2022 V.League 1

66th season of the highest division of association football in Vietnam

Football league season

Night Wolf V.League 1 - 2022

Season	2022
Dates	25 February – 19 November
Champions	Hanoi FC 6th VL1 title 6th Vietnamese title
Relegated	Saigon FC
Champions League	Hanoi FC Haiphong FC
Matches played	156
Goals scored	380 (2.44 per match)
Top goalscorer	Rimario Gordon (17 goals)
Biggest home win	Dong A Thanh Hoa 4–0 Saigon FC (16 July) Viettel 4–0 Nam Dinh (15 September) Hanoi FC 5–1 Becamex Binh Duong (1 October)
Biggest away win	Ho Chi Minh City FC 0–6 Hanoi FC (19 October)
Highest scoring	Hong Linh Ha Tinh 3–4 Saigon FC (30 July) Haiphong FC 4–3 Ho Chi Minh City FC (26 August) Hanoi FC 5–2 Nam Dinh FC (15 October)
Longest winning run	7 games Hanoi FC
Longest unbeaten run	14 games Haiphong FC
Longest winless run	11 games Hong Linh Ha Tinh
Longest losing run	4 games Ho Chi Minh City FC Saigon FC SHB Da Nang
Highest attendance	22,000 Haiphong FC 3–2 Hanoi FC (23 October)
Lowest attendance	1,000 Hong Linh Ha Tinh 0–1 Haiphong FC (25 February)
Total attendance	979,500
Average attendance	6,402 (excluding matches played behind closed doors)
← 2021 2023 → All statistics correct as of complete.

The 2022 V.League 1, known as the Night Wolf V.League 1 (Vietnamese: Giải bóng đá Vô địch Quốc gia Night Wolf 2022) for sponsorship reasons, was the 66th professional season of the top-flight football league in Vietnam.^[1] The season started on 25 February 2022, and ended on 20 November.^[2]

There was no defending champion as a result of the previous season being abandoned due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

There was a break from 14 March until 2 July to accommodate for the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification and the delayed 2021 Southeast Asian Games.

Hanoi FC won their 6th league title on 13 November with one match to spare.^[3]

Changes from the previous season

Due to the previous season being abandoned, no teams were promoted or relegated from the 2021 season.^[4] All but one club from the 2021 season contested in the league. Than Quang Ninh were not permitted to participate due to financial reasons, leaving the league starting with just 13 clubs.^[5]

From V.League 1

Dissolved

~~Than Quang Ninh~~

Teams

Becamex Binh Duong

Nam Dinh FC

Hanoi

Haiphong FC

Hoang Anh Gia Lai

Hong Linh Ha Tinh

Topenland Binh Dinh

SHB Danang

Song Lam Nghe An

Dong A Thanh Hoa

Ho Chi Minh City

Hanoi teams
Hanoi FC
Viettel

Ho Chi Minh City teams
Ho Chi Minh City FC
Saigon FC

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Locations of the 2022 V.League 1 teams

Stadiums and locations

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Topenland Binh Dinh	Binh Dinh	Quy Nhon	15,000
Becamex Binh Duong	Binh Duong	Go Dau	13,035
SHB Da Nang	Da Nang	Hoa Xuan	20,000
Hoang Anh Gia Lai	Gia Lai	Pleiku	12,000
Haiphong FC	Haiphong	Lach Tray	30,000
Hanoi FC	Hanoi	Hang Day	22,500
Viettel	Hanoi	Hang Day	22,500
Hong Linh Ha Tinh	Ha Tinh	Ha Tinh	20,000
Ho Chi Minh City FC	Ho Chi Minh City	Thong Nhat	16,000
Saigon FC	Ho Chi Minh City	Thong Nhat	16,000
Nam Dinh FC	Nam Dinh	Thien Truong	30,000
Song Lam Nghe An	Nghe An	Vinh	18,000
Dong A Thanh Hoa	Thanh Hoa	Thanh Hoa	12,000

