2025 EAFF E-1 Football Championship

2025 EAFF E-1 Football Championship
2025년 EAFF E-1 풋볼 챔피언십
Tournament details
Host country	South Korea
Dates	July
Teams	10 (from 1 sub-confederation)
	← 2022 2028 →

The 2025 EAFF E-1 Football Championship will be an association football tournament organized by the East Asian Football Federation. It will be the tenth edition of the men's tournament of the EAFF E-1 Football Championship, the men's football championship of East Asia. On 30 March 2024, East Asian Football Federation announced that the tournament will be held in South Korea in July 2025,^[1] and the preliminary competition will be held on 7–17 December 2024 in Hong Kong.^[2]

Teams

Ten teams were allocated to their particular stage. The winner of the preliminary round progressed to the next stage.

Final Round	Preliminary Round
South Korea (hosts) Japan China	Hong Kong (hosts) North Korea Chinese Taipei Macau Mongolia Guam Northern Mariana Islands (non-FIFA member)

Venues

Preliminary Round
Hong Kong
Hong Kong Stadium	Siu Sai Wan Sports Ground	Mong Kok Stadium
Capacity: 40,000	Capacity: 11,981	Capacity: 6,664

Final Round
South Korea

Preliminary competition

Draw

The tournament's official draw was held on 4 September 2024 in Hong Kong. The pot placements followed each team's progress based on the world rankings.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Hong Kong (159) (H) North Korea (110)	Chinese Taipei (165) Macau (185)	Mongolia (189) Guam (204)	Northern Mariana Islands (non-FIFA member)

Matches

Seven countries wlll draw lots in 2 groups, two teams on the top in each group will contest in the final.

Group A

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	Hong Kong (H)	Advance to Final
2	Chinese Taipei
3	Mongolia
4	Northern Mariana Islands

First match(es) will be played: 7 December 2024. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(H) Hosts

All times are local time, Hong Kong Time (UTC+08:00)

7 December 2024