Song Lam Nghe An FC
Vietnamese football club
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Song Lam Nghe An Football Club (Vietnamese: Câu lạc bộ Bóng đá Sông Lam Nghệ An), simply known as SLNA, is a professional football club based in Thành Vinh ward, Nghệ An, Vietnam. The club play their home matches at Vinh Stadium and compete in the V.League 1, the top flight of Vietnamese football league system.
Đội bóng áo vàng (The Yellows)
Đội bóng thành Vinh
Đội bóng quê Bác
Đội bóng sông Lam
1992 as Sông Lam Nghệ An
1994 as Đoàn bóng đá Sông Lam (Sông Lam Football Team)
2004 as PJICO Sông Lam Nghệ An
2007 as Tài chính dầu khí - Sông Lam Nghệ An (Oil and gas finance - Sông Lam Nghệ An)
2009 as Sông Lam Nghệ An
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| Full name | Sông Lam Nghệ An Football Club | |||
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| Nicknames | Đội bóng xứ Nghệ Đội bóng áo vàng (The Yellows) Đội bóng thành Vinh Đội bóng quê Bác Đội bóng sông Lam | |||
| Short name | SLNA | |||
| Founded | 28 February 1979 as Sông Lam Nghệ Tĩnh 1992 as Sông Lam Nghệ An 1994 as Đoàn bóng đá Sông Lam (Sông Lam Football Team) 2004 as PJICO Sông Lam Nghệ An 2007 as Tài chính dầu khí - Sông Lam Nghệ An (Oil and gas finance - Sông Lam Nghệ An) 2009 as Sông Lam Nghệ An | |||
| Ground | Vinh Stadium | |||
| Capacity | 20,000 | |||
| Owner | Song Lam Nghe An Sports JSC | |||
| Chairman | Trương Sỹ Bá | |||
| Coach | Phan Như Thuật | |||
| League | V.League 1 | |||
| 2024–25 | V.League 1, 12th of 14 | |||
| Website | www | |||
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On the domestic level, with 10 major titles at the first team and several titles in Vietnamese youth competitions, Song Lam Nghe An is one of the most successful football clubs in Vietnam.[1] In the 2009–2010 and 2010–2011 seasons, under head coach Nguyễn Hữu Thắng, Song Lam Nghe An achieved all three major domestic titles: the V.League 1, Vietnamese Cup, and the Vietnamese Super Cup. Song Lam Nghe An have a tradition of only using domestic players from the club's youth academy. Most domestic players in the club's history are from Nghệ An province or Hà Tĩnh province, a usual thing among Vietnamese teams. With a quality youth academy, Song Lam Nghe An are one of the clubs that had contributed the most players to the Vietnam national football team. Furthermore, they are the first and only team to have reached 1000 points in the V.League 1.
The club's current president is Trương Sỹ Bá.
History
During the French colonial period, the Vinh - Ben Thuy area once had a famous football team called the Yellow Shirt Team. This is considered the beginning of Nghe An football tradition. Some people believe that this is the origin of the traditional yellow shirt of the Song Lam Nghe An team today.
However, the Nghe Tinh region hardly had any outstanding breakthroughs throughout most of the war. It was not until 1973 that the Nghe Tinh Provincial Military Command established an amateur football team to compete in the B Division. This team is considered the predecessor of today's Song Lam Nghe An.
In 1979, after the National Football Championship system was established, with good performance, the team was ranked in the national A2 class. On February 28, 1979, the team was officially transferred by the Nghe Tinh Provincial Military Command to the Nghe Tinh Provincial People's Committee for management and renamed Song Lam Football Team.[2]
In 1980, Coach Nguyen Thanh Vinh began taking charge of the first team of Song Lam Nghe Tinh Football Team. From here, despite being a "young" team in Vietnamese football compared to teams such as The Cong, Cang Saigon, Hanoi Police, Haiphong Police, with the efforts of the coach Coach Nguyen Thanh Vinh, Song Lam football team has begun to have a series of achievements, as well as a unique playing style of its own, on par with older teams.
In 1992, Nghe Tinh province was divided into two separate provinces: Nghe An and Ha Tinh.[3][4] On March 21, 1994, the Nghe An Provincial People's Committee decided to rename the team to Song Lam Football Team[5][6] and transform it into a professional unit under the Department of Physical Education and Sports.[7] In 1996, the team won the bronze medal in the National Championship and the National Cup.[8]
In 2000, Song Lam Nghe An won the National Championship for the first time.[9][10][11] In 2010, the team won the National Cup for the second time.[12][13] In the 2011 season, the club won its third championship with a 1–1 draw against Hanoi T&T at Vinh Stadium, finishing the V.League with 49 points after 26 rounds.[14][15] In the 2017 season, despite finishing only 7th in the V.League, Song Lam Nghe An defeated Dak Lak, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Quang Nam and Becamex Binh Duong to win the 2017 Vietnamese Cup.[16][17]
The 2020 season was the most difficult period for Song Lam Nghe An in the V.League 1.[18] In early 2022, the club officially announced a new brand identity.[19][20] The team's old logo was replaced with a new one with a more modern design.[21]
International cooperation
Mito HollyHock
Song Lam Nghe An signed a cooperation agreement with Japanese club Mito HollyHock on 1 January 2024, on a one-year deal. In this cooperation program, Mito HollyHock will advise and support the construction of a team management and administration system in the direction of improving the professional capacity of departments for Song Lam Nghe An Club and help perfecting the club's organizational structure following the Japanese football club model.
