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The 2023 Central Borneo U-20 Cup (Indonesian: Piala U-20 Kalimantan Tengah 2023) is the second edition of Central Borneo U-20 Cup, held by Sugianto Sabran (Governor of Central Kalimantan). This tournament are for high schools from 14 different districts from one province. The tournament started from 14 January to 12 February 2023.

SMA Negeri 2 Palangka Raya are the defending champions.

Teams
The following 28 teams (14 from the East Zone and 14 from the West Zone) qualified for the tournament.

Draw
The 28 teams are drawn into three groups of five and four teams.

The draw were held on 11 December 2022 at the KONI Building in Palangka Raya.


 * East: 14 teams from 7 different districts from the east of the province, to be drawn into three groups: two groups of five teams and one group of four teams (Groups A–C).
 * West: 14 teams from 7 different districts from the west of the province, to be drawn into three groups: two groups of five teams and one group of four teams (Group D-F).

The teams were seeded in each zone according to their region on the province (NR stands for non-ranked teams; which are teams who debuted).

The group hosts are selected based on their performances in the previous edition. The 3 teams with the best performances in each zones will be selected as the group host (if there's two teams with the same region who are the teams with the best performance then the lowest performance team must be replaced with the next one). The group host will play on their home stadium.


 * Notes
 * (H): Group hosts

Venues
Unlike the previous edition, all the venues for the group stage and the knockout stage were at Palangka Raya. The venues that were used for the group stage and knockout stage of the tournament were Tuah Pahoe Stadium, Sanaman Mantikei Stadium and UPR Mini Stadium.

Format
In this tournament, 28 teams were drawn into six groups consisting of five and for teams each. After the group stage, the six group winners, six group runners-up and four best third-placed teams advance to the knockout stage, starting with the round of 16.

In the knockout stage, round of 16 and quarterfinals are played in one of their home stadium (the team are selected based who are home). After quarterfinals, there will be two-legged fixtures starting from semifinals and finals. Each teams that are qualified to the semifinal will be played on their home stadium each leg. Like the previous edition, there are no third-place play-off match.

Ranking of third-placed teams
The four best third-placed teams from the six groups advance to the knockout stage along with the six group winners and six runners-up.

Due to groups having a different number of teams, the results against the fifth-placed teams in five-team groups will not be considered for this ranking.

Knockout stage
The 2 best runner-up teams across all six groups will play against the 1st and 2nd third-placed teams, while the rest will play against the group winners.

Bracket
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Qualified team
The champions of this tournament will qualifiy for the 2023 National U-20 Indonesian School Cup.

Bold indicates champions for that year.