Vietnamese Football League Second Division

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Vietnamese Football League Second Division
Organising body
Phù Đổng
Quảng Nam
Tây Ninh
(2 titles)
Websitevff.org.vn
Current: 2025 Vietnamese Football League Second Division

The Vietnamese Football League Second Division (Vietnamese: Giải bóng đá hạng Nhì quốc gia) is the third tier professional association football league in Vietnam[1] controlled by the Vietnam Football Federation.[2]

History

A national third tier of Vietnamese association football was first established along with its professionalization in 1995. Among the 10 original clubs of the third tier included the forerunners to

Lâm Đồng.[3]
But after a number of clubs were lost for various reasons – some were promoted to V.League and the others folded – the league contracted the second division in 1997 and continued with the single second-tier division.

The third-tier football was reintroduced in 2000 upon creation of fully professional V.League 2. But despite its officially amateur status the league quickly became de facto semi-professional, serving as the cradle of the future V. League members. Since the establishment of associate membership system in 2006 the number of professional clubs holding or actively seeking for this status has grown steadily and reached its peak in 2010 season when 6 full members and 2 former candidates made up to almost half of the league's 18 teams.[4] Through the course of the season this number grew even bigger, to 15 full associate members that formed the core of V.League 3.[5]

Current season

15 teams compete in the 2025 season, split into two groups.

Group A

Team Location Stadium Capacity
Bắc Ninh Bắc Ninh Từ Sơn City Stadium 5,000
Hà Nội B
Hà Nội
Thanh Trì Stadium 4,000
Hoài Đức Hoài Đức Stadium 3,500
Phú Thọ Phú Thọ Việt Trì Stadium 20,000
PVF
Hưng Yên
PVF Stadium 3,600
PVF-CAND B
Quảng Ninh
Quảng Ninh
Quảng Ninh Province Sports Complex 4,000

Group B

Team Location Stadium Capacity
Đắk Lắk
Đắk Lắk
Buôn Ma Thuật Stadium 20,000
Gia Định
Hồ Chí Minh City
Tân Hiệp Stadium 1,000
Văn Hiến University District 8 Stadium 500
Kon Tum
Kon Tum
Kon Tum Stadium 11,000
Lâm Đồng
Lâm Đồng
Đà Lạt Stadium 20,000
SHB Đà Nẵng B
Đà Nẵng
TBD ?
Tây Ninh Tây Ninh TBD ?
Vĩnh Long
Vĩnh Long
Vĩnh Long Stadium 10,000

Winners

Season Winners Runner-up
2000 Hải Quan
Bình Định
2001
Thanh Hóa
Cần Thơ
2002
Đắk Lắk
An Giang
5th Military Region
2003
Quảng Nam
Khải Hoàn Hotel
2004
Khánh Hòa
Strata Đồng Nai
2005 5th Military Region
Tây Ninh
2006
Thành Nghĩa Dung Quất Quảng Ngãi
Than Quảng Ninh
2007 7th Military Region
T&T Hà Nội
2008
Quảng Nam
Hải An Sài Gòn United
2009
TDC Bình Dương
Viettel
2010
Nguyễn Hoàng Kiên Giang
Hòa Phát V&V
2011
SHB Đà Nẵng B
Lâm Đồng
2012 Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu
Khatoco Khánh Hòa B
2013
Tây Ninh
2014
Nam Định
Phú Yên
Kon Tum
Tiền Giang
Vĩnh Long
Long An B
2015
Viettel
Cà Mau
2016
PVF
Bình Định
2017
Bình Định
Hà Nội B
2018
Phù Đổng
Phố Hiến
2019 Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Hà Nội B
2020
Phù Đổng
Phú Thọ
Gia Định
2021
Season cancelled
2022 Bình Thuận
Hoà Bình
Hải Nam Vĩnh Yên
Đồng Nai
2023 Đồng Nai
Đồng Tháp
Đắk Lắk
SHB Đà Nẵng B
2024
Hồ Chí Minh City Youth
Kon Tum
Bắc Ninh
2025

References

  1. ^ "Vietnam Second Division 2025 Table & Stats | FootyStats".
  2. ^ "Giải Hạng Nhì Quốc gia". 27 June 2015.
  3. ^ "VFF - Sửa đổi, bổ sung Điều lệ giải bóng đá Hạng Ba toàn quốc 2005". VFF (in Vietnamese). 2005-09-28. Retrieved 2025-03-10.
  4. ^ "VFF - Giải bóng đá Hạng Ba toàn quốc 2010: Đã có 17 đội đăng ký tham dự". VFF (in Vietnamese). 2010-08-17. Retrieved 2025-03-10.
  5. ^ "VFF - Điều lệ Giải bóng đá hạng Ba toàn quốc 2005". VFF (in Vietnamese). 2005-09-28. Retrieved 2025-03-10.