Hồ Chí Minh City

Full name	Ho Chi Minh City Football Club
Nickname(s)	Chiến hạm đỏ (The Red Battleship)
Short name	HCMFC
Founded	1975; 49 years ago (1975) as Cảng Sài Gòn (Saigon Port)
Ground	Thống Nhất Stadium
Capacity	15,000[1]
Owner	Ho Chi Minh City Football JSC
Chairman	Vacant
Manager	Phùng Thanh Phương
League	V.League 1
2023-24	V.League 1, 4th of 14
Website	https://vi-vn.facebook.com/clbbongdatphcm/
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

Ho Chi Minh City Football Club (HCMC FC, Vietnamese: Câu lạc bộ bóng đá Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh), simply known as TP Hồ Chí Minh, and commonly known as TPHCM, is a professional football club based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The club competes in the V.League 1, the highest level of Vietnamese football, since the 2017 season after winning the Vietnam's 2016 V.League 2 league in the 2016 season. The club was formerly known as Cảng Sài Gòn (Saigon Port) between 1975 and 2009.^[2] The club's home ground is the Thống Nhất Stadium.

The Saigon Port Football Club and the Saigon Port Corporation are the two predecessors of the Ho Chi Minh City Football Club. The Saigon Port Company, formerly known as the Saigon Port Football Club, was formally created on November 1, 1975.^[3][4]

The Saigon Port Corporation's officials claimed at the end of 2008 that they no longer had the means to support the football squad. Due to the fact that they only had one primary sponsor, the Vietnam Steel Company, the club's leadership decided to alter the team's name in order to operate on a professional model. The name Ho Chi Minh City Football Club was adopted with the permission of the club's management unit, the Ho Chi Minh City Football Company Ltd, and the Ho Chi Minh City Football Federation, with a 15 billion Vietnamese dong investment for the team.

Because of their devotion to the heritage connected with the name Saigon Port, the club's supporters have expressed disappointment and resistance to the decision to alter the name. Yet, the club's objective was to become a major football club in Ho Chi Minh City, as well as to promote the acquisition of government and commercial aid. The club officially changed its name to Ho Chi Minh City Football Club on January 22, 2009, with the Vietnam Steel Corporation serving as the team's primary sponsor.

The supporters were vehemently opposed to the name change. The whole Fans Association Executive Committee resigned, and the Saigon Port Football Supporters Association dissolved, generating problems for the team in its first season under the new name. They were relegated to Vietnamese Football League Second Division after finishing at the 13th place in the 2009 season. In 2012, the club finished last in the Vietnamese First League. After only one season at the Vietnamese Second League, Ho Chi Minh returned to the First League in 2015. With the ambition to return to top fight, Ho Chi Minh City received big investments and successfully gained a promotion to the V.League 1 after winning the 2016 V.League 2.^[5]

Following returning to the V.League 1 in 2017, the team focused more on drawing spectators to the stadium by listening to supporters' criticism and renovating the stadium, stands, and so on. As a consequence, the club's reputation among supporters progressively improved. After that, the Ho Chi Minh City Football Club Fans Association was formed. The squad finished 12th in the league standings in 2017.

Period	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
2017–2018	Mizuno[6]	Cityland
2019	Zaicro[7]
2020	Kappa[8]
2021–2023	Kelme[9]	Cityland Bamboo Airways Viva Land SCB Phú Mỹ Hưng Murata
2023	Jogarbola	Mansion Sports Phu Hung Life Insurance Phu Hung Securities

As of 3 September 2024^[10]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules, some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  VIE Bùi Tiến Dũng 3 DF  VIE Nguyễn Thanh Thảo 4 DF  VIE Quan Huỳnh Thanh Quý 5 DF  USA Zan Nguyen 6 MF  VIE Võ Huy Toàn 7 MF  VIE Đoàn Hải Quân 8 FW  VIE Nguyễn Vũ Tín 9 FW  EST Erik Sorga 10 MF  VIE Hoàng Vĩnh Nguyên 11 MF  VIE Lâm Thuận 12 FW  VIE Nguyễn Ngọc Hậu 14 MF  MAS Endrick (on loan from Johor Darul Ta'zim) 15 MF  VIE Nguyễn Thái Quốc Cường

