This article is about the men ‘s team. For the women ‘s team, see Vietnam women ‘s national football team
The Vietnam national football team ( vietnamese : Đội tuyển bóng đá quốc gia Việt Nam ) represents Vietnam in international football and is controlled by the Vietnam Football Federation, the governing body of football in Vietnam.
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Vietnam was introduced to the sport by the french in the nineteenth hundred. however, due to respective conflicts that occurred in the state throughout the twentieth hundred, the development of vietnamese football was significantly hampered during these times. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] While Vietnam was split into North and South Vietnam in 1954, two national teams existed and both were controlled by classify regulate bodies. After the two countries unified in 1976, the separate govern bodies were combined and renamed to the Vietnam Football Federation. [ 12 ] Since the 1990s, Vietnam has re-integrated into ball-shaped football, and the sport soon became an integral region of vietnamese society and a soft-power mechanism against the area ‘s negative repute due to the Vietnam War and subsequent international conflicts. This has made the vietnamese national team a contribution of vietnamese nationalism, enjoying nationally support. vietnamese supporters are dubbed to be some of the most passionate fans, renowned for big celebrations over the team ‘s achievements, careless of whether it is on the elder or youth side. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Being considered one of the most successful football teams in Southeast Asia, Vietnam have already won the AFF Championship twice, in 2008 and 2018. At the continental level, the team reached one-fourth invest twice as South Vietnam in the AFC Asian Cup, back when it was contested by 4 teams. They reached the quarter-finals twice as a unify nation in 2007 and 2019. Vietnam ‘s main rivals are other strong ones in the AFF, of which Thailand is seen as its biggest equal .
history [edit ]
early history ( 1896–1954 ) [edit ]
c. 1922–23 early vietnamese football with vietnamese players and french officials in the Championnat Cochinchine, The introduction of football into Vietnam traced its roots in 1896 during the era of colonial french Cochinchina. At the early stage, the sport are merely played among french civil servants, merchants and soldiers. The french then encouraged local Vietnamese to played football and several other sports that were introduced to them to divert their matter to from politics which resulting the sport being spread to early regions, by and large the northern and cardinal area. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] On 20 July 1908, the newspaper Southern Luc Tan Van reported the match between two local anesthetic vietnamese teams for the inaugural time. A first football guidebook then published in 1925 by a local Vietnamese doctor of the church named Pham Van Tiec to attract the interest among vietnamese youngsters. [ 17 ] By 1928, the Vietnamese had established the Annamite Sports Bureau and in the same year they sent a vietnamese football team to compete in Singapore. More local football clubs then established in both northerly and southern Vietnam although it was not until after the World War II that football clubs in the region started to become more organize. [ 18 ] It was the time Vietnam played their beginning always international meet, against Korea in Saigon which they lost 2–4 .
Two Vietnam national teams ( 1954–1976 ) [edit ]
The South Vietnam team winning gold at the 1959 Southeast Asian Peninsular Games.
The North Vietnam team in 1956. Two national football teams then existed when Vietnam was divided into 2 countries which were South Vietnam and North Vietnam. The team from the South participated in the first two AFC asian Cup finals ( 1956 AFC asian Cup and 1960 AFC Asian Cup ) and finished in fourth set both times. They won the first Southeast asian Games gold in 1959 in Thailand. The team besides entered reservation for the 1974 FIFA World Cup, beating Thailand 1–0 to qualify the classification matches before losing their group opening matches by 0–4 to Japan and 0–1 to Hong Kong. The team played their last game against Malaysia in 1975 where they lost 0–3. meanwhile, the team from the North was less active, not being a member of either AFC and FIFA, frequently playing against early communist states between 1956 and 1966. They had their first match against China PR where they lost 3–5 under head coach Truong Tan Buu. They participated in the first GANEFO ( Games of the New Emerging Forces ) competitions at Indonesia in 1962 and Cambodia in 1966. Both teams ceased to exist when the North and South regions were combined into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam following the end of the Vietnam War, but North Vietnam did not become a member of AFC and FIFA until 1976. [ 19 ] Because both of them were members of FIFA ( South from 1954 and North from 1964 ), the late unified Vietnam team is classified as the successor of them both by FIFA. [ 20 ] The growth of football during this earned run average for both Vietnams was marked with stagnation as the Vietnam War occurred at the same time. The Vietnam War, a war that occurred between two states, had a enormous impact and delayed the growth of football in the nation. Because of the war, Vietnam, by then, a major football push in Asia, started losing its repute as the war ruined the state. therefore, the conflict had greatly reduced vietnamese football ability and weakened the area seriously. however, the be Cambodian–Vietnamese War and Sino-Vietnamese War, and ball-shaped sanctions against the nation, had depleted the nation ‘s football team and turned Vietnam into one of the weakest teams in the worldly concern and Asia overall. For this reason, vietnamese football can be still considered fresh and unknown for the rest of the global, in hurt of its long standing history as Vietnam only rejoined global football in 1991 .
