Vietnam national futsal team

Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Nickname(s)	The Golden Star (Ngôi Sao Vàng)
Association	Vietnam Football Federation
Confederation	AFC (Asia)
Head coach	Bruno Garcia
Captain	Nguyễn Bảo Quân
FIFA code	VIE
FIFA ranking	41 (24 April 2016) [1]
Highest FIFA ranking	40 (10 November 2014)
Lowest FIFA ranking	69
Home colours Away colours
First international
Italy 11–2 Vietnam  (Singapore; 4 December 1997)
Biggest win
Vietnam 21–1 Timor-Leste  (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; 10 June 2009)
Biggest defeat
Vietnam 2–14 Iran  (Singapore; 5 December 1997)  Vietnam 1–13 Iran  (Tashkent. Uzbekistan; 19 February 2016)
World Cup
Appearances	1 (First in 2016)
AFC Futsal Championship
Appearances	4 (First in 2005)
Best result	4th place (2016)
AFF Futsal Championship
Appearances	10 (First in 2005)
Best result	Runners-up (2009, 2012)
Grand Prix de Futsal
Appearances	1 (First in 2014)
Best result	6th place (2014)

The Vietnam national futsal team represents Vietnam in international futsal competitions and is controlled by the Futsal Commission of the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF).

At the 2016 AFC Futsal Championship, Vietnam achieved a historic win over Japan on a penalties shoot out to reach their first semi-final at the tournament, which also qualified them for the FIFA Futsal World Cup as one of the top 5 Asian teams, their first ever FIFA tournament.

Competition History

FIFA Futsal World Cup

World Cup Record
Year	Round	Pld	W	D*	L	GS	GA
1989	Did not enter
1992
1996
2000
2004
2008	Did not qualify
2012
2016	Qualified
Total	0 titles	–	–	–	–	–	–

AFC Futsal Championship

Asian Record
Year	Round	Pld	W	D*	L	GS	GA
1999	Did not enter
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005	Round 1	6	2	1	3	13	19
2006	Did not qualify
2007	Did not enter
2008	Did not qualify
2010	Round 1	3	1	0	2	11	12
2012	Did not qualify
2014	Quarter-finals	4	2	0	2	17	22
2016	Fourth place	6	2	1	3	19	33
Total	0 titles	19	7	2	10	60	86

AFF Futsal Championship

ASEAN Record
Year	Round	Pld	W	D*	L	GS	GA
2001	Did not enter
2003
2005	Group stage	5	0	0	5	12	35
2006	Group stage	3	0	0	3	13	23
2007	Fourth place	5	2	1	2	22	27
2008	Group stage	3	1	0	2	9	12
2009	Runners-up	4	2	1	1	28	8
2010	Third place	4	2	0	2	13	5
2012	Runners-up	6	5	0	1	29	16
2013	Third place	6	3	0	3	26	19
2014	Third place	6	4	1	1	42	8
2015	Fourth place	6	3	0	3	44	21
2016	To be determined
Total	0 titles	49	22	3	24	238	174

Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games

Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games Record
Year	Round	Pld	W	D*	L	GS	GA
2005	Did not enter
2007	Group stage	3	1	0	2	6	10
2009	Group stage	3	0	1	2	9	18
2013	Group stage	2	1	1	0	4	1
2017	To be determined
Total	0 titles	8	2	2	4	19	29

Southeast Asian Games

Southeast Asian Games Record
Year	Round	Pld	W	D*	L	GS	GA
2007	Group stage	2	0	0	2	3	6
2011	Runners-up	4	2	1	1	15	13
2013	Runners-up	4	2	0	2	14	14
2017	To be determined
Total	0 titles	10	4	1	5	32	33

Grand Prix de Futsal

Grand Prix de Futsal Record
Year	Round	Pld	W	D*	L	GS	GA
2005	Did not enter
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2013
2014	Sixth place	3	0	0	3	4	17
2015	Did not enter
2016	To be determined
Total	0 titles	3	0	0	3	4	17