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 MF  VIE Nguyễn Thanh Khôi 17 MF  VIE Nguyễn Minh Trung 18 FW  VIE Bùi Ngọc Long 19 DF  VIE Adriano Schmidt 20 DF  VIE Võ Hữu Việt Hoàng 21 MF  VIE Đào Quốc Gia 22 GK  VIE Trần Văn Tiến 23 DF  BRA Matheus Duarte 27 MF  VIE Phan Nhật Thanh Long 28 DF  VIE Trần Hoàng Phúc 29 MF  VIE Nguyễn Hạ Long (vice-captain) 32 DF  VIE Trần Mạnh Cường 89 GK  SVK Patrik Le Giang (captain)

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules, some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 67 GK  VIE Nguyễn Mạnh Cường

No. Pos. Nation Player 26 DF  VIE Trần Hải Anh

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules, some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 2  VIE Nguyễn Thế Dũng 3  VIE Nguyễn Hữu Trường 4  VIE Phạm Quốc Tuấn 6  VIE Nguyễn Thanh Tú 7  VIE Thạch Tùng 8  VIE Nguyễn Văn Đạt 9  VIE Tô Phương Thịnh 10  VIE Dương Vĩnh Khang 11  VIE Nguyễn Văn Mạnh 12  VIE Huỳnh Công Hậu 14  VIE Phạm Minh Phát 15  VIE Lê Hoàng Trường 16  VIE Nguyễn Ngọc Hậu 17  VIE Nguyễn Trung Kiên

No. Pos. Nation Player 18  VIE Chu Minh Hoàng 19  VIE Nguyễn Huỳnh Thịnh 20  VIE Lê Cảnh Gia Huy 21  VIE Nguyễn Trung Hiếu 22  VIE Trần Minh Thảo 23  VIE Trần Thành Nhân 24  VIE Bùi Văn Bình 25  VIE Nguyễn Trung Nhân 26  VIE Vũ Minh Tâm 27  VIE Trần Minh Chiến 28  VIE Nguyễn Huỳnh Minh Duy 29  VIE Hứa Hoàng Xuân Khoa 30  VIE Trần Đăng Khoa 33  VIE Đặng Nguyễn Phương Đức

Position	Name
Manager	Phùng Thanh Phương
Assistant Manager
Goalkeeper Coach
Fitness Coach
Match Analyst
Doctor
Physiotherapist
Kit Manager
Sporting Director
Technical Director

• Geylang International (2019–present)

Ho Chi Minh City and Singapore Premier League club, Geylang International has hinged a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that aims to further the growth of football through the open sharing of technical expertise and knowledge between both clubs. Under this MOU, cooperative efforts between both clubs will be boosted in four key sectors; training, attachments, player transfers, and fan club support. It will also allow the two clubs to send their youth and senior squad to train or participate in short-term tournaments within each other's regions. The agreement will also ensure the priority of players’ transfer for both clubs as well as facilitate the exchange of players and technical staff for training attachments. Additionally, both parties will strive to increase each other's club profile in their own regions and encourage cultural exchanges and interactions between their fan clubs. This includes providing support, privileges, and on-site concierge services for official club tours, visits, or match attendances requested by each other's fan clubs through their respective clubs.

All results list Ho Chi Minh City's goal tally first.

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1993–94	Asian Cup Winner' Cup	First round	Sarawak FA	w/o[a]
		Second round	Semen Padang	0–1	1–1	1–2
1995–96	Asian Club Championship	First round	Pahang FA	w/o[b]
1998–99	Asian Club Championship	First round	Pohang Steelers	0–2	0–4	0–6
2000–01	Asian Cup Winners' Cup	First round	Singapore Armed Forces	0–0	2–0	2–0
		Second round	Shimizu S-Pulse	0–2	0–4	0–6
2002–03	AFC Champions League	Qualification	Churchill Brothers	0–2	1–0	1–2
2020	AFC Champions League	Preliminary round 2	Buriram United	1–2

• AFC Champions League: 2 appearances

  2002–03: Qualification round 3

  2020: Preliminary round 2

• AFC Cup: 1 appearance

  2020: Group stage

League

• V.League 1/South Vietnam Nation League:
  • Winners: 1977,^[11] 1986, 1993–94, 1997, 2001–02
  • Runners-up: 2019
  • Third place: 1985, 1990, 1995
• V.League 2:
  • Winners: 2004, 2016
  • Third place: 2015

Cup

• Vietnamese Cup:
  • Winners: 1992, 1999–2000
  • Runners-up: 1994, 1996, 1997
  • Third place: 2020, 2019
• Vietnamese Super Cup:
  • Runners-up: 2000, 2002, 2019

• BTV Cup:
  • Winners: 2000
  • Runners-up: 2001

• Official website (in Vietnamese)
• Team profile at Soccerway
• Team profile at V.League (in Vietnamese)