Post Vietnam War and renovation era ( 1991–2006 ) [edit ]
Vietnam ‘s professional football league, known as the All Vietnam Football Championship, was launched in 1980 to redevelop Vietnamese football after a retentive period of civil war. In 1989, following the Đổi Mới reforms, a new football confederation was formed. vietnamese sports began to return to external events. After three months of planning, in August 1989, the First Congress of the new football federation took identify in Hanoi, declaring the formation of the Vietnam Football Federation. Trịnh Ngọc Chữ, deputy minister of General Department of Sports, was elected as the first president of VFF. [ 21 ] The reunified Vietnam national football team then played their first match against the Philippines in 1991 where they had a puff. [ 22 ] Vietnam participated in the area ‘s foremost always FIFA World Cup reservation in 1994 World Cup political campaign for the first base time as an incorporate nation, having participated in the 1974 qualification as South Vietnam. The national side at the fourth dimension was not successful in World Cup campaigns, failing in both the 1994 and 1998 qualifications with only one win. In 1996, Vietnam participated in the first Tiger Cup where they finished in one-third position and hosted the second Tiger Cup in 1998 where they lost 0–1 to Singapore in the final examination. From 2000 to 2007, Vietnam continued their quest to win the Southeast asian trophy, but much ended shortstop by losing in the semi-finals or being eliminated in the group stage. besides around 1996, Vietnam gained international headline for inviting italian giant Juventus F.C. to play in a friendly match in Hanoi, with Juventus already lifted the recent 1995–96 UEFA Champions League style. The game, which Vietnam lost 1–2, was a river basin consequence that boosted the development of football in the country. [ 23 ] Vietnam was the host of the 1999 Dunhill Cup, a friendly tournament for both senior and U-23 players. Since it was categorized as a mix senior and U-23 competition, some national teams had decided to participate using its senior reserve side. In this competition, Vietnam created a promise performance, including a shock succeed over then- 1994 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 1996 participant Russia 1–0 and drawing with 1998 FIFA World Cup player Iran 2–2 and topping the group. Vietnam was then eliminated in the semi-finals after a 1–4 defeat to China. 2002 FIFA World Cup reservation had some of Vietnam ‘s few bright moments during these World Cup campaigns, with the team winning three matches and drawing one, both played in Dammam. however, with the team having lost against Saudi Arabia, Vietnam did not qualify for the World Cup. The 2004 AFC asian Cup reservation was besides abortive, with Vietnam falling to South Korea and Oman, but managing to create a shock 1–0 succeed to 2002 FIFA World Cup ‘s fourth-place winner South Korea in Muscat, which remains as one of Vietnam ‘s greatest football feats since union. [ 24 ] The 2006 FIFA World Cup reservation had been highly depressing for Vietnam, with the team once again failing, falling behind South Korea and Lebanon, and alone staying above Maldives by finish remainder .
