PVF-Cong An Nhan Dan Football Club (), simply known as PVF-CAND, is a professional football club based in Văn Giang,

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, Vietnam. The club play their home matches at PVF Stadium and compete in the V.League 2, the second tier of Vietnamese football league system. Formed in 2018 as Phố Hiến FC, the club adopted their current name in 2023.

History

Prior to the creation of the team, the

PVF Football Academy The Promotion Fund of Vietnamese Football Talent Football Academy (PVF), officially operating as the PVF Youth Football Training Center - Ministry of Public Security (), is a privately-established football academy based in Hưng Yên. The instituti ...

handed every year all its graduated players to other Vietnamese professional football clubs, which caused difficulties for several players to adapt to the new environment. For that reason,

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, the owner of the PVF Academy established Phố Hiến FC in April 2018 in order to receive the graduated players from the PVF Academy and introduce them to the professional football level. The team's home ground PVF Stadium is situated in the

training center located in

. During the first season of its existence, club competed in the

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and won the promotion to the

2019 V.League 2 The 2019 V.League 2 (referred to as LS V.League 2 for sponsorship reasons) was the 25th season of V.League 2, Vietnam's second tier professional association football, football league. The season began on 5 April 2019 and finished on 5 October 2019 ...

after defeating Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu in the promotion play-offs. In the following season at the professional level, the club left big impressions to the media and fans as they finished runner-up in the V.League 2 with the youngest squad among all the teams. Since 2023, the club is owned by the

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and adopted the name PVF-CAND, with CAND as an abbreviation for People's Public Security (Công An Nhân Dân). In the 2023 season, the club finished as V.League 2 runner-up for the second time in their history and reached the

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semi-finals, being the first V.League 2 team to achieve that since 2005.

Name history

*2018–2022: Pho Hien FC (Câu lạc bộ bóng đá Phố Hiến) *2023–present: PVF-CAND FC (Câu lạc bộ bóng đá PVF-CAND)

Players

Current squad

''As of 15 February 2025''

Out on loan

Notable players

The players in bold had capped for the Vietnam national team while playing for the club. * Huỳnh Công Đến *

Lê Bật Hiếu Lê Bật Hiếu (born 22 August 1984) is a Vietnamese retired association football, footballer who played as a Defender (association football)#Centre-back, centre-back. He was called up to Vietnam national football team in 2012. References < ...

* Lê Minh Bình *

Lê Ngọc Bảo Lê Ngọc Bảo (born 27 March 1998) is a Vietnamese professional footballer who plays as a center back for V.League 2 club PVF-CAND. Club career Bảo joined V.League 1 side Than Quảng Ninh in 2016 after graduating from the PVF Football ...

* Lê Văn Đô * Lục Xuân Hưng * Martin Lo *

Nguyễn Bảo Long Nguyễn Bảo Long (born 23 August 2005) is a Vietnamese professional footballer who plays as a left back for V.League 2 club PVF-CAND and the Vietnam national under-20 team. Early career Born in Bắc Giang, Bao Long has joined the PVF Fo ...

* Nguyễn Đức Phú * Nguyễn Thanh Nhàn * Nguyễn Trọng Long * Nguyễn Xuân Nam * Phí Minh Long * Thái Bá Đạt *

Trần Bửu Ngọc Trần Bửu Ngọc (born 26 February 1991) is a retired Vietnamese footballer who played as a goalkeeper. International career He made his international debut for Vietnam on 22 March 2013 in a match against Hong Kong. Honours Club Đông Á ...

* Võ Nguyên Hoàng

Managers

Current staff

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Managerial history

*2018–2021: Hứa Hiền Vinh *2022–2025: Mauro Jeronimo *2025–present: Thạch Bảo Khanh

Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors

Honours

Senior

* Vietnamese League Two **Third place (1): 2018 * V.League 2 **Runners-up (3):

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

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 ...

, 2023–24 *

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**Third place (1):

Youth

* Vietnamese National U-21 Football Championship **Winners (1): 2023 **Runners-up (1): 2019 **Third place (1): 2021

Reserves team

The reserves team of PVF-CAND currently competes at the 2025 Vietnamese Football League Second Division ''As of 10 April 2025''

References

External links

PVF-CAND
at VPF.vn {{Vietnamese First Division Football clubs in Vietnam 2018 establishments in Vietnam Association football clubs established in 2018