The 2025 ASEAN U-23 Championship (officially the ASEAN U-23 mandiri Cup 2025 for sponsorship reasons) was the 5th edition of the ASEAN U-23 Championship (previously known as the AFF U-23 Championship), the biennial international youth football championship organised by ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) for the men's under-23 national teams of Southeast Asia. The tournament was held in Indonesia from 15 to 29 July.
The two-time defending champions Vietnam defeated hosts Indonesia 1–0 in the final, thereby successfully defending their 2022 and 2023 title and winning their third title overall.
Qualified teams There was no qualification phase. The following teams, from 10 out of 12 member associations of the AFF, entered the tournament: TeamAppearance First appearance Last appearance Previous best performance3rd20222023Group stage (2022, 2023)5th 20052023 (2019)3rd20192023 (2019)4th20052023 (2022)5th 20052023 (2005, 2023)4th20052023 (2005)5th 20052023Group stage (2005, 2019, 2022, 2023)4th20052023 (2005)5th20052023 (2022)4th20192023 (2022, 2023)
Did not enter
Draw The group stage draw was held on Bali, Indonesia at 10:00 local time (UTC+8). Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4
Schedule All matches were played from 15 to 29 July. Stage(s)MatchdayGroup ADateGroup B, CDateGroup stageMatchday 12 v 3, 1 v 415 July 20252 v 316 July 2025Matchday 24 v 2, 3 v 118 July 20253 v 119 July 2025Matchday 31 v 2, 3 v 421 July 20251 v 222 July 2025Knockout stageRoundMatchesDateSemi-finalsB1 v C1/A225 July 2025A1 v B3-C3/C1Third place play-offSF1 loser v SF2 loser28 July 2025FinalSF1 winner v SF2 winner29 July 2025
Squads
Players born on or after 1 January 2002 are eligible to participate. Each national team had to submit a squad of 23 players, three of whom had to be goalkeepers. If a player was injured or ill severely enough to prevent his participation in the tournament before his team's first match, he could be replaced by another player.
Match officials Naufal Adya Fairuski Ryan Nanda Saputra Koji Takasaki Mohammed Sami Al-Ismail Mohd Usaid Jamal Mohd Zulfiqar Pansa Chaisanit Lê Vũ Linh Nguyễn Mạnh Hải
Venues The tournament take place in two stadiums across northwestern part of Greater Jakarta. BekasiJakartaPatriot Candrabhaga StadiumGelora Bung Karno StadiumCapacity: 30,000Capacity: 77,193
Group stage The group winners and the best runners-up advanced to the knockout stage, which began with the semi-finals.
All times are local, WIB (UTC+7).
Tiebreakers The ranking of teams in the group stage was determined as follows: Points obtained in all group matches; 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 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); Disciplinary points Drawing of lots.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Ranking of second-placed teams Only one second-placed team will qualify for the semi-finals.
Result against fourth-placed team in Group A will not be considered for this ranking.
Knockout stage In the knockout stage, the penalty shoot-out was used to decide the winner if necessary.
Bracket
Semi-finals
Third place play-off
Final
Statistics Goalscorers
Awards Rising Star of the Tournament The Adidas Rising Star of the Tournament award was given to the Philippines' Otu Banatao. Otu Banatao
Best Goalkeeper The best goalkeeper award was given to Indonesia's Muhammad Ardiansyah. Muhammad Ardiansyah
Top Goalscorer The Yanmar Top Goalscorer award was given to Indonesia's Jens Raven, who scored 7 goals throughout the tournament including a double hat-trick against Brunei. Jens Raven (7 goals)
Most Valuable Player The Mandiri Most Valuable Player award was given to Vietnam's Nguyễn Đình Bắc. Nguyễn Đình Bắc
Final ranking
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