Nguyễn Trọng Hoàng (born 14 April 1989) is a Vietnamese professional

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who plays as a

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or a

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for

V.League 1 The V.League 1 (), also called LPBank V.League 1 for sponsorship reasons, is the top professional football league in Vietnam, controlled by the Vietnam Professional Football Joint Stock Company (VPF). It is contested by 14 clubs who play each ...

club Hồng Lĩnh Hà Tĩnh. He is a former player for the Vietnam national team and the fourth most capped player of their history. He is widely considered by the Vietnamese press as one of the most talented players of his generation.

Club career

After the departure of

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to Hà Nội T&T F.C. in 2009, Trọng Hoàng was given Công Vinh's number 9 and since then, he has become an important part of Sông Lam Nghệ An. His performance helped the club finished third in the

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and won 2010 Vietnamese Cup title. In the financial turmoil that affected most V-League clubs after the 2012 season, Sông Lam Nghệ An was unable to arrange a financial contract with Trọng Hoàng. After his contract expired, he joined Becamex Bình Dương as a free agent in 2013. With the Southern Vietnamese side, he won two consecutive

titles in

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and

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

. In November 2016, Trọng Hoàng joined FLC Thanh Hóa, signing a three-year contract and earning one the of the biggest wage in the league. In 2019, Trọng Hoàng signed for the newly promoted

club

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, signing a three-year contract. He was part of the squad that won the 2020 V.League 1, making 12 appearances during the season. He was also named in the V.League Team of the season. In January 2022, Trọng Hoàng returned back to Sông Lam Nghệ An and was named as the team vice-captain. His second spell with the team was marked by several months of absents due to

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. In February 2024, Trọng Hoàng terminated his contract with Sông Lam Nghệ An and joined

fellow Hồng Lĩnh Hà Tĩnh in a free transfer.

International career

In 2007, Trọng Hoàng was in

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's plan for the

2007 Southeast Asian Games The 2007 Southeast Asian Games (), officially known as the 24th Southeast Asian Games, were a Southeast Asian multi-sport event held in Nakhon Ratchasima province, Nakhon Ratchasima (Korat), Thailand. This was the sixth time Thailand hosted the ...

. However, he was left out because he had to take the final exam for his high school studies. In 2009, Trọng Hoàng was again chosen to play in the

2009 Southeast Asian Games The 2009 Southeast Asian Games (, Romanization of Lao, translit. Kila phoumipak asi taven oak siang tai 2009), officially known as the 25th Southeast Asian Games, were a Southeast Asian multi-sport event hosted by Vientiane, Laos. This was the ...

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. Trọng Hoàng scored in the third game of the tournament against

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. However, he was injured when he played against

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, which prevented him from playing in the semi-final. In the tournament's final, Trọng Hoàng came on as the substitute but the team lost against

in the final and received the silver medal. Despite the loss, the team's performance in the tournament was impressive enough that Trọng Hoàng is one of the few players who were called up to play in the national team. In 2010, he was again chosen to play in the

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, in which he scored two goals against

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and

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to help Vietnam proceed into the second round for the first time in history. The team lost to

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, but he was then selected to play in the

2010 AFF Suzuki Cup The 2010 AFF Championship, sponsored by Suzuki and P&G and officially known as the 2010 AFF Suzuki Cup, was the 8th edition of the AFF Championship, took place on 1–29 December 2010. Indonesia and Vietnam hosted the group stage from 1 to 8 De ...

. In the first game, Trọng Hoàng scored two goals against

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after he came on at the 72–minute. The team came on to win 7–1.

International statistics

International goals

Vietnam U-23

Vietnam

:''Scores and results list Vietnam's goal tally first.''

Honours

Song Lam Nghe An *

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

Vietnamese Super Cup Vietnamese National Football Super Cup (), also called the Thaco National Football Super Cup due to sponsorship reasons, is Vietnamese football's annual match contested between the champions of the previous V.League 1 season and the holders of th ...

: 2011 *

Vietnamese National Cup Vietnamese National Football Cup (), commonly recognized and branded as the National Cup (), is a Vietnamese Association football, football competition. It is one of the most important club competitions in Vietnam. The Vietnamese Cup was first he ...

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

Becamex Binh Duong *

: 2014, 2015 *

; runner-up:

Viettel FC *

2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...

Vietnam *

AFF Championship The ASEAN Championship (formerly known as the AFF Championship or AFF Cup), currently known as the ASEAN Hyundai Cup for sponsorship reasons, is the biennial football tournament organized by the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) for men's natio ...

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

King's Cup King's Cup (incl. translations), may refer to: Sports Football * Copa del Rey, Spanish for "King's Cup," the main national knockout tournament in men's football * King's Cup (Bahrain), the premier national knockout football tournament * King's ...

runners-up:

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

Vietnam U23 *

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gold medal:

; silver medal:

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

Individual *

Best XI:

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

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, futsal, and beach soccer in Southeast Asia. It consists of the federations of Fo ...

Best XI: 2017

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