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Football clubHue

Full name	Hue Football Club
Nickname	Đội Bóng Cố đô (Ancient capital club)
Founded	1976; 49 years ago (1976)
Ground	Tự Do Stadium
Capacity	25,000
Chairman	Đoàn Phùng
Manager	Nguyễn Đức Dũng
League	Vietnamese Second Division
2024–25	V.League 2, 11th of 11 (relegated)
Website	www.facebook.com
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Hue Football Club (Vietnamese: Câu lạc bộ bóng đá Huế), is a Vietnamese football club based in Huế. The club's home stadium is Tự Do Stadium. After finishing last in the 2024–25 V.League 2, the club will participate in the Vietnamese Second Division starting in the 2026 season.

History

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It is uncertain when football arrived at Huế. According to some remaining records, football matches were organized in Huế in the 1920s. The place where matches often took place between French soldiers' teams and Vietnamese teams in Huế was the "Sép" stadium, right on the north bank of the Hương River, next to Đông Ba Market.

In the Indochina and Central Vietnam football leagues, the team, with a core of Huế players, finished as runners-up three times in 1941, 1943, and 1944. Longtime football fans in Huế still often mention the famous names of Huế football players before the Revolution, such as: Bửu Phấn, Bửu Bàng, Tư Ếch, Minh, Hưởng, Tiền, Tốt... and the two famous players Nguyễn Hữu Tường and Nguyễn Hữu Hồ, who played for the Indochina national team.

After 1975, the Bình Trị Thiên team, the predecessor of the current Thừa Thiên Huế team, was established and participated in the Trường Sơn football league until 1979. After the establishment of National A1 League, the team played in the B division (equivalent to the current Second Division) due to economic difficulties and a lack of players. It was not until 1993, after many mergers and consolidations, that Thừa Thiên Huế players were promoted to the top tier.

The 1995 season was the most memorable in the history of the ancient capital's football. The Thừa Thiên Huế team, with players like Công Quốc, Đình Tuấn, Sỹ Hùng, and a series of other key players like Quý Tâm Anh, Quốc Dân, Quang Sang, Đức Dũng... led by coach Ninh Văn Bảo, unexpectedly made history with the runners-up title, after defeating famous teams such as Lâm Đồng, An Giang, Cảng Sài Gòn, before losing to Công An Hồ Chí Minh City in the final. However, the very next season, the Thừa Thiên Huế players were relegated.[1]

In the 1998 season, the Thừa Thiên Huế team, under coach Nguyễn Đình Thọ, regained the right to play in the First Division after winning the promotion play-off matches against Hải Quan.[2] In the 2002 season, Huda Huế under coach Đoàn Phùng was relegated from the V-League after losing a play-off match against Hà Nội ACB at Vinh Stadium. After 4 years playing in the First Division, in the 2007 season, Huda Huế returned to the V-League arena after a thrilling penalty shootout victory against Hải Phòng in the play-off match. It wa noteworthy that the promoted Huda Huế team that year mainly consisted of U20 players who had matured after the National Phù Đổng Health Festival in Huế in 2004. Just one year later, due to insufficient investment, Huda Huế returned to play in the First Division until the 2011 season, when the team was relegated again to the Second Division.

After being relegated to the Second Division, the club also faced many financial difficulties when the sponsor Huda Beer officially withdrew. In that situation, the team's leadership decided to completely renew the team with the determination to get promoted to the First Division. First, they adopted the name Huế Football Club, without a sponsor's name. Then, they renewed the squad by promoting players who had won the gold medal at the 2004 Phù Đổng Health Festival and the 2006 National U-13 Football Championship for Huế, such as: Minh Hoàng, Công Nhật, Ngọc Mười, Đức Phát, Võ Lỹ,... plus key players including Tuấn Tú, Trọng Trung, Khoa Nhật, Hữu Quang, Hữu Vân... And that change brought good results: in the 2013 season, Huế won the Second Division and returned to the First Division.

