Login
Login

Long An FC

{{Short description|Vietnamese football club}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2019}}

{{more citations needed|date=October 2014}}

{{Infobox football club

| clubname = Long An FC

| fullname = Long An Football Club

| nickname = Trâu chiến (The War Buffalo)

| image = LAFCNew.jpg

| upright = 0.65

| short name = LFC

| ground = Long An Stadium
Tân An, Vietnam

| capacity = 19,975

| founded = {{Start date and age|2000}}

| chairman = Võ Thành Nhiệm

| manager = Trịnh Duy Quang

| league = V.League 2

| season = 2023–24

| position = V.League 2, 6th

| current = 2024–25 V.League 2

| website = {{URL|http://lafc.vn/}}

| pattern_la1 =

| pattern_la2 =

| pattern_b2 =

| pattern_ra1 =

| pattern_ra2 =

| leftarm1 = FF0000

| leftarm2 = FFFFFF

| body1 = FF0000

| body2 = FFFFFF

| rightarm1 = FF0000

| rightarm2 = FFFFFF

| shorts1 = 000000

| shorts2 = 000000

| socks1 = FF0000

| socks2 = FFFFFF

| pattern_b1 =

}}

Long An Football Club ({{langx|vi|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|date=September 2023}}

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|date=November 2023}}

Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors

class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
Period

! Kit manufacturer

! Shirt sponsor

2016-2019

|Kappa

| rowspan="3" | Cảng Long An
Dong Tam Group

2019–present

Record as V.League 1 member

class="wikitable"

!Season

!Pld

!Won

!Draw

!Lost

!GF

!GA

!GD

!PTS

!Final position

!Notes

1998 V-League

| 26

| 5

| 12

| 9

| 20

| 29

| -9

| 27

| 12th

|

bgcolor=pink

| 1999-2000 V-League

| 24

| 6

| 7

| 11

| 27

| 39

| -12

| 25

| 12th

|Relegation to 2000-2001 Vietnamese First Division

2003 V-League

| 22

| 11

| 7

| 4

| 34

| 17

| +17

| 40

| 2nd

|

2004 V-League

| 22

| 12

| 2

| 8

| 41

| 33

| +8

| 38

| 3rd

|

bgcolor=FFFF00|

| 2005 V-League

| 22

| 12

| 6

| 4

| 43

| 25

| +18

| 42

| Champions

| Qualified for 2006 AFC Champions League

bgcolor=FFFF00|

| 2006 V-League

| 24

| 12

| 4

| 8

| 38

| 32

| +6

| 40

| Champions

| Qualified for 2007 AFC Champions League

2007 V-League

| 26

| 12

| 8

| 6

| 44

| 29

| +15

| 44

| 2nd

|

2008 V-League

| 26

| 13

| 6

| 7

| 51

| 36

| +15

| 45

| 2nd

|

2009 V-League

| 26

| 7

| 13

| 6

| 43

| 37

| +6

| 34

| 10th

|

2010 V-League

| 26

| 13

| 4

| 9

| 43

| 31

| +12

| 43

| 5th

|

bgcolor=pink

| 2011 V-League

| 26

| 8

| 6

| 12

| 31

| 44

| −13

| 30

| 13th

|Relegation to 2012 Vietnamese First Division

2013 V.League 1

| 20

| 7

| 1

| 12

| 31

| 53

| −22

| 22

| 9th

|

2014 V.League 1

| 22

| 5

| 6

| 11

| 29

| 45

| −16

| 21

| 11th

|

bgcolor=pink

| 2017 V.League 1

| 26

| 2

| 4

| 20

| 30

| 66

| −36

| 10

| 14th

|Relegation to 2018 V.League 2

Honours

=Domestic competitions=

League

Cup

Other competitions

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

Performance in AFC competitions

::2006: Group stage

::2007: Group stage

class="wikitable"
Season

! Competition

! Round

! Club

! Home

! Away

! Aggregate

2006

|AFC Champions League

| Group G

|{{flagicon|CHN}} Shanghai Shenhua

| style="background:#fdd;"|2–4

| style="background:#fdd;"|1–3

| 2nd

rowspan="3"|2007

|rowspan="3"|AFC Champions League

|rowspan="3"|Group G

|{{flagicon|KOR}} Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma

| style="background:#fdd;"|1–2

| style="background:#fdd;"|1–4

|rowspan="3"|4th

{{flagicon|AUS}} Adelaide United

| style="background:#fdd;"|0–2

| style="background:#fdd;"|0–3

{{flagicon|CHN}} Shandong Luneng Taishan

| style="background:#fdd;"|2–3

| style="background:#fdd;"|0–4

Current squad

As of 30 March 2025

{{Fs start}}

{{Fs player|no=1|nat=VIE|pos=GK|name=Huỳnh Trần Bảo Duy|other=on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai}}

{{Fs player|no=2|nat=VIE|pos=DF|name=Nguyễn Cảnh Anh|other=on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai}}

{{Fs player|no=3|nat=VIE|pos=DF|name=Nguyễn Hoàng Thắng|other=on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai}}

{{Fs player|no=4|nat=VIE|pos=DF|name=Âu Dương Quân|other=on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai}}

{{Fs player|no=5|nat=VIE|pos=DF|name=Đinh Thành Đạt|other=on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai}}

{{Fs player|no=6|nat=VIE|pos=MF|name=Võ Hoàng Uy|other=on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai}}

{{Fs player|no=8|nat=VIE|pos=MF|name=Nguyễn Khánh Duy|other=on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai}}

{{Fs player|no=9|nat=VIE|pos=FW|name=Nguyễn Nhĩ Khang|other=on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai}}