Name
- 1979–1992: Song Lam Nghe Tinh football team
- 1992–2004: Song Lam Nghe An football team
- 2004–2007: PJICO Song Lam Nghe An Football Club
- 2007–2009: Song Lam Nghe An Petroleum Finance Football Club
- 2009–present: Song Lam Nghe An Football Club
Logo history
January 2009 – 1 April 2022
5 January 2022 – present
Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors
| Period | Kit manufacturer | Shirt sponsor |
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| 2014 |  Kappa[22] |
Bac A Bank TH True Juice Milk TH True Water |
| 2015–2016 | Made by club | |
| 2017–2021 |  Mitre[23] | |
| 2022 – September 2024 |  Grand Sport[24] |
AAN Eurosun Việt Nam Nikkokutrust |
| September 2024 – present |  Kamito |
AAN Eurosun Việt Nam Nikkokutrust Bia sao vàng SIBA Group |
Stadium
Vinh Stadium with a capacity of 20.000 seats, located on Dao Tan Street, Vinh City, Nghe An Province, has been chosen as the club's home stadium from the early days of its establishment until present.[25]
Players
Current squad
- As of 18 March 2026[26]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Other players under contract
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Out on loan
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Youth team (U21)
| Position | Name |
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| Head coaches | Nguyễn Văn Vinh |
List of participants for the 2024 National U21 tournament
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Coaches
Current coaching staff
| Position | Name |
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| Executive chairman | Trương Sỹ Bá |
| Managing director | Hồ Lê Đức |
| Technical director |  |
| Head coach | Phan Như Thuật |
| Assistant coach | Phạm Văn Quyến Nguyễn Ngọc Anh Phan Tiến Hoài Nguyễn Huy Hoàng |
| Fitness coach | Phạm Bùi Minh |
| Goalkeeper coach | Phạm Đức Anh |
| Interpreter | Đậu Xuân Huy |
| Doctor | |
| Medical staff | Đoàn Minh Hoàng Nguyễn Văn Đoán |
| Logistics | Phạm Văn Hùng |
Managerial history
| Name | Nat | Period | Titles |
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| Nguyễn Thành Vinh | |
1980–2004 | 1999–2000 V-League 2000 Vietnamese Super Cup 2000–01 V-League 2001 Vietnamese Super Cup 2002 Vietnamese Cup 2002 Vietnamese Super Cup |
| Nguyễn Văn Thịnh | |
2004–2005 | |
| Nguyễn Hữu Thắng | |
2005–2006 | |
| Hà Thìn | |
2006–2007 | |
| Nguyễn Văn Thịnh | |
2007–2009 | |
| Nguyễn Hữu Thắng | |
2009–2014 | 2010 Vietnamese Cup 2011 V-League 2011 Vietnamese Super Cup |
| Ngô Quang Trường | |
2014–2016 | |
| Nguyễn Đức Thắng | |
2016–2019 | 2017 Vietnamese Cup |
| Ngô Quang Trường | |
2019–2021 | |
| Nguyễn Huy Hoàng | |
2021–2023 | |
| Phan Như Thuật | |
2023–2024 | |
| Phạm Anh Tuấn | |
2024 | |
| Phan Như Thuật | |
2024– | |
Honours
- League
Winners : 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2011
Runners-up : 1997, 1998, 2001–02
Third place: 1992, 1996, 2009- Cup
- Winners : 2001-02, 2010, 2017
- Runners-up : 2011, 2024–25
- Third place: 1996, 1998, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2018
- Winners : 2000, 2001, 2002, 2011
- Runners-up : 2010, 2017
Youth teams
- U-21:
- Winners : 5 (2000, 2001, 2002, 2012, 2014)
- Runners-up : 5 (2003, 2007, 2010, 2020, 2023)
- Third place: 4 (2004, 2011, 2013, 2017)
- U-19:
- Winners : 5 (1999, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006)
- Runners-up : 7 (2002, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2023, 2024-25)
- Third place: 10 (1998, 2000, 2008, 2012, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024)
- U-17:
- Winners : 8 (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2020)
- Runners-up : 2 (2010, 2018)
- Third place: 3 (2015, 2022, 2023)
- U-15:
- Winners : 5 (1998, 2002, 2018, 2019, 2022)
- Runners-up : 3 (1999, 2008, 2023)
- Third place: 4 (2003, 2005, 2017, 2020)
- U-13:
- Winners : 11 (1997, 1998, 2003, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024)
- Runners-up : 2 (2015, 2016)
- Third place: 2 (1999, 2017)
- U-11:
- Winners : 7 (2001, 2002, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022,
2024) - Runners-up : 1 (1997)
- Third place: 8 (1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2009, 2015, 2023)
- U-9:
- Winners : 2 (2021, 2022)
- Runners-up : 1 (2024)
- Third place: 1 (2023)
Other awards
- Third-class Labor Medal awarded by the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
- Excellent emulation unit flag of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee for two consecutive years 1998, 1999–00