Scenes during the final of 2008 AFF Championship. clockwise from top : vietnamese supporters during Vietnam ‘s gloat, vietnamese team receiving the cup and vietnamese team before the second base leg final matches. Vietnam hosted the 2007 AFC asian Cup along with Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand ; despite failing to qualify for the asian Cup since the 1990s. The team was ranked irregular lowest entirely after Malaysia, but in the group stage, Vietnam created shock by defeating the UAE 2–0, drawing 1–1 with another Gulf team, Qatar, before losing 1–4 to defending champions Japan. Vietnam were the only Southeast Asian and master of ceremonies team to reach the quarter-finals, where they lost to eventual champions Iraq 0–2. [ 25 ] This marked the begin of the first gear vietnamese football rebirth. Vietnam won their foremost AFF Championship claim in 2008, in which they were held in Group B with Thailand, Malaysia and Laos. After losing to Thailand 0–2 in the opener, Vietnam defeated Malaysia 3–2 and Laos 4–0. In the semi-finals, Vietnam held the defending ace Singapore to 0–0 in the dwelling meet before winning 1–0 away. Vietnam met Thailand again in the finals and defeated them 3–2 by aggregate, winning the away match 2–1 then drawing 1–1 at base. [ 26 ] This would be the team ‘s foremost international honor since rejoining ball-shaped football, and it would take 10 years until the team repeated this feat. Vietnam about managed a successful 2011 AFC asian Cup qualification when Vietnam performed well against Syria and Lebanon, ampere well as against the neighbor China ; but the defect on scoring goals once again proved to be implemental on denying Vietnam ‘s reservation to 2011 AFC asian Cup, as the team finished third gear with only a single 3–1 home win over Lebanon [ 27 ] and two draws away to both Levant opponents Syria and Lebanon. Despite losing all two matches against China, including the huge personnel casualty 1–6 in Hangzhou, Vietnam hush scored at least one single goal in both games .
Decline ( 2009–2014 ) [edit ]
The period between 2009 and 2014 witnessed the decline of vietnamese football. The team participated in 2010, 2014 World Cup qualifiers and 2015 asian Cup qualifiers, but were unsuccessful and accepted the early elimination. The team loss 0–6 on aggregate against the United Arab Emirates in the inaugural turn of 2010 World Cup qualification. In the 2014 World Cup qualifiers, Vietnam could merely defeated Macau in the first round, before being eliminated by Qatar in the moment round. The worst of this decline was in 2015 asian Cup qualifiers where Vietnam lost five among six games and finished at the bottom place of the group including the United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan and Hong Kong. Along with the poor performance in the continental qualification, Vietnam suffered a reverse in the regional tournament. The team had lost Malaysia, who late became the champion, in the 2010 AFF Championship semi-final. The 2012 AFF Championship even brought a worse calamity for Vietnam when the team was eliminated in the group degree and only obtained a 1–1 disembowel against Myanmar, while losing 1–3 to Thailand and 0–1 to Philippines .
Rebuilding ( 2014–2017 ) [edit ]
The national team of Vietnam started to witness significant changes under the tenure of Toshiya Miura, who took charge of Vietnam from 2014 to 2016. The japanese coach was accredited for rebuilding the national team of Vietnam after the fail 2015 AFC asian Cup qualification, and had a meaning shock on the improvement of the team ‘s performances. One of the most celebrated accomplishment under Miura ‘s era was with the youth team, when the Olympic side managed to cruise pass Olympic Iran, a major asian force, at the 2014 asian Games with an unthinkable 4–1 victory. [ 28 ] Many of these young players nurtured by coach Miura would be brought to senior side, where the team managed a fine performance in 2014 AFF Championship, but Vietnam failed to progress beyond the semi-finals after suffering a shock 2–4 kill to Malaysia right at home, [ 29 ] in hurt of winning 2–1 away earlier. [ 30 ] vietnamese patrol had sought to investigate this peer, but found no tell of rig bribery or putrescence as besides stated in the findings of Swiss-based external supplier dissipated services Sportradar. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] Miura led Vietnam in the 2018 World Cup qualifiers when Vietnam was grouped in concert with Thailand, Indonesia, Chinese Taipei and Iraq ; Indonesia later was banned to participate by FIFA. Vietnam managed a fine performance, drawing Iraq 1–1 at home. [ 33 ] however, two disappoint defeats to Thailand away 0–1 [ 34 ] and humiliating 0–3 home loss to the same adversary [ 35 ] had put the team under arduous criticism. Toshiya Miura, despite improvement, was sacked by the VFF after the Olympic english ‘s failure to qualify for 2016 Rio Olympics. [ 36 ] promise was put into new coach, Nguyễn Hữu Thắng, some of the first fine vietnamese managers during the era. Under Nguyễn Hữu Thắng, Vietnam once again progressed to the semi-finals of 2016 AFF Championship, but the team had to bow down to Indonesia in another thrilling semi-finals, being held 2–2 at home [ 37 ] and previously lost 1–2 aside to the like equal. [ 38 ] The team ‘s disappointment somehow relieved a little, as the Golden Star Warriors participated in 2019 AFC asian Cup qualification for finishing third gear in their World Cup reservation group. The vietnamese side managed two draws in their opening run against Afghanistan in Tajikistan [ 39 ] and a scoreless guide to Jordan in Ho Chi Minh City. [ 40 ] however, the Olympic side was shockingly eliminated in the group stagecoach of 2017 SEA Games, coach Nguyễn Hữu Thắng was relieved from duty, and the team faced a frightful crisis of confidence as fans have lost their will to support the team. [ 41 ] Interim coach Mai Đức Chung was appointed to help Vietnam in two crucial asian Cup reservation couple against neighbor Cambodia, in which coach Mai Đức Chung was able to revive some of the team ‘s lost spirit, beating Cambodia 2–1 aside and a thrashing 5–0 winnings at family. [ 42 ] These wins allowed Vietnam to join top two for final tickets .
The new aureate generation ( 2017–present ) [edit ]
Park Hang-seo, early assistant of Guus Hiddink during the 2002 FIFA World Cup, was appointed as fresh passenger car of Vietnam in 11 October 2017 after an try to negotiate with Takashi Sekizuka was unsuccessful ; previously the VFF besides tried contact with American coach Steve Sampson with no avail. [ 44 ] Upon his arrival to Vietnam, Park Hang-seo was greeted with agnosticism and jeers from vietnamese. [ 45 ] Park ‘s first match as coach of Vietnam was in the like 2019 asian Cup qualification, where Vietnam held Afghanistan at home in a 0–0 draw on 14 November 2017, therefore allowed Vietnam to qualify for the 2019 AFC asian Cup, their first ever asian Cup since 2007. [ 46 ] Park himself, though, was criticized due to the team ‘s unconvincing performance. [ 47 ] however, the mood quickly changed after Vietnam youth team ‘s incredible achievements in the 2018 AFC U-23 Championship and 2018 asian Games where Park Hang-seo was besides the coach of the U-23 and Olympic team. [ 48 ] With the same U-23 players, he formed the police squad of vietnamese aged team in a meaningless 1–1 draw to Jordan in 2019 asian Cup reservation, which both teams qualified together. [ 49 ]
2018 AFF Championship [edit ]
besides with these young players, the 2018 AFF Championship became Vietnam ‘s second AFF Championship championship. In Group A, Vietnam managed 3 victories against Laos, Malaysia, Cambodia and a draw with Myanmar. In the semi-finals, they defeated the Philippines doubly, and in the finals defeated Malaysia 3–2 aggregated, drawing 2–2 aside and winning 1–0 home. [ 50 ]
2019 AFC asian Cup [edit ]
It was n’t until the 2019 AFC asian Cup that Vietnam rightfully began to gain international recognition. [ citation needed ] With entire of police squad made up with the successful U-23 players, Vietnam had the youngest squad in the tournament. Being drawn into group D including Iran, Iraq and Yemen, Vietnam had lost Iraq 2-3 and Iran 0-2 before beating Yemen in their final group matches to become the last best-fourth place team qualifying for the round of sixteen. then, they surprised everyone by defeating favoured Jordan which had previously defeated defending champions Australia and earlier played a friendly match against 2018 FIFA World Cup runner-up Croatia, winning 4–2 in penalty shoot-out. [ 51 ] The win sent million of vietnamese into the street for celebrations. [ 52 ] In the quarter-finals, Vietnam met Japan but failed to continue the success after their adversary being awarded a punishment bang which being decided through the video assistant referee ( VAR ), resulting to a 0–1 mark by Ritsu Doan until the concluding whistle being blown. [ 53 ]