Personnel and kits

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

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer
Topenland Binh Dinh	Nguyen Duc Thang	Hồ Tấn Tài	Kamito
Becamex Binh Duong	Lu Dinh Tuan	Tô Văn Vũ	Kamito
SHB Danang	Phan Thanh Hùng	Hoàng Minh Tâm	Kamito
Hoang Anh Gia Lai	Kiatisuk Senamuang	Lương Xuân Trường	Mizuno
Haiphong FC	Chu Đình Nghiêm	Nguyễn Hải Huy	Jogarbola
Hanoi FC	Chun Jae-ho (interim)	Nguyễn Văn Quyết	Jogarbola
Viettel	Bae Ji-won	Bùi Tiến Dũng	Li-Ning
Hong Linh Ha Tinh	Nguyen Thanh Cong	Trần Phi Sơn	Grand Sport
Ho Chi Minh City FC	Vu Tien Thanh (interim)	Sầm Ngọc Đức	Kelme
Saigon FC	Phung Thanh Phuong	Cao Văn Triền	Kelme
Nam Dinh FC	Vu Hong Viet	Nguyen Ha Long	Kelme
Song Lam Nghe An	Nguyễn Huy Hoàng	Quế Ngọc Hải	Grand Sport
Dong A Thanh Hoa	Svetislav Tanasijević (caretaker)	Lê Văn Thắng	Jogarbola

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Ho Chi Minh City FC	Alexandré Pölking^[6]	Contract not renewed	27 September 2021	Pre-season	Tran Minh Chien	29 September 2021
Haiphong FC	Pham Anh Tuan	Contract not renewed	October 2021		Chu Đình Nghiêm	6 October 2021
Becamex Binh Duong	Nguyen Thanh Son	Interim period over	October 2021		Dang Tran Chinh	15 October 2021
Hanoi FC	Park Choong-kyun^[7]	Resigned	19 February 2022		Chun Jae-ho (interim)^[7]	19 February 2022
Viettel	Truong Viet Hoang^[8]	Demoted	12 July 2022	7th^[8]	Bae Ji-won^[8]	15 July 2022
Becamex Binh Duong	Dang Tran Chinh	Reorganized	1 August 2022	10th	Lu Dinh Tuan^[9]	1 August 2022
Ho Chi Minh City FC	Tran Minh Chien	Reorganized	8 August 2022	12th	Nguyễn Hữu Thắng (caretaker)	8 August 2022
Ho Chi Minh City FC	Nguyễn Hữu Thắng (caretaker)	End of caretaker spell	23 August 2022	11th	Truong Viet Hoang^[10]	23 August 2022
Nam Dinh FC	Nguyen Van Sy	Sacked	24 August 2022	12th	Vu Hong Viet	24 August 2022
Ho Chi Minh City	Truong Viet Hoang	Resigned	1 October 2022	13th	Vu Tien Thanh^[11]	2 October 2022
Dong A Thanh Hoa	Ljupko Petrović	Medical reasons	6 November 2022	6th	Svetislav Tanasijević (caretaker)	6 November 2022

Foreign players

Players name in bold indicates the player was registered after the start of the season.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4 (AFC Player)	Player 5 (Naturalized Vietnamese player)	Former Players
Topenland Binh Dinh	Hendrio	Rafaelson	Jermie Lynch		→ Adriano Schmidt¹ → Đặng Văn Lâm¹
Becamex Binh Duong	Eydison	Wellington Adão	Guy N'Diaye		→ Kesley Alves	Abass Guiro Dawda Ceesay
SHB Danang	Claudir	Erick Luis	Walisson Maia			Ivan Marić Christian Osaguona^INJ Damir Memović Aboubakar Koné
Hoang Anh Gia Lai	Bruno Henrique	Maurício	Washington Brandão	An Sae-hee		Jefferson Baiano Kim Dong-su
Haiphong FC	Rimario Gordon	Joseph Mpande	Moses Oloya		→ Martin Lo¹
Hanoi FC	Lucão do Break	Tonći Mujan	Vladimir Silađi			Đuro Zec^INJ Josip Ivančić
Viettel	Caíque	Geovane	Pedro Paulo	Jahongir Abdumuminov
Hong Linh Ha Tinh	Jean Almeida	→ Paollo	Dionatan Machado			Zakaria Suraka^INJ Abdul Basit
Ho Chi Minh City FC	Brendon Lucas	Daniel Green	Atapharoy Bygrave		→ Samson Kayode → Lee Nguyen¹	Bruno Cosendey Maurício Cordeiro
Saigon FC	Matheus	Nicholas Olsen	Rodrigue Nanitelamio		→ Gastón Merlo	Ahn Byung-keon Gustavo Santos André Vieira
Nam Dinh FC	Alisson	Victor Mansaray	Rodrigo Dias		→ Geoffrey Kizito → Steven Dang¹	Márcio Marques Yevhen Bokhashvili Andre Fagan
Song Lam Nghe An	Mario Arqués	Michael Olaha	Ganiyu Oseni		→ Thiago Melo	Abdul Basit Mark O'Ojong^INJ
Dong A Thanh Hoa	Gustavo	Zé Paulo	Gustavo Santos			Igor Jelić Paulo Henrique Victor Kamhuka

^1 Naturalized players whose parents or grandparents were born in Vietnam, thus are regarded as local players.
^INJ Player withdrew from the squad due to an injury.

