2025 AFC U-17 Asian Cup

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.

A total of 16 teams will play in the tournament. The top eight teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Qatar as the AFC representatives besides Qatar who qualified automatically as the host.

Japan are the title holders, having won the title in 2023.

Qualification
Qualification matches will be played in October 2024.

Qualified teams
A total of 16 teams including hosts Saudi Arabia will qualify for the final tournament.

Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 World Cup
The following teams from AFC qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup; Qatar qualified automatically as host.


 * 1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.