{{Fs player|no=10|nat=VIE|pos=FW|name=Cao Hoàng Tú|other=on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai}}

{{Fs player|no=15|nat=VIE|pos=DF|name=Lê Đình Nguyên Giáp}}

{{Fs player|no=16|nat=VIE|pos=MF|name=Lê Huy Kiệt|other=on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai}}

{{Fs player|no=17|nat=VIE|pos=MF|name=Ngô Hoàng Anh}}

{{Fs player|no=18|nat=VIE|pos=MF|name=Nguyễn Văn Văn|other=on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai}}

{{Fs player|no=19|nat=VIE|pos=MF|name=Phạm Ngô Minh Quang|other=on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai}}

{{Fs mid}}

{{Fs player|no=21|nat=VIE|pos=DF|name=Nguyễn Đăng Thọ|other=on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai}}

{{Fs player|no=22|nat=VIE|pos=MF|name=Nguyễn Hùng Khang|other=on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai}}

{{Fs player|no=23|nat=VIE|pos=GK|name=Đinh Phước Sang|other=on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai}}

{{Fs player|no=24|nat=VIE|pos=DF|name=Nguyễn Duy Thắng|other=on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai}}

{{Fs player|no=25|nat=VIE|pos=MF|name=Hồ Minh Quyền|other=on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai}}

{{Fs player|no=26|nat=VIE|pos=MF|name=Trương Vĩnh Phát|other=on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai}}

{{Fs player|no=27|nat=VIE|pos=DF|name=Trần Nguyễn Anh Vũ}}

{{Fs player|no=28|nat=VIE|pos=FW|name=Vũ Minh Hiếu|other=on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai}}

{{Fs player|no=29|nat=VIE|pos=MF|name=Phạm Thế Nam|other=on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai}}

{{Fs player|no=30|nat=VIE|pos=FW|name=Trần Hữu Đăng|other=on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai}}

{{Fs player|no=47|nat=VIE|pos=GK|name=Nguyễn Hữu Long}}

{{Fs player|no=59|nat=VIE|pos=DF|name=Nguyễn Thành Tài}}

{{Fs player|no=62|nat=VIE|pos=MF|name=Nguyễn Công Tuyển}}

{{Fs player|no=79|nat=VIE|pos=FW|name=Nguyễn Như Ý}}

{{Fs end}}

Current coaching staff

class="wikitable"
Position

! Name

General manager

|{{flagicon|Vietnam}} Võ Thành Nhiệm

Manager

| {{flagicon|Vietnam}} Ngô Quang Sang

Assistant manager

| {{flagicon|Vietnam}} Phan Văn Giàu

Goalkeeping coach

| {{flagicon|Brazil}} Rafael Rivoli Costa

Translator

| {{flagicon|Vietnam}} Trần Văn Bé

Managerial history

Head coaches by years (2001–present)

{{col-begin}}

{{col-2}}

class="wikitable"

!Name

!Nat

!Period

!Honours

Henrique Calisto

| align="center" | {{Flagicon|Portugal}}

| align="center" | 2001

|

Henrique Calisto

| align="center" | {{Flagicon|Portugal}}

| align="center" | 2003–08

|

Ernaldo de Melo Patricio

| align="center" | {{Flagicon|Brazil}}

| align="center" | 2008

|

Stefan Hansson

| align="center" | {{Flagicon|Sweden}}

| align="center" | 2008

|

Trần Công Minh

| align="center" | {{Flagicon|Vietnam}}

| align="center" | 2008–09

|

José Luís

| align="center" | {{Flagicon|Portugal}}

| align="center" | 2009–10

|

Trần Công Minh

| align="center" | {{Flagicon|Vietnam}}

| align="center" | 2010

|

Ricardo Formosinho

| align="center" | {{Flagicon|Portugal}}

| align="center" | 2010

|

{{col-2}}

class="wikitable"

!Name

!Nat

!Period

!Honours

Marcelo Javier Zuleta

| align="center" | {{Flagicon|Argentina}}

| align="center" | 2010–11

|

Marco Cerqueira

| align="center" | {{Flagicon|Brazil}}

| align="center" | 2011

|

Simon McMenemy

| align="center" | {{Flagicon|England}}

| align="center" | 2011

|

Ranko Buketa

| align="center" | {{Flagicon|Croatia}}

| align="center" | 2011–12

|

Trần Công Minh

| align="center" | {{Flagicon|VIE}}

| align="center" | 2012

|

Francisco Vital

| align="center" | {{Flagicon|POR}}

| align="center" | 2012–13

|

Marcelo Javier Zuleta

| align="center" | {{Flagicon|Argentina}}

| align="center" | 2013

|

Ngô Quang Sang

| align="center" | {{flagicon|VIE}}

| align="center" | 2013–2017

|

Nguyễn Minh Phương

| align="center" | {{flagicon|VIE}}

| align="center" | 2017–2018

|

Phan Văn Giàu

| align="center" | {{flagicon|VIE}}

| align="center" | 2018–2019

|

Ngô Quang Sang

| align="center" | {{flagicon|VIE}}

| align="center" | 2019–2022

|

Nguyễn Anh Đức

| align="center" | {{flagicon|VIE}}

| align="center" | 2023–present

|

{{col-end}}

References

{{Reflist}}

External links

  • {{official website|http://www.dongtamlongan.com/}}
  • [http://www.longanfc.net/ Official fansite]
  • [http://www.goal.com/vn/teams/vietnam/3760/%C4%91%E1%BB%93ng-t%C3%A2m-long-an/ Dong Tam Long An News] at Goal.com

{{Vietnamese First Division}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Long An FC}}

Category:Association football clubs established in 2000

Category:Football clubs in Vietnam

Category:2000 establishments in Vietnam