At the end of the 2014 V.League 2 season, the young squad of coach Nguyễn Đức Dũng finished 5th out of 8 participating teams. In 2014, the team also represented Vietnamese football at the 2014 Mekong Region Games in Thailand and excellently won the championship. In December, the whole team won the silver medal in Men's Football at the 2014 Vietnamese National Games after a 0-4 loss to Sông Lam Nghệ An in the final.

In the 2019 season, with the participation of young players Trần Danh Trung, Nguyễn Hữu Thắng,... Huế finished 5th with 9 wins, 2 draws, and 11 losses.

Stadium

[edit] Main article: Tự Do Stadium

The home ground of Huế is Tự Do Stadium. It is a stadium located in Thuận Hóa ward, Huế, Vietnam, with a capacity of about 25,000 seats. Tự Do Stadium was built by the French around the early 1930s and named Stade Olympique de Hué. Later, the Nguyễn Dynasty renamed the stadium Bảo Long Stadium (Bảo Long was the crown prince of King Bảo Đại and Queen Nam Phương).

Kits and sponsors

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Period	Kit supplier	Shirt sponsor (chest)	Shirt sponsor (back)
2000/01	Adidas (T-1)	Highlands Coffee (league-wide V-League) Pepsi (league-wide National Cup) Tiger Beer (domestic-wide)	SyncMaster (domestic-wide)
2001/02		Strata (league-wide V-League)Samsung (league-wide National Cup) Tiger Beer (domestic-wide)
2019–2022	Adidas (K)	Bamboo Airways (National Cup 2020)
2023-2024	VNASPORTS (T)
2024-	CR SPORT (T) [3]

Note: (K): Information about sponsorship unknown/Team purchased kits themselves; (T): Sponsored; (T-1): In the 2000–2002 period, the entire domestic league system (including the Professional V-League and National Cup) was sponsored by Adidas.

Players

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Current squad

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As of 22 January 2025[4]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF  VIE Nguyễn Đình Bình 3 DF  VIE Vi Đình Thượng 5 DF  VIE Nguyễn Lương Tuấn Khải 6 MF  VIE Lê Văn Tú 7 MF  VIE Dương Anh Vũ 8 MF  VIE Huỳnh Thế Hiếu 9 FW  VIE Nguyễn Hữu Nhật Long 10 FW  VIE Phạm Ngọc Thành Thảo 11 FW  VIE Vũ Bá Hải Dương (on loan from Thể Công-Viettel) 12 FW  VIE Hồ Thanh Tuấn Anh 14 MF  VIE Hoàng Quang Dũng 15 FW  VIE Nguyễn Hữu Tuấn (on loan from Thể Công-Viettel) 16 MF  VIE Vũ Tùng Dương (on loan from Thể Công-Viettel) 17 MF  VIE Ngô Hoàng Quân

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 FW  VIE Nguyễn Đăng Khoa 20 DF  VIE Nguyễn Đình Đới 21 DF  VIE Nguyễn Văn Trọng 22 MF  VIE Nguyễn Thành An (on loan from Thể Công-Viettel) 23 MF  VIE Võ Văn Tuấn Kiệt 26 GK  VIE Nguyễn Tiến Quyền 27 FW  VIE Trần Văn Bun 28 GK  VIE Võ Đức Bảo 31 DF  VIE Trần Đình Sửu 32 DF  VIE Lê Viết Hiếu 35 DF  VIE Vũ Quốc Anh (on loan from Thể Công-Viettel) 36 MF  VIE Trần Văn Quang 38 DF  VIE Lê Xuân Đăng 76 GK  VIE Lâm Lê Phước Tiến Dũng

Other players under contract

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 4 DF  VIE Trần Văn Đông

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 MF  VIE Bùi Công Chính

Notable former players

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• Nguyễn Viết Rớt
• Nguyễn Đình Thọ
• Lê Đức Anh Tuấn
• Trần Quang Sang
• Lê Văn Trương
• Hứa Hiền Vinh
• Dương Công Quốc
• Võ Lý
• Trần Đình Minh Hoàng
• Trần Thành
• Trần Danh Trung
• Nguyễn Thanh Bình
• Nguyễn Hữu Thắng
• Hồ Thanh Minh

Coaching staff

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Position	Name
Team Leader	Trần Quang Sang
Media Officer	Nguyễn Kinh
Supporters' Club President	Bùi Xuân Hòa
Manager	Nguyễn Đức Dũng
Assistant Manager	Phan Văn Trí
	Phan Văn Hòa
	Nguyễn Quốc Huy
Goalkeeping Coach	Mai Đức Hạnh
Physiotherapist	Nguyễn Văn Hiếu

Managerial history

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•    Managers with this background and italics are caretaker appointments.

