Long An FC

Long An FC

Full name	Long An Football Club
Nickname(s)	Trâu chiến (The War Buffalo)
Short name	LFC
Founded	2000; 24 years ago (2000)
Ground	Long An Stadium Tân An, Vietnam
Capacity	19,975
Chairman	Võ Thành Nhiệm
Manager	Ngô Quang Sang
League	V.League 2
2023	V.League 2, 3rd of 10
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Long An Football Club (Vietnamese: Câu lạc bộ Bóng đá Long An), simply known as Long An, is a professional football club, based in Long An, Vietnam, that competes in the V.League 2.

The team is playing at Long An Stadium. New name CLB Long An was adopted on 12 December 2015 to replace CLB Đồng Tâm Long An.

History

Forerunner of the football club Đồng Tâm Long An is the merger of the two football teams: Team Long An and Đồng Tâm Tiles young team. From the mid-'90s, Đồng Tâm has focused on sports activities for staffs in the company, especially football. Since then young football team movement Gach Đồng Tâm was born in 1996 and developed in parallel with the general business activities of the Company. In 2000, in response to the state's glue called the socialization of sports in Vietnam, and the attention and support of the Long An Province People's Committee, the Company has been working and consulting with the Department of Provincial Sport Long An Province to take over the football team Long An are playing in the Championship. After receiving teams, Board staff sent abroad to visit and learn from professional football model in developing football nations like Argentina, Portugal, Italy .. selection, application and model building successful first professional football club in Vietnam. In 2001, the team switched to a professional model, is transferred to the Đồng Tâm Joint Stock Company management (from 2002, by the Đồng Tâm Co. Sports Management), merged into the team of the Company, the implementation new game called football club, Đồng Tâm Long An Tiles. Vo Quoc Thang, Chairman of Đồng Tâm Joint Stock Company, interested in construction investment, the team had many outstanding progress and become one of the "big four" in the V-League with Becamex Bình Dương, SHB Đà Nẵng and Hoàng Anh Gia Lai. The club also built a reserve squad named Tile Dong Tam Long An to play in the Second Division. In late 2005, the club received the team's football club Bank of East Asia to build a second team called Son Dong Tam Long An to play in the National Football League in Vietnam 2006 . However, the end of the 2006 season, the team Son Dong Tam Long An was transferred to the limited liability company Royal Sports Development for the core football club founded Cement Vinakansai Ninh Binh. From the 2007 season, the team changed its name to football club Đồng Tâm Long An (remove letter tiles).

Crest

The club's crest when Henrique Calisto was in charge resembles that of Portuguese side Boavista.^{[citation needed]}

Stadium

Long An Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Tân An, Vietnam. It is used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Đồng Tâm. The stadium holds 20,000 people.^{[citation needed]}

Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors

Record as V.League 1 member

Honors

Domestic competitions

League

• V.League 1
  • Winners (2): 2005, 2006
  • Runners-up (3): 2003, 2007, 2008
  • Third place (1): 2004
• V.League 2
  • Winners (2): 2001–02, 2012

Cup

• Vietnamese National Cup
  • Winners (1): 2005
• Vietnamese Super Cup
  • Winners (1): 2006

Other competitions

• BTV Cup
  • Winners (2): 2004, 2010
  • Runners-up (5): 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2014

Performance in AFC competitions

• AFC Champions League: 2 appearances

2006: Group stage

2007: Group stage

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2006	AFC Champions League	Group G	Shanghai Shenhua	2–4	1–3	2nd
2007	AFC Champions League	Group G	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	1–2	1–4	4th
			Adelaide United	0–2	0–3
			Shandong Luneng Taishan	2–3	0–4

Current squad

As of 1 March 2024

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 5 DF  VIE Lê Thành Phong 6 DF  VIE Nguyễn Văn Quý 7 MF  VIE Nguyễn Quốc Lộc 8 MF  VIE Nguyễn Công Tuyển 9 FW  VIE Nguyễn Quốc Trung 10 MF  VIE Lê Hoàng Dương 11 FW  VIE Cù Nguyễn Khánh 12 MF  VIE Bùi Duy Nam 15 DF  VIE Lê Đình Nguyên Giáp 17 MF  VIE Ngô Hoàng Anh 20 FW  VIE Dương Anh Tú 21 FW  VIE Nguyễn Như Ý 22 FW  VIE Đỗ Tấn Thành 24 MF  VIE Nguyễn Tài Lộc

No. Pos. Nation Player 26 GK  VIE Nguyễn Tiến Anh 27 DF  VIE Nguyễn Khắc Vũ 30 DF  VIE Nguyễn Văn Thái 31 DF  VIE Nguyễn Thành Công 36 MF  VIE Phạm Trọng Hóa 37 DF  VIE Trần Nguyễn Anh Vũ 39 DF  VIE Trần Anh Thi 59 DF  VIE Nguyễn Thành Tài 63 GK  VIE Nguyễn Võ Chí Cường 66 DF  VIE Nguyễn Hoàng Duy 68 GK  VIE Cao Hoàng Trường Long 77 FW  VIE Lê Thanh Phong 88 MF  VIE Đỗ Văn Đạt 99 DF  VIE Thái Minh Nhuận

Current coaching staff

Position	Name
General manager	Võ Thành Nhiệm
Manager	Ngô Quang Sang
Assistant manager	Phan Văn Giàu
Goalkeeping coach	Rafael Rivoli Costa
Translator	Trần Văn Bé

Managerial history

Head coaches by years (2001–present)

Name Nat Period Honours Henrique Calisto 2001 Henrique Calisto 2003–08 Ernaldo de Melo Patricio 2008 Stefan Hansson 2008 Trần Công Minh 2008–09 José Luís 2009–10 Trần Công Minh 2010 Ricardo Formosinho 2010

Name Nat Period Honours Marcelo Javier Zuleta 2010–11 Marco Cerqueira 2011 Simon McMenemy 2011 Ranko Buketa 2011–12 Trần Công Minh 2012 Francisco Vital 2012–13 Marcelo Javier Zuleta 2013 Ngô Quang Sang 2013–2017 Nguyễn Minh Phương 2017–2018 Phan Văn Giàu 2018–2019 Ngô Quang Sang 2019–2022 Nguyễn Anh Đức  2023–

References

External links

• Official website
• Official fansite
• Dong Tam Long An News at Goal.com

This page was last edited on 1 March 2024, at 18:56