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2025 AFC U-20 Asian Cup

The 2025 AFC U-20 Asian Cup was the 42nd edition of the AFC U-20 Asian Cup, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the men's under-20 national teams of Asia.

Qualification
Qualification matches were played between 21 and 29 September 2024. Qualified teams A total of 16 teams, including hosts China, qualified for the final tournament. ==Venues==
Venues
The competition was held in four venues around Shenzhen. ==Match officials==
Match officials
The tournament implemented video assistant referees (VAR), a first in the tournament's history, starting from the semi-finals onwards. ;Referees • Alex King • Ammar Mahfoodh • Shen YinhaoThoriq 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==
Draw
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. ==Squads==
Squads
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 ==
Group stage
;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: • 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 ---- ---- Group B ---- ---- Group C ---- ---- Group D ---- ---- ==Knockout stage==
Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winner if necessary. Bracket Quarter-finals All four winners qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup. ---- ---- ---- Semi-finals ---- Final ==Goalscorers==
Goalscorers
==Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 World Cup==
Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 World Cup
The following teams from AFC qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Chile. :1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year. ==See also==
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