2022 FIFA World Cup reservation [edit ]
Vietnam was grouped in the Qualifying Second Round Group G with three other Southeast asian rivals : Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, aboard with the United Arab Emirates. The vietnamese started with a 0–0 away draw over Thailand [ 54 ] before defeating Malaysia 1–0 at home [ 55 ] and then achieving a 3–1 away win against Indonesia. [ 56 ] In November 2019, Vietnam faced up the United Arab Emirates at home dirty with attempts to break 12-year winless streak to the opposition. In malice of facing struggle in early minutes, a following crimson card to the UAE gave the Vietnamese an advantage, finally managed to beat the Emirates 1–0. [ 57 ] then, Vietnam moved to a thrilling run into against neighbor and colleague power station Thailand at home, where both teams played out in another scoreless pull back, in a equal with a crucial Akinfeev -penalty like save by Đặng Văn Lâm and two disallowed vietnamese goals, to foster Vietnam ‘s top status in the Joint World Cup/Asian Cup qualifying Group G. [ 58 ] however, due to COVID-19 pandemic, Vietnam was forced to play all their remaining qualifying second-round games in the United Arab Emirates. In this campaign, Vietnam suffered a great loss of key players, as the midfield soul Đỗ Hùng Dũng suffered from a severe injury in 2021 V.League 1 that caused him 6-months recess, while best goalkeeper Đặng Văn Lâm, due to an unexpected incident related to COVID-19 in his japanese clubhouse Cerezo Osaka, could not come to the home team in Dubai, the key midfielder Nguyễn Tuấn Anh, after suffered an aggressive tackle from an indonesian player in the twentieth minute of the first match, must miss the lie of the qualifying moment orotund. Nevertheless, even with such bang-up loss, Vietnam campaign in UAE was an amazing success. Vietnam pounded Indonesia 4–0 and held on to a 2–1 win against Malaysia. On the last match day, Vietnam battled it out in a thrilling meeting against hosts, UAE. After trailing 3–0, a deep soar in the final examination 10 minutes brought 2 goals on the scoresheet for Vietnam, but it was n’t enough as the match ended 3–2 in party favor of UAE. Despite losing however, with Australia claiming a 1–0 succeed over Jordan in the decisive game of group B, Vietnam formally claimed its ticket into the third and final rung of the World Cup qualifiers for the first base time ever, ampere well as automatic qualification to the 2023 AFC asian Cup in China, after entering as one of the five best runner-up, the second Southeast Asian nation after Thailand to achieve the feat. [ 59 ] [ 60 ]
team visualize [edit ]
Kits [edit ]
Vietnam ‘s current kit sponsor is Grand Sport. The contract started in January 2015 which will end by the end of December 2019 but extended until 2023. Vietnam was besides previously sponsored by Adidas, Li-Ning and Nike. The traditional home color for the vietnamese team is all red with yellow trim and the away color is all white with bolshevik tailored always since they started the condense with Nike. With Adidas, it was precisely loss and ashen. occasionally, the team wore bluing and yellow jerseys .
Kit suppliers [edit ]
primary sponsors include : Honda, [ 62 ] Yanmar, [ 63 ] Grand Sport, [ 64 ] Sony, [ 65 ] Bia Saigon, [ 66 ] Acecook, [ 67 ] Coca-Cola, [ 68 ] Vinamilk, [ 69 ] Kao Vietnam, [ 70 ] Herbalife Nutrition [ 71 ] and TNI Corporation. [ 72 ]
logo [edit ]
Unlike many national teams in the universe, Vietnam is one of the few football teams to not feature their federation ( VFF ) logo, or logo that is styled from national emblem / coating of arms such as Germany, Spain, Australia or Poland at their jersey, but rather the national sag. The few other AFC members to not feature the logo includes Palestine, Syria, North Korea and is the entirely Southeast Asian team to not feature the logo. The logo of VFF is used on team ‘s gears ( hats, bags, masks, coating, … ) and in products of multimedia for team. Despite the state unveiling a logo of dragon for the home football team in 2017, the logo was not incorporated onto the national new jersey due to the majority of veto responses from media and supporters. [ 73 ] Furthermore, the logo was intended only for the men ‘s national team at first, and there were no plans to incorporate the logo on to the national jersey and the uniforms of other sport teams ( women ‘s teams, youth teams, futsal teams, beach soccer teams ).
