Vietnam among 10 qualification hosts for 2025 AFC U20 Asian Cup
VOV.VN - The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has announced a list of 10 countries who will host 10 Groups of the qualifying round for the 2025 AFC U20 Asian Cup, including Vietnam.
The Vietnamese men’s football team will host the qualifiers for the 2025 U20 Asian Cup alongside Cambodia, China, Chinese Taipei, Laos, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Singapore, and Thailand.
The 10 best teams in each group and the five best second-place teams in the qualifying round are set to advance to the 2025 AFC U20 Asian Cup which will be held in China.
The top four teams of the tournament will then qualify for the 2025 FIFA U20 World Cup in Chile as the representatives of the AFC.
The AFC is scheduled to hold a draw for the qualifying round of the U20 Asian tournament on June 13 at its headquarters in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.
The Vietnamese men’s football team have been placed in Pot 1 ahead of the draw together with strong rivals Uzbekistan, Iraq, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Australia, and Iran.
A total of 30 young national team footballers have taken part in a training session in Hanoi. They will fly to China on June 2 as they head to compete in a friendly international tournament where they will face hosts China, the Republic of Korea, and Uzbekistan on June 4, June 8, and June 10, respectively.
The Vietnamese team have taken part in the Asian tournament nine times. Their best result was making the semi-final round of the AFC U20 Asian Cup in 2016, thereby qualifying for the 2017 FIFA U20 World Cup.
