PVF-CAND FC

PVF-CAND Football Club (Vietnamese: Câu lạc bộ bóng đá PVF-CAND), is a professional football club based in Văn Giang, Hưng Yên, Vietnam. The club play their home matches at PVF Stadium and compete in the V.League 2, the second tier of Vietnamese football league system. Formed in 2018 as Phố Hiến FC, the club adopted their current name in 2023.^[3]

PVF-CAND

Full name	PVF-CAND Football Club Câu lạc bộ bóng đá PVF-CAND
Founded	2018; 6 years ago (2018) as Pho Hien FC 2023; 1 year ago (2023) as PVF–CAND FC
Ground	PVF Stadium, Hưng Yên, Vietnam
Capacity	4,500^[1]
Owner	Ministry of Public Security
Chairman	Lê Cảnh Duy^[2]
Manager	Mauro Jeronimo
League	V.League 2
2023	V.League 2, 2nd of 10
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours
Current season

History

 

View of the PVF Stadium.

Prior to the creation of the team, the PVF Football Academy handed every year all its graduated players to other Vietnamese professional football clubs, which caused difficulties for several players to adapt to the new environment. For that reason, Vingroup, the owner of the PVF Academy established Phố Hiến FC in April 2018 in order to receive the graduated players from the PVF Academy and introduce them to the professional football level. The team's home ground PVF Stadium is situated in the PVF Football Academy training center located in Hưng Yên.^[4] During the first season of its existence, club competed in the 2018 Vietnamese National Football Second League and won the promotion to the 2019 V.League 2 after defeating Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu in the promotion play-offs. In the following season at the professional level, the club left big impressions to the media and fans as they finished runner-up in the V.League 2 with the youngest squad among all the teams.^[5]

Since 2023, the club is owned by the Ministry of Public Security and adopted the name PVF-CAND, with CAND as an abbreviation for People's Public Security (Công An Nhân Dân).^[3] In the 2023 season, the club finished as V.League 2 runner-up for the second time in their history and reached the Vietnamese Cup semi-finals, being the first V.League 2 team to achieve that since 2005.^[6]

Name history

• 2018–2022: Pho Hien FC (Câu lạc bộ bóng đá Phố Hiến)
• 2023–: PVF-CAND FC (Câu lạc bộ bóng đá PVF-CAND)

Players

Current squad

As of 7 March 2024 ^[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   VIE Hồ Viết Đại 2 DF   VIE Đào Văn Chưởng 3 DF   VIE Hoàng Xuân Tân (on loan from Nam Định) 4 DF   VIE Nguyễn Hiểu Minh 5 DF   VIE Ngô Viết Phú 6 MF   VIE Ngô Đức Hoàng (on loan from Hanoi FC) 7 FW   VIE Tẩy Văn Toàn 8 MF   VIE Huỳnh Công Đến 9 FW   VIE Lê Minh Bình (on loan from LPBank HAGL) 10 FW   VIE Trần Đức Nam 11 FW   VIE Nguyễn Thanh Nhàn 12 DF   VIE Nguyễn Bảo Long 14 MF   VIE Nguyễn Xuân Bắc 15 FW   VIE Nguyễn Hữu Nam (on loan from Viettel)

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 MF   VIE Thái Bá Đạt 19 MF   VIE Nguyễn Đức Phú 20 MF   VIE Lê Quốc Nhật Nam (on loan from Viettel) 26 DF   VIE Lê Văn Đại 27 DF   VIE Trần Ngọc Sơn 33 GK   VIE Phí Minh Long 34 GK   VIE Trần Đức Dũng (on loan from Viettel) 35 GK   VIE Nguyễn Quang Trường 38 MF   USA Danny Reid 66 DF   VIE Huỳnh Minh Đoàn 73 DF   VIE Võ Anh Quân 88 MF   VIE Lê Văn Đô 89 FW   VIE Nguyễn Xuân Nam (on loan from Hanoi Police)

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK   VIE Nguyễn Minh Kha (at Phù Đổng Ninh Bình until 7 July 2024) — GK   VIE Trần Tấn Lộc (at Hanoi Police until 7 July 2024) — DF   VIE Nguyễn Hải Nam (at Đồng Tháp until 7 July 2024) — DF   VIE Nguyễn Phương Nam (at Hòa Bình until 7 July 2024) — DF   VIE Võ Quốc Dân (at Phú Thọ until 7 July 2024) — MF   VIE Lý Trung Hiếu (at Phù Đổng Ninh Bình until 7 July 2024)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF   VIE Nguyễn Thế Hùng (at Hòa Bình until 7 July 2024) — MF   VIE Quách Quang Huy (at Phú Thọ until July 2025) — MF   VIE Trần Vũ Ngọc Tài (at Hòa Bình until 7 July 2024) — MF   VIE Trịnh Quang Trường (at Đồng Tháp until 7 July 2024) — MF   VIE Võ Ngọc Tỉnh (at Đồng Tháp until 7 July 2024) — FW   VIE Nguyễn Anh Tuấn (at Phú Thọ until July 2025)

Technical Staff

As of Mars 2023

Position	Name
Manager	Mai Trung Hải
Head coach	Mauro Jeronimo
Assistant coach	Nguyễn Quốc Trung
Goalkeeping coach	Phạm Văn Thạch
Fitness coach	Nick Harvey
Physiotherapist	Nguyễn Trí Nhân
Interpreter	Bùi Ngọc Tú
Kitman	Phạm Duy Lộc

Notable players

The players in bold had capped for the Vietnam national team while playing for the club.

• Huỳnh Công Đến
• Lê Bật Hiếu
• Lê Minh Bình
• Lê Ngọc Bảo
• Lê Văn Đô
• Lục Xuân Hưng
• Martin Lo
• Nguyễn Bảo Long
• Nguyễn Đức Phú
• Nguyễn Thanh Nhàn
• Nguyễn Trọng Long
• Nguyễn Xuân Nam
• Phí Minh Long
• Thái Bá Đạt
• Trần Bửu Ngọc
• Võ Nguyên Hoàng

Managers

• 2018–2021:   Hứa Hiền Vinh
• 2022–present:   Mauro Jeronimo

Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors

Period	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
2020–2022	Grand Sport	Tan A Dai Thanh Yanmar Van Lang University Ben Thanh Holdings
2023–	Kamito

Honours

Senior Competitions

• Vietnamese League Two:

  Third Place: 2018

• V.League 2:

  Runners-up: 2019, 2023

• Vietnamese National Football Cup:

  Third Place: 2023

Youth Competitions

• Vietnamese National U-21 Football Championship:

  Winner: 2023

  Runners-up: 2019

  Third Place: 2021

References

1. "PVF-CAND". VPF. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
2. "Câu lạc bộ bóng đá PVF-CAND tổng kết mùa giải 2023" (in Vietnamese). Public Security News.
3. "Phố Hiến chính thức đổi tên thành PVF - CAND" (in Vietnamese). Báo Bóng đá.
4. "Tân Á Đại Thành ra mắt câu lạc bộ bóng đá Phố Hiến" (in Vietnamese). Dân Trí.
5. "CLB Phố Hiến có giám đốc kỹ thuật từng 'nâng cánh' các tài năng đội tuyển Bỉ" (in Vietnamese). Thanh Niên.
6. "Câu lạc bộ PVF – CAND xuất quân mùa giải 2023 - 2024" (in Vietnamese). ANTV.

External links

• PVF-CAND at VPF.vn