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 Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is t ...

league in

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 ...

controlled by the Vietnam Professional Football. V.League 2 has 12 teams competing in this season.

Format

Initially the V.League 2 comprised 14 clubs. Starting in the 2022 season, only 12 teams will participate in the V.League 2. Over the course of a season, clubs play a two-leg round-robin format over 22 rounds with a total of 132 matches. The club finishing at the bottom of the league table will be relegated to the Vietnam League Two while the top 2 clubs will be promoted to the

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 Professi ...

Current clubs

Stadiums and locations

:''Note: Table lists in alphabetical order.''

Number of teams by region

Personnel and kits

Managerial changes

List of seasons

{, class="wikitable" , - ! Season ! Champions ! Runner-up ! Third Place , - ,

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanistan ...

, Bình Định ,

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 ...

, Hải Quan , - ,

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains independence from Indonesia and ...

, Gạch Đồng Tâm Long An , Đồng Tháp , Hoàng Anh Gia Lai , - ,

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, disintegrated during reentry into Atmosphere of Earth, Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an 2002– ...

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 wa ...

, Bình Dương ,

Thanh Hóa Thanh Hóa () is the capital of Thanh Hóa Province. The city is situated in the east of the province on the Ma River (Sông Mã), about 150 kilometers (93 miles) south of Hanoi and 1560 kilometers (969 miles) north of Ho Chi Minh City. Thanh ...

, - ,

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 60 ...

, Cảng Sài Gòn , Hòa Phát Hà Nội , Thừa Thiên Huế , - ,

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris (dwarf planet), Er ...

, Khatoco Khánh Hòa ,

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 ...

, Đông Á , - , 2006 , Đồng Tháp ,

, Huda Huế , - ,

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto ...

Thể Công Viettel Football Club (), simply known as Viettel FC, is a Vietnamese professional Association football, football club based in Hanoi. The club belongs to the Viettel Sports Centre, a part of Viettel Group and competes in the V.League 1, the top ...

, Vạn Hoa Hải Phòng ,

An Giang An Giang () is a province of Vietnam. It is located in the Mekong Delta, in the southwestern part of the country. Geography An Giang occupies a position in the upper reaches of the Mekong Delta. The Hậu Giang and Tiền Giang branches of t ...

, - ,

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing ...

, Quân khu 4 ,

Hà Nội T&T Hanoi Football Club () is a Vietnamese professional Association football, football club based in Hanoi, Vietnam that competes in the V.League 1. The club currently plays in the V.League 1. Hanoi FC was founded in 2006 as T&T Hanoi Football Clu ...

, Cao su Đồng Tháp , - ,

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

, Vissai Ninh Bình , Hòa Phát Hà Nội , XSKT Cần Thơ , - ,

2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

, Hà Nội ACB , Than Quảng Ninh , SQC Bình Định , - , 2011 , Sài Gòn Xuân Thành , Kienlongbank Kiên Giang , SQC Bình Định , - ,

2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ...

, Đồng Tâm Long An ,

Hà Nội 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 is ...

, Đồng Nai , - ,

2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment ...

, QNK Quảng Nam , Than Quảng Ninh , Hùng Vương An Giang , - ,

2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

, TĐCS Đồng Tháp , Sanna Khánh Hòa BVN , XSKT Cần Thơ , - ,

2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the April ...

Huế Huế () is the capital of Thừa Thiên Huế province in central Vietnam and was the capital of Đàng Trong from 1738 to 1775 and of Vietnam during the Nguyễn dynasty from 1802 to 1945. The city served as the old Imperial City and adm ...

, TP Hồ Chí Minh , - , 2016 , TP Hồ Chí Minh ,

Viettel The Viettel Military Industry and Telecoms Group (), less formally recognized as Viettel Group () or simply Viettel, is a Vietnamese multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications company headquartered in Hanoi, Vietnam. Viettel ...

Nam Định Nam Định () is a city in the Red River Delta of northern Vietnam. It is the capital of Nam Định Province. The city of Nam Định is 90 km south-east of Vietnam's capital, Hanoi. From August 18–20 of each year, there is a festival h ...

, - ,

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 ...

, Bình Phước , - ,

2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...

, Hà Nội B , Đồng Tháp , - ,

2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...

Hong Linh Ha Tinh Hong Linh Ha Tinh Football Club (), simply known as Hong Linh Ha Tinh (HLHT) is a Vietnamese professional football club which is based in Hà Tĩnh, Vietnam. The club is named after the Hồng Lĩnh mountain, and for matching with the name of "n ...

