2025 AFC U-20 Asian Cup
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| 2025年亚足联U-20亚洲杯 | |
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| Tournament details | |
| Host country | China |
| Dates | 12 February – 1 March |
| Teams | 16 (from 1 confederation) |
| Venue(s) | 4 (in 1 host city) |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 28 |
| Goals scored | 89 (3.18 per match) |
| Attendance | 39,500 (1,411 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |  Kim Tae-won Mukhammadali Urinboev(4 goals) |
← 2023 2027 →
All statistics correct as of 23 February 2025. | |
The 2025 AFC U-20 Asian Cup is the 42nd edition of the AFC U-20 Asian Cup (including previous editions of the AFC Youth Championship and AFC U-19 Championship), the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the men's under-20 national teams of Asia.
On 24 May 2024, the AFC announced that China would host the tournament.[1]
A total of 16 teams are playing in the tournament. The top four teams will qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Chile as the AFC representatives.
Uzbekistan were the title holders, having won the title in 2023. They were eliminated on penalties by South Korea in the quarter-finals.
Qualification
[edit]Qualification matches were played between 21 and 29 September 2024.[2]
Qualified teams
[edit]A total of 16 teams, including hosts China, qualified for the final tournament.
| Team | Qualified as | Appearance | Previous best performance |
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 China |
Hosts | 20th | Champions (1985) |
 Syria |
Group A winners | 12th | Champions (1994) |
| Uzbekistan |
Group B winners | 9th | Champions (2023) |
| South Korea |
Group C winners | 40th | Champions (1959, 1960, 1963, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1990, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2012) |
 Saudi Arabia |
Group D winners | 15th | Champions (1986, 1992, 2018) |
 North Korea |
Group E winners | 14th | Champions (1976, 2006, 2010) |
 Indonesia |
Group F winners | 20th | Champions (1961) |
 Iran |
Group G winners | 22nd | Champions (1973, 1974, 1975, 1976) |
 Iraq |
Group H winners | 19th | Champions (1975, 1977, 1978, 1988, 2000) |
 Japan |
Group I winners | 39th | Champions (2016) |
 Qatar |
Group J winners | 16th | Champions (2014) |
 Yemen |
1st best runners-up | 8th | Quarter-finals (1975) |
 Kyrgyzstan |
2nd best runners-up | 3rd | Group stage (2006, 2023) |
 Australia |
3rd best runners-up | 9th | Runners-up (2010) |
 Thailand |
4th best runners-up | 34th | Champions (1962, 1969) |
 Jordan |
5th best runners-up | 9th | Fourth place (2006) |
Venues
[edit]The competition is being held in four venues around Shenzhen.[3]
| Shenzhen | |||
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| Bao'an | Guangming | Longhua | |
| Bao'an Stadium | Shenzhen Youth Football Training Base Centre Stadium | Shenzhen Youth Football Training Base Pitch No.1 | Longhua Cultural and Sports Center |
| Capacity: 40,000 | Capacity: 10,000 | Capacity: 500 | Capacity: 2,364 |
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Match officials
[edit]The tournament will implement video assistant referees (VAR) for the first time, starting from the semi-finals onwards.[4]
- Referees
Alex King
Ammar Mahfoodh
Shen Yinhao
Thoriq Alkatiri
Zaid Thamer Mohammed
Hiroki Kasahara
Abdullah Jamali
Qasim Al-Hatmi
Abdulhadi Al-Rowaily
Choi Hyun-jai
Ahmed Eisa Darwish
Asker Nadjafaliev
- Assistant referees
- James Lindsay
- Mohamed Salman
- Guo Jingtao
- Luo Zheng
So Kai Man- Bangbang Syamsudar
- Hayder Ubaydee
- Takagi Takumi
- Ali Jraq
- Nasser Al-Busaidi
- Khaled Khalaf
- Cheon Jin-hee
Ismoil Nuraliev
Kijsathit Pattarapong- Yasser Al-Murshidi
- Ruslan Serazitdinov
Draw
[edit]The draw of the final tournament was held on 7 November 2024 in Shenzhen, China. The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four teams, with the teams seeded according to their performance in the 2023 AFC U-20 Asian Cup final tournament and qualification, with the hosts China automatically seeded and assigned to Position A1 in the draw.
| Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
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Squads
[edit]Players born on or after 1 January 2005 and on or before 31 December 2009 were eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team must register a squad of minimum 18 players and maximum 23 players, minimum three of whom must be goalkeepers.
