Football at the 2021 SEA Games
Venues	Việt Trì Stadium, Phú Thọ Thiên Trường Stadium, Nam Định Mỹ Đình National Stadium, Hà Nội Cẩm Phả Stadium, Quảng Ninh
Dates	6–22 May 2022
Nations	10
Medalists
Vietnam (men)  Vietnam (women)    Thailand (men)  Thailand (women)    Indonesia (men)  Philippines (women)
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The football tournament at the 2021 SEA Games was held from 6 to 22 May 2022 in Vietnam. In addition to the host city Hanoi,^[1] matches were held in Việt Trì,^[2] Nam Định^[3] and Cẩm Phả.^[4]

Associations affiliated with FIFA may send teams to participate in the tournament. There were no age restrictions on women's teams. For men's teams, with the postponement of the Games from 2021 to 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the age limit was raised from under-22 (set since 2017) to under-23 (born on or after 1 January 1999) with a maximum of three overage players allowed.^[5]

Competition schedule

The following is the competition schedule for the football competitions:^[6]

Venues

A total of 4 venues across 4 cities are used to host football matches.^[6] Mỹ Đình National Stadium hosted the Men's Bronze medal match and the Men's Gold medal Match.

Hà Nội	Hà Nội Phú Thọ Nam Định Quảng Ninh Football at the 2021 SEA Games (Vietnam)	Phú Thọ
Mỹ Đình National Stadium		Việt Trì Stadium
Capacity: 40,192		Capacity: 16,000
Nam Định		Quảng Ninh
Thiên Trường Stadium		Cẩm Phả Stadium
Capacity: 30,000		Capacity: 16,000

Participating nations

Nation	Men's	Women's
Brunei
Cambodia
Indonesia
Laos
Malaysia
Myanmar
Philippines
Singapore
Thailand
East Timor
Vietnam
Total: 11 NOCs	10	7

Men's tournament

Group stage

• All times are Vietnam Standard Time (UTC+7).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Vietnam (H)	4	3	1	0	6	0	+6	10	Advance to Semi-finals
2	Indonesia	4	3	0	1	11	5	+6	9
3	Myanmar	4	2	0	2	7	8	−1	6
4	Philippines	4	1	1	2	6	7	−1	4
5	East Timor	4	0	0	4	3	13	−10	0

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Thailand	4	3	0	1	12	2	+10	9	Advance to Semi-finals
2	Malaysia	4	2	2	0	9	6	+3	8
3	Singapore	4	1	2	1	5	9	−4	5
4	Cambodia	4	1	1	2	6	9	−3	4
5	Laos	4	0	1	3	4	10	−6	1

Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Gold medal match
	19 May – Phú Thọ
	Vietnam (a.e.t.)	1
					22 May – Hà Nội
	Malaysia	0
					Vietnam	1
	19 May – Nam Định
					Thailand	0
	Thailand (a.e.t.)	1
	Indonesia	0
					Bronze medal match
					22 May – Hà Nội
					Malaysia	1 (3)
					Indonesia (p)	1 (4)

Winners

2021 SEA Games Men's Tournament
Vietnam Third title

Women's tournament

Group stage

• All times are Vietnam Standard Time (UTC+7).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Vietnam (H)	2	2	0	0	9	1	+8	6	Advance to Semi-finals
2	Philippines	2	1	0	1	6	2	+4	3
3	Cambodia	2	0	0	2	0	12	−12	0
4	Indonesia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew

Group B