Quy Nhon Binh Dinh Football Club (), or Binh Dinh, is a Vietnamese professional

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club based in

Quy Nhơn Quy Nhon ( ) is a coastal city in Bình Định province in central Vietnam. It is composed of 16 wards and five communes with a total of . Quy Nhon was the capital of the former Bình Định province. As of 2022 its population was 481.110. H ...

Bình Định Province Bình Định (平定) was a former northern coastal province in the South Central Coast region, the Central of Vietnam. It borders Quảng Ngãi to the north, Phú Yên to the south, Gia Lai to the west and the South China Sea to the ea ...

that plays in the top tier of Vietnamese football, the

V.League 1 The V.League 1 (), also called LPBank V.League 1 for sponsorship reasons, is the top professional football league in Vietnam, controlled by the Vietnam Professional Football Joint Stock Company (VPF). It is contested by 14 clubs who play each ...

. Their home stadium is

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which has a capacity of 20,000. In August 2023, the team changes its name to Quy Nhon Binh Dinh with the intention to promote the image of

city to a larger public.

History

The team was founded in 1975 as “Binh Dinh Youth”.The first important milestone of the team was the friendly match between the Quy Nhon youth football team and the An Nhon youth football team which took place on May 1, 1975. After this match, the Binh Thanh Youth Football Team Dinh was established with the core force from the two above teams led by Mr. Luu, with players Phan Kim Lan (Lan Ve), Dang Gia Man (Man Lùn), Tong Anh Hoang (commonly known as A ), Le Thanh Huy, Le Van Minh, Nguyen Van Thin, Vo Van Cang, Nguyen Van Ha (Son Dia), goalkeeper Lan Mom... After its establishment, in May 1975, the team had 2 friendly matches with Khanh Hoa team in Ninh Hoa and Nha Trang and 2 friendly matches with Quang Nam Da Nang team in Hoi An and Da Nang. In 1976, the team participated in the Truong Son Football Tournament and won the style award. After this tournament, the team participated in national tournaments to be promoted to Class A movement and was considered one of the local teams with notable performance achievements. In 1980, the Nghia Binh Workers' Football Team was established with the core of the Binh Dinh Youth Team, adding players such as: Duong Ngoc Hung, Nguyen Ngoc Thien, Tran Minh Canh... and participating in the A1 national football tournament. country. At this tournament, the team is in Group A, along with the teams of Cang Saigon, Hanoi Police, Military Region 3, Food Industry and Tien Giang. In the group stage, the team ranked 4th with 9 points, scored 11 goals and conceded 16 goals. After the

1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...

season, the team split into two separate teams. Players Bui Van Sy, Ta Manh Thoi... return to Quang Ngai Football Team. The remaining members formed the Binh Dinh Football Club, with additional players Nguyen Ngoc Thai, Phan Ton Quyen, Le Ngoc Dung, Nguyen Xuan Hoanh, Nguyen Van Cuong, Tran Kim Duc, Nguyen Cong Long, Nguyen Hoang Anh Dung... In the

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

season, the team did not compete in the play-off round with Quang Nam-Da Nang, Long An, and Song Be to react to the tournament organizers about negative issues, so they were disciplined and get relegated. After winning promotion, with the

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

season being unsuccessful, the team was relegated again and only returned to the highest league in the 2001-2002 season. In this tournament, the team ranked fourth overall, with 26 points overall, winning 7, drawing 5 and losing 6.

Return to V.League and accomplishements

On 17 May 2018, Binh Dinh officially signed a cooperation contract with TMS Group Corporation, launching Binh Dinh TMS Football Club. In the 2018 V.League 2, Binh Dinh TMS finished in 9th place. In the 2019 season, the team no longer had the sponsor's name and registered to compete under the name Binh Dinh Football Club, finishing in 11th place in the 2019 V.League 2. On 25 December 2020, Hưng Thịnh Land and TopenLand Vietnam became the two main sponsors of Binh Dinh Football Club for three V.League seasons, from the 2021 season to the 2023 season, with a total budget of up to 300 billion VND. The team changed its name to TopenLand Binh Dinh Football Club. On 19 November 2022, at Quy Nhon Stadium, TopenLand Binh Dinh Football Club defeated

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2–1 in the final round of 2022 V.League 1, clinching the bronze medal. In the 2022 V.League 1, TopenLand Binh Dinh Football Club reached the final but lost to Hanoi FC 2–0. On 22 September 2023, TopenLand Binh Dinh Football Club changed its name to Quy Nhon Binh Dinh Football Club to compete in 2023–24 season. Within 3 months, on 1 December 2023, the team changed its name again to MerryLand Quy Nhon Binh Dinh Football Club, after the main sponsor, MerryLand Quy Nhon. In the 2023–24 V.League 1, under the management of

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, the club had the second best attack and second best defense in the league and finish as league's runners-up for the first time in their history, with only 6 points behind league champion

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. After the season ended, the club switched their name back to Quy Nhon Binh Dinh.

Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors

Current squad

Other players under contract

Out on loan

Performance in AFC competitions

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: 2 appearances ::

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

: Group stage ::

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

: Group stage

Managers

* Phan Kim Lân (1981–1990) * Dương Ngọc Hùng (2003–2004, 2006–2007, 2008–2010) *

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(2005) * Nguyễn Ngọc Thiện (2008, 2010–2011) * Phan Tôn Quyền (2010) * Trần Kim Đức (2011) * Hoàng Văn Gia (2011–2012) * Trần Kim Đức (2012) * Nguyễn Văn Hùng (2012–2013) * Nguyễn Thành Lợi (2013–2017) * Bùi Đoàn Quang Huy (2018–2019, 2023–2025) *

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(2020–2023) *

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(2025–)

Honours

League

**Runners-up: 2023–24 **Third place:

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

V.League 2 The Vietnamese National Football First League (), known simply as the V.League 2 and for sponsorship purposes as Gold Star V.League 2, is the second-highest of the Vietnamese football league system after V.League 1, and is currently contested ...

**Winners: 2001,

2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...

**Runners-up:

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

* Second League **Winners:

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

**Runners-up:

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

Cup

Vietnamese Cup Vietnamese National Football Cup (), commonly recognized and branded as the National Cup (), is a Vietnamese football competition. It is one of the most important club competitions in Vietnam. The Vietnamese Cup was first held in 1992. Cảng S ...

**Winners: 2003, 2004 **Runners-up:

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

**Third place:

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

* Ho Chi Minh City Cup **Winners: 2021 *Thiên Long Cup **Winners: 2023

References

External links

Official fans' site
(archived) {{DEFAULTSORT:Binh Dinh FC Football clubs in Vietnam Association football clubs established in 1975 Bình Định province 1975 establishments in Vietnam