Standings

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Hanoi FC (C)	24	15	6	3	47	21	+26	51	Qualification for AFC Champions League group stage
2	Haiphong FC	24	14	6	4	39	26	+13	48	Qualification for AFC Champions League play-off round^[a]
3	Topenland Binh Dinh	24	14	5	5	37	22	+15	47
4	Viettel	24	11	6	7	29	14	+15	39
5	Song Lam Nghe An	24	9	6	9	29	28	+1	33
6	Hoang Anh Gia Lai	24	7	11	6	26	24	+2	32	Standby for AFC Cup group stage
7	Becamex Binh Duong	24	7	7	10	32	41	−9	28^[b]
8	Dong A Thanh Hoa	24	8	4	12	27	27	0	28^[b]
9	Ho Chi Minh City FC	24	6	7	11	23	34	−11	25^[c]
10	SHB Danang	24	6	7	11	18	35	−17	25^[c]
11	Hong Linh Ha Tinh	24	5	9	10	26	33	−7	24
12	Nam Dinh FC	24	6	5	13	21	33	−12	23
13	Saigon FC (R)	24	5	7	12	26	42	−16	22	Relegation to V.League 2

Source: VPF
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points 3) Goal difference; 4) Goals scored; 5) Disciplinary points; 6) Play-off (Only to decide champions, runners-up, third placed and relegation spots); 7) Drawing of lots
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ Since Hanoi qualified for the AFC Champions League group stage as the league winners and won the Vietnamese Cup, Haiphong will participate in the AFC Champions League Qualifying play-offs or AFC Cup group stage and the standy position will be passed down to the league third-placed team.
^ ^a ^b Head-to-head points: Becamex Binh Duong 6, Dong A Thanh Hoa 0.
^ ^a ^b Head-to-head points: Ho Chi Minh City FC 4, SHB Danang 1.

Positions by round

This table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches.

Source: Table by round (in Vietnamese)

Results

Home \ Away	BBD	DTH	HPG	HAN	HGL	HCM	HHT	NDI	SGN	SDN	SNA	TBD	VTL
Becamex Binh Duong	—	4–2	2–2	0–3	1–1	0–0	2–2	1–1	2–1	2–2	0–1	2–3	2–1
Dong A Thanh Hoa	0–1	—	0–1	1–1	2–3	1–2	2–0	1–1	4–0	3–0	2–0	2–1	1–0
Haiphong FC	2–1	1–1	—	3–2	1–1	4–3	1–1	2–1	3–1	1–0	4–1	3–1	1–2
Hanoi FC	5–1	1–0	2–1	—	2–1	0–0	2–0	5–2	3–1	3–0	2–1	0–3	1–0
Hoang Anh Gia Lai	2–1	2–0	1–2	1–1	—	1–2	0–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–2	1–1	2–2
Ho Chi Minh City FC	1–1	1–0	2–1	0–6	0–2	—	1–2	0–1	0–2	3–0	2–2	1–2	0–0
Hong Linh Ha Tinh	3–1	1–2	0–1	1–2	1–1	1–1	—	2–0	3–4	1–1	1–1	1–3	0–0
Nam Dinh FC	0–1	0–1	0–1	1–1	0–0	2–1	2–0	—	3–0	2–1	0–1	0–2	1–0
Saigon FC	2–1	0–1	0–1	1–1	0–1	1–2	3–2	2–2	—	2–2	1–1	1–1	1–1
SHB Danang	0–4	1–0	0–2	2–1	0–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	—	3–1	0–1	0–2
Song Lam Nghe An	3–0	0–0	3–0	1–1	2–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	1–2	2–2	—	1–2	0–1
Topenland Binh Dinh	4–1	2–1	0–0	0–1	1–1	1–2	2–1	2–1	3–0	0–1	1–0	—	0–2
Viettel	0–1	3–1	1–1	0–1	2–0	1–0	0–1	4–0	2–0	3–0	2–0	0–0	—