*Denotes draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

**Gold background color indicates that the tournament was won.

***Red border color indicates tournament was held on home soil.

Current squad

Head coach: Bruno Garcia

The following 13 players were named to the friendly matches squad from 22 April to 23 April 2016 in Kariya, Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club
1	GK	Ngô Đình Thuận	July 5, 1987		Thái Sơn Nam
2	GK	Nguyễn Văn Huy	August 13, 1989		Thái Sơn Bắc
4	MF	Vũ Xuân Du	November 12, 1991		Thái Sơn Nam
5		Nguyễn Mạnh Dũng	June 9, 1997		Thái Sơn Nam
18		Trần Văn Thanh	April 8, 1989		Sanna Khánh Hòa
6	DF	Trần Long Vũ	August 25, 1988		Thái Sơn Nam
13	FW	Danh Phát	February 24, 1993		Thái Sơn Nam
7	FW	Phùng Trọng Luân	October 20, 1985		Thái Sơn Nam
14		Cổ Trí Kiệt	September 4, 1995		Tân Hiệp Hưng
12		Đặng Phi Tiến	October 22, 1996		Cao Bằng
10	FW	Nguyễn Bảo Quân (C)	August 9, 1983		Thái Sơn Nam
8	MF	Nguyễn Minh Trí	April 8, 1996		Thái Sơn Nam
15	FW	Ngô Ngọc Sơn	March 24, 1995		Thái Sơn Nam

Average age = 24

2016 Results and fixtures

Results list Vietnam's goal tally first.

Date	Location	Opponent	Result	Competition	Last scorer	Referee
All times are local time, Vietnam Time (UTC+7)
25 Jan	Hochiminh City	Malaysia	5–4 Match video	Friendly	Akmarul (No. 14)	Trương Quốc Dũng Assistant Lê Hùng Cường Ngô Hữu Phúc 4th Official Huỳnh Nguyễn Thanh
26 Jan	Hochiminh City	Malaysia	3–2 Match video	Friendly	Saiful (No. 13)
All times are local time, Uzbekistan Standard Time (UTC+5)
1 Feb	Tashkent	Uzbekistan	3–3	Friendly
6 Feb	Tashkent	China P.R.	4–1	Friendly	Long Vũ Tr.
11 Feb	Tashkent	Republic of China	5–4	AFC Futsal Championship Group Stage Group C	Huang Po Chun	Khalaileh Assistant Hawkar Tomohiro 4th Official Hiroyuki
13 Feb	Tashkent	Tajikistan	8–1	AFC Futsal Championship Group Stage Group C	Văn Vũ Tr.	Alshamsi Assistant Bukuev Hiroyuki 4th Official Tomohiro
15 Feb	Tashkent	Thailand	1–3	AFC Futsal Championship Group Stage Group C	Suphawut	Al-Gburi Assistant Jianqiao Colley 4th Official Hiroyuki
17 Feb	Tashkent	Japan	4–4 (a.e.t) 2–1 (pen.)	AFC Futsal Championship Quarter-finals Knock-out stage	Huy Trần (a.e.t) Luân Phùng (pen.)	Bukuev Assistant Khalaileh Yuttakon 4th Official Alshamsi
19 Feb	Tashkent	Iran	1–13	AFC Futsal Championship Semi-finals Knock-out stage	Keshavarz	Bukuev Assistant Tomohiro Alshamsi 4th Official Rey
21 Feb	Tashkent	Thailand	0–8	AFC Futsal Championship Third place play-off Third place match	Suphawut	An Ran Assistant Alshamsi Colley 4th Official Bukuev
All times are local time, Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)
22 Apr (19:00)	Nagoya City	Japan	0–7	Friendly	Nobuya (No. 6)	Lee Assistant Hiroyuki H. Hiroyuki 4th Official Kumiko 5th Official Ren
23 Apr (16:00)	Nagoya City	Uzbekistan	2–2	Friendly	Dilshod	Hiroyuki Assistant H. Hiroyuki Takeshi 4th Official Lee 5th Official Ryohei
All times are local time, Time in Spain
Aug	Spain			Friendly
Aug	Spain			Friendly
Aug	Spain			Friendly
Aug	Spain			Friendly
All times are local time, Peru Time (UTC−5)
Aug or Sep	Peru			Friendly
Aug or Sep	Peru			Friendly
Aug or Sep	Peru			Friendly
All times are local time, COT (UTC−5)
Sep	Bucaramanga/Cali/Medellín			World Cup – Group Stage
Sep	Bucaramanga/Cali/Medellín			World Cup – Group Stage
Sep	Bucaramanga/Cali/Medellín			World Cup – Group Stage
All times are local time, Thailand Standard Time (UTC+7)
31 Oct	Bangkok	Brunei		AFF Futsal Championship Group stage Group A
1 Nov	Bangkok	Timor-Leste		AFF Futsal Championship Group stage Group A
3 Nov	Bangkok	Thailand		AFF Futsal Championship Group stage Group A

