Ho Chi Minh City Football Club (HCMC FC, ), simply known as TP Hồ Chí Minh, and commonly known as TPHCM, is a professional

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club based in

Ho Chi Minh City Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) ('','' TP.HCM; ), commonly known as Saigon (; ), is the most populous city in Vietnam with a population of around 14 million in 2025. The city's geography is defined by rivers and canals, of which the largest is Saigo ...

, Vietnam. The club competes in 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 ...

, the highest level of Vietnamese football, since the

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season after winning the Vietnam's 2016 V.League 2 league in the

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season. The club was formerly known as Cảng Sài Gòn (Saigon Port) between 1975 and 2009. The club's home ground is the

Thống Nhất Stadium Thống Nhất Stadium (''lit. Unification Stadium)'' (), formerly Cộng Hoà Stadium (Vietnamese: ''Sân vận động Cộng Hoà'') is a multi-purpose stadium in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It is located at 138 Đào Duy Từ Street, Ward 6, ...

History

On 1 November 1975, the Saigon Port Workers Football Club was officially established. The team quickly became well-known in

Southern Vietnam Southern Vietnam () is one of the three geographical regions of Vietnam, the other two being Northern and Central Vietnam. It includes 2 administrative subregions, which in turn are divided into 19 ''First Tier units'', of which 17 are provi ...

, together with

Hải Quan Ho Chi Minh City Customs Football Club (), simply known as Customs F.C. (), was a Vietnamese association football club based in Ho Chi Minh City. They were champions in the 1991 season of the V.League, Vietnam's top-level football league. Ac ...

- their local rivals. In 1980, Saigon Port was one of 10 clubs based in Southern Vietnam to participate in the 1980 Vietnamese National A1 League - the first football championship in Vietnam. In 1983, former defender

Phạm Huỳnh Tam Lang Phạm Huỳnh Tam Lang (14 February 1942 – 2 June 2014) was a Vietnamese football player and coach. Career In 1966, Phạm Huỳnh Tam Lang captained the South Vietnam national team and won the 1966 Merdeka Cup. At the same year, he and f ...

returned from

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and was appointed as a head coach for the club. In 1984, CSG began to focus on recruiting young players from their youth academy, including

Đặng Trần Chỉnh Đặng Trần Chỉnh (born 14 March 1963) is a Vietnamese football manager and former footballer. He spent his career playing for Saigon Port Football Club. He was a CEO for Becamex Binh Duong in 2023. Early life Chỉnh was born in 1963 i ...

, Hà Vương Ngầu Nại, Nguyễn Hoàng Châu, Phạm Văn Tám, ... This squad was later regarded as the club's "Golden Generation". Among them, midfielder Hà Vương Ngầu Nại received recognition by becoming the top scorer of the

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, scoring a total of 10 goals. However, until the end of 1990, the team had not won any more titles besides the

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. From 1990-2001, many players of the team were called up to the Vietnam national team, including Nguyễn Hồng Phẩm, Hà Vương Ngầu Nại,

Lư Đình Tuấn Lư Đình Tuấn (born 17 August 1968) is a Vietnamese former footballer and its currently the head coach of Ho Chi Minh City I W.F.C.. Early life He moved with his family to Saigon Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) ('','' TP.HCM; ), commonly kn ...

Hồ Văn Lợi Hồ Văn Lợi (born 5 April 1970) is a Vietnamese football manager and former footballer. Trần spent his entire playing career with Vietnamese side TPHCM worked as manager after retiring from professional football. Career At the age of 17 ...

Huỳnh Hồng Sơn Huỳnh Hồng Sơn (born 1 April 1974) is a Vietnamese former footballer who is last known to have played as a striker for Cảng Sài Gòn. Career Huỳnh spent his entire playing career with Vietnamese side TPHCM and was considered a sol ...

. In 2001, under the new name Saigon Port Football Club, they won another league title in the 2001-02 season. However, they were relegated to the

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the following season, returning to the V-League again in 2005. The Saigon Port Corporation's officials claimed at the end of 2008 that they no longer had enough money to support the club. At that time, 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 Vietnam 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 22 January 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

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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

after winning the 2016 V.League 2. 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

Crests

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Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors

Players

First-team squad

''As of 25 February 2025''

Unregistred players

Current staff

Affiliated clubs

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(2019–''present'')

Season-by-season records

Continental record

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

Performance in AFC competitions

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: 2 appearances *: 2002–03: Qualification round 3 *:

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: Preliminary round 2 *

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: 1 appearance *:

: Group stage

Honours

National competitions

;League *

/South Vietnam Nation League: **Winners: 1977,

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, 1993–94,

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

, 2001–02 **Runners-up:

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**Third place:

1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a n ...

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

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 ...

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: **Winners: 2004,

**Third place:

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;Cup *

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: **Winners: 1992, 1999–2000 **Runners-up: 1994, 1996, 1997 **Third place:

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: **Runners-up: 2000, 2002, 2019

Other competitions

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

Notes

References

External links

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Team profile
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