North Vietnam national football team
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| 1956–1975 | ||||
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| Association | Vietnam Football Association | |||
| Home stadium | Hàng Đẫy Stadium | |||
| FIFA code | VNO | |||
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| First international | ||||
 China 5–3 North Vietnam  (Beijing, China, 4 October 1956) | ||||
| Last international | ||||
| North Vietnam 3–3 China (Hanoi, North Vietnam, 27 December 1974) | ||||
| Biggest win | ||||
 North Yemen 0–9 North Vietnam (Phnom Penh, Cambodia; 15 November 1966) | ||||
| Biggest defeat | ||||
 North Korea 5–0 North Vietnam (Pyongyang, North Korea, 22 October 1959) North Vietnam 0–5 Algeria  (Hanoi, North Vietnam, 22 November 1959) | ||||
The Democratic Republic of Vietnam national football team (Vietnamese: Đội tuyển bóng đá quốc gia Việt Nam Dân chủ Cộng hòa) was the national team of the communist-controlled Democratic Republic of Vietnam (known as "North Vietnam") from 1956 to 1975.
It existed side by side with a separate South Vietnam team, which already appeared in 1949 before the country's division and represented the capitalist-oriented southern portion of Vietnam. Unlike South Vietnam (which was a member of both FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation), North Vietnam's lack of diplomatic recognition on the part of many other states initially prevented it from joining either FIFA or the AFC. However, North Vietnam became a member of FIFA in 1964.[1][2] Despite this, it never participated in qualification for the FIFA World Cup or the AFC Asian Cup, and its international matches were mainly limited to Communist and Communist-sympathizing countries during its relatively short-lived existence.[3]
The North Vietnam football team played its last game in 1974 and ceased to exist with the unification of North and South Vietnam in 1975 (officially in 1976), when the Vietnam War ended. Even though the North emerged victorious in the war, the current Vietnam national football team is considered a successor to the South Vietnam team (not the North Vietnam team), since unified Vietnam inherited South Vietnam's membership of FIFA and the AFC.[4][5]
Although "North Vietnamese" government was proclaimed in 1945, their first international match was against China in 1956, two years after Vietnam was divided and their existence was recognized. Their head coach, Trương Tấn Bửu, played a 3-2-5 (WM) formation but the game ended in a 3–5 defeat. The team recorded their first victory in 1960 with a 3–1 win against Mongolia.
Since North Vietnam was not a member of major international federations such as FIFA (until 1964), the AFC, or the International Olympic Committee, its football team participated in very few international competitions. Their most notorious international participations were in the football tournament of the Games of the New Emerging Forces (GANEFO). North Vietnam proved to be a relatively strong side in the GANEFO competition, finishing fourth in the 1963 edition and third in the 1966 edition. They also earned third place in the football-only GANEFO event that took place in 1965.[6]
After Vietnamese reunification, both North and South Vietnamese teams were superseded by the Vietnam national football team, which represents the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam. With unified Vietnam having taken over South Vietnam's membership of FIFA and the AFC, its historical football record is nominally merged with that of South Vietnam, while North Vietnam is treated as a separate team.[7][8]
Kit
The home kit of North Vietnam was similar to the kit of the Soviet Union consisting of a red shirt, with the legend "VIET NAM DCCH" ("Democratic Republic of Vietnam") across the front in white, white shorts and white-red socks. The away kit was a white shirt with "VIET NAM DCCH" across the chest in red, red shorts and red-white socks.
The goalkeeper's kit was a black shirt with a white collar, black shorts and socks.
Head coaches
Trương Tấn Bửu (1956–1957)[9]
Anatoly Akimov (1958–1960)[10]- Viktor Zharkov (1962–1963)[10]
- Veniamin Krylov (1965–1966)[10][11]
- Nguyễn Thành Đô (1966–196?)[11][12]
- Nguyễn Văn Quý (Unknown)[10]
- Nguyễn Văn Đinh (Unknown)[10]
Competitive record
World Cup record
| FIFA World Cup record | FIFA World Cup qualification record | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | Position | Pld | W | D* | L | GF | GA | Pld | W | D* | L | GF | GA | |
 1950 |
Not member of FIFA | Not member of FIFA | |||||||||||||
 1954 | |||||||||||||||
 1958 | |||||||||||||||
 1962 | |||||||||||||||
 1966 | |||||||||||||||
 1970 |
Did not enter | Did not enter | |||||||||||||
 1974 | |||||||||||||||
| Total | — | 0/7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Asian Cup record
| AFC Asian Cup record | AFC Asian Cup qualification record | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | Position | Pld | W | D* | L | GF | GA | Pld | W | D* | L | GF | GA | |
 1956 |
Not member of AFC | Not member of AFC | |||||||||||||
 1960 | |||||||||||||||
 1964 | |||||||||||||||
 1968 | |||||||||||||||
 1972 | |||||||||||||||
| 1976 | |||||||||||||||
| Total | — | 0/6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
GANEFO
| GANEFO record | Qualification record | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | Position | Pld | W | D* | L | GF | GA | Pld | W | D* | L | GF | GA | |
 1963 |
Fourth place | 4th | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 22 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | |
 1965 |
Third place | 3rd | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | No qualification | ||||||
 1966 |
Third place | 3rd | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 7 | |||||||
| Total | Third place | 3/3 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 45 | 27 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | |
