2016 V.League 1

Toyota V.League 1 – 2016
Season	2016
Dates	20 February – 18 September
Champions	Hanoi T&T; 3rd VL1 title; 3rd Vietnamese title
Runner up	Haiphong FC
Relegated	Dong Thap FC
Matches	182
Goals	548 (3.01 per match)
Top goalscorer	Gastón Merlo (24 goals)
Biggest home win	Haiphong FC 5–0 Long An FC; Becamex Binh Duong 5–0 Hoang Anh Gia Lai
Biggest away win	Dong Thap FC 0–4 SHB Danang
Highest scoring	Becamex Binh Duong 4–5 Hanoi T&T
Longest winning run	Haiphong FC ; (7 matches)
Longest unbeaten run	Haiphong FC ; Than Quang Ninh ; (8 matches)
Longest winless run	Dong Thap FC ; (23 matches)
Longest losing run	Dong Thap FC ; (9 matches)
Highest attendance	19,000
Lowest attendance	1,000
Total attendance	1,147,900
Average attendance	6,307
	← 2015 2017 → All statistics correct as of 23 September 2016.

Season2016

Dates20 February – 18 September

ChampionsHanoi T&T
3rd VL1 title
3rd Vietnamese title

Runner upHaiphong FC

The 2016 V.League 1 (known as the Toyota V.League 1 for sponsorship reasons) season was the 33rd season of the V.League 1, the highest division of Vietnamese football and the 16th as a professional league. It began on 20 February 2016 and ended 18 September 2016.^[1]

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Team	Based	Home stadium	Capacity	Previous season rank
Becamex Binh Duong	Binh Duong	Go Dau	18,250	VL1 (1st)
XSKT Cantho	Cantho	Cantho	60,000	VL1 (11th)
SHB Danang	Danang	Chi Lang	28,000	VL1 (9th)
Dong Thap FC	Dong Thap	Cao Lanh	23,000	VL1 (12th)
Hoang Anh Gia Lai	Gia Lai	Pleiku	12,000	VL1 (13th)
Haiphong FC	Haiphong	Lach Tray	28,000	VL1 (6th)
Hanoi T&T	Hanoi	Hàng Đẫy Stadium	22,000	VL1 (2nd)
Sanna Khanh Hoa BVN	Khanh Hoa	19 August	25,000	VL1 (5th)
Long An FC	Long An	Long An	19,975	VL1 (10th)
Song Lam Nghe An	Nghe An	Vinh	12,000	VL1 (7th)
QNK Quang Nam	Quang Nam	Tam Ky	15,624	VL1 (8th)
Than Quang Ninh	Quang Ninh	Cam Pha	15,000	VL1 (4th)
Saigon FC	Ho Chi Minh City	Thong Nhat	22,000	VL2 (1st)
FLC Thanh Hoa	Thanh Hoa	Thanh Hoa	14,000	VL1 (3rd)

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer
Becamex Binh Duong	Nguyễn Thanh Sơn	Nguyễn Anh Đức	Kappa
XSKT Cantho	Vũ Quang Bảo	Trần Chí Công	KeepDri
SHB Danang	Lê Huỳnh Đức	Nguyễn Vũ Phong	Made by club
Dong Thap FC	Phạm Công Lộc	Trần Minh Lợi	Codad
Hoang Anh Gia Lai	Nguyễn Quốc Tuấn	Bùi Văn Long	Made by club
Haiphong FC	Trương Việt Hoàng	Lê Văn Phú	Mitre
Hanoi T&T	Chu Đình Nghiêm	Gonzalo Marronkle	Kappa
Saigon FC	Nguyễn Đức Thắng	Nguyễn Ngọc Duy	Made by club
Sanna Khanh Hoa BVN	Vo Dinh Tan	Trần Vǎn Vǔ	Made by club
Long An FC	Ngô Quang Sang	Huỳnh Quang Thanh	Kappa
Song Lam Nghe An	Ngô Quang Trường	Trần Nguyên Mạnh	Made by club
QNK Quang Nam	Hoàng Văn Phúc	Đinh Thanh Trung	Made by club
Than Quang Ninh	Phan Thanh Hùng	Huỳnh Tuấn Linh	Joma
FLC Thanh Hoa	Hoàng Thanh Tùng	Pape Omar Faye	Mitre

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
FLC Thanh Hoa	Hoàng Thanh Tùng	Demoted^[4]	20 January 2016	Pre-Season	Lê Thụy Hải	20 January 2016
Hanoi T&T	Phan Thanh Hùng	Resigned^[5]	13 February 2016	Pre-Season	Phạm Minh Đức	13 February 2016
Than Quang Ninh	Phạm Như Thuần	Resigned^[6]	16 March 2016	9th	Phan Thanh Hùng	16 March 2016
Hanoi T&T	Phạm Minh Đức	Demoted^[7]	17 March 2016	14th	Chu Đình Nghiêm	17 March 2016

