Football at the 2025 SEA Games – Men's tournament final
Football match
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The 2025 SEA Games football gold medal match (Thai: การแข่งขันฟุตบอลชิงเหรียญทองซีเกมส์ 2568) was a football match to determine the gold medal winners of men's football tournament at the 2025 SEA Games. The match was the 33rd final of the men's football tournament at the Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games), a biennial tournament contested by the men's under-22 national teams of the member associations of the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) to decide the SEA Games men's football champions. The match was held at Rajamangala Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand, on 18 December 2025.[3]
Rajamangala Stadium in Bangkok hosted the final | |||||||
| Event | Football at the 2025 SEA Games – Men's tournament | ||||||
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| After extra time | |||||||
| Date | 18 December 2025 | ||||||
| Venue | Rajamangala Stadium, Bangkok | ||||||
| Referee | Mooud Bonyadifard (Iran)[1] | ||||||
| Attendance | 17,736[2] | ||||||
| Weather | Partly cloudy 29 °C (84 °F) 66% humidity | ||||||
The final was contested between hosts Thailand and rivals Vietnam. Both teams were seeking their seventeenth and fourth SEA Games title, respectively. Earlier in the year, at senior level, Vietnam defeated Thailand in the 2024 ASEAN Championship final held at Rajamangala Stadium.
Vietnam won the match 3–2 after extra time, winning their third (fourth overall) ever gold medal in the SEA Games men's football event.
Venue
The final was held at Rajamangala Stadium in Bangkok.
The stadium first opened in 1998, and had been refurbished thrice since 2019 and 2025. The stadium first hosted the 1998 Asian Games, and then a year later for the 1999 ASEAN University Games. The stadium also hosted some matches for the 2007 AFC Asian Cup.[4] On January 2020, the stadium hosted the 2020 AFC U-23 Championship as one of the four stadiums hosting this tournament.[5] 3 years later, the stadium hosted group stage matches for the 2023 AFC U-17 Asian Cup.[6]
Route to the final
 Thailand |
Round |  Vietnam | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Timor-Leste |
6–1 | Match 1 |  Laos |
2–1 | ||||||||||||||||
 Singapore |
3–0 | Match 2 |  Malaysia |
2–0 | ||||||||||||||||
Group A winner
Advance to knockout stage |
Final standings | Group B winners
Advance to knockout stage | ||||||||||||||||||
| Opponent | Result | Knockout stage | Opponent | Result | ||||||||||||||||
| Malaysia |
1–0 | Semi-finals |  Philippines |
2–0 | ||||||||||||||||
Match details
| Thailand | 2–3 (a.e.t.) | Vietnam |
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Report |
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    Vietnam[8]
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Assistant referees:
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Match rules[9]
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