Defining moment for PH football

The Philippines concluded its 2025 Southeast Asian Games campaign with a defining statement—one that will stand as the strongest collective performance by Philippine football and futsal teams in the nation’s history of participation in the SEA Games.

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Across women’s football, men’s football, and women’s futsal, Philippine teams not only advanced deeper than ever before, but did so with conviction, competitiveness, and consistency against Southeast Asia’s traditional powers.

The campaign yielded the country’s first-ever SEA Games football gold medal, a historic return to the men’s semifinals after more than three decades, and a breakthrough comeback by the women’s futsal team in the biennial meet.

"This SEA Games campaign proved that Philippine football and futsal are no longer here just to participate—we are here to win and to be respected," said Philippine Football Federation president John Anthony Gutierrez.