Viettel Football Club ( vietnamese : Câu lạc bộ Bóng đá Viettel ), just known as Viettel FC or Hanoi Viettel, is a vietnamese professional football club based in Hanoi. The club belongs to the Viettel Sports Center, a share of Viettel Group and competes in the V.League 1, the top tier of the vietnamese football league system. Viettel ( american samoa celebrated as the name Thể Công before ) is one of the most widely supported clubs and besides the most successful club in vietnamese football history, having won a record 20 national titles, including nine consecutively from 1971 to 1979. The club has besides contributed many bang-up players to the Vietnam National Football Team. Viettel ‘s traditional color is all-red home deprive, giving the golf club have nickname Cơn Lốc Đỏ (Red Tornado). They held a long-standing rivalries with local neighbors Công An Hà Nội in the past, [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] from mid-1950s to 2002 when they were dissolved, with whom they contest The Vietnamese Classic Derby. They besides contest Hanoi Derby with Hanoi FC in the present. [ 10 ]
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Professional football is run by the by-product constitution Viettel Sport Center, a wholly own subordinate of the Viettel Group .
history [edit ]
The predecessor of Viettel is Thể Công. [ 11 ]
Thể Công period [edit ]
1954-1968 : formation and rising [edit ]
On September 23, 1954, according to the appointment of the Director of the General Department of Politics at that clock time, General Nguyen Chi Thanh, đoàn công tác Thể dục Thể thao Quân đội ( Thể Công ) was established. Thể Công is curtly for Thể dục Thể thao Công tác Đội and was managed by Ministry of Defence. [ 12 ] The first Thể Công team include 23 people of the cell from The Army Officer College No1 and was divided into three teams : 11 football, 5 basketball and 6 volleyball players. In addition, all three teams besides have a particular modesty player, Ly Duc Kim, who knows how to play football, both basketball and volleyball, and has the ability to be a breastfeed and commodity logistics. Kim besides has the above support functions. [ 13 ]
The first main lineup of The Cong football team include : Lê Nhâm; Nguyễn Văn Hiếu; Phạm Ngọc Quế; Nguyễn Thiêm; Ngô Xuân Quýnh; Phạm Mạnh Soạn; Trương Vinh Thăng; Nguyễn Bá Khánh; Nguyễn Văn Bưởi (capital); Nguyễn Thông (player-coach); Vũ Tâm (as Phạm Vinh). Beside, Nguyen Van Thanh ( as Tí Bồ ) was joined belated, was a celebrated actor of the first vietnamese footballers generation in the 1930s to 1950s period. More than a month late, on October 25, in the foremost football match held since the dismissal of Hanoi capital at Hang Day Stadium, The Cong had the first equal in its history against Tran Hung Dao University team, including players from the capital ‘s working classify. The team won with a score of 1 – 0 with the only finish of the match being scored in the thirtieth second base by the striker captain Nguyen Van Buoi. In 1955, Vietnam ‘s first football tournament was held in Hai Phong with the name Hoà Bình League ( precursor of V.League 1 ), Thể Công was participated with two teams A and B. Both teams won championships of two A and B classes. In 1956, for the first base time, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam national football team was convened for international duty. At the age of 38, Ti Bo was still called to the national team along with nine other The Cong players to participate in his first go in China. He became one of the first players of the Vietnamese team and the oldest vietnamese national player ever. [ 14 ] During the following years, Thể Công won the champions in 1956 and 1958. At that time, Công An Hải Phòng and Công An Hà Nội has been their independent and traditional rival in Northern Vietnam football. Three clubs played are besides the founding members in the highest vietnamese system league in the mid-1950s and became the Big 3 clubs in the early Vietnam football time period. In 1950s and 1960s, Công An Hải Phòng was far more successful, winning ten championships, including four consecutively from 1965 to 1968, making the club became North Vietnam ‘s criminal record supporter. Thể Công took over the title more than six years later in 1976, when they won their tenth championship in 1970 and besides their last nation league trophy. The duel between Thể Công and Công An Hải Phòng was referred to as the Northern Derby, but the Hanoi Derby with Công An Hà Nội was more care because they are always antagonistic the Red Tornado by good defense system, who reached the champions doubly in 1962 and 1964 .
1969-2000 : golden ten : dominance in the league [edit ]
Since the 1969s to 1979s, The Cong had always dominated in national league with 10 championships in Vietnam ‘s A Class National League, including nine consecutively from 1971 to 1979. During that time, the distinctive genesis of The Cong players were Nguyễn Thế Anh (Ba Den), Nguyễn Cao Cường, Quan Trong Hung, Vương Tiến Dũng, Nguyễn Trọng Giáp, Vu Manh Hai, … with the majority being young players who went to long-run trail in North Korea in 1967 [ 15 ] and when they returned base, they were the most outstanding and typical players in the nation. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] After the area was unified and had the National Championship ( the harbinger of the V-League ), The Cong has always been the strongest football club in Vietnam with 5 championships. The Cong players have constantly been the core of the national team and contributed many players in the fortunate generation of vietnamese football such as goalkeeper Tran Tien Anh, Do Manh Dung, Nguyen Manh Cuong, and Nguyen Hong Son, Truong Viet Hoang, Nguyen Duc Thang, Pham Nhu Thuan, Trieu Quang Ha, Dang Phuong Nam, Vu Cong Tuyen … The Cong was the longest stand team in the V-League until the team was relegated in 2004. ( In 1979, The Cong did not participate in the tournament ). At that times, Công An Hà Nội was hush a main rivals have been the clubs who put up the strongest fight against its home dominance. Matches with CAHN was more than a local bowler hat with many classical wins, draws and losses. Due to Thể Công being traditionally arduous to beat for CAHN though they had no any trophies for a hanker times .
2004-2008 : relegation and promoted bet on [edit ]
In 2004, precisely 50 years after its initiation, Thể Công football cabaret finished V-League at 11th place ( out of 12 ) and was relegated to the lower division. The team performed ill partially due to the policy of not recruiting alien soldiers, in contrast to all other teams at that fourth dimension. In the stick to season, the club changed its list to The Cong Viettel ( Viettel is the Army Electronics and Telecommunication Corporation ) and is partially managed by this unit. however, many comments suggested that the clubhouse should return to its old name.
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On January 19, 2007, the club finally gained the correctly to be promoted back to V-League after winning over Tay Ninh 5–3. immediately thereafter, the official team name was reversed back to Thể Công .
2009-2010 : The goal and transfer [edit ]
On September 22, 2009 ( before the fifty-fifth anniversary of the constitution of Thể Công ) the Ministry of Defense decided to change Thể Công to Viettel. In November 2009, the Ministry of Defence decided to remove diagnose “ Thể Công ” out of football in Vietnam, and transfer all management of football club to Viettel. On September 23, 2011 on the occasion of the 57th anniversary of the constitution of the club, hundreds of officials, players, and fans of all generations who were once members of The Cong decided to launch a “ campaign ” to collect 1 million signatures across the nation to petition the Ministry of Defense to regain the title Thể Công. however, Viettel Telecom Corporation is not very concerned in this reception. Facing the risk of being dissolved, the acting director of the Center at that prison term, Nguyen Thanh Hai, asked the leaders of Viettel Telecom Corporation to allow the sustenance of the Viettel Football Center and pledged to bring results in a year. In the 2010 football season, the Center ‘s teams reached the final polish of the young person tournaments. In 2011, the Center won 1 Gold, 1 Silver and 1 Bronze Medal in youth tournaments, officially gaining the right to exist. In the 2012 football season, the official team of Viettel Football Center won the backing with the like rank at the Vietnam Third Division Football Championship and won a place in the Second Division since the 2013 season. [ 18 ]
Modern era [edit ]
Viettel menstruation [edit ]
2010-2018 : promotion [edit ]
following to 2010 season, the club again switched its mention back to Viettel FC, and besides voluntarily left the professional football set-up. alternatively, the baseball club decided to focus on youth development, and depart competing again in the amateur 4th tier of vietnamese football. On October 26, 2014, the General Director of Military Telecommunications Group signed the decision No. 2294/QD-VTQ-TCNL to consolidate the functions and tasks and change the list of Viettel Football Training Center to Viettel Sports Center. [ 19 ] In 2016 the cabaret last returned to professional football after winning promotion to the V.League 2. In 2018, Viettel F.C. won the V.League 2 championship and went second to the national top tier V.League 1. The football club besides wanted to switch back to the once name Thể Công when the tournament started from 2019, but was not agreed yet from the Ministry of Defence, who owned brands diagnose “ Thể Công ” and were used by their volleyball team – “ Câu lạc bộ bóng chuyền Thể Công ” ( Thể Công Volleyball Club ). consequently, the official name of the football club is Câu lạc bộ Bóng đá Viettel ( Viettel Football Club ) and owned by Viettel Group. [ 20 ]
2019-present : revival [edit ]
In the 2020 season, Viettel had a race to the backing with Hanoi .
- In the 2020 National Cup, the club won the runner-up title after losing 1-2 at Hang Day Stadium against Hanoi.
- At LS 2020 V.League 1, the club won the championship after beating Saigon FC 1-0 with Bruno Cantanhede’s only goal in the last round – round 7 of phase 2 of group A taking place on 8/08. 11/2020. They only took two seasons in V.League 1 to be crowned, when they were promoted from the 2019 season. If including the achievements of Thể Công, this is the 19th time they has won the championship.
- In 2021, the club qualified to the 2021 AFC Champions League.
Galleries [edit ]
stadium [edit ]
Hàng Đẫy Stadium in 1955
logo [edit ]
Continental record [edit ]
Honours [edit ]
National competitions [edit ]
- League
19 cups of Viettel
Winners : (19; record) 1955, 1956, 1958, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1987, 1990, 1998, 2020
Runners-up : (4) 1984, 1989, 1986, 1992
Third place : (3) 1993–94, 1997, 2000–01
- Winners : (2) 2007, 2018
- Runners-up : (1) 2016 (as Viettel F.C.)
- Winners : 2015
- Runners-up : 2009
- Winners : 2008
- Cup
- Runners-up : (4) 1992, 2004, 2009, 2020.
- Winners : (1) 1999.
- Runners-up : (1) 2020
early competitions [edit ]
- Winners : 2002
- Winners : 2004
- Runners-up : 1999
- Winners : 1997, 1998
- Winners : 1998, 2002, 2009
- Third place : (1) 1989
stream police squad [edit ]
- As of 28 January 2021[21]
eminence : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Out on lend [edit ]
note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .
Kit manufacturers [edit ]
- 2017: Mitre
- 2019: VNA Sports
- 2020-present: FBT
Kit new manufacturers [edit ]
- 2017-2020: Keepdri
- 2020-present: FBT
- 2016: BankPlus
- 2017–2018: BankPlus, 4G
- 2018–present: Viettel Pay