The Vissai Cement Ninh Bình Football Club ( vi, Câu lạc bộ bóng đá Xi măng The Vissai Ninh Bình), simply known as Vissai Ninh Bình or Vissai-NB, was a professional

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club based in

Ninh Bình Ninh Bình () is a small city in the Red River Delta of northern Vietnam. It is the capital of Ninh Bình Province. Geography Ninh Bình Province is located in northern Vietnam comprising 48 square kilometres; the 2007 city population was 130,517 ...

, Vietnam. The club played in the

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from 2010 to 2014, when they withdrew due to consequences of a match-fixing scandal in the

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. The team played at

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History

Ho Chi Minh City Police

Vissai-NB's roots can be traced to Ho Chi Minh City Police F.C. (''HCMCP'', vi, Công an Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh), owned by the

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police department. They won the V.League in

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while finishing as runners-up in the 1993–94,

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, 1999–2000 and 2001–02 seasons.Lịch sử Vleague ''(V-League History)''
. V-League. 2010. In 1998, the club played a nationally-televised

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against the semi-professional San Francisco Bay Seals, winning 3–1. The match marked the first time an American soccer team had played in post-war Vietnam.U.S. Semipro Soccer Team Visits Vietnam
.

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. February 15, 1998. HCMCP's most well-known player is

Lê Huỳnh Đức Lê Huỳnh Đức (born April 20, 1972 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) is a Vietnamese football manager and former footballer. He is currently serving as technical director for V.League 1 side Saigon. Huỳnh Đức is a former member of the Vi ...

, an important member of the first "golden generation" of the Vietnamese national team and is also considered one of the greatest Vietnamese footballers of all time.Le Huynh Duc – the young talented manager
. Vietnamese Ministry of Culture and Information. August 14, 2009.

Vissai Ninh Bình

In 2007, after undergoing two renamings and a move to Long An, the club was bought by Hoàng Mạnh Trường's VinaKansai cement company and moved to Ninh Bình, where they won the First Division in 2009. In preparation for the following season, their first in the top flight, Vissai-NB acquired many well-known players, including internationals such as Lê Phước Tứ, Vũ Như Thành and

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. A domestic double followed three years later in the form of the

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and

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, qualifying them for the

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Match-fixing scandal

During the 2014 season, Hoàng Mạnh Trường requested the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) and Vietnam Professional Football (VPF) to withdraw Vissai-NB from the league due to 13 of their players' indictment for allegedly fixing a match against Malaysian side

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in the

, including captain Lê Văn Duyệt as well as internationals Nguyễn Gia Từ, Chu Ngọc Anh and

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, who was later cleared of any involvement. The club had played eight league matches and were third from bottom at the time. Following the withdrawal, all of the club's results in the league were declared null and void. However, they continued to play in the AFC Cup until their eventual elimination by Hong Kong's

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in the quarter-finals.

Honours

Domestic

League *

**Winners:

** ''Runners-up:'' 1993–94,

, 1999–2000, 2001–02 *

V.League 2 V.League 2 or Vietnamese National Football First League, ( vi, Giải Bóng đá Hạng Nhất Quốc Gia Việt Nam), also called LS V.League 2 for sponsorship reasons, is the second tier professional association football league in Vietnam c ...

(First Division) ** Winners: 2009 Cup *

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** Winners: 1998, 2001,

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** ''Runners-up:'' 2000 *

Vietnamese Super Cup Vietnamese National Football Super Cup ( vi, Siêu cúp bóng đá Việt Nam), also called the Thaco National Football Super Cup due to sponsorship reasons, is Vietnamese football's annual match contested between the champions of the previous V.L ...

** Winners: 2013 ** ''Runners-up:'' 1999, 2001

Performance in AFC competitions

Record as V.League member

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vissai Ninh BinhF.C. Association football clubs established in 2007 Football clubs in Vietnam