The Vietnamese National Football First League (), known simply as the V.League 2 and for sponsorship purposes as Gold Star V.League 2, is the second-highest of the

Vietnamese football league system The Vietnamese football league system contains two professional leagues, a semi-professional league and an amateur league for Vietnamese football clubs. System by period Current system Cup eligibility Domestic cups All V.League 1 and V. ...

after

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 ...

, and is currently contested by 12 clubs. The current holders are Phu Dong Ninh Binh, who won the 2024-25 season.

League structure

Starting in the 2023–24 season, the league comprises 12 teams. Over the course of a season, which runs annually from October to the following July, each team plays twice against the others in the league, once at 'home' and once 'away', resulting in each team competing in 22 games in total. Three points are awarded for a win, one for a draw, and zero for a loss. The teams are ranked in the league table by points gained, then goal difference, then goals scored, and then their head-to-head record for that season (including away goals record). If two or more teams finish the season equal in all these respects, then teams are separated by alphabetical order, unless a promotion, relegation, or play-off place is at stake, when the teams are separated by a play-off game, though this improbable situation has never arisen in all the years the rule has existed. At the end of the season, the top team is promoted to the

and the bottom two teams are relegated to Second Division. The second placed team in V.League 2 plays a promotion/relegation play-off against the third lowest team in

Competition format

Seasons 2000 to 2019: Teams played a double round-robin format to earn points. The champion team was promoted to

. The bottom teams (1 or 2 teams depending on the year) were relegated to the National Second Division. This format was used again in the 2022 and 2023 seasons, the last seasons to be held in a calendar year. In the 2020 season, after the first round of the round-robin, the top 6 teams played a single round-robin to find the champion, and the remaining 6 teams played a single round-robin to find the team to be relegated. The 2021 season was cancelled due to the

COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...

. From the 2023–24 season onwards, the teams will play a double round-robin format over two years, from the autumn of the previous year to the summer of the following year.

Television

On 1 November 2022,

FPT Group FPT, officially the FPT Corporation (; "FPT" stands for ''Financing and Promoting Technology''), is the largest information technology service company in Vietnam with operations spanning three fundamental sectors: Technology, Telecommunications ...

-owned FPT Play will be the new domestic broadcaster for Vietnamese Professional Football Leagues competitions (

, V.League 2 and

Vietnamese Cup Vietnamese National Football Cup (), commonly recognized and branded as the National Cup (), is a Vietnamese football competition. It is one of the most important club competitions in Vietnam. The Vietnamese Cup was first held in 1992. Cảng S ...

) effectively from 2023 until 2027.

Prize money

The prize money for the 2023–24 V.League 2:

Current members

The following 12 clubs will compete in the V.League 2 during the 2023–24 season.

Results

Top scorers

References

External links

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