The Vietnamese Super League is the top football league in Vietnam. Launched in 1980, the league currently involves 14 teams. The league was known as the V-League from 2000-01 season to 2011, when the competition turned professional and later renamed as Super League for the 2012 campaign.
[edit] Overview
[edit] Competition format
- The V-League season starts in February and ends in August. In each season, each club plays each of the other clubs twice, once at home and another away, for a total of 26 games.
- Teams are ranked by total points, head-to-head, goal difference and goals scored.
- Top team is qualified for AFC Cup group stages.
- For 2010 season, two bottom teams are relegated to the Vietnam First Division while third lowest placed team goes to play-off with the third highest placed team from Vietnam First Division.[1]
- Starting in the 2015 season, the league is expected to expand to 16 teams.[2]
Since the 2000-2001 season, the V-League has been branded with a principal sponsor's name and logo. The following companies have acted as principal sponsors:[3]
- 2000–02: Strata Sport Marketing (Strata V-League)
- 2003: PepsiCo (Sting V-League)
- 2004: Kinh Do (Kinh Do V-League)
- 2005: Tan Hiep Phat (Number One V-League)
- 2006: Eurowindow (Eurowindow V-League)
- 2007–10: Petro Vietnam Gas (Petro Vietnam Gas V-League)
- 2011–13: Eximbank (Eximbank V-League)[nb 1]
[edit] Rules on foreign players
Locations of Clubs for the 2012 V-League season
The number of foreign players is restricted to five per team. A team could use three foreigners on the field each game.
As 2009 statistics, about half of V-League foreign players are Brazilian and the rest come from Argentina, Nigeria, Ghana, Czech Republic, Thailand and others.[4]
[edit] Attendance
V-League average attendance stands at around 10,000 spectators per game for some recent seasons. As of June 2010, the average attendance of V-League 2010 is 10,208.[5]
[edit] 2011 corruption controversy
After a season full of accusations of refereeing corruption and a cover-up by the V-League governing body Vietnam Football Federation (VFF), 6 clubs (Dong Tam Long An, Hoang Anh Gia Lai, Hanoi ACB, Vissai Ninh Binh, Khatoco Khanh Hoa and Lam Son Thanh Hoa[6]) threatened to leave the league and form an entirely new league for the 2012 season. The most out spoken club in the move was Hanoi ACB, who were going through relegation from the V-League, with its chairman Nguyen Duc Kien announcing that ACB would spearhead the move. Due to the controversy, league sponsor EximBank expressed its intention to drop its title sponsorship of the league. League officials scrambled to resolve the issues, going as far as hiring foreign referees for the 2012 season.[7][8]
After a meeting on Sep. 29, representatives of the VFF and the 14 V-League teams and 14 First Division teams announced the formation of a new corporation, the Vietnam Professional Football Company, to manage the V-League. The VFF would hold a 36% stake in the new corporation, and the rest would be held by clubs.[6]
[edit] Vietnamese Super League 2012 clubs
| Club |
Based |
Home stadium |
Capacity |
First season
in V-League |
Manager |
| Becamex Bình Dương |
Thủ Dầu Một |
Gò Đậu Stadium |
18,250 |
2004 |
 Đặng Trần Chỉnh (interim) |
| SHB Ðà Nẵng |
Đà Nẵng |
Chi Lang Stadium |
30,000 |
2001 |
Lê Huỳnh Đức |
| Cao su Đồng Tháp |
Cao Lãnh |
Cao Lãnh Stadium |
23,000 |
2000 |
Phạm Công Lộc |
| Vicem Hải Phòng |
Hải Phòng |
Lạch Tray Stadium |
28,000 |
2000 |
Nguyễn Đình Hưng |
| Hà Nội F.C. |
Hà Nội |
Hàng Đẫy Stadium |
22,500 |
2003 |
Nguyễn Thành Vinh |
| Hà Nội T&T |
Hà Nội |
Hàng Đẫy Stadium |
22,500 |
2008 |
Phan Thanh Hùng |
| Hoàng Anh Gia Lai |
Pleiku |
Pleiku Stadium |
12,000 |
2003 |
 Choi Yun-Kyum |
| Khatoco Khánh Hoà |
Nha Trang |
August 19th Stadium |
25,000 |
2000 |
Hoàng Anh Tuấn |
| Kienlongbank Kiên Giang |
Rạch Giá |
Rach Gia Stadium |
5,000 |
2012 |
Lại Hồng Vân |
| Vissai Ninh Binh |
Ninh Bình |
Ninh Bình Stadium |
22,000 |
2010 |
Nguyễn Văn Sỹ |
| Sài Gòn F.C. |
Ho Chi Minh City |
Thong Nhat Stadium |
25,000 |
2012 |
Lư Đình Tuấn |
| NaviBank Sài Gòn |
Hồ Chí Minh City |
Thong Nhat Stadium |
25,000 |
2010 |
Mai Đức Chung |
| Sông Lam Nghệ An |
Vinh |
Vinh Stadium |
12,000 [9] |
2000 |
Nguyễn Hữu Thắng |
| Thanh Hóa |
Thanh Hóa |
Thanh Hoa Stadium |
14,000 |
2010 |
Triệu Quang Hà |
[edit] Previous winners
The following is a historical list of champions and runners-up of the V-League by season. Superscripts in brackets (such as (2)) indicate a repeat win.
