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2025 AFC U-20 Asian Cup qualification
Tournament details
Host countries	Vietnam (Group A) Chinese Taipei (Group B) Kuwait (Group C) Saudi Arabia (Group D) Tajikistan (Group E) Indonesia (Group F) Laos (Group G) Thailand (Group H) Kyrgyzstan (Group I) Qatar (Group J)
Dates	21–29 September 2024^[1]
Teams	45 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	80
Goals scored	309 (3.86 per match)
Top scorer	Caelan Ryan (5 goals)
←2023 2027 →

International football competition

The2025 AFC U-20 Asian Cup qualification was an international men's under-20football competition which was held to decide the participating teams of the2025 AFC U-20 Asian Cup.^[1]

Draw

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46 out of 47AFC member associations entered the competition.China, as the hosts, were automatically qualified for the final tournament and thus did not participate in qualification;Pakistan did not enter the competition at all.

The draw was held on 13 June 2024.^[2] The ten teams hosting the qualification groups were allocated to a separate pot, with other teams seeded according to their performance in the previous tournament and qualification process (overall ranking shown in parentheses).^[2]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4	Pot 5
Uzbekistan (1) Iraq (2) Japan (3) South Korea (4) Australia (5) Iran (6) Jordan (8) Vietnam (9)(H) Indonesia (10)(H) Tajikistan (11)(H)	Saudi Arabia (12)(H) Syria (13) Kyrgyzstan (14)(H) Oman (15) Qatar (16)(H) Thailand (17)(H) Lebanon (18) Yemen (19) Mongolia (20) Bahrain (21)	Chinese Taipei (22)(H) Malaysia (23) Bangladesh (24) Palestine (25) United Arab Emirates (26) Philippines (27) India (28) Myanmar (29) Timor-Leste (30) Singapore (31)	Afghanistan (32) Cambodia (33) Kuwait (34)(H) Turkmenistan (35) Laos (36)(H) Bhutan (37) Hong Kong (38) Sri Lanka (39) Brunei (40) Maldives (41)	Nepal (42) Guam (43) Northern Mariana Islands (44) North Korea (NR) Macau (NR)

Notes

Teams inbold qualified for the final tournament.
(H): Qualification group hosts
NR: Non-ranked teams
Did not enter: Pakistan

Player eligibility

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Players born on or after 1 January 2005 were eligible to compete in the tournament.^[3]

Schedule

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Round	Groups A–E	Groups F–J
Matchday 1	21 September 2024	25 September 2024
Matchday 2	23 September 2024	27 September 2024
Matchday 3	25 September 2024	29 September 2024
Matchday 4	27 September 2024	—
Matchday 5	29 September 2024	—

Groups

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In each group, teams played each other once at a centralised venue.^[4]

The ten group winners and the five best runners-up qualified for the final tournament.

Tiebreakers
Teams were ranked according topoints (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.

Tiebreakers

Teams were ranked according topoints (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.

Group A

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All matches were held inVietnam.
Times listed areUTC+7.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Syria	4	4	0	0	16	1	+15	12	Final tournament
2	Vietnam(H)	4	3	0	1	12	2	+10	9
3	Bangladesh	4	1	1	2	5	11	−6	4
4	Guam	4	0	2	2	4	16	−12	2
5	Bhutan	4	0	1	3	2	9	−7	1

Source:AFC
Rules for classification:Qualification tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

21 September 2024 (2024-09-21)

16:00

Guam	1–1	Bhutan
Suzuki 42'	Report	Tenzin 2'

Lạch Tray Stadium,Haiphong

Attendance: 338

Referee: Ahmad Alaeddin (Lebanon)

21 September 2024 (2024-09-21)