Hồ Chí Minh City FC

Hồ Chí Minh City FC
Basic data
Seat	Ho Chi Minh City
founding	1975
Website	tmn-csgfc.com.vn
First soccer team
Head coach	Lư Đình Tuấn
Venue	Thống Nhất Stadium
Places	25,000
league	V. League 1
2019	2nd place
home Away

The Ho Chi Minh City FC is a football club in Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam . The club currently plays in the highest league in the country, the V.League 1 . The club plays its home games at Thong Nhat Stadium. With 4 championships and 2 cup wins, the club is one of the most successful clubs in the country.

Club history

The association was founded in 1975 as Cảng Sài Gòn. To date there have been several name changes. The last one was in January 2009. When they finally changed their name to FC Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh. The main shareholders of the association are Southern Steel with 72% and Saigon Port with 25% shares.

Name change

from	to	Surname
1975	2000	Saigon Port Workers FC (đội bóng đá công nhân Cảng Sài Gòn)
2001	2003	Saigon Port FC (Cảng Sài Gòn)
2004	2008	Southern Steel - Saigon Port FC (Thép Miền Nam - Cảng Sài Gòn)
2009	today	Hồ Chí Minh City FC (CLB bóng đá TP Hồ Chí Minh)

Club successes

National

• V. League 1

Champion: 1986, 1993/94, 1997, 2001/02

Runner-up: 1999/00, 2000/01, 2019

• V. League 2

Champion: 2004, 2016

• Vietnamese Cup

Winner: 1992, 1999/2000

Finalist: 1994, 1996, 1997

Stadion

Thống Nhất Stadium

The club plays its home games in the 25,000-seat Thống Nhất Stadium in Ho Chi Minh City .

Coordinates: 10 ° 45 ′ 38.5 ″  N , 106 ° 39 ′ 48 ″  E

player

Status: March 2020

No. position Surname 1 TW Nguyễn Thanh Thắng 2 FROM Ngô Tùng Quốc 4th FROM Nguyễn Tăng Tiến 5 FROM Ngô Viết Phú 6th MF Seo Yong-duk 7th FROM Sầm Ngọc Đức 8th MF Trần Thanh Bình 9 MF Ngô Hoàng Thịnh 10 MF Trần Phi Sơn 11 ST Nguyễn Xuân Nam 12 FROM Lê Đức Lương (on loan from CLB Hoàng Anh Gia Lai ) 14th MF Đỗ Văn Thuận ( team captain ) 15th FROM Nguyễn Hữu Tuấn 16 MF Võ Huy Toàn 17th MF Phạm Thành Trung

No. position Surname 18th MF Vũ Quang Nam 19th FROM Lê Văn Sơn (on loan from CLB Hoàng Anh Gia Lai ) 20th FROM Vũ Ngọc Thịnh 21st ST Nguyễn Công Phượng (on loan from CLB Hoàng Anh Gia Lai ) 26th TW Nguyễn Sơn Hải 28 MF Phạm Công Hiển 35 TW Bùi Tiến Dũng 39 ST Phạm Văn Thành 44 FROM Papé Diakité 71 FROM Nguyễn Công Thành 81 MF Vũ Anh Tuấn 88 MF Alex Lima 99 ST Amido Baldé

Borrowed Players

No. position Surname TW Nguyễn Thanh Phú (at CLB Bà Rịa Vũng Tàu until September 2020) FROM Quế Ngọc Mạnh (to CLB Bà Rịa Vũng Tàu until September 2020) MF Đào Quốc Gia (at CLB Bà Rịa Vũng Tàu until September 2020)

Season placement

season	league	space	Vietnamese Cup	Supercup
2000-01	V. League 1	4th
2001-02	V. League 1	1.
2003	V. League 1	11. ▼
2004	V. League 2	1. ▲
2005	V. League 1	8th.
2006	V. League 1	10.
2007	V. League 1	8th.
2008	V. League 1	5.
2009	V. League 1	13. ▼
2010	V. League 2	10.
2011	V. League 2	11.
2012	V. League 2	14. ▼
2013	Vietnam National 2nd Division	2. ▲
2014	V. League 2	7th
2015	V. League 2	3.	Preliminary round
2016	V. League 2	1. ▲	1 round
2017	V. League 1	12.	2nd round
2018	V. League 1	12.	Round of 16
2019	V. League 1	2.	Semifinals
2020	V. League 1

Coach chronicle

Trainer	nation	from	to
Jules Accorsi	France	July 1, 1998	June 30, 2000
Vjeran Simunic	Croatia	October 27, 2010	September 30, 2011
Alain Fiard	France Cambodia	January 1, 2017	November 6, 2017
Toshiya Miura	Japan	5th January 2018	October 10, 2018
Jeong Hae-seong	South Korea	December 18, 2018	today

Web links

• Official website
• Hồ Chí Minh City FC in soccerway.com database
• Hồ Chí Minh City FC in the database of transfermarkt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ rsssf.com: List of Masters of Vietnam