The 2018 Vinaphone Cup (also known as the tenth edition of

VFF Cup The Vietnam Football Federation Vietnam International Friendly Cup or VFF Vietnam International Friendly Cup is a football tournament organised in Vietnam. Every year the tournament is regularly held at the Mỹ Đình National Stadium in Hanoi ...

) is an international Olympic

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friendly tournament, sponsored by

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(VNPT) with the competition is named after Vinaphone, a

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-mobile network which is part of VNPT.

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as the hosts use the tournament as their preparation for the

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held in

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. Vietnam emerged as the tournament champions with 7 points ahead the rest teams.

Participating teams

The following are the list of teams participating the tournament.

Match officials

The following referees and their assistants were chosen for the tournament. ;Referees * Nazmi Nasaruddin *

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* Hoàng Ngọc Hà * Nguyễn Hiền Triết ;Assistant referees * Azman Ismail * Yusri Muhamad

Regulation

The tournament is decided through a

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with team with the highest point will become the winner.

Prize money

Prize money amounts were announced in July 2018.

Venue

All matches were to be played in

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Standings

Results

* Times listed are local,

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Goalscorers

;2 goals * Oday Dabbagh * Nurillo Tukhtashinov ;1 goal * Zahir Sulaiman * Mohammed Obaid * Omar El Cherif * Nguyễn Anh Đức *

Phan Văn Đức Phan Văn Đức (born 11 April 1996) is a Vietnamese professional footballer who plays as a winger or a forward for V.League 1 club Công An Hà Nội and the Vietnam national team. Club career Born in Nghệ An, Văn Đức was an academy ...

Đoàn Văn Hậu Đoàn Văn Hậu (born 19 April 1999) is a Vietnamese professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Defender (association football)#Full-back, left-back or centre back for V.League 1 club Hanoi Police FC, Công An Hà Nội and th ...

Nguyễn Công Phượng Nguyễn Công Phượng (born 21 January 1995) is a Vietnamese professional association football, footballer who plays as a Forward (association football)#Centre-forward, forward or an Midfielder (association football)#Attacking midfielder, a ...

References

External links

* {{2018 in Vietnamese football VFF Cup International association football competitions hosted by Vietnam 2018 in Vietnamese football August 2018 sports events in Asia