- The Government's emulation flag presented to the unit leading the emulation movement in 2000–01
- Unit flag for successfully completing the 2000–01 season mission of the People's Committee of Nghe An province
Record
Continental record
- Asian Club Championship: 2 appearances
- AFC Cup: 3 appearances
| Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away | |
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| 2000–01 | Asian Club Championship | First round |  |
PSM Makassar | 1–4 | 0–0 |
| 2001–02 | Asian Club Championship | First round |  |
Saunders SC | (w/o)1 | |
| 2011 | AFC Cup | Group F |  |
TSW Pegasus FC | 1–2 | 3–2 |
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VB Sports Club | 4–2 | 3–1 | |||
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Sriwijaya F.C. | 4–0 | 1–3 | |||
| Round of 16 | |
Persipura Jayapura | 1–3 | |||
| 2012 | AFC Cup | Group F |  |
Terengganu | 0–1 | 2–6 |
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Tampines Rovers | 3–0 | 0–0 | |||
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Kitchee | 1–0 | 0–2 | |||
| 2018 | AFC Cup | Group H | |
Persija Jakarta | 0–0 | 0–1 |
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Tampines Rovers | 2–1 | 2–0 | |||
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Johor Darul Ta'zim | 2–0 | 2–3 |
1 Sông Lam Nghệ An withdrew.
Domestic league record
| Season | Pld | Won | Draw | Lost | GF | GA | GD | PTS | Final position | Notes |
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| 1999–2000 V-League | 24 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 35 | 20 | +15 | 43 | Champions | |
| 2000–01 V-League | 18 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 20 | 16 | +4 | 36 | Champions | Qualified for 2001–02 Asian Club Championship |
| 2001–02 V-League | 18 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 22 | 20 | +2 | 28 | 2nd | |
| 2003 V-League | 22 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 25 | 16 | +9 | 32 | 5th | |
| 2004 V-League | 22 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 38 | 17 | +21 | 37 | 4th | |
| 2005 V-League | 22 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 33 | 28 | +5 | 31 | 5th | |
| 2006 V-League | 24 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 27 | 27 | 0 | 26 | 5th | |
| 2007 V-League | 26 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 38 | 35 | +3 | 35 | 7th | |
| 2008 V-League | 26 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 45 | 35 | +10 | 37 | 9th | |
| 2009 V-League | 26 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 39 | 28 | +11 | 43 | 3rd | |
| 2010 V-League | 26 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 36 | 26 | +10 | 37 | 8th | Qualified for 2011 AFC Cup |
| 2011 V-League | 26 | 15 | 4 | 7 | 48 | 29 | +19 | 49 | Champions | Qualified for 2012 AFC Cup |
| 2012 V-League | 26 | 9 | 14 | 3 | 44 | 30 | +14 | 41 | 4th | |
| 2013 V.League 1 | 20 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 40 | 24 | +16 | 33 | 4th | |
| 2014 V.League 1 | 22 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 38 | 26 | +12 | 36 | 5th | |
| 2015 V.League 1 | 26 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 36 | 33 | +3 | 37 | 7th | |
| 2016 V.League 1 | 26 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 34 | 36 | −2 | 34 | 9th | |
| 2017 V.League 1 | 26 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 36 | 36 | 0 | 34 | 8th | Qualified for 2018 AFC Cup |
| 2018 V.League 1 | 26 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 38 | 32 | +6 | 42 | 4th | |
| 2019 V.League 1 | 26 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 32 | 26 | +6 | 35 | 7th | |
| 2020 V.League 1 | 20 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 17 | 21 | –4 | 23 | 10th | |
| 2021 V.League 1 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 15 | –8 | 10 | 14th | League was cancelled due to COVID-19 |
| 2022 V.League 1 | 24 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 29 | 28 | +1 | 33 | 5th | |
| 2023 V.League 1 | 18 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 19 | 20 | -1 | 25 | 9th | |
| 2023–24 V.League 1 | 26 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 27 | 32 | −5 | 30 | 12th | |
| 2024–25 V.League 1 | 26 | 5 | 11 | 10 | 22 | 36 | −14 | 26 | 12th |
National cup record
- 2011: Runner-up
- 2012: Semifinals
- 2013: Round of 16
- 2014: Round of 16
- 2015: Quarterfinals
- 2016: Round of 16
- 2017: Champion
- 2018: Semifinals
- 2019: Round of 16
- 2020: Round of 16
- 2021: Qualifying round
- 2022: Qualifying round
- 2023: Qualifying round
- 2024: Round of 16