On the afternoon of May 29, the Southeast Asian Football Federation (AFF) conducted the draw ceremony for the 2023 Southeast Asian U23 Championship.
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| U23 Vietnam competes in Group C of the 2023 Southeast Asian U23 Championship. (Source: VFF) |
There are 10 teams participating in the 2023 Southeast Asian U23 Championship and they are divided into 3 groups, of which group A has 4 teams, groups B and C each have 3 teams.
The teams are divided into 3 seed groups based on their performance in last year's tournament. Accordingly, the number one seed group includes U23 Vietnam (reigning champion), Thailand (reigning runner-up) and Timor Leste (3rd place).
Pot 2 includes Cambodia, Malaysia and the Philippines. Pot 3 includes Brunei, Indonesia, Laos and Myanmar.
According to the draw results, the U23 Vietnam team is in group C with the Philippines and Laos.
Meanwhile, the host team Thailand is in Group A with Cambodia, Brunei and Myanmar. Group B will be a competition between Timor Leste, Malaysia and Indonesia.
The 2023 AFF U23 Championship will take place from August 17-26 in Thailand. This is the fourth time the tournament has been held after three times in 2005, 2019 and 2022.
Teams compete in a round robin format to determine rankings in each group. The three group winners and the best second-placed team from each group advance to the semi-finals. The two semi-final winners advance to the championship final, while the two semi-final losers meet in the third-place match.
In order to build up the team towards important goals in the future, the Vietnam U23 team will participate in the tournament with the main players being U20 age group, considering this as a stepping stone to prepare for the Asian Games (ASIAD) in Hangzhou (China) next September.
Previously, at the 2022 Southeast Asian U23 Championship in Cambodia, coach Dinh The Nam and his team defeated U23 Thailand 1-0 to win the championship.
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| Draw results for the 2023 Southeast Asian U23 Championship. (Source: VFF) |
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