Group stage
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- Tiebreakers
Teams were 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:[5]
- 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, (UTC+8)
Group A
[edit]| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 | Australia
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 3 | +7 | 9 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | China (H)
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | +3 | 6 | |
| 3 | Qatar
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 3 | |
| 4 | Kyrgyzstan
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 14 | −11 | 0 |
| Australia | 5–1 | Kyrgyzstan |
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| China | 2–1 | Qatar |
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Shenzhen Youth Football Training Base Centre Stadium, Shenzhen
Attendance: 5,152
Referee: Qasim Al-Hatmi (Oman)
| Kyrgyzstan | 2–5 | China |
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| China | 1–2 | Australia |
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| Kyrgyzstan | 0–4 | Qatar |
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Group B
[edit]| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 | Saudi Arabia
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 6 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Iraq
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3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 5 | |
| 3 | Jordan
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | |
| 4 | North Korea
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 1 |
| Iraq | 1–1 | North Korea |
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| Jordan | 0–1 | Saudi Arabia |
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| North Korea | 1–2 | Jordan |
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| Saudi Arabia | 0–1 | Iraq |
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| Saudi Arabia | 2–1 | North Korea |
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Group C
[edit]| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 | Iran
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | +10 | 9 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Uzbekistan
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 6 | |
| 3 | Indonesia
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | −5 | 1 | |
| 4 | Yemen
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | −7 | 1 |
| Uzbekistan | 1–0 | Yemen |
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Shenzhen Youth Football Training Base Pitch No.1, Shenzhen
Attendance: 179
Referee: Shen Yinhao (China)
| Yemen | 0–6 | Iran |
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Shenzhen Youth Football Training Base Pitch No.1, Shenzhen
Attendance: 225
Referee: Choi Hyun-jai (South Korea)
| Indonesia | 1–3 | Uzbekistan |
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| Uzbekistan | 1–2 | Iran |
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Group D
[edit]| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 | South Korea
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 7 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Japan
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3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 5 | |
| 3 | Syria
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3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 2 | |
| 4 | Thailand
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | −6 | 1 |
| South Korea | 2–1 | Syria |
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| Syria | 2–2 | Japan |
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Attendance: 468
Referee: Ahmed Eisa Darwish (United Arab Emirates)
| Thailand | 1–4 | South Korea |
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Shenzhen Youth Football Training Base Pitch No.1, Shenzhen
Attendance: 165
Referee: Asker Nadjafaliev (Uzbekistan)
| Japan | 1–1 | South Korea |
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Knockout stage
[edit]In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary.
Bracket
[edit]| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| 22 February | ||||||||||
| Australia | 3 | |||||||||
| 26 February | ||||||||||
| Iraq | 2 | |||||||||
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| Iran | 1 (3) | |||||||||
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| Japan (p) | 1 (4) | |||||||||
| 22 February | ||||||||||
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | |||||||||
| 26 February | ||||||||||
| China | 0 | |||||||||
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| South Korea (p) | 3 (3) | |||||||||
| Uzbekistan | 3 (1) | |||||||||
Quarter-finals
[edit]All four winners qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup.
| Saudi Arabia | 1–0 | China |
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| South Korea | 3–3 (a.e.t.) | Uzbekistan |
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| Penalties | ||
| 3–1 | ||
Shenzhen Youth Football Training Base Pitch No.1, Shenzhen
Attendance: 259
Referee: Qasim Al-Hatmi (Oman)
Semi-finals
[edit]| Saudi Arabia | Match 30 | South Korea |
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Shenzhen Youth Football Training Base Centre Stadium, Shenzhen
Final
[edit]| Winner Match 29 | Match 31 | Winner Match 30 |
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Goalscorers
[edit]There have been 89 goals scored in 28 matches, for an average of 3.18 goals per match (as of 23 February 2025).
