2025 ASEAN U-23 Championship

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.

There was no qualification phase. The following teams, from 10 out of 12 member associations of the AFF, entered the tournament:

The group stage draw was held on Bali, Indonesia at 10:00 local time (UTC+8).

All matches were played from 15 to 29 July.

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.

• 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

The tournament take place in two stadiums across northwestern part of Greater Jakarta.

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).

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 not be considered for this ranking.

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

There were 51 goals scored in 16 matches, for an average of 3.19 goals per match.

7 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

The Adidas Rising Star of the Tournament award was given to the Philippines' Otu Banatao.

• Otu Banatao

The best goalkeeper award was given to Indonesia's Muhammad Ardiansyah.

• Muhammad Ardiansyah

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)

The Mandiri Most Valuable Player award was given to Vietnam's Nguyễn Đình Bắc.

• Nguyễn Đình Bắc

• Official website