2022 V.League 1

Night Wolf V.League 1 – 2022
Season	2022
Dates	25 February – 19 November
Champions	Hanoi FC; 6th VL1 title; 6th Vietnamese title
Relegated	Saigon FC
Champions League	Hanoi FC; Haiphong FC
Matches	156
Goals	380 (2.44 per match)
Top goalscorer	Rimario Gordon; (17 goals)
Biggest home win	Dong A Thanh Hoa 4–0 Saigon FC; (16 July); Viettel 4–0 Nam Dinh; (15 September); Hanoi FC 5–1 Becamex Binh Duong; (1 October)
Biggest away win	Ho Chi Minh City FC 0–6 Hanoi FC; (19 October)
Highest scoring	Hong Linh Ha Tinh 3–4 Saigon FC; (30 July); Haiphong FC 4–3 Ho Chi Minh City FC; (26 August); Hanoi FC 5–2 Nam Dinh FC; (15 October)
Longest winning run	Hanoi FC; (7 matches)
Longest unbeaten run	Haiphong FC; (14 matches)
Longest winless run	Hong Linh Ha Tinh; (11 matches)
Longest losing run	Ho Chi Minh City FC; Saigon FC; SHB Da Nang; (4 matches)
Highest attendance	22,000; Haiphong FC 3–2 Hanoi FC; (23 October)
Lowest attendance	1,000; Hong Linh Ha Tinh 0–1 Haiphong FC; (25 February)
Total attendance	979,500
Average attendance	6,402; (excluding matches played behind closed doors)
	← 2021 2023 → All statistics correct as of complete.

Season2022

Dates25 February – 19 November

ChampionsHanoi FC
6th VL1 title
6th Vietnamese title

RelegatedSaigon FC

The 2022 V.League 1, known as the Night Wolf V.League 1 (Vietnamese: Giải bóng đá Vô địch Quốc gia Night Wolf 2022) for sponsorship reasons, was the 39th season of the V.League 1, the highest division of Vietnamese football and the 22nd as a professional league.^[1] The season started on 25 February 2022, and ended on 20 November.^[2]

There was no defending champion as a result of the previous season being abandoned due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

There was a break from 14 March until 2 July to accommodate for the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification and the delayed 2021 Southeast Asian Games.

Hanoi FC won their 6th league title on 13 November with one match to spare.^[3]

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Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Topenland Binh Dinh	Binh Dinh	Quy Nhon	15,000
Becamex Binh Duong	Binh Duong	Go Dau	13,035
SHB Da Nang	Da Nang	Hoa Xuan	20,000
Hoang Anh Gia Lai	Gia Lai	Pleiku	12,000
Haiphong FC	Haiphong	Lach Tray	30,000
Hanoi FC	Hanoi	Hang Day	22,500
Viettel	Hanoi	Hang Day	22,500
Hong Linh Ha Tinh	Ha Tinh	Ha Tinh	20,000
Ho Chi Minh City FC	Ho Chi Minh City	Thong Nhat	16,000
Saigon FC	Ho Chi Minh City	Thong Nhat	16,000
Nam Dinh FC	Nam Dinh	Thien Truong	30,000
Song Lam Nghe An	Nghe An	Vinh	18,000
Dong A Thanh Hoa	Thanh Hoa	Thanh Hoa	12,000

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer
Topenland Binh Dinh	Nguyễn Đức Thắng	Hồ Tấn Tài	Kamito
Becamex Binh Duong	Lư Đình Tuấn	Tô Văn Vũ	Kamito
SHB Da Nang	Phan Thanh Hùng	Hoàng Minh Tâm	Kamito
Hoang Anh Gia Lai	Kiatisuk Senamuang	Lương Xuân Trường	Mizuno
Haiphong	Chu Đình Nghiêm	Nguyễn Hải Huy	Jogarbola
Hanoi	Chun Jae-ho (interim)	Nguyễn Văn Quyết	Jogarbola
Viettel	Bae Ji-won	Bùi Tiến Dũng	Li-Ning
Hong Linh Ha Tinh	Nguyễn Thành Công	Trần Phi Sơn	Grand Sport
Ho Chi Minh City	Vũ Tiến Thành (interim)	Sầm Ngọc Đức	Kelme
Saigon	Phùng Thanh Phương	Cao Văn Triền	Kelme
Nam Dinh	Vũ Hồng Việt	Nguyễn Hạ Long	Kelme
Song Lam Nghe An	Nguyễn Huy Hoàng	Quế Ngọc Hải	Grand Sport
Dong A Thanh Hoa	Svetislav Tanasijević (caretaker)	Lê Văn Thắng	Jogarbola