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
- Louis Agosti
- Dean Bosnjak
- Panagiotis Kikianis
- Medin Memeti
- Mao Weijie
- Wang Yudong
- Jens Raven
Mobin Dehghan- Yousef Mazraeh
- Hesam Nafari
- Abolfazl Zoleikhaei
- Aymen Luay
- Mustafa Qabeel
- Rion Ichihara
- Hisatsugu Ishii
- Soma Kanda
- Kosei Ogura
- Yuto Ozeki
- Ryunosuke Sato
- Rento Takaoka
Beknaz Almazbekov- Yryskeldi Madanov
- Umar Madavinov
Han Jae-yong- Kim Jin-song
- Ri Jong-dok
- Mohamed Hani Faragalla
- Tahsin Jamshid
- Moath Taha
- Noureldan Tamer
Thamer Al-Khaibri- Ammar Al-Yuhaybi
- Baek Min-gyu
- Park Seung-soo
- Shin Sung
- Yoon Do-young
Aland Abdi- Ahmad Al-Kalou
- Ahmad Soufi
- Yotsakorn Burapha
- Asilbek Jumaev
- Saidumarkhon Saidnurullaev
1 own goal
Mohammed Moqbel (against Iran)
Tournament ranking
[edit]As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.[6]
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Final result |
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| 1 | Team | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Champions |
| 2 | Team | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Runners-up |
| 3 | Team | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Eliminated in semi-finals[a] |
| 4 | Team | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 5 | Uzbekistan
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4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | +2 | 7 | Eliminated in quarter-finals[b] |
| 6 | Iran
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4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 2 | +10 | 10 | |
| 7 | Iraq
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4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 5 | |
| 8 | China
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4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 6 | +2 | 6 | |
| 9 | Jordan
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | Eliminated in group stage[c] |
| 10 | Qatar
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 3 | |
| 11 | Syria
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3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 2 | |
| 12 | Indonesia
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | −5 | 1 | |
| 13 | North Korea
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 1 | |
| 14 | Thailand
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | −6 | 1 | |
| 15 | Yemen
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | −7 | 1 | |
| 16 | Kyrgyzstan
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 14 | −11 | 0 |
Updated to match(es) played on 23 February 2025. Source: [citation needed]
- ^ For 3rd and 4th place, teams were ranked in descending order as follows: goal difference in the semi-finals, goals scored in the semi-finals, and the same procedure used as teams eliminated in the quarter-finals.[6]
- ^ For 5th to 8th place, teams were ranked in descending order as follows: goal difference in the quarter-finals, goals scored in the quarter-finals, and the same procedure used as teams eliminated in the group stage.[6]
- ^ For 9th to 16th place, teams were ranked in descending order as follows: position in the group stage, points in all group matches, goal difference in all group matches, goals scored in all group matches, disciplinary points in all group matches, and drawing of lots.[6]
Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 World Cup
[edit]The following teams from AFC qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Chile.
| Team | Qualified on | Previous appearances in FIFA U-20 World Cup1 |
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| Saudi Arabia |
22 February 2025 | 9 (1985, 1987, 1989, 1993, 1999, 2003, 2011, 2017, 2019) |
| Australia |
22 February 2025 | 15 (1981, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2011, 2013) |
| Japan |
23 February 2025 | 11 (1979, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2017, 2019, 2023) |
| South Korea |
23 February 2025 | 16 (1979, 1981, 1983, 1991, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2017, 2019, 2023) |
- 1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Pivotal reforms approved by AFC Competitions Committee". the-AFC.com. Asian Football Confederation. 24 May 2024. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
- ^ "AFC Competitions Calendar (Jul 2024 - Jun 2025)" (PDF). the-AFC.com. Asian Football Confederation. 15 January 2025. Retrieved 20 February 2025.
- ^ "官方：2025年中国U20亚洲杯将在深圳举行". Dongqiudi (in Chinese). 7 November 2024. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
- ^ "#AFCU20 - S-finals: 5 things to look out for". the-AFC.com. Asian Football Confederation. 25 February 2025. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
- ^ "Competition Regulations AFC U-20 Asian Cup™ 2025" (PDF). the-AFC.com. Asian Football Confederation. 1 March 2024. Retrieved 20 February 2025.
- ^ a b c d "AFC Competition Operations Manual (Edition 2023)" (PDF). the-AFC.com. Asian Football Confederation. 2023. Retrieved 25 January 2024.