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Nicknames [edit ]
The home team of Vietnam formally has no nickname. They have been known by several self-named nicknames by fans and media. The most normally used are the Những Chiến binh Sao vàng ( Golden star warriors ) which is derived from the star of the home ease up on the team ‘s new jersey. [ 74 ] It ‘s besides being used by media outlets of VFF during the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. [ 75 ] The local anesthetic media and people in Vietnam besides refer the national team as simply “ Tuyển “ ( The survival ). [ 76 ]
Supporters [edit ]
There are two major supporters ‘ clubs for the national team, namely Vietnam Football Supporters ( VFS, vietnamese : Hội Cổ động viên Bóng đá Việt Nam ) which was founded in 2014 and Vietnam Golden Stars ( VGS, vietnamese : Hội Cổ động viên Sao vàng Việt Nam ) which was founded in 2017. When the national team won adult matches, the streets are often overwhelmed by bombastic vietnamese herd, demonstrating patriot chants, singing vietnamese patriot songs. [ 14 ] vietnamese passionate supporters have been witnessed during 2007 AFC Asian Cup when the team defeated the UAE 2–0 and late, the lone Southeast Asian side to sneak into the quarter-finals. [ 77 ] During the 2019 AFC asian Cup, vietnamese fans were euphoric in celebration after beating Jordan in the round of sixteen. [ 78 ] even in smaller tournaments, vietnamese fans are besides noted for large celebrations, such as when Vietnam won the 2008, 2018 AFF Championships, and 2018 AFC U-23 Championship in which their team finished runner-up after losing the final against Uzbekistan. [ 79 ]
Facilities [edit ]
The vietnamese national team chiefly plays at Mỹ Đình National Stadium, although other venues are besides used. The team played at Hàng Đẫy Stadium against Cambodia, which is besides located in Hanoi, in the final equal of 2018 AFF Championship group degree. other secondhand venues are Thống Nhất, Cần Thơ, Lạch Tray and Gò Đậu Stadium .
In the by, Vietnam did not have any specific train center for the national team, which forced them to practice sporadically at different facilities, contributing to their miss of success. The team previously used the facilities of VFF youth football train center, or borrowed the educate centres of diverse V.League 1 clubs. [ 80 ] however, since 2017, the nation ‘s first base always football train center, known as PVF Training Centre was established in Hưng Yên to improve the national team ‘s performance. [ 81 ] Former Manchester United star and stream Wales coach, Ryan Giggs was appointed as the first director of the center aboard Paul Scholes. [ 82 ]
Rivalries [edit ]
thailand [edit ]
Thailand is frequently considered Vietnam ‘s traditional and biggest equal. The matches between these two teams are constantly likened to the “ El Clasico “ of Southeast Asian football and are followed with much interest in both countries. Vietnam as South Vietnam first gear faced Thailand at the 1959 Southeast asian Games and won the 2 matches, in the group stage and the final. Despite presently having the better overall record compared with Thailand with 23 wins, 10 draws and 18 losses after 51 matches, Vietnam has generally poor results against Thailand since its reintegration into international football in 1991. After the match between two teams in November 2019 in the second round of the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification, Vietnam has faced Thailand in 24 matches at the national team horizontal surface since 1991, the overall results being 3 wins, 6 draws and 15 losses. Despite this, Vietnam, since reintegration to universe ‘s football, is renowned for its performance that punching above the weight, often due to its ability to culminate surprise results despite disadvantages, while Thailand has struggled hard to do the same. Vietnam ‘s most memorable win against Thailand was in the final examination of the 2008 AFF Championship, when a 2–1 succeed in the first leg in Bangkok set them up for their first ever title, which they secured after a 1–1 reap in Hanoi. [ 83 ]
indonesia [edit ]
Vietnam and neighbors Indonesia have faced each other in 38 matches, with Vietnam having the hapless record with 12 wins, 10 draws and 16 losses. During the 20-year period from 1999 to 2019, Vietnam only drew and lost against Indonesia in official tournaments. This serial of winless matches began after the 1–0 succeed over Indonesia in 1999 in the semi-finals of the 1999 SEA Games, and lasted 13 matches, with 7 draws and 5 losses, and last ended on 15 October 2019 when Vietnam won 3–1 against Indonesia by their one-third match of the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification ‘s second polish in Bali .
