2025 AFC U-17 Asian Cup qualification
Tournament details | |
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Dates | 19–27 October 2024[1] |
Teams | 41 (from 1 confederation) |
The 2025 AFC U-17 Asian Cup qualification will be an international men's under-17 football competition which will be held to decide the participating teams of the 2025 AFC U-17 Asian Cup.[1]
Draw[edit]
Of the 41 AFC member associations, a total of 42 teams will enter the competition. Saudi Arabia as host of the final tournament will not participate.[2]
The draw will be held on 13 June 2024.
The 41 teams will be allocated to 2 groups of five teams and 8 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.[citation needed]
Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 | Pot 5 |
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- Notes
- Teams in bold qualified for the final tournament.
- (H): Qualification group hosts
Player eligibility[edit]
Players born on or after 1 January 2008 were eligible to compete in the tournament.[3]
Format[edit]
In each group, teams will play each other once at a centralised venue. The ten group winners and the six best runners-up will qualify for the final tournament.[citation needed]
Tiebreakers[edit]
Teams will 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 tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 7.3):[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 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 are 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.
Qualified teams[edit]
A total of 16 teams including hosts Saudi Arabia will qualify for the final tournament.
Team | Qualified as | Appearance | Previous best performance |
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Saudi Arabia | Hosts | 12th | Champions (1985, 1988) |
- 1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.
See also[edit]
Notes[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "AFC Competitions Calendar (Jul 2024 - Jun 2025)" (PDF). AFC. 15 May 2024.
- ^ "U17亚洲杯6月13日抽签,中国国少预选赛东道主+种子身份出战" (in Chinese). Dongqiudi. 1 June 2024. Retrieved 8 June 2024.
- ^ a b "AFC U17 Asian Cup™ 2025 Competition Regulations" (PDF). AFC.