U23 Vietnam reaches impressive milestone, receives good news at U23 Asian tournament

(Dan Tri) - According to the plan, U23 Vietnam can be in the second seed group in the U23 Asia tournament. That will help us avoid many strong opponents.

Vietnam U23 has excellently passed the qualifying round of the U23 Asian Cup with a perfect record of winning all three matches against U23 Singapore (1-0), U23 Bangladesh (2-0), U23 Yemen (1-0).

Vietnam U23 won all matches and did not concede any goals in the 2026 AFC U23 Championship qualifiers (Photo: Minh Quan).

Notably, during the entire qualifying round, only two teams achieved a perfect record (winning all 3 matches, not conceding a goal). Apart from U23 Vietnam, only U23 Korea was able to do this.

Even, there was a team that did not concede a goal but was still eliminated, U23 Cambodia. This is the tournament where the team from the land of pagodas showed remarkable progress. They drew two stronger teams, U23 Iraq and U23 Oman, with the same score of 0-0. Along with that, U23 Cambodia won with the score of

In the past, U23 Vietnam had gone through the qualifying round of the U23 Asian Cup with all wins and no goals conceded, that was in the 2022 tournament. At that time, we won against U23 Myanmar and U23 Chinese Taipei with the same score of 1-0.

The 2026 AFC U23 Championship finals will feature 16 teams, divided into four groups of four teams each. According to the organizers' seeding points, the teams' rankings in the three most recent AFC U23 Championship finals will be converted into points and multiplied by the corresponding coefficients. The organizers will then rank them from highest to lowest. The 2024 tournament will have a coefficient of 1, the 2022 tournament will have a coefficient of 0.5, and the 2020 tournament will have a coefficient of 0.25.

Being in the second seed group of the U23 Asia tournament is good news for U23 Vietnam (Photo: Minh Quan).

According to the above calculation, the expected seed groups in the U23 Asia tournament are as follows:

Group 1: U23 Saudi Arabia (host), U23 Uzbekistan, U23 Japan and U23 Iraq.

Group 2: U23 Korea, U23 Vietnam, U23 Australia and U23 Qatar

Group 3 : U23 Thailand, U23 Jordan, U23 UAE and U23 Iran

Group 4: U23 China, U23 Syria, U23 Kyrgyzstan and U23 Lebanon.

By being in the second seed group, U23 Vietnam has certain advantages when avoiding many strong opponents such as U23 Korea, U23 Australia and U23 Qatar.

The organizers have not yet announced the time of the draw for the group stage of the U23 Asian Cup. The final round of the tournament will take place from January 7-25, 2026 in Saudi Arabia.

Vietnam U23's performance in recent years has been quite stable. The team reached the semi-finals of the AFC U23 Championship in the last two seasons in 2022 and 2024.

Source: https://dantri.com.vn/the-thao/u23-viet-nam-can-moc-an-tuong-nhan-tin-vui-o-giai-u23-chau-a-20250910185109092.htm