Source: Vietnam Professional Football
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Rimario Gordon	Haiphong FC	17
2	Pham Tuan Hai	Hanoi FC	10
3	Geovane Magno	Viettel	9
	Nguyen Tien Linh	Becamex Binh Duong
	Zé Paulo	Dong A Thanh Hoa
6	Jermie Lynch	Topenland Binh Dinh	8
	Lucão do Break	Hanoi FC
	Paollo Madeira	Hong Linh Ha Tinh
9	5 players		7

Source: Soccerway

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Rafaelson	Topenland Binh Dinh	Hanoi	3–0 (A)^[12]	2 September 2022
Rodrigo Dias	Nam Dinh FC	Saigon	3–0 (H)	13 November 2022

Clean sheets

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Tran Nguyen Manh	Viettel	9
2	Dang Van Lam	Topenland Binh Dinh	7
	Nguyen Dinh Trieu	Haiphong FC
	Nguyen Thanh Diep	Dong A Thanh Hoa
	Nguyen Van Hoang	Song Lam Nghe An
6	Nguyen Van Cong	Hanoi FC	5
7	5 players		4

Attendances

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Nam Dinh FC	132,000	19,000	5,000	11,000	+161.9%^†
2	Haiphong FC	116,639	22,000	4,000	9,719	+114.4%²
4	Hanoi FC	95,500	14,000	3,000	7,958	+144.9%^†
3	Topenland Binh Dinh	100,000	16,000	4,000	8,333	−37.1%^†
5	Hoang Anh Gia Lai	70,000	10,000	4,000	7,000	−22.2%¹
6	Song Lam Nghe An	77,000	16,000	2,000	6,417	+94.5%^†
7	Becamex Binh Duong	62,700	8,500	3,000	5,225	+24.4%^†
8	Hong Linh Ha Tinh	62,500	10,000	1,000	5,208	+24.0%^†
9	Dong A Thanh Hoa	61,000	8,000	3,500	5,083	−36.5%^†
10	SHB Danang	57,800	8,000	2,000	4,817	−37.2%^†
11	Viettel	54,000	8,000	2,000	4,500	+73.1%^†
12	Saigon FC	47,500	7,000	2,500	3,958	−26.4%^†
13	Ho Chi Minh City FC	47,000	7,000	2,000	3,917	−13.0%^†
	League total	979,500	22,000	1,000	6,402	+3.1%^†

Updated to games played on complete
Source: League attendance
Notes:
1: Played two matches behind closed doors due to local COVID-19 restrictions.
2: Played one match behind closed doors due to a fan assaulting a match official at the end of their 19 July match against Topenland Binh Dinh.

Awards

Monthly awards

Month	Manager of the Month		Player of the Month		Goal of the Month
Month	Manager	Club	Player	Club	Player	Club
February/March	Chu Dinh Nghiem	Haiphong	Rimario Gordon	Haiphong	Phan Van Duc	Song Lam Nghe An
July	Kiatisuk Senamuang	Hoang Anh Gia Lai	Nguyen Van Toan	Hoang Anh Gia Lai	Phan Van Duc	Song Lam Nghe An
August	Chun Jae-ho	Hanoi	Nguyen Van Quyet	Hanoi	Ngo Hoang Thinh	Ho Chi Minh City
September	Nguyen Duc Thang	Topenland Binh Dinh	Nguyen Hoang Duc	Viettel	Nguyen Hoang Duc	Viettel
October	Chu Dinh Nghiem	Haiphong	Pham Tuan Hai	Hanoi	Pham Tuan Hai	Hanoi

Annual awards

Award	Winner	Club
Manager of the Year	Chu Dinh Nghiem^[13]	Haiphong FC
Player of the Year	Nguyen Van Quyet^[13]	Hanoi FC
Best Young Player	Nguyen Phi Hoang^[13]	SHB Danang
Goal of the Year	Pham Tuan Hai^[13]	Hanoi FC

Best XI^[13]
Goalkeeper	Tran Nguyen Manh (Viettel)
Defenders	Ho Tan Tai (Topenland Binh Dinh)	Nguyen Thanh Binh (Viettel)		Nguyen Thanh Chung (Hanoi FC)		Dam Tien Dung (Dong A Thanh Hoa)
Midfielders	Do Hung Dung (Hanoi FC)		Nguyen Hoang Duc (Viettel)		Nguyen Hai Huy (Haiphong)
Forwards	Nguyen Van Quyet (Hanoi FC)		Rimario Gordon (Haiphong)		Pham Tuan Hai (Hanoi FC)

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