Thepxanh-Namdinh Football Club (, SNFC), commonly known as Namdinh, is a Vietnamese professional

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club based in Nam Định that competes in the V.League 1.

History

Nam Định has two sports facilities, Thiên Trường Stadium (formerly Cuối Stadium) and Trần Quốc Toản Indoor Stadium, which are host to

and volleyball matches. Both sports centers are located on Hùng Vương Street. At the beginning, the club's home crisis was a dust and sandy training ground of the militia forces where were usually called as ''Sân Dệt'' or the "stadium" of the Namdinh Spinning Factory. It was old crisis of the Vietnamese National Army's military academy. From the end of 1970s, their home crisis was Thiên Trường Stadium. During the Vietnam War, this stadium was only a big and polluted pond with some vegetable fields. Formerly ''Sân Chùa-Cuối'' or the "Pagoda at end of the street" Stadium from one uninhibited temple which has got some daoist icons. So it was often named as "''a factory weaves wishes''" (nhà máy dệt giấc mơ). Before 1997, club costumes always used home colors black-white which were similar like Juventus FC. It originates from name ''Namha Youths'', so during the 1980-1990s they were called as "''Vietnamese Juventus''" by sport medias. However, after some changing times due to sponsor replacements, it was fixed as the yellow, then added lime-red. Hà Nam Ninh won the National Football Champions ( V.League) in 1985 with star player

Nguyễn Văn Dũng Nguyễn Văn Dũng (born 14 April 1994) is a Vietnamese footballer who plays as a left-back for V.League 1 club Hà Nội. Club career Văn Dũng joined V.League 1 club Sài Gòn F.C. on loan for the 2016 season. Honours Hà Nội * V.Lea ...

. In 2001, Nam Định took second place in the National Championships, losing to

Bình Định F.C. Quy Nhon Binh Dinh Football Club ( vi, Câu lạc bộ bóng đá Quy Nhơn Bình Định), is a Vietnamese professional association football club based in Quy Nhơn, Bình Định Province that plays in the top tier of Vietnamese football, the ...

In 2007, the Nam Định football team changed its name to Đạm Phú Mỹ Nam Định and won its first National Cup under its new name. In 2009 the Nam Định Football team changed its name to Megastar Nam Định F.C and failed in standing on V.League to 1st level tournament 2010. The name of club was also changed 10 times due to sponsor replacements : *Le Cotonkin CF (Đội túc cầu Cotonkin, 1930s – 1945) *Namha Youths FC (Đội bóng tròn Thanh niên Nam Hà, 1965 – 1978) *Hanamninh Industry FC (Đội bóng đá Công nghiệp Hà Nam Ninh, 1978 – 1991) *Namha FC (CLB BĐ Nam Hà, 1991 – 1996) *Namdinh FC (CLB BĐ Nam Định, 1997 – 2003) *Songda-Namdinh FC (CLB BĐ Sông Đà-Nam Định, 2003 – 2006) *Mikado-Namdinh FC (CLB BĐ Mikado-Nam Định, 2006 – 2007) *Phumy Fertilizer-Namdinh FC (CLB BĐ Đạm Phú Mĩ-Nam Định, 2007 – 2008) *Mikado-Namdinh FC (CLB BĐ Mikado-Nam Định, 2006 – 2007) *Megastar-Namdinh FC (CLB BĐ Megastar-Nam Định, 2009 – 2011) *Mikado-Namdinh FC (CLB BĐ Mikado-Nam Định, 2011 – 2013) *Namdinh FC (CLB BĐ Nam Định, 2013 – 2019) *Namha Pharma-Namdinh FC (CLB BĐ Dược Nam Hà-Nam Định, 2019 – 2020) *Namdinh FC (CLB BĐ Nam Định, 2021 – 2022) *Thepxanh-Namdinh FC (CLB BĐ Thép Xanh-Nam Định, 2023 to present) From 2003 to present, the club currently competes in the V.League with a sponsor of former minister

Đinh La Thăng Đinh La Thăng (10 September 1960) was a former Minister of Transport, former Communist Party Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City, and former member of the Politburo. On 22 January 2018 he became the first top Party official in several decades to be t ...

as a businessman, the top flight of Vietnamese football.

Current squad

''As of 17 January 2023''

Current coaching staff

Performance in AFC competitions

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: 1 appearance ::

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: Group stage

Season-by-season record

Achievements

National competitions

;League * V.League 1: : Winners :

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: Runners-up : 2000–01,

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

V.League 2 V.League 2 or Vietnamese National Football First League, ( vi, Giải Bóng đá Hạng Nhất Quốc Gia Việt Nam), also called LS V.League 2 for sponsorship reasons, is the second tier professional association football league in Vietnam c ...

: : Winners :

2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...

* Second League: : Winners :

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;Cup * Vietnamese Cup: : Winners :

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Other competitions

* China-ASEAN Cities Football Invitational Tournament: : Winners : 2016 : Runners-up : 2017

Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors

History

Current squad

Current coaching staff

Performance in AFC competitions

Season-by-season record

Achievements

National competitions

Other competitions

Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors

See also

Footnotes

Notes

References

Further reading

Documents

External links