[edit] Top-Performing Clubs
[edit] Top scorers
| Season[3] |
Name |
Club |
Goals |
Games played |
Goals per game |
| 1980 |
Lê Văn Đặng |
Công an Hà Nội |
10 |
12 |
0,83 |
| 1981-82 |
Võ Thành Sơn |
Sở Công Nghiệp TPHCM |
15 |
19 |
0,79 |
| 1982-83 |
Nguyễn Cao Cường |
CLB Quân Đội |
22 |
23 |
0,96 |
| 1984 |
Nguyễn Văn Dũng |
Công nghiệp Hà Nam Ninh |
15 |
15 |
1,00 |
| 1985 |
Nguyễn Văn Dũng |
Công nghiệp Hà Nam Ninh |
15 |
16 |
0,94 |
| 1986 |
Nguyễn Văn Dũng
Nguyễn Minh Huy |
Công nghiệp Hà Nam Ninh
Hải Quan |
12 |
17 |
0,71 |
| 1987-88 |
Lưu Tấn Liêm |
Hải Quan |
15 |
20 |
0,75 |
| 1989 |
Hà Vương Ngầu Nại |
Cảng Sài Gòn |
10 |
15 |
0,67 |
| 1990 |
Nguyễn Hồng Sơn |
CLB Quân Đội |
10 |
15 |
0,67 |
| 1991 |
Hà Vương Ngầu Nại |
Cảng Sài Gòn |
10 |
15 |
0,67 |
| 1992 |
Trần Minh Toàn |
Quảng Nam-Đà Nẵng |
6 |
12 |
0,50 |
| 1993-94 |
Nguyễn Công Long
Bùi Sĩ Thành |
Bình Định
Long An |
12 |
10
11 |
1,20
1,09 |
| 1995 |
Trần Minh Chiến |
Công an Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh |
14 |
15 |
0,93 |
| 1996 |
Lê Huỳnh Đức |
Công an Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh |
25 |
27 |
0,93 |
| 1997 |
Lê Huỳnh Đức |
Công an Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh |
16 |
22 |
0,73 |
| 1998 |
Nguyễn Văn Dũng |
Nam Định |
17 |
26 |
0,65 |
1999
Unofficial |
Vũ Minh Hiếu |
Công an Hà Nội |
8 |
8 |
1,00 |
| 1999-00 |
Văn Sỹ Thuỷ |
Sông Lam Nghệ An |
14 |
24 |
0,58 |
| 2000-01 |
Đặng Đạo |
Khánh Hoà |
11 |
18 |
0,61 |
| 2001-02 |
Hồ Văn Lợi |
Cảng Sài Gòn |
9 |
18 |
0,50 |
| 2003 |
 Emeka Achilefu |
Nam Định |
11 |
22 |
0,50 |
| 2004 |
Amaobi Uzowuru |
Nam Định |
15 |
22 |
0,68 |
| 2005 |
 Kesley Alves |
Bình Dương |
21 |
22 |
0,95 |
| 2006 |
Elenildo |
Thép Miền Nam Cảng Sài Gòn |
18 |
24 |
0,75 |
| 2007 |
Almeida |
SHB Đà Nẵng |
16 |
26 |
0,62 |
| 2008 |
Almeida |
SHB Đà Nẵng |
23 |
26 |
0,89 |
| 2009 |
 Gaston Merlo
Lazaro de Souza |
SHB Đà Nẵng
Quân khu 4 |
15 |
26 |
0,58 |
| 2010 |
Gaston Merlo |
SHB Đà Nẵng |
19 |
26 |
0,73 |
| 2011 |
Gaston Merlo |
SHB Đà Nẵng |
22 |
26 |
0,85 |
[edit] See also
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