The 2025 EAFF E-1 Football Championship was an association football tournament organised by the East Asian Football Federation. It was the tenth edition of the men's tournament of the EAFF E-1 Football Championship, the men's football championship of East Asia. The preliminary competition was held on 8–17 December 2024 in Hong Kong, and the tournament was held on 7–15 July 2025 in South Korea.

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

Final RoundPreliminary Round (hosts) (hosts) (withdrawn)

Venues Preliminary Round Final Round Yongin Hong Kong Stadium Kai Tak Youth Sports Ground Mong Kok Stadium Yongin Mireu Stadium Capacity: 40,000 Capacity: 5,000 Capacity: 6,664 Capacity: 37,155

Preliminary competition

Draw The tournament's official draw was released on 15 November 2024. The pot placements followed each team's progress based on the world rankings.

Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3 (159) (H) (110) (Withdrawn) (165) (185) (189) (204)

Matches Six countries drawn lots in 2 groups, two teams on the top in each group contested in the final.

Group A

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

Group B

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

Final

Final round The final round was held in South Korea from 7 to 15 July 2025. On 29 April 2025, Yongin government announced that the city would host all 6 matches of the final round at Yongin Mireu Stadium.

Squads

Table

Matches All times are local time, Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00).

Awards Best goalkeeperBest defenderTop scorerMost Valuable Player Keisuke Ōsako Kim Moon-hwan Ryo Germain Ryo Germain

Goalscorers

5 goals

Ryo Germain

1 goal

Huang Zhengyu Matt Orr Mao Hosoya Sho Inagaki

Henry Heroki Mochizuki Sōta Nakamura Joo Min-kyu Kang Sang-yoon

Kim Ju-sung Lee Dong-gyeong Lee Ho-jae

See also 2026 WAFF Championship 2025 CAFA Nations Cup 2025 EAFF E-1 Football Championship (women)

References

External links EAFF E-1 Football Championship 2025 South Korea, eaff.com Competition schedule (PDF), eaff.com (Archive1, , Archive3)