The 2025 FIFA Arab Cup () was the 11th edition of the Arab Cup, the Arab world's national team football tournament. It was the second edition under FIFA's jurisdiction, with previous editions having been organised by the Union of Arab Football Associations (UAFA). The tournament took place in Qatar from 1 to 18 December 2025. This was the third time that Qatar hosted the competition, following the 1998 and 2021 editions.
In the final, Morocco played Jordan on 18 December at the Lusail Stadium in Lusail. Morocco won the match 3âÂÂ2 after extra time to claim their second Arab Cup.
Of the 23 participating teams, the host nation Qatar, the title holders Algeria, and the remaining seven highest-ranked teams based on the April 2025 FIFA Ranking automatically qualified for the group stage. The remaining 14 teams played seven single-leg qualification matches, with the seven winners advancing to the group stage. In the group stage, there were four groups of four teams in a round-robin format, with the top two teams from each group qualifying for the knockout stage, which consisted of quarter-finals, semi-finals, a play-off for third place, and the final.
The 14 teams in the qualifiers were paired based on their April 2025 FIFA Ranking and consist of the seven lowest-ranked teams from both the AFC and the CAF. The highest-ranked AFC team played the lowest-ranked CAF team, the second-highest-ranked AFC team played the second-lowest-ranked CAF team, and so forth, creating seven inter-confederation matchups. The winners of qualification matches 1, 2, and 3 occupied positions 2, 3, and 4 in Pot 3 for the final tournament draw, while the winners of the remaining four matches were placed in Pot 4 in order.
<small>Note: Parentheses show FIFA World Ranking (at the time of the draw) and confederation.</small>
The group stage draw took place on 25 May 2025 at 20:00 AST () in at the Raffles Hotel in Doha, Qatar. It was conducted by Jaime Yarza, FIFA's director of tournaments, and four current and former players: Hassan Al-Haydos (Qatar), Rabah Madjer (Algeria), Yasser Al-Qahtani (Saudi Arabia), and Wael Gomaa (Egypt).
The sixteen teams were drawn into four groups of four teams. The draw started with Pot 1 and ended with Pot 4, from where a team was drawn and assigned to the first available group in the position of their Pot (i.e. position 1 for Pot 1).
The hosts, Qatar, and the 2021 FIFA Arab Cup champions, Algeria, were automatically seeded into Pot 1 and assigned to position A1 and D1, respectively. The remaining automatically qualified teams were seeded into their respective Pots based on the FIFA World Ranking of April 2025 (shown below). The United Arab Emirates, the lowest-ranked team that automatically qualified, were joined in Pot 3 by the winners of qualification matches 1 to 3, while Pot 4 contained the winners of qualification matches 4 to 7.
The 16 national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of 23 players, including three goalkeepers. Only players in these squads were eligible to take part in the tournament. The position listed for each player is per the official squad list published by FIFA on 21 November 2025. The age listed for each player is on 1 December 2025, the first day of the tournament.
On 14 October 2025, FIFA appointed 54 match officials from 23 member associations for the tournament. This included 14 referees, 28 assistant referees, and 12 video match officials.