List of managers

Name	Period
Nguyễn Hồng Vinh	1993–1995
Ninh Văn Bảo	1995–1996
Nguyễn Đình Thọ	1998–2001
Đoàn Phùng	2001–2003
Nguyễn Đình Thọ	2003–2004
Nguyễn Kim Hằng	2004–2005
Đoàn Phùng	2006–2007
Trần Quang Sang	2008
Đoàn Phùng	2008–2010
Nguyễn Đức Dũng	2011–2018
Phan Văn Trí	2019
Nguyễn Đức Dũng	2019–present

Honours

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• V.League 1:

Runners-up : 1995

• V.League 2:

Runners-up : 2015, 2017 Third place : 2004, 2006

• Second League:

Winners : 2013 Cup

• Vietnamese Cup:

Runners-up : 2002

Season-by-season record

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Key
Champions
Runners-up
Third place
Fourth place
Promoted
Relegation play-off	Won play-off
	Lost play-off
Relegated

Performance of Hue FC from 1995 to present
Year	Division				Position	Pld	W	D[a]	L	GF	GA	Pts
	I	II	III	IV
1995	Runners-up	18	10	–[b]	8	19	20	20
1996	11th	22	3	9	10	20	33	18
1997	Unknown	Specific records unknown
1998	Joint 3rd	5	3	1	1	6	4	10
1999	4th in Group B[c]	6	2	2	2	7	7	8
1999–00	7th	24	9	5	10	30	29	32
2000–01	8th	18	6	5	7	16	21	23
2001–02	9th	18	6	3	9	17	24	21
2003	4th	22	9	7	6	24	16	34
2004	3rd	22	13	6	3	33	14	45
2005	5th	22	8	8	6	28	27	32
2006	3rd	26	9	12	5	34	28	39
2007	13th	26	4	8	14	25	44	20
2008	6th	26	10	7	9	40	35	37
2009	5th	24	9	7	8	21	16	34
2010	11th	24	7	6	11	27	38	27
2011	14th	26	4	8	14	31	51	20
2012	Joint 3rd	9	5	2	2	12	7	17
2013	Champions	9	7	1	1	17	4	22
2014	5th	14	5	4	5	16	16	19
2015	2nd	14	7	3	4	16	10	24
2016	7th	18	6	4	8	29	26	22
2017	2nd	12	5	5	2	21	10	20
2018	7th	18	5	5	8	26	31	20
2019	6th	22	9	2	11	33	36	29
2020	9th	16	4	6	6	14	19	18
2021	Season cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2022	7th	22	6	7	9	20	31	25
2023	6th	18	5	6	7	19	19	21
2023–24	4th	20	8	6	6	26	22	30
2024–25	11th	20	4	4	12	16	30	16

Notes

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1. ^ Except for the 1995 season, a match decided by a penalty shoot-out was counted as a draw.
2. ^ According to the format of this season, all drawn matches had to be decided by a penalty shoot-out.
3. ^ In 1999, the national championship was not held, only the Spring Training Tournament was organized.

References

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1. ^ "Một phiên bản của Huế 1995? (A version of Hue 1995?)". Nhân Dân Newspaper (in Vietnamese). 2007-06-11.
2. ^ "Huda Huế: Hạng Nhất đang gọi (Huda Hue: First Division is calling)". Nhân Dân Newspaper (in Vietnamese). 2007-06-20.
3. ^ https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid08YBH5i5jiQKnRKLTm7sDebZvadTjEH8e8UYfMXMMpoJQaaaavNqQdFEEDmXdR6TEl&id=100063572254020&rdid=UVRTrNsJg5R1cAnf
4. ^ Huế FC

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