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Ho Chi Minh City	Alexandré Pölking^[6]	Contract not renewed	27 September 2021	Pre-season	Trần Minh Chiến	29 September 2021
Haiphong	Phạm Anh Tuấn	Contract not renewed	October 2021		Chu Đình Nghiêm	6 October 2021
Becamex Binh Duong	Nguyễn Thanh Sơn	Interim period over	October 2021		Đặng Trần Chỉnh	15 October 2021
Hanoi	Park Choong-kyun^[7]	Resigned	19 February 2022		Chun Jae-ho (interim)^[7]	19 February 2022
Viettel	Trương Việt Hoàng^[8]	Demoted	12 July 2022	7th^[8]	Bae Ji-won^[8]	15 July 2022
Becamex Binh Duong	Đặng Trần Chỉnh	Reorganized	1 August 2022	10th	Lư Đình Tuấn^[9]	1 August 2022
Ho Chi Minh City	Trần Minh Chiến	Reorganized	8 August 2022	12th	Nguyễn Hữu Thắng (caretaker)	8 August 2022
Ho Chi Minh City	Nguyễn Hữu Thắng (caretaker)	End of caretaker spell	23 August 2022	11th	Trương Việt Hoàng^[10]	23 August 2022
Nam Dinh	Nguyễn Văn Sỹ	Sacked	24 August 2022	12th	Vũ Hồng Việt	24 August 2022
Ho Chi Minh City	Trương Việt Hoàng	Resigned	1 October 2022	13th	Vũ Tiến Thành^[11]	2 October 2022
Dong A Thanh Hoa	Ljupko Petrović	Medical reasons	6 November 2022	6th	Svetislav Tanasijević (caretaker)	6 November 2022

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4 (AFC Player)	Player 5 (Naturalized Vietnamese player)	Former Players
Topenland Binh Dinh	Hêndrio	Rafaelson	Jermie Lynch		→ Adriano Schmidt¹ → Đặng Văn Lâm¹
Becamex Binh Duong	Eydison	Wellington Adão	Guy N'Diaye		→ Kesley Alves	Abass Guiro Dawda Ceesay
SHB Da Nang	Claudir	Erick Luis	Walisson Maia			Ivan Marić Christian Osaguona^INJ Damir Memović Aboubakar Koné
Hoang Anh Gia Lai	Bruno Henrique	Maurício	Washington Brandão	An Sae-hee		Jefferson Baiano Kim Dong-su
Haiphong	Rimario Gordon	Joseph Mpande	Moses Oloya		→ Martin Lo¹
Hanoi	Lucão	Tonći Mujan	Vladimir Silađi			Đuro Zec^INJ Josip Ivančić
Viettel	Caíque	Geovane	Pedro Paulo	Jahongir Abdumuminov
Hong Linh Ha Tinh	Janclesio	Paollo	Dionatan Machado			Zakaria Suraka^INJ Abdul Basit
Ho Chi Minh City	Brendon Lucas	Daniel Green	Atapharoy Bygrave		→ Hoàng Vũ Samson → Lee Nguyen¹	Bruno Cosendey Maurício Cordeiro
Saigon	Matheus	Nicholas Olsen	Rodrigue Nanitelamio		→ Gastón Merlo	Ahn Byung-keon Gustavo Santos André Vieira
Nam Dinh	Alisson	Victor Mansaray	Rodrigo Dias		→ Geoffrey Kizito → Steven Dang¹	Márcio Marques Yevhen Bokhashvili Andre Fagan
Song Lam Nghe An	Mario Arqués	Michael Olaha	Ganiyu Oseni		→ Thiago Papel	Abdul Basit Mark O'Ojong^INJ
Dong A Thanh Hoa	Zé Paulo	Gustavo Sant'Ana	Gustavo Santos			Igor Jelić Paulo Henrique Victor Kamhuka