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Naturalised Vietnamese Player	Former Players¹
Becamex Binh Duong	Nsi Amougou	Ivan Firer		→ Nguyễn Rodgers	Han Seung-yeop Moses Oloya Henry Kisekka
FLC Thanh Hoa	Pape Omar Faye	Sunday Emmanuel		→ Nguyễn van Bakel	Ivan Firer
Hanoi T&T	Víctor Ormazábal	Gonzalo Marronkle	Loris Arnaud	→ Hoàng Vũ Samson
Haiphong FC	Diego Fagan	Errol Stevens		→ Lê Văn Phú
Hoang Anh Gia Lai	Masaaki Ideguchi	Júnior Paraíba			Osmar Francisco
Long An FC	Marko Šimić	Henry Kisekka		→ Lê Văn Tân	Akanni-Sunday Wasiu Franklin Clovis Anzité
QNK Quang Nam	Claudecir	Sadio Diao		→ Hoàng Vissai	Felix Ogbuke Suleiman Oladoja
Saigon FC	Andrew Mwesigwa	Dudu Lima			Jean-Eudes Maurice
Sanna Khanh Hoa BVN	Chaher Zarour	Uche Iheruome
Song Lam Nghe An	Odah Onoriode Marshal	Baba Salia
SHB Danang	Gastón Merlo	Eydison			Horace James
Than Quang Ninh	Rod Dyachenko	Geoffrey Kizito			George Bisan
XSKT Cantho	Tambwe Patiyo	Oseni Ganiyu		→ Đinh Hoàng Max
Dong Thap FC	Samson Kpenosen	Diego		→ Nguyễn Trung Sơn	Marko Šimić

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Hanoi T&T (C, Q)	26	16	2	8	45	28	+17	50	Qualification to AFC Champions League preliminary round 2
2	Haiphong FC	26	15	5	6	47	32	+15	50
3	SHB Danang (Q)	26	15	4	7	49	33	+16	49
4	Than Quang Ninh (Q)	26	13	5	8	39	32	+7	44	Qualification to AFC Cup group stage^[a]
5	QNK Quang Nam	26	11	9	6	44	32	+12	42
6	FLC Thanh Hoa	26	12	6	8	51	42	+9	42
7	Saigon FC	26	9	9	8	34	32	+2	36^[b]
8	Sanna Khanh Hoa BVN	26	10	6	10	34	30	+4	36^[b]
9	Song Lam Nghe An	26	9	7	10	34	36	−2	34^[c]
10	Becamex Binh Duong	26	9	7	10	39	37	+2	34^[c]
11	XSKT Cantho	26	10	4	12	37	36	+1	34^[c]
12	Hoang Anh Gia Lai	26	9	3	14	39	50	−11	30
13	Long An FC (O)	26	5	4	17	34	62	−28	19	Relegation Play-off
14	Dong Thap FC (R)	26	1	5	20	22	67	−45	8	Relegation to V.League 2

2016 V.League 1

Team changes

To V.League 1

From V.League 1

Rule changes

Name changes

Teams

Personnel and kits

Managerial changes

Foreign players

League table

Results

Play-off match

Positions by round

Season statistics

Top scorers

Own goals

Hattrick

Awards

Monthly awards

Annual awards

Manager of the Season

Best player of the Season

Best young player of the Season

Dream Team

See also

References

External links

Related Articles

Home \ Away	BBD	FTH	HNT	HPG	HAGL	LFC	QNK	SGN	SKH	SLNA	SDN	TQN	XCT	DTP
Becamex Binh Duong		0–3	4–5	1–3	5–0	3–2	1–3	1–1	3–1	1–2	0–1	1–0	2–0	3–0
FLC Thanh Hoa	2–2		3–0	0–1	2–1	2–1	4–4	2–2	2–1	2–2	3–1	2–2	3–2	4–0
Hanoi T&T	1–2	2–0		2–1	3–0	1–1	3–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	0–1	0–1	2–0
Haiphong FC	0–0	1–1	2–1		4–2	5–0	2–1	1–1	2–0	3–0	0–3	2–1	1–0	3–2
Hoang Anh Gia Lai	3–1	3–1	1–0	1–1		3–2	1–4	1–3	2–1	0–0	1–2	0–0	2–1	5–2
Long An FC	1–1	0–1	2–5	2–5	1–3		1–0	1–0	2–1	1–2	1–3	1–2	3–3	2–1
QNK Quang Nam	2–1	2–0	0–1	0–1	2–0	6–2		3–3	1–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	0–0	2–0
Saigon FC	0–2	3–1	0–3	3–3	0–5	3–1	0–0		1–1	1–0	3–0	0–0	0–1	4–0
Sanna Khanh Hoa BVN	1–1	0–2	1–0	3–0	4–1	2–0	0–1	0–2		2–2	3–1	3–1	2–0	1–1
Song Lam Nghe An	2–0	1–0	1–3	0–2	1–0	1–1	3–3	1–0	1–2		0–2	4–0	4–2	3–0
SHB Danang	1–1	2–1	1–2	2–0	3–1	4–1	3–4	3–1	1–0	1–1		1–0	2–2	2–1
Than Quang Ninh	2–1	2–4	0–1	3–1	3–1	2–1	2–0	1–0	1–2	3–1	3–2		2–1	4–0
XSKT Cantho	0–0	5–2	3–0	3–2	2–1	2–1	0–1	0–1	0–1	2–0	1–2	0–2		4–1
Dong Thap FC	1–2	2–4	2–5	0–1	2–1	1–3	1–1	0–1	1–1	2–2	0–4	1–1	1–2

