2025 AFC U-17 Asian Cup

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. :1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year. ==Venues==

Four stadiums in two host cities were used for the tournament. ==Match officials==

;Referees • Daniel Elder • Dong Fangyu • Jin Jingyuan • Venkatesh Ramachandran • Morteza Mansourian • Koki Nagamine • Mahmoud Al-Sawalmeh • Mohammed Al-Shammari • Faisal Al-Balawi • Kim Yu-jeong • Abdullo Davlatov • Torphong Somsing ;Assistant referees • Andrew Meimarakis • Bao Mengxiao • Wu Mingfeng • Lam Nai Kei • Vairamuthu Parasuraman • Alireza Moradi • Isao Nishihashi • Hamza Sa'adeh • Ali Alachkar • Farhan Abdul Aziz • Ashraf Abu Zubaida • Yousuf Al-Shammari • Faisal Al-Qahtani • Ibrahim Al-Dakhil • Kuo Chan-yu • Vafo Karaev • Nuannid Dornjangreed ==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. ==Squads==

Players born between 1 January 2008 and 31 December 2010 were eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team had to register a squad of minimum 18 players and maximum 23 players, minimum three of whom must have been goalkeepers (Regulations Articles 26.3). == Group stage ==

The group winners and runners-up advanced to the quarter-finals and qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup. ;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, AST (UTC+3). Group A ---- ---- Group B ---- ---- Group C ---- ---- Group D ---- ---- ==Knockout stage==

In the knockout stage, if a match was level at the end of 90 minutes of normal playing time, the match would be decided by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner; no extra time would be played. All eight teams that reached the knockout stage qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup. Bracket Quarter-finals ---- ---- ---- Semi-finals ---- Final == Winners ==

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament: ==Goalscorers==

==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. :1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year. ==See also==