, Pho Hien , Binh Phuoc , - ,

2020 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global social and economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, worldwide lockdowns and the largest economic recession since the Great Depression in ...

, Binh Dinh , Ba Ria Vung Tau , Sanna Khanh Hoa BVN , - ,

2021 File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October 2021 coup in Sudan; Crowd shortly after t ...

, align=center colspan=3, Competition abandoned due to

COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam The COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam has resulted in confirmed cases of COVID-19 and deaths. The number of confirmed cases is the highest total in Southeast Asia, and the 13th highest in the world. Hanoi is the most affected locale with 1,609,47 ...

, - ,

2022 File:2022 collage V1.png, Clockwise, from top left: Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station several hours after the assassination of Shinzo Abe; Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka in front of the Presidential Secretariat; The global monkeyp ...

, Cong An Nhan Dan , Khanh Hoa , Quang Nam

Top scorers

{, class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: centre; font-size:95%;" , - !Season !Name !Club !Goals , - , 2005 , align="left", Felix Ahmed Aboagye , Khatoco Khánh Hòa , 14 , - , 2006 , align="left", Đặng Phương Nam ,

, 14 , - , 2007 , align="left", Trịnh Quang Vinh ,

, 13 , - , 2008 , align="left", Flavio da Silva Cruz , Huda Huế , 18 , - , 2009 , align="left", Eduardo Furrier , Than Quảng Ninh , 16 , - , 2010 , align="left",

Nguyễn Xuân Thành Nguyễn Xuân Thành (born November 10, 1985, in Vietnam) is a Vietnamese footballer who is a left back, left midfielder for Thanh Hoa FC. External links * * 1985 births Living people Vietnamese men's footballers Vietnam men's i ...

Jorge Luiz Cruz
Christian Nsi Amougou
Nguyễn Thành Trung , Hà Nội ACB
Boss Bình Định
Than Quảng Ninh

, 13 , - , 2011 , align="left",

Christian Nsi Amougou Christian Jose Nsi Amougou (born 8 June 1989) is a professional footballer from Cameroon. V.League Career Dong Nai As persistent injury problems compelled him to miss the whole 2014 V.League 1, he was sold from Binh Duong to Dong Nai F.C. w ...

, Sài Gòn Xuân Thành , 17 , - , 2012 , align="left", Souleymane Diabate , XSKT Cần Thơ , 21 , - , 2013 , align="left", Uche Iheruome
Đinh Thanh Trung , Hùng Vương An Giang
QNK Quảng Nam , 10 , - , 2014 , align="left",

Huỳnh Văn Thanh Huỳnh Văn Thanh (born 20 December 1992) is a Vietnamese association football, footballer who play as a Forward (association football), forward for V.League 2 club Long An F.C., Long An. International career International goals Under-22 Per ...

, Sanna Khánh Hòa BVN , 10 , - , 2015 , align="left", Trịnh Duy Long ,

, 9 , - , 2016 , align="left",

Hồ Sỹ Giáp Hồ Sỹ Giáp (born 18 April 1994) is a Vietnamese footballer who plays as a forward for Becamex Bình Dương. Honours Becamex Bình Dương * Vietnamese National Cup: 2018; Runner-up 2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, ...

Nguyễn Tuấn Anh , Bình Phước

Hồ Chí Minh City , population_density_km2 = 4,292 , population_density_metro_km2 = 697.2 , population_demonym = Saigonese , blank_name = GRP (Nominal) , blank_info = 2019 , blank1_name = – Total , blank1_ ...

, 12 , - , 2017 , align="left", Võ Văn Minh
Phạm Văn Thuận
Nguyễn Hồng Quân

Bùi Duy Thường Bùi Duy Thường (born 5 April 1996) is a Vietnamese footballer who plays as a central midfielder for V.League 1 club Viettel Honours Club Viettel F.C * V.League 2 : Runners-up : 2016 International Vietnam U21 *International U-21 Thanh ...

Đắk Lắk

, 5 , - , 2018 , align="left", Y Thăng Êban , Đắk Lắk , 15 , - , 2019 , align="left", Nguyễn Xuân Nam , Phố Hiến , 14 , - , 2020 , align="left", Nguyễn Công Thành , Đồng Tháp , 12 , - , 2022 , align="left", Nguyễn Thanh Nhàn , Phố Hiến , 10

References

External links

* {{AFC second leagues 2 Second level football leagues in Asia Sports leagues established in 2000