Football at the 2025 SEA Games
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| Football at the 2025 SEA Games | |||||||||
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| Event details | |||||||||
| Games | 2025 SEA Games | ||||||||
| Host country | Thailand | ||||||||
| Dates | 3–18 December | ||||||||
| Venues | 4 (in 3 host cities) | ||||||||
| Competitors | 368 from 9 nations | ||||||||
| Men's tournament | |||||||||
| Teams | 9 (from 1 sub-confederation) | ||||||||
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| Women's tournament | |||||||||
| Teams | 7 (from 1 sub-confederation) | ||||||||
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← 2023 2027 → | |||||||||
| Football at the 2025 SEA Games | ||
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| Tournament | ||
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| Squads | ||
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The football tournament at the 2025 SEA Games were held from 3 to 18 December in Thailand. The men's matches were held in Bangkok and Chiang Mai city, while the women's matches was held in Chonburi. The draw took place in Bangkok on 19 October 2025.[1]
Associations affiliated with the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) might send teams to participate in the tournament. There were no age restrictions on women's teams. For men's teams, the age limit were under-22 (born on or after 1 January 2003) with no overage players being allowed like the 2023 tournament.
Vietnam were the four-time women's defending champions, but got defeated by the Philippines in the gold medal match. Indonesia were the men's defending champions but did not get past in the group stage. For Thailand, this is the fourth conclusive times that neither men's nor women's teams failed to achieved gold medal, the first time since 1967 the men's team failed to achieve gold medal on their home soil, and the first time ever the women's team failed to achieve gold medal on their home soil.
The competition schedule was announced on 3 November 2025.[2] The final match schedule was confirmed by the AFF on 2 December 2025.[3][4]
| GS | Group stage | ½ | Semi-finals | B | Bronze medal match | F | Gold medal match |
Date Event | Wed 3 | Thu 4 | Fri 5 | Sat 6 | Sun 7 | Mon 8 | Tue 9 | Wed 10 | Thu 11 | Fri 12 | Sat 13 | Sun 14 | Mon 15 | Tue 16 | Wed 17 | Thu 18 | ||
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| Men | GS | GS | GS | GS | GS | GS | ½ | B | F | |||||||||
| Women | GS | GS | GS | GS | GS | GS | ½ | B | F | |||||||||
Venues
A total of 4 venues in Thailand was used to host the football matches. Chiang Mai (the 1995 main venue) will host the men's group C match, Bangkok (the first time in Rajamangala Stadium, which before hosted in Supachalasai Stadium) will host the group A and B and knockout stages, while Chonburi will host the women's tournament. Notably, no matches will be played in Nakhon Ratchasima (venue of 2007), due to the city will host the Para Games the next year.
Originally, Tinsulanon Stadium in Songkhla was scheduled to hosted the Group B of men's tournament, but due to the floods caused by Cyclone Senyar, all group B matches have to move to Rajamangala Stadium in Bangkok as replacement.
| Men's tournament | ||
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| Group A and B matches and Knockout Stage | Group C matches | |
| Bangkok | Chiang Mai | |
| Rajamangala Stadium[5] | 700th Anniversary Stadium[6] | |
| Capacity: 51,560 | Capacity: 17,909 | |
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| Women's tournament | ||
| Group Stage and Knockout Stage | ||
| Chonburi | ||
| IPE Chonburi Stadium[7] | Chonburi Stadium[7] | |
| Capacity: 11,000 | Capacity: 8,680 | |
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Participating nations
Men's tournament
Group stage
Group A
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 |  Thailand (H) |
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | +8 | 6 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 |  Timor-Leste |
2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 3 | |
| 3 |  Singapore |
2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | −5 | 0 |
Group B
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 |  Vietnam |
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | +3 | 6 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 |  Malaysia |
2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 3 | |
| 3 |  Laos |
2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | −4 | 0 |
Group C
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 |  Philippines |
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | +3 | 6 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 |  Indonesia |
2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 3 | |
| 3 |  Myanmar |
2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | −4 | 0 |
Ranking of second-placed teams
| Pos | Grp | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 | B | Malaysia |
2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 3 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | C | Indonesia |
2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 3 | |
| 3 | A | Timor-Leste |
2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 3 |
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Wins; 5) Lower disciplinary points total; 6) Drawing of lots.
Knockout stage
| Semi-finals | Gold medal match | |||||
| 15 December – Bangkok | ||||||
| Thailand | 1 | |||||
| 18 December – Bangkok | ||||||
| Malaysia | 0 | |||||
| Thailand | 2 | |||||
| 15 December – Bangkok | ||||||
| Vietnam (a.e.t.) | 3 | |||||
| Vietnam | 2 | |||||
| Philippines | 0 | |||||
| Bronze medal match | ||||||
| 18 December – Bangkok | ||||||
| Philippines | 1 | |||||
| Malaysia | 2 | |||||