The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF, vi, Liên đoàn Bóng đá Việt Nam) is the governing body of

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Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making ...

. It is responsible for the all Vietnam teams of football,

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and

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as well as national competitions. VFF is currently a member of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), the

Asian Football Confederation The Asian Football Confederation is the governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal in some countries/territories in Asia and Oceania. It has 47 member countries most of which are located in Asia. Australia, formerly ...

(AFC), and the

ASEAN Football Federation The ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) is an organisation within the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and is an international governing body of association football in Southeast Asia. It consists of the federations of Australia, Brunei, Cambodia ...

(AFF). Its headquarters is located in Lê Quang Đạo Street, Mỹ Đình 1 ward, Nam Từ Liêm district,

Hanoi Hanoi or Ha Noi ( or ; vi, Hà Nội ) is the capital and second-largest city of Vietnam. It covers an area of . It consists of 12 urban districts, one district-leveled town and 17 rural districts. Located within the Red River Delta, Hanoi i ...

History

In 1960, Vietnam Football Association was established in the

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. Its first president Hà Đăng Ấn, head of Railway Department and a former football star. In the South under control of the Republic of Vietnam, a similar Association was also founded to administer football activities in the South. Football has been played in Vietnam since the early 20th century, however, due to the war, it had not been developed into a movement. Due to the division of Vietnam, football was played differently in the two parts of the country until 1975. In 1989, following the

Đổi Mới (, ; ) is the name given to the economic reforms initiated in Vietnam in 1986 with the goal of creating a "socialist-oriented market economy". The term itself is a general term with wide use in the Vietnamese language meaning "innovate" or " ...

reforms, Vietnamese sports began to return to international events. After three months of preparation, in August 1989, the First Congress of the new football federation took place in

, declaring Vietnam Football Federation. Trịnh Ngọc Chữ, deputy minister of General Department of Sports, was elected president of VFF and Lê Thế Thọ was appointed general secretary.

Main board

President

The current president of VFF is Trần Quốc Tuấn.

Presidents

*Trịnh Ngọc Chữ (1989–1991) *Dương Nghiệp Chí (''acting'', 1991–1993) *Đoàn Văn Xê (1993–1997) *Mai Văn Muôn (1997–2001) *Hồ Đức Việt (2001–2003) *Trần Duy Ly (''acting'', January–August 2003) *Mai Liêm Trực (2003–2005) *Nguyễn Trọng Hỷ (2005–2013) *Lê Hùng Dũng (2013–2018) *Lê Khánh Hải (2018–2021) *Trần Quốc Tuấn (2021–)

Executive committee

*Trần Quốc Tuấn – Permanent deputy chairman *Cao Văn Chóng – 1st Deputy chairman *Lê Văn Thành – 2nd Deputy chairman

Secretariat

*Lê Thế Ngọ (1989–1993) *Trần Bẩy (1993–1997) *Phạm Ngọc Viễn (1997–2005) *Trần Quốc Tuấn (2005–2011) *Ngô Lê Bằng (2011–2014) *Lê Hoài Anh (2014–2022) *Dương Nghiệp Khôi (2022–)

Affiliated committees

* Council of Referees * Women's Committee * Sports Medical Committee * External affairs Committee * Communication Committee * Committee of movements and member organizations * Committee of Development Strategy * Committee of Professional Football * Committee of Complaints * Inspection Committee * National council of Coaches * Marketing and Sponsorship Committee

Regional federations

40 provincial federations are constituent members of VFF:

North

* Hà Nội Football Federation * Hà Tĩnh Football Federation *

Hà Nam Hà is a Vietnamese surname. The name is transliterated as He in Chinese and Ha in Korean. Ha is the anglicized variation of the surname Hà. It is also the anglicized variation of Hạ. Notable people with the surname Hà * Hà Kiều Anh, ...

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Hải Dương Hải Dương () is a city in Vietnam. It is the capital of Hải Dương, an industrialized province in the Hanoi Capital Region and the Red River Delta in Northern Vietnam. The city is at the midpoint between the capital Hanoi and major port ...

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Hải Phòng Haiphong ( vi, Hải Phòng, ), or Hải Phòng, is a major industrial city and the third-largest in Vietnam. Hai Phong is also the center of technology, economy, culture, medicine, education, science and trade in the Red River delta. Haiphong ...