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Hanoi (C)	24	15	6	3	47	21	+26	51	Qualification for AFC Champions League group stage
2	Haiphong	24	14	6	4	39	26	+13	48	Qualification for AFC Champions League play-off round^[a]
3	Topenland Binh Dinh	24	14	5	5	37	22	+15	47
4	Viettel	24	11	6	7	29	14	+15	39
5	Song Lam Nghe An	24	9	6	9	29	28	+1	33
6	Hoang Anh Gia Lai	24	7	11	6	26	24	+2	32	Standby for AFC Cup group stage
7	Becamex Binh Duong	24	7	7	10	32	41	−9	28^[b]
8	Dong A Thanh Hoa	24	8	4	12	27	27	0	28^[b]
9	Ho Chi Minh City	24	6	7	11	23	34	−11	25^[c]
10	SHB Da Nang	24	6	7	11	18	35	−17	25^[c]
11	Hong Linh Ha Tinh	24	5	9	10	26	33	−7	24
12	Nam Dinh	24	6	5	13	21	33	−12	23
13	Saigon (R)	24	5	7	12	26	42	−16	22	Relegation to V.League 2

2022 V.League 1

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Teams

Stadiums and locations

Personnel and kits

Managerial changes

Foreign players

Standings

League table

Positions by round

Results

Season statistics

Top scorers

Hat-tricks

Clean sheets

Attendances

Awards

Monthly awards

Annual awards

References

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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
Hanoi FC	3	2	2	2	3	2	4	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Haiphong	2	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	4	5	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	4	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Topenland Binh Dinh	13	6	7	5	6	4	3	5	7	6	6	5	4	2	2	2	4	2	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3
Viettel	1	3	3	3	4	7	5	7	5	7	7	6	5	4	4	4	2	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	4
Song Lam Nghe An	4	4	4	4	5	3	1	3	2	2	3	2	2	5	5	5	6	6	5	5	6	6	5	5	5	5
Hoang Anh Gia Lai	7	8	11	9	11	8	6	4	3	3	2	3	6	6	6	6	5	7	8	8	8	8	7	7	6	6
Dong A Thanh Hoa	11	13	12	7	10	11	8	10	10	8	8	8	8	8	7	8	7	5	6	6	5	5	6	6	7	7
Becamex Binh Duong	10	5	5	6	2	6	7	9	9	10	9	9	9	9	8	7	9	8	7	7	7	7	8	8	8	8
Ho Chi Minh City	9	10	8	8	7	9	11	12	12	11	12	12	11	12	12	12	13	12	12	13	13	10	10	10	9	9
SHB Danang	6	7	6	10	8	10	10	8	6	4	5	7	7	7	10	9	10	10	10	9	9	9	9	9	10	10
Hong Linh Ha Tinh	12	12	10	13	9	5	9	6	8	9	10	10	10	10	11	11	11	11	11	12	12	12	11	11	12	11
Nam Dinh FC	8	11	9	11	12	12	12	11	11	12	11	11	12	11	9	10	8	9	9	11	10	11	12	12	11	12
Saigon FC	5	9	13	12	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	12	13	13	10	11	13	13	13	13	13

	Winner and qualification to the Champions League group stage
	Qualification to the Champions League play-off round
	Relegate to V.League 2

Home \ Away	BBD	DTH	HPG	HAN	HGL	HCM	HHT	NDI	SGN	SDN	SNA	TBD	VTL
Becamex Binh Duong	—	4–2	2–2	0–3	1–1	0–0	2–2	1–1	2–1	2–2	0–1	2–3	2–1
Dong A Thanh Hoa	0–1	—	0–1	1–1	2–3	1–2	2–0	1–1	4–0	3–0	2–0	2–1	1–0
Haiphong	2–1	1–1	—	3–2	1–1	4–3	1–1	2–1	3–1	1–0	4–1	3–1	1–2
Hanoi	5–1	1–0	2–1	—	2–1	0–0	2–0	5–2	3–1	3–0	2–1	0–3	1–0
Hoang Anh Gia Lai	2–1	2–0	1–2	1–1	—	1–2	0–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–2	1–1	2–2
Ho Chi Minh City	1–1	1–0	2–1	0–6	0–2	—	1–2	0–1	0–2	3–0	2–2	1–2	0–0
Hong Linh Ha Tinh	3–1	1–2	0–1	1–2	1–1	1–1	—	2–0	3–4	1–1	1–1	1–3	0–0
Nam Dinh	0–1	0–1	0–1	1–1	0–0	2–1	2–0	—	3–0	2–1	0–1	0–2	1–0
Saigon	2–1	0–1	0–1	1–1	0–1	1–2	3–2	2–2	—	2–2	1–1	1–1	1–1
SHB Da Nang	0–4	1–0	0–2	2–1	0–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	—	3–1	0–1	0–2
Song Lam Nghe An	3–0	0–0	3–0	1–1	2–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	1–2	2–2	—	1–2	0–1
Topenland Binh Dinh	4–1	2–1	0–0	0–1	1–1	1–2	2–1	2–1	3–0	0–1	1–0	—	0–2
Viettel	0–1	3–1	1–1	0–1	2–0	1–0	0–1	4–0	2–0	3–0	2–0	0–0	—

