are UTC+7.

Group J All matches were held in Singapore. Times listed are UTC+8.

Ranking of second-placed teams Due to groups having a different number of teams, the results against the fifth-placed teams in five-team groups and the fourth-placed teams in five-team groups and four-team groups were not considered for this ranking.

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

Team Qualified asAppearance Previous best performance1 12th (1985, 1988) 12th (2010, 2014) 3rd (2018, 2023) 16th (1986, 2002) 13th (1998) 11th (2012) 17th (1994, 2006, 2018, 2023) 8th (2010, 2014, 2018) 8th (1990) 8th (2002) 5th (2018) 16th (1992, 2004) 9th (2000) 7th (1990) 13th (2008) 11th (1996, 2000) 1Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Goalscorers

See also 2025 AFC U-17 Asian Cup 2025 AFC U-20 Asian Cup qualification

References