Song Lam Nghe An Football Club (), simply known as Song Lam Nghe An or SLNA, is a professional

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playing at the Vinh Stadium in the city of

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, Nghe An province,

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. This is a club that has won many titles from the

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as well as youth tournaments and is one of the clubs that contributes the most players to the Vietnam national football team . Up to now, Song Lam Nghe An has had a tradition of only using internal soldiers who are players from the club's own training facility. Almost all of these players are from Nghe An, the rest are from Ha Tinh, so this can be considered the most unusual clubs in Vietnam. They are the first and only team to have reached 1000 points in the V.League. On the domestic level, with 10 major titles at the first team and lots of other titles at the youth team, SLNA is one of the most successful football clubs in Vietnam. In the international arena, the team performed well at the AFC Champions League in 2001. In the 2009–10 and 2010–11 seasons, under the direction of the head coach, Nguyễn Hữu Thắng, Song Lam Nghe An achieved all three titles: the

championship,

, and the

. The club's current president is Trương Sỹ Bá.

History

During the French colonial period, the Vinh - Ben Thuy area once had a famous football team called the Yellow Shirt Team. This is considered the beginning of Nghe An football tradition. Some people believe that this is the origin of the traditional yellow shirt of the Song Lam Nghe An team today. However, the Nghe Tinh region hardly had any outstanding breakthroughs throughout most of the war. It was not until 1973 that the Nghe Tinh Provincial Military Command established an amateur football team to compete in the B Division. This team is considered the predecessor of today's Song Lam Nghe An. In 1979, after the National Football Championship system was established, with good performance, the team was ranked in the national A2 class. On February 28, 1979, the team was officially transferred by the Nghe Tinh Provincial Military Command to the Nghe Tinh Provincial People's Committee for management and renamed Song Lam Football Team. In 1980, Coach Nguyen Thanh Vinh began taking charge of the first team of Song Lam Nghe Tinh Football Team. From here, despite being a "young" team in Vietnamese football compared to teams such as The Cong, Cang Saigon, Hanoi Police, Haiphong Police, with the efforts of the coach Coach Nguyen Thanh Vinh, Song Lam football team has begun to have a series of achievements, as well as a unique playing style of its own, on par with older teams. In 1992, Nghe Tinh province was divided into two separate provinces: Nghe An and Ha Tinh. On March 21, 1994, the Nghe An Provincial People's Committee decided to rename the team to Song Lam Football Team and transform it into a professional unit under the Department of Physical Education and Sports. In 1996, the team won the bronze medal in the

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and the

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. In 2000, Song Lam Nghe An won the National Championship for the first time. In 2010, the team won the National Cup for the second time. In the 2011 season, the club won its third championship with a 1–1 draw against Hanoi T&T at Vinh Stadium, finishing the V.League with 49 points after 26 rounds. In the 2017 season, despite finishing only 7th in the V.League, Song Lam Nghe An defeated Dak Lak,

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, Quang Nam and

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to win the

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. The 2020 season was the most difficult period for Song Lam Nghe An in the

. In early 2022, the club officially announced a new brand identity. The team's old logo was replaced with a new one with a more modern design.

International cooperation

Mito HollyHock

Song Lam Nghe An signed a cooperation agreement with Japanese club

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on 1 January 2024, on a one-year deal. In this cooperation program, Mito HollyHock will advise and support the construction of a team management and administration system in the direction of improving the professional capacity of departments for Song Lam Nghe An Club and help perfecting the club's organizational structure following the Japanese football club model.

Name

*1979–1992: Song Lam Nghe Tinh football team *1992–2004: Song Lam Nghe An football team *2004–2007: PJICO Song Lam Nghe An Football Club *2007–2009: Song Lam Nghe An Petroleum Finance Football Club *2009–present: Song Lam Nghe An Football Club

Logo history

File:Song Lam Nghe An FC logo.svg, January 2009 – 1 April 2022 File:SLNA FC logo.svg, 5 January 2022 – present

Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors

Stadium

Vinh Stadium with a capacity of 18.000 seats, located on Dao Tan Street,

City, Nghe An Province, has been chosen as the club's home stadium from the early days of its establishment until present.

Players

Current squad

Out on loan

Youth team (U21)

List of participants for the 2024 National U21 tournament

Coaches

Current coaching staff

''As of 8 December 2024''

Managerial history

Honours

;League *

: : Winners : 1999–2000, 2000–01,

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 ...

: Runners-up :

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

, 2001–02 : Third place:

1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

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 ...

;Cup *

: : Winners : 2001-02,

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 ...

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

: Runners-up :

: Third place: 1996, 1998, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2018 *

: : Winners : 2000, 2001, 2002,

: Runners-up : 2010, 2017

Youth teams

*U-21: : Winners : 5 (2000, 2001, 2002, 2012, 2014) : Runners-up : 5 (2003, 2007, 2010, 2020, 2023) : Third place: 4 (2004, 2011, 2013, 2017) *U-19: : Winners : 5 (1999, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006) : Runners-up : 7 (2002, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2023, 2024-25) : Third place: 10 (1998, 2000, 2008, 2012, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024) *U-17: : Winners : 8 (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2020) : Runners-up : 2 (2010, 2018) : Third place: 3 (2015, 2022, 2023) *U-15: : Winners : 4 (2002, 2018, 2019, 2022) : Runners-up : 3 (1999, 2008, 2023) : Third place: 4 (2003, 2005, 2017, 2020) *U-13: : Winners : 11 (1997, 1998, 2003, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024) : Runners-up : 2 (2015, 2016) : Third place: 2 (1999, 2017) *U-11: : Winners : 7 (2001, 2002, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, ~~2024~~) : Runners-up : 1 (1997) : Third place: 8 (1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2009, 2015, 2023) *U-9: : Winners : 2 (2021, 2022) : Runners-up : 1 (2024) : Third place: 1 (2023)

Other awards

*Third-class Labor Medal awarded by the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam *Excellent emulation unit flag of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee for two consecutive years 1998, 1999–00 *The Government's emulation flag presented to the unit leading the emulation movement in 2000–01 *Unit flag for successfully completing the 2000–01 season mission of the People's Committee of Nghe An province

Record

Continental record

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: 2 appearances :: 2000–01: First round :: 2001–02: withdrew in First round *

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: 3 appearances ::

: Round of 16 ::

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

: Group stage ::

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 ...

: Group stage ¹ Sông Lam Nghệ An withdrew.

Domestic league record

National cup record

*2011: Runner-up *2012: Semifianls *2013: Round of 16 *2014: Round of 16 *2015: Quarterfinals *2016: Round of 16 *2017: Champion *2018: Semifinals *2019: Round of 16 *2020: Round of 16 *2021: Qualifying round *2022: Qualifying round *2023: Qualifying round *2024: Round of 16

References

External links

*Website: https://slnafc.com/ *Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/slnafc *Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@songlamfc *Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slnafc {{DEFAULTSORT:Song Lam Nghe An F.C. Association football clubs established in 1979 Football clubs in Vietnam 1979 establishments in Vietnam Song Lam Nghe An FC