Football Federation * Hưng Yên Football Federation * Hòa Bình Football Federation * Lạng Sơn Football Federation * Nam Định Football Federation * Nghệ An Football Federation * Quảng Ninh Football Federation * Phú Thọ Football Federation * Thái Nguyên Football Federation * Thanh Hóa Football Federation

Central

* Bình Định Football Federation *

Đà Nẵng Nang or DanangSee also Danang Dragons ( ; vi, Đà Nẵng, ) is a class-1 municipality and the fifth-largest city in Vietnam by municipal population. It lies on the coast of the East Sea of Vietnam at the mouth of the Hàn River, and is one ...

Football Federation * Đắk Lắk Football Federation * Gia Lai Football Federation * Khánh Hòa Football Federation *

Kon Tum Kon Tum is the capital city of Kon Tum Province in Vietnam. It is located inland in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam, near the borders of Laos and Cambodia. History After the People's Army of Vietnam invaded South Vietnam on March 30, 1 ...

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Lâm Đồng Lâm is a Vietnamese surname. The name is transliterated as Lin in Chinese and Im in Korean. Lam is the anglicized variation of the surname Lâm. Lam is also a commonly held surname of Cantonese speakers of Chinese descent. Large populations in ...

Football Federation * Phú Yên Football Federation * Quảng Nam Football Federation * Quảng Ngãi Football Federation * Thừa Thiên–Huế Football Federation

South

* An Giang Football Federation * Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu Football Federation *

Bến Tre Bến Tre () is the capital city of Bến Tre Province, in the Mekong Delta region of southern Vietnam. Located southwest of Ho Chi Minh City, the city covers an area of 65.75 km2 (25.39 sq mi) and has a population of 124,499 at the ...

Football Federation * Bình Dương Football Federation * Bình Phước Football Federation * Cà Mau Football Federation * Cần Thơ Football Federation * Đồng Nai Football Federation * Đồng Tháp Football Federation * Hồ Chí Minh City Football Federation * Kiên Giang Football Federation * Long An Football Federation * Tây Ninh Football Federation *

Tiền Giang The term ''tiền'' ( Hán tự: 錢) is used to refer to various currency-related concepts used in Vietnamese history. The name is a cognate with the Chinese ''qián'' (錢), a unit of weight called " mace" in English. It can refer to a unit ...

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Vĩnh Long Vĩnh Long () is a city and the capital of Vĩnh Long Province in Vietnam's Mekong Delta. Vĩnh Long covers and has a population of 147,039 (as of 2009). The name was spelled 永隆 ("eternal prosperity") in the former Hán Nôm writing syst ...

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Competitions

Domestic leagues

For men

V.League 1 The V.League 1 ( vi, Giải bóng đá vô địch quốc gia, lit=National Football League), also called Night Wolf V.League 1 due to sponsorship reasons, is the top professional football league in Vietnam, controlled by the Vietnam Professio ...

* V.League 2 * V.League 3 * V.League 4 *Vietnamese National U-21 Football Championship *

Vietnamese National U-19 Football Championship The Vietnamese National U19 Football Championship ( vi, Giải bóng đá U19 Quốc gia) is the national championship of association football for male players under the age of 19 organized by the Vietnam Football Federation The Vietnam Footba ...

Vietnamese National U-17 Football Championship The Vietnamese National U17 Football Championship ( vi, Giải bóng đá U17 Quốc gia), is the national championship of association football for male players under the age of 17 organized by Vietnam Football Federation(VFF). Results Top-perfo ...

*Vietnamese National U-15 Football Championship * Vietnamese National U-13 Football Championship *Vietnamese National U-11 Football Championship *

Vietnam National Futsal League The Vietnam Futsal League () is the top league for Futsal in Vietnam. The winning team obtains the participation right to the AFC Futsal Club Championship. History In 2007, Ho Chi Minh City Football Federation launched ''All Vietnam Futsal Ch ...

*Vietnamese National Beach Soccer League

For women

Vietnam Women's Football Championship The Vietnamese Women's National League, officially the Women's National League ( vi, Giải Bóng đá Nữ Vô Địch Quốc Gia, lit=Women's National Football League), also called the Thai Son Bac Cup for sponsorship reasons, is the highest lea ...

*Vietnamese National Women's U-19 Football Championship *

Vietnamese National Women's U-16 Football Championship The Vietnamese National Women's U-16 Football Championship (Vietnamese language, Vietnamese : Giải bóng đá Nữ v Vô địch U16 Quốc gia) is annual football tournament held for women under age of 16 and organised by Vietnam Football Fed ...

Domestic cups

Vietnamese National Football Cup Vietnamese National Football Cup ( vi, Giải Bóng đá Cúp Quốc Gia Việt Nam), now officially recognized as the BaF Meat National Cup for sponsorship reasons, is a Vietnamese football competition. It is one of the most important club compet ...

