V.League 2

The Vietnamese Football League First Division (Vietnamese: Giải bóng đá hạng Nhất Quốc gia), known simply as the V.League 2 and for sponsorship purposes as the Gold Star V.League 2, is the second-highest league of the Vietnamese football league system after the V.League 1, and is currently contested by 14 clubs. The current holders are Phu Dong Ninh Binh, who won the 2024–25 season.

League structure

Starting in the 2025–26 season, the league comprises 14 teams. Over the course of a season, which runs annually from September/October to the following June/July,^[1] each team plays twice against the others in the league, once at 'home' and once 'away', resulting in each team competing in 26 games in total. Three points are awarded for a win, one for a draw, and zero for a loss. The teams are ranked in the league table by points gained, then goal difference, then goals scored, and then their head-to-head record for that season (including away goals record).

At the end of the season, the top two team is promoted to the V.League 1 and the bottom two teams are relegated to Second Division.^[2]

Competition format

Seasons 2000 to 2019: teams played a double round-robin format to earn points.^[3] The champion team was promoted to V.League 1. The bottom 1 or 2 teams were relegated to the National Second Division.^[4] This format was used again in the 2022 and 2023 seasons, the last seasons to be held in a calendar year.^[5]

In the 2020 season, after the first round of the round-robin, the top 6 teams played a single round-robin to find the champion, and the remaining 6 teams played a single round-robin to find the team to be relegated.^[6][7] The 2021 season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[8][9][10] From the 2023–24 season onwards, the teams will play a double round-robin format over two years, from the autumn of the previous year to the summer of the following year.^[11][12][13]

Television

On 1 November 2022, FPT Group-owned FPT Play will be the new domestic broadcaster for Vietnamese Professional Football Leagues competitions (V.League 1, V.League 2 and Vietnamese Cup) effectively from 2023 until 2027.^[14]

Prize money

The prize money for the 2023–24 V.League 2:

Current members

The following 14 clubs compete in the V.League 2 during the 2025–26 season.

Results

Top scorers

References

1. ^ "Lễ bốc thăm, xếp lịch thi đấu các Giải bóng đá Chuyên nghiệp Quốc gia 2023/2024" (in Vietnamese). Vietnam Professional Football. 22 September 2023. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
2. ^ "Điều lệ Giải bóng đá HNQG – Bia Sao Vàng 2023/24" (in Vietnamese). Vietnam Professional Football. p. 17. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
3. ^ VnExpress. "V-League 2023 đổi thể thức thi đấu" (in Vietnamese). vnexpress.net. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
4. ^ VPF, USER (15 March 2019). "Điều lệ Giải HNQG 2019" (in Vietnamese). VPF. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
5. ^ "VFF - Bốc thăm, xếp lịch thi đấu các giải bóng đá chuyên nghiệp quốc gia 2023-2024" (in vi-VN). VFF. 22 September 2023. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
6. ^ Hùng, Đông (29 January 2023). "Những điểm mới của V.League 2023" (in Vietnamese). Báo Kinh tế đô thị - Đọc tin tức thời sự kinh tế 24h mới nhất. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
7. ^ "CLB Sài Gòn đăng ký dự V.League 2" (in Vietnamese). Znews.vn. 7 February 2023. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
8. ^ "Hà Nội FC chia tay "gà son" Ngân Văn Đại" (in Vietnamese). VOV.VN. 1 November 2021. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
9. ^ ONLINE, TUOI TRE (24 December 2020). "V-League 2021 đã tìm được nhà tài trợ" (in Vietnamese). TUOI TRE ONLINE. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
10. ^ "Bóng đá nội tìm đủ cách thích nghi với COVID-19..." (in Vietnamese). laodong.vn. 22 January 2022. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
11. ^ ONLINE, TUOI TRE (3 July 2023). "Công bố lịch thi đấu giai đoạn 2 V-League 2023" (in Vietnamese). TUOI TRE ONLINE. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
12. ^ "V.League 2023/24 diễn ra vào tháng 10" (in Vietnamese). Báo Pháp luật Việt Nam điện tử. 22 September 2023. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
13. ^ "Thay đổi thời gian V.League 2023 - 2024: Phù hợp và hấp dẫn hơn". baodaklak.vn. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
14. ^ "VPF and FPT Play signed a strategic cooperation agreement, raising the level of Vietnamese football". VFF. 2 November 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2023.

External links

• Official website