# 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.
On 24 May 2024, the AFC announced that Saudi Arabia would host the tournament.
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.
Japan are the title holders, having won the title in 2023.

## Qualification

Qualification matches were played between 19 and 27 October 2024.

### Qualified teams

A total of 16 teams including hosts Saudi Arabia qualified for the final tournament.
| Team | 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) JeddahTaif ||
| 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.
| 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 |

## Group stage

The group winners and runners-up advance to the quarter-finals and qualify 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:
* 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 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;
* 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.
All match times are in local time, UCT (UTC+3).

### Group A

| Pos | Teamvte | 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 | Knockout stage and 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup |
| 3 | Thailand | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | China | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |

### Group B

| Pos | Teamvte | 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 | Knockout stage and 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup |
| 3 | Vietnam | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | United Arab Emirates | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |

### Group C

| Pos | Teamvte | 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 | Knockout stage and 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup |
| 3 | Afghanistan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | Indonesia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |

### Group D

| Pos | Teamvte | 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 | Knockout stage and 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup |
| 3 | Oman | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | North Korea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |

## Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary.
All eight teams that reached the knockout stage qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

### Bracket

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final |
| 13 April 2025 | 13 April 2025 | | |
| Winner Group A | | | |
| Winner Group A | | 17 April 2025 | 17 April 2025 | |
| Runner-up Group B | | 17 April 2025 | 17 April 2025 |
| Runner-up Group B | | Winner QF1 | |
| 14 April 2025 | 14 April 2025 | | Winner QF1 | |
| 14 April 2025 | 14 April 2025 | Winner QF2 | |
| Winner Group C | | Winner QF2 | |
| Winner Group C | | | | 20 April 2025 | 20 April 2025 |
| Runner-up Group D | | | | 20 April 2025 | 20 April 2025 |
| Runner-up Group D | | | | Winner SF1 | |
| 13 April 2025 | 13 April 2025 | | | | Winner SF1 |
| 13 April 2025 | 13 April 2025 | | | Winner SF2 | |
| Winner Group B | | | | Winner SF2 | |
| Winner Group B | | 17 April 2025 | 17 April 2025 | | |
| Runner-up Group A | | 17 April 2025 | 17 April 2025 | | |
| Runner-up Group A | | Winner QF3 | | | |
| 14 April 2025 | 14 April 2025 | | Winner QF3 | | |
| 14 April 2025 | 14 April 2025 | Winner QF4 | |
| Winner Group D | | Winner QF4 | |
| Runner-up Group C | | | |

### Final
## 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 Cup |
| Qatar | 14 March 2024 | 7 (1985, 1987, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2005) |
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    $^1$ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.