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Rimario Gordon	Haiphong	17
2	Phạm Tuấn Hải	Hanoi	10
3	Geovane Magno	Viettel	9
	Nguyễn Tiến Linh	Becamex Binh Duong
	Zé Paulo	Dong A Thanh Hoa
6	Jermie Lynch	Topenland Binh Dinh	8
	Lucão do Break	Hanoi
	Paollo	Hong Linh Ha Tinh
9	5 players		7

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Trần Nguyên Mạnh	Viettel	9
2	Đặng Văn Lâm	Topenland Binh Dinh	7
	Nguyễn Đình Triệu	Haiphong
	Nguyễn Thanh Diệp	Dong A Thanh Hoa
	Nguyễn Văn Hoàng	Song Lam Nghe An
6	Nguyễn Văn Công	Hanoi	5
7	5 players		4

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Nam Dinh FC	132,000	19,000	5,000	11,000	+161.9%^†
2	Haiphong FC	116,639	22,000	4,000	9,719	+114.4%²
4	Hanoi FC	95,500	14,000	3,000	7,958	+144.9%^†
3	Topenland Binh Dinh	100,000	16,000	4,000	8,333	−37.1%^†
5	Hoang Anh Gia Lai	70,000	10,000	4,000	7,000	−22.2%¹
6	Song Lam Nghe An	77,000	16,000	2,000	6,417	+94.5%^†
7	Becamex Binh Duong	62,700	8,500	3,000	5,225	+24.4%^†
8	Hong Linh Ha Tinh	62,500	10,000	1,000	5,208	+24.0%^†
9	Dong A Thanh Hoa	61,000	8,000	3,500	5,083	−36.5%^†
10	SHB Danang	57,800	8,000	2,000	4,817	−37.2%^†
11	Viettel	54,000	8,000	2,000	4,500	+73.1%^†
12	Saigon FC	47,500	7,000	2,500	3,958	−26.4%^†
13	Ho Chi Minh City FC	47,000	7,000	2,000	3,917	−13.0%^†
	League total	979,500	22,000	1,000	6,402	+3.1%^†

Month	Manager of the Month		Player of the Month		Goal of the Month
Month	Manager	Club	Player	Club	Player	Club
March	Chu Đình Nghiêm	Haiphong	Rimario Gordon	Haiphong	Phan Văn Đức	Song Lam Nghe An
July	Kiatisuk Senamuang	Hoang Anh Gia Lai	Nguyễn Văn Tòan	Hoang Anh Gia Lai	Phan Văn Đức	Song Lam Nghe An
August	Chun Jae-ho	Hanoi	Nguyễn Văn Quyết	Hanoi	Ngô Hoàng Thịnh	Ho Chi Minh City
September	Nguyễn Đức Thắng	Topenland Binh Dinh	Nguyễn Hoàng Đức	Viettel	Nguyễn Hoàng Đức	Viettel
October	Chu Đình Nghiêm	Haiphong	Phạm Tuấn Hải	Hanoi	Phạm Tuấn Hải	Hanoi

Award	Winner	Club
Manager of the Year	Chu Dinh Nghiem^[13]	Haiphong FC
Player of the Year	Nguyễn Văn Quyết^[13]	Hanoi
Best Young Player	Nguyễn Phi Hoàng^[13]	SHB Da Nang
Goal of the Year	Phạm Tuấn Hải^[13]	Hanoi

Best XI^[13]
Goalkeeper	Trần Nguyên Mạnh (Viettel)
Defenders	Hồ Tấn Tài (Topenland Binh Dinh)	Nguyễn Thanh Bình (Viettel)		Nguyễn Thành Chung (Hanoi)		Đàm Tiến Dũng (Dong A Thanh Hoa)
Midfielders	Đỗ Hùng Dũng (Hanoi)		Nguyễn Hoàng Đức (Viettel)		Nguyễn Hải Huy (Haiphong)
Forwards	Nguyễn Văn Quyết (Hanoi)		Rimario Gordon (Haiphong)		Phạm Tuấn Hải (Hanoi)

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