Ranking in the Asian Football Confederation

Rankings are calculated by FIFA.

AFF	AFC	FIFA	Nation	Points
	1	5	Iran	1626
	2	12	Japan	1373
1	3	15	Thailand	1361
	4	20	Uzbekistan	1252
2	5	22	Australia	1236
	6	40	Kuwait	1075
3	7	41	Vietnam	1063
	7	41	Kyrgyzstan	1063
	9	44	China	1041
4	10	49	Indonesia	1019

Updated to 6 May 2016

2016 Result by month

Month	Jan	Feb	Apr	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov
Result	Malaysia	Uzbekistan	Japan
	Malaysia	China	Uzbekistan
		Taiwan
		Tajikistan
		Thailand
		Japan
		Iran
		Thailand
Total	2W+0D+0L	3W+2D+3L	0W+1D+1L
%Win	100.00%	37.50%	0.00%
Total %Win	41.67%

2016 Result by opponent

			Pld	W	D	L	GS	GA	GD
Opponent	1	China	1	1	0	0	4	1	+3
	2	Iran	1	0	0	1	1	13	–12
	3	Japan	2	0	1	1	4	11	–7
	4	Malaysia	2	2	0	0	8	6	+2
	5	Taiwan	1	1	0	0	5	4	+1
	6	Tajikistan	1	1	0	0	8	1	+7
	7	Thailand	2	0	0	2	1	11	–10
	8	Uzbekistan	2	0	2	0	5	5	0
Total			12	5	3	4	36	52	–16
%W			41.67%
%D			25.00%
%L			33.33%

All-time Record

Team	Pld	Win	Drawn*	Lose	GF	GA	Diff
Australia	7	0	1	6	16	30	−14
Bahrain	1	0	1	0	4	4	0
Bhutan	1	1	0	0	6	3	+6
Brazil	1	1	0	1	4	10	-6
Brunei	4	3	0	1	18	12	+6
Cambodia	5	3	1	1	33	16	+17
China	7	3	0	4	18	19	−1
Colombia	1	0	0	1	2	6	-4
Costa Rica	1	0	0	1	1	3	-2
Chinese Taipei	3	2	0	1	11	12	-1
Hong Kong	2	1	1	0	6	2	+4
Indonesia	9	3	3	5	30	31	−1
Iran	4	0	0	4	8	49	−41
Iraq	3	0	0	3	2	11	−9
Italy	2	0	0	2	2	20	−18
Japan	4	0	1	3	7	13	−6
Jordan	1	0	0	1	3	6	−3
Kuwait	3	3	0	0	9	4	+5
Kyrgyzstan	2	0	0	2	3	8	-5
Laos	4	3	0	1	43	7	+36
Lebanon	2	1	1	0	6	2	+4
Malaysia	18	8	3	7	67	70	−3
Maldives	2	2	0	0	9	2	+7
Myanmar	6	6	0	0	28	6	+22
Palestine	1	1	0	0	4	1	+3
Philippines	10	9	0	1	75	11	+64
Qatar	3	1	0	2	5	8	−3
Singapore	1	1	0	0	2	1	+1
South Korea	2	2	0	0	14	8	+6
Spain	1	0	0	1	2	5	−3
Tajikistan	2	2	0	0	18	5	+13
Thailand	15	1	0	14	22	102	−80
Timor-Leste	1	1	0	0	21	1	+20
Turkmenistan	1	0	0	1	0	2	-2
Uzbekistan	4	1	2	2	14	20	−6
Total	135	58	15	65	506	516	-10

References

1. Futsal World Ranking