The 2025 ASEAN U-16 Futsal Championship (also known as 2025 ASEAN U-16 Boys' Futsal Championship) was the first edition of the ASEAN U-16 Futsal Championship, the biennial international youth futsal championship organised by AFF for the men's under-16 national teams of Southeast Asia. The tournament was hosted at the Nonthaburi Gymnasium, Thailand from 22 to 28 December.[1][2]
A total of five nations participated in the final tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2009 being eligible to participate.
Participating teams
The following teams participated for the final tournament.
Each national team submitted a squad of 14 players, two of whom had to be goalkeepers.
Group stage
The group winners and runners-up advance to the final, while the third and fourth place advance to the third place play-off.
Tiebreakers
In the group table, teams are 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 tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings):
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 have the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and are tied after applying all criteria above (not used if more than two teams have the same number of points, or if their rankings are not relevant for qualification for the next stage);
Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);