* Vietnamese National Football Super Cup *

Vietnamese National Futsal Cup The Vietnamese National Futsal Cup (Viet language, Viet: Giải Futsal Cup Quốc Gia) is a futsal cup competition in Vietnam. Hải Phương Nam Futsal Club, Hải Phương Nam (later known as Sahako Futsal Club, Sahako F.C) won the first editio ...

Women's Vietnamese Cup The Vietnamese Women's National Cup, officially Women's National Cup ( vi, Giải Bóng đá nữ Cúp Quốc Gia), also called Thái Sơn Bắc National Cup for sponsorship reasons, is the top Single-elimination tournament, cup competition for Wo ...

National teams

Men

* Vietnam national football team *

Vietnam national under-23 football team The Vietnam national under-23 and Olympic football team ( vi, Đội tuyển Bóng đá U-23 và Olympic Quốc gia Việt Nam) represents Vietnam in international football tournaments at the under-22 and under-23 age level. History Early years ...

Vietnam national under-22 football team The Vietnam national under-22 and Olympic football team ( vi, Đội tuyển bóng đá dưới 22 tuổi và Olympic Quốc gia Việt Nam) is the under-22 football team representing Vietnam at the Southeast Asian Games, AFC U-23 Championshi ...

Vietnam national under-20 football team The Vietnam national under-20 football team represents Vietnam at international youth association football competitions for age under-20 and under-19. It is controlled by the Vietnam Football Federation. International records World stage FIFA ...

Vietnam national under-16 football team The Vietnam national under-17 football team, officially known as the National U-16–U-17 Selection Teams ( vi, 'Đội tuyển U-16–U-17 Quốc gia'), represents Vietnam in international association football competitions at under-16 and unde ...

* Vietnam national under-14 football team *

Vietnam national futsal team The Vietnam national futsal team ( vi, Đội tuyển bóng đá trong nhà quốc gia Việt Nam) represents Vietnam in international futsal and is governed by Vietnam Football Federation. They played twice FIFA Futsal World Cup, World Cup in 2016 ...

Vietnam national under-20 futsal team The Vietnam national under-20 futsal team is a representative of Vietnam in futsal tournaments that pertain to under-20 age level. Competition records AFC U-20 Futsal Championship :''*Denotes draws include knockout matches decided on Penalty ...

Vietnam national beach soccer team ) / The Selection ( vi, Tuyển) , Association = Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) , Sub-confederation = AFF ( Southeast Asia) , Confederation = AFC (Asia) , Coach = Trương Công Tuân , Asst Manager = , Ca ...

Women

* Vietnam women's national football team * Vietnam women's national Olympic football team *

Vietnam women's national under-19 football team The Vietnam women's national under-20 football team represents Vietnam in international football (soccer), football competitions at the qualifications of AFC U-19 Women's Championship and possible AFC U-19 Women's Championship, final tournaments ...

Vietnam women's national under-16 football team The Vietnam women's national under-17 football team represents Vietnam in international football competitions at the qualifications of AFC U-16 Women's Championship and final tournaments, as well as any other under-17 women's international foot ...

* Vietnam women's national under-14 football team *

Vietnam women's national futsal team The Vietnam women's national futsal team ( vi, Đội tuyển bóng đá trong nhà nữ quốc gia Việt Nam) represents Vietnam in international women's futsal competitions and is controlled by the Futsal Commission of the Vietnam Football F ...

Logo

The current logo of the VFF portrays the picture of a football along with the Vietnamese flag. It is designed by Nguyễn Công Quang and has been used since 2008 until now. File:Vietnam Football Federation Logo (1994-2008).svg, 1990–2008 File:Logo of VFF.png, 2008–present

Sponsorship

Primary sponsors include: Grand Sport,

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Vinamilk Vinamilk, formally the Vietnam Dairy Products Joint Stock Company () is the largest dairy company in Vietnam. Based on the UNDP 2007 Top 200 largest firms in Vietnam report, it was also the 15th largest company in Vietnam and formerly the most va ...

, Yanmar,

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, LS Group,

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, Kao Vietnam, TNI Corporation, Z.com, Harbalife Vietnam, Acecook, Gia Đình Attack, Hưng Thịnh Land, Hưng Thịnh Corporation and King Coffee.

References

Sports organizations established in 1960

History

Main board

President

Presidents

Executive committee

Secretariat

Affiliated committees

Regional federations

North

Central

South

Competitions

Domestic leagues

For men

For women

Domestic cups

National teams

Men

Women

Logo

Sponsorship

See also

References

External links