Full name | Câu lạc bộ bóng đá Thể Công - Viettel (The Cong - Viettel Football Club) | ||
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Nickname(s) | Cơn lốc đỏ (The Red Tornado)[1] Đội bóng áo lính[2] (The Soldiers) Hậu duệ Thể Công[3] (Descendants of Thể Công) | ||
Short name | TCVT | ||
Founded | 23 September 1954[4][5] | ||
Ground | Mỹ Đình Stadium | ||
Capacity | 40,200 | ||
Owner | Viettel Sports Co. Ltd | ||
Chairman | Đỗ Mạnh Dũng | ||
Manager | Nguyễn Đức Thắng | ||
League | V.League 1 | ||
2023 | V.League 1, 3