The 2025 AFC U-17 Asian Cup will be the 20th edition of the AFC U-17 Asian Cup (including previous editions of the AFC U-16 Championship and AFC U-17 Championship), the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the men's under-17 national teams of Asia.
On 24 May 2024, the AFC announced that Saudi Arabia would host the tournament.[1]
A total of 16 teams will play in the tournament. The top eight teams of the tournament (i.e. all quarter-finalists) will qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Qatar as the AFC representatives besides Qatar who qualified automatically as the host.[2]
Japan are the title holders, having won the title in 2023.
1Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.
Venues
To be confirmed.
Draw
The draw of the final tournament will be on 23 January 2025 at the AFC Hall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The 16 teams will be drawn into four groups of four teams, with the teams seeded according to their performance in the 2023 AFC U-17 Asian Cup final tournament and qualification, with the hosts Saudi Arabia automatically seeded and assigned to Position A1 in the draw.
