Thepxanh-Namdinh Football Club (, SNFC), commonly known as Namdinh, is a Vietnamese professional football club based in

Nam Định Nam Định () is a city in the Red River Delta of northern Vietnam. It is the capital of Nam Định Province. The city of Nam Định is 90 km south-east of Vietnam's capital, Hanoi. From August 18–20 of each year, there is a festival he ...

that competes in the

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History

Nam Định has two sports facilities, Thiên Trường Stadium (formerly Cuối Stadium) and Trần Quốc Toản Indoor Stadium, which are host to football and

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matches. Both sports centers are located on Hùng Vương Street. At the beginning, the club's home crisis was a dust and sandy training ground of the militia forces where were usually called as ''Sân Dệt'' or the "stadium" of the Namdinh Spinning Factory. It was old crisis of the

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. From the end of 1970s, their home crisis was

Thiên Trường Stadium Thiên Trường Stadium ( vi, Sân vận động Thiên Trường, literally ''Heaven's Place Stadium''), previously known as Chùa Cuối Stadium (''Last Temple Stadium''), is a multi-use stadium in Nam Định, Vietnam. It was often named as ...

. During the

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, this stadium was only a big and polluted pond with some vegetable fields. Formerly ''Sân Chùa-Cuối'' or the "Pagoda at end of the street" Stadium from one uninhibited temple which has got some

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icons. So it was often named as "''a factory weaves wishes''" (nhà máy dệt giấc mơ). Before 1997, club costumes always used home colors black-white which were similar like

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. It originates from name ''Namha Youths'', so during the 1980-1990s they were called as "''Vietnamese Juventus''" by sport medias. However, after some changing times due to sponsor replacements, it was fixed as the yellow, then added lime-red. Hà Nam Ninh won the National Football Champions ( V.League) in 1985 with star player Nguyễn Văn Dũng. In 2001, Nam Định took second place in the National Championships, losing to Bình Định F.C. In 2007, the Nam Định football team changed its name to Đạm Phú Mỹ Nam Định and won its first

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under its new name. In 2009 the Nam Định Football team changed its name to Megastar Nam Định F.C and failed in standing on V.League to 1st level tournament 2010. The name of club was also changed 10 times due to sponsor replacements : *Le Cotonkin CF (Đội túc cầu Cotonkin, 1930s – 1945) *Namha Youths FC (Đội bóng tròn Thanh niên Nam Hà, 1965 – 1978) *Hanamninh Industry FC (Đội bóng đá Công nghiệp Hà Nam Ninh, 1978 – 1991) *Namha FC (CLB BĐ Nam Hà, 1991 – 1996) *Namdinh FC (CLB BĐ Nam Định, 1997 – 2003) *Songda-Namdinh FC (CLB BĐ Sông Đà-Nam Định, 2003 – 2006) *Mikado-Namdinh FC (CLB BĐ Mikado-Nam Định, 2006 – 2007) *Phumy Fertilizer-Namdinh FC (CLB BĐ Đạm Phú Mĩ-Nam Định, 2007 – 2008) *Mikado-Namdinh FC (CLB BĐ Mikado-Nam Định, 2006 – 2007) *Megastar-Namdinh FC (CLB BĐ Megastar-Nam Định, 2009 – 2011) *Mikado-Namdinh FC (CLB BĐ Mikado-Nam Định, 2011 – 2013) *Namdinh FC (CLB BĐ Nam Định, 2013 – 2019) *Namha Pharma-Namdinh FC (CLB BĐ Dược Nam Hà-Nam Định, 2019 – 2020) *Namdinh FC (CLB BĐ Nam Định, 2021 – 2022) *Thepxanh-Namdinh FC (CLB BĐ Thép Xanh-Nam Định, 2023 to present) From 2003 to present, the club currently competes in the V.League with a sponsor of former minister Đinh La Thăng as a businessman, the top flight of Vietnamese football.

Current squad

''As of 17 January 2023''

Current coaching staff

Performance in AFC competitions

* AFC Champions League: 1 appearance ::

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: Group stage

Season-by-season record

Achievements

National competitions

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: : Winners :

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: Runners-up : 2000–01, 2004 * V.League 2: : Winners :

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* Second League: : Winners :

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;Cup *

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: : Winners : 2007

Other competitions

* China-ASEAN Cities Football Invitational Tournament: : Winners : 2016 : Runners-up : 2017

Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors

History

Current squad

Current coaching staff

Performance in AFC competitions

Season-by-season record

Achievements

National competitions

Other competitions

Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors

See also

Footnotes

Notes

References

Further reading

Documents

External links