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
Team ╲ Round
Becamex Binh Duong	3	5	5	8	6	4	5	6	3	3	2	5	7	8	9	8	9	9	9	11	10	7	7	7	8	10
FLC Thanh Hoa	2	2	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	2	2	3	3	2	3	3	4	6	5	5	5	5	5	6
Hanoi T&T	13	13	13	14	14	13	11	9	7	9	7	6	5	4	4	4	4	4	2	2	4	4	2	1	1	1
Haiphong FC	4	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	3	3	2	2
Hoang Anh Gia Lai	1	4	4	7	10	9	9	11	12	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12
Long An FC	7	10	8	12	12	12	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13
QNK Quang Nam	10	6	6	9	7	7	8	7	8	8	11	8	6	7	8	9	7	6	6	5	6	6	6	6	6	5
Saigon FC	14	10	9	4	9	8	6	3	4	4	4	7	8	9	7	7	6	7	7	7	7	8	10	11	11	7
Sanna Khanh Hoa BVN	6	9	11	6	5	6	7	10	9	10	8	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	11	8	8	9	8	8	9	8
Song Lam Nghe An	11	14	12	11	8	11	10	12	11	12	10	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	10	9	11	11	11	10	7	9
SHB Danang	5	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	5	6	5	3	3	2	2	3	2	1	3	3	2	2	4	4	3	3
Than Quang Ninh	9	7	7	10	11	10	12	8	6	7	6	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	3	3	1	2	4	4
XSKT Cantho	12	8	10	5	4	5	4	5	10	5	9	10	9	6	6	6	8	8	8	10	9	10	9	9	10	11
Dong Thap FC	8	12	14	13	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Gastón Merlo	SHB Danang	24
2	Hoàng Vũ Samson	Hanoi T&T	15
3	Uche Iheruome	Sanna Khanh Hoa BVN	14
4	Pape Omar Faye	FLC Thanh Hoa	13
5	Rod Dyachenko	Than Quang Ninh	12
6	Claudecir	QNK Quang Nam	11
	Lê Văn Thắng	Haiphong FC
	Gonzalo Marronkle	Hanoi T&T
	Vũ Minh Tuấn	Than Quang Ninh
10	Oseni Ganiyu Bolaji	XSKT Cantho	10
	Odah Marshal	Song Lam Nghe An
	Nguyễn Anh Đức	Becamex Binh Duong
	Nguyễn Đình Bảo	Haiphong FC
	Errol Stevens	Haiphong FC
	Patiyo Tambwe	XSKT Cantho

Player	Club	Against	Round
Nguyễn Trung Sơn	Dong Thap FC	Hanoi T&T	2
Hồ Trường Khang	Dong Thap FC	Hoang Anh Gia Lai	4
Nguyễn Tiến Duy	Than Quang Ninh	SHB Danang	5
Diệp Hoài Xuân	Dong Thap FC	XSKT Cantho	5
Franklin Clovis Anzité	Long An	SHB Danang	11

Month	Club of the Month	Coach of the Month		Player of the Month
Month	Club of the Month	Coach	Club	Player	Club
February March	Haiphong FC	Trương Việt Hoàng	Haiphong FC	Gastón Merlo	SHB Danang
April	Haiphong FC	Trương Việt Hoàng	Haiphong FC	Hoàng Vũ Samson	Hanoi T&T
May June	Than Quang Ninh	Chu Đình Nghiêm	Hanoi T&T	Hoàng Vũ Samson	Hanoi T&T
July	SHB Danang	Lê Huỳnh Đức	SHB Danang	Hoàng Vũ Samson	Hanoi T&T
August	Hoang Anh Gia Lai	Nguyễn Quốc Tuấn	Hoang Anh Gia Lai	Gastón Merlo	SHB Danang
September	Hanoi T&T	Chu Đình Nghiêm	Hanoi T&T	Gastón Merlo	SHB Danang

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