Singapore [edit ]
While Singapore was still a force in the AFF until 2012, this team was besides a big equal of Vietnam. They have faced each early in 39 matches, with Vietnam dominating with 21 wins, 13 draws and 5 losses. Since equitable reintegrating with international football in 1991, Vietnam experienced, in the period from 1993 to 1998, poorer neck and neck record against Singapore ; specially the failure in the 1998 AFF Championship final. however, since 1998, Vietnam has been maintaining a series of unbeaten matches against Singapore until now. It is worth noting that Vietnam ‘s winning matches in this period against Singapore have never exceeded 1 finish and there were 6 out of the 12 matches that had drawn results, although Vietnam still won in the remaining 6 matches .
malaysia [edit ]
As South Vietnam, the vietnamese side had a poor performance, with only 3 wins, 3 draws and 7 losses, during that time the Malaysians posed as a formidable side in Asia. Since reintegration, however, Vietnam has overwhelmed in the neck and neck record against Malaysia with 13 wins, 3 draw and only 6 losses since 1991. Vietnam has besides been maintaining the series of unbeaten match against Malaysia since 2014 .
Results and fixtures [edit ]
Win Draw Loss The following is a tilt of pit results in the last 12 months, ampere well as any future matches that have been scheduled .
2021 [edit ]
2022 [edit ]
Coaching staff [edit ]
- As of 12 October 2021
Players [edit ]
stream police squad [edit ]
The follow 29 players were called up for the 2020 AFF Championship in 
Singapore from 5 December 2021 to 1 January 2022.
Caps and goals as of 16 November 2021 after the match against 
Saudi Arabia.
recent call-ups [edit ]
The following players have been called up for the team within the last 12 months and are calm available for choice .
Captains [edit ]
player records [edit ]
- As of 16 November 2021
- Players in bold are still active with Vietnam.
Youngest player to play for the national team [edit ]
competitive record [edit ]
FIFA World Cup [edit ]
AFC asian Cup [edit ]
Vietnam holds a outstanding distinction in the competition by having tendency of facing future finalists of the AFC Asian Cup, having implemented sol in all four editions, with South Korea and Iraq emerged winners after facing Vietnam, and Japan finished runner-up. furthermore, the country besides holds a distinction of being drawn to face the AFC ‘s number 1 team or asian champions following by FIFA Ranking in all competitions they participated ( South Korea in 1956 and 1960, Japan in 2007 and Iran in 2019 ) .
asian Games [edit ]
Since 2002, the asian Games Football tournament uses the Olympic team. See : Vietnam national Olympic football team
Asian Games History
Season
Round
Opponent
Scores
Result
Venue
1998
Group stage
Turkmenistan
0–2
Loss
Nakhon Sawan, Thailand
South Korea
0–4
Loss
AFF Championship [edit ]
southeast asian Games [edit ]
Since 2001, the SEA Games football competition has only allowed the olympian side to participate. See : Vietnam national Olympic football team
all-time tete-a-tete phonograph record [edit ]
- As of 12 October 2021 [89]
positive Record Neutral Record Negative Record
- 1 includes the results of
East Germany - 2 includes the results of
Malaya - 3 includes the results of
North Yemen
South Yemen
FIFA universe rankings [edit ]
FIFA-ranking
Vietnam’s FIFA world rankings
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
135
151
122
99
104
98
102
99
105
108
98
103
120
172
142
155
123
137
99
131
144
137
147
134
112
100
97
94
Honours [edit ]
Include the results of 
South Vietnam before 1976 (1949/1954-1976) Continental
- Asian Games (As senior national team until 1998, since 2002 it is an Olympic tournament.)
- Fourth place (1): 1962
- Quarter-finals (1): 1958
- AFC Asian Cup
- Fourth place (2): 1956, 1960 (both as South Vietnam)
- Quarter-finals (2): 2007, 2019
Regional
See besides [edit ]
Notes [edit ]
References [edit ]
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