football club
Viettel Football Club ( vietnamese : Câu lạc bộ Bóng đá Viettel ), plainly known as Viettel FC or Hanoi Viettel, is a vietnamese professional football clubhouse based in Hanoi. The club belongs to the Viettel Sports Center, a region of Viettel Group and competes in the V.League 1, the circus tent tier of the vietnamese football league system. Viettel ( vitamin a celebrated as the name Thể Công before ) is one of the most widely supported clubs and besides the most successful baseball club in vietnamese football history, having won a commemorate 20 national titles, including nine consecutively from 1971 to 1979. The clubhouse has besides contributed many bang-up players to the Vietnam National Football Team. Viettel ‘s traditional colors is all-red home strip, giving the 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 ]

Professional football is run by the by-product constitution Viettel Sport Center, a wholly own subsidiary company of the Viettel Group .

history [edit ]

The harbinger of Viettel is Thể Công. [ 11 ]

Thể Công time 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 short for Thể dục Thể thao Công tác Đội and was managed by Ministry of Defence. [ 12 ] The first gear 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 summation, all three teams besides have a especial allow player, Ly Duc Kim, who knows how to play football, both basketball and volleyball, and has the ability to be a breastfeed and adept logistics. Kim besides has the above digest functions. [ 13 ]
The first chief 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 by and by, was a celebrated musician of the first vietnamese footballers generation in the 1930s to 1950s period. More than a month later, on October 25, in the beginning football match held since the dismissal of Hanoi capital at Hang Day Stadium, The Cong had the beginning match in its history against Tran Hung Dao University team, including players from the capital ‘s working class. The team won with a score of 1 – 0 with the merely goal of the peer being scored in the thirtieth moment by the striker captain Nguyen Van Buoi. In 1955, Vietnam ‘s foremost football tournament was held in Hai Phong with the name Hoà Bình League ( harbinger 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 prison term, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam national football team was convened for international duty. At the age of 38, Ti Bo was distillery called to the national team along with nine other The Cong players to participate in his first tour in China. He became one of the first players of the Vietnamese team and the oldest vietnamese national actor ever. [ 14 ] During the comply 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 main 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 period. In 1950s and 1960s, Công An Hải Phòng was army for the liberation of rwanda more successful, winning ten championships, including four consecutively from 1965 to 1968, making the clubhouse became North Vietnam ‘s record champion. Thể Công took over the entitle more than six years subsequently in 1976, when they won their tenth championship in 1970 and besides their last state 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 attention because they are constantly counterpunch the Red Tornado by effective defense system, who reached the champions doubly in 1962 and 1964 .

1969-2000 : gold ten : authority 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 meter, the typical generation 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 train in North Korea in 1967 [ 15 ] and when they returned dwelling, they were the most outstanding and distinctive players in the nation. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] After the country was unified and had the National Championship ( the predecessor of the V-League ), The Cong has always been the strongest football clubhouse in Vietnam with 5 championships. The Cong players have always been the core of the national team and contributed many players in the golden coevals 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 inactive a main rivals have been the clubs who put up the strongest fight against its national authority. Matches with CAHN was more than a local bowler hat with many classical wins, draws and losses. Due to Thể Công being traditionally hard to beat for CAHN though they had no any trophies for a hanker times .

2004-2008 : relegation and promoted back [edit ]

In 2004, precisely 50 years after its foundation, Thể Công football clubhouse finished V-League at 11th place ( out of 12 ) and was relegated to the lower division. The team performed ailing partially due to the policy of not recruiting foreign soldiers, in contrast to all other teams at that clock. In the follow season, the baseball club changed its mention 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 club should return to its old list.

On January 19, 2007, the club last gained the right 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 end and transfer [edit ]

On September 22, 2009 ( before the fifty-fifth anniversary of the establishment of Thể Công ) the Ministry of Defense decided to change Thể Công to Viettel. In November 2009, the Ministry of Defence decided to remove name “ Thể Công ” out of football in Vietnam, and transfer all management of football club to Viettel. On September 23, 2011 on the juncture of the 57th anniversary of the institution 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 interested in this reception. Facing the risk of being dissolved, the acting director of the Center at that time, Nguyen Thanh Hai, asked the leaders of Viettel Telecom Corporation to allow the alimony of the Viettel Football Center and pledged to bring results in a class. In the 2010 football season, the Center ‘s teams reached the concluding round of the youth tournaments. In 2011, the Center won 1 Gold, 1 Silver and 1 Bronze Medal in youth tournaments, officially gaining the good to exist. In the 2012 football season, the official team of Viettel Football Center won the championship with the same rank at the Vietnam Third Division Football Championship and won a place in the Second Division since the 2013 season. [ 18 ]

Modern earned run average [edit ]

Viettel period [edit ]

2010-2018 : promotion [edit ]

next to 2010 season, the club again switched its appoint back to Viettel FC, and besides voluntarily left the professional football set-up. alternatively, the club decided to focus on youth development, and starting signal competing again in the amateur 4th tier of vietnamese football. On October 26, 2014, the General Director of Military Telecommunications Group signed the decisiveness No. 2294/QD-VTQ-TCNL to consolidate the functions and tasks and change the mention of Viettel Football Training Center to Viettel Sports Center. [ 19 ] In 2016 the club last returned to professional football after winning forwarding to the V.League 2. In 2018, Viettel F.C. won the V.League 2 championship and went spinal column to the national top grade V.League 1. The football baseball club besides wanted to switch back to the once identify Thể Công when the tournament started from 2019, but was not agreed even from the Ministry of Defence, who owned brands name “ 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

1st place, gold medalist(s)Winners : (19; record) 1955, 1956, 1958, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1987, 1990, 1998, 2020
2nd place, silver medalist(s)Runners-up : (4) 1984, 1989, 1986, 1992
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)Third place : (3) 1993–94, 1997, 2000–01
1st place, gold medalist(s)Winners : (2) 2007, 2018
2nd place, silver medalist(s)Runners-up : (1) 2016 (as Viettel F.C.)
1st place, gold medalist(s)Winners : 2015
2nd place, silver medalist(s)Runners-up : 2009
1st place, gold medalist(s)Winners : 2008
Cup
2nd place, silver medalist(s)Runners-up : (4) 1992, 2004, 2009, 2020.
1st place, gold medalist(s)Winners : (1) 1999.
2nd place, silver medalist(s)Runners-up : (1) 2020

other competitions [edit ]

1st place, gold medalist(s)Winners : 2002
1st place, gold medalist(s)Winners : 2004
2nd place, silver medalist(s)Runners-up : 1999
1st place, gold medalist(s)Winners : 1997, 1998
1st place, gold medalist(s)Winners : 1998, 2002, 2009
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)Third place : (1) 1989

stream team [edit ]

As of 28 January 2021[21]

note : 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 loan [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 young manufacturers [edit ]

  • 2017-2020: Keepdri
  • 2020-present: FBT
  • 2016: BankPlus
  • 2017–2018: BankPlus, 4G
  • 2018–present: Viettel Pay

celebrated players [edit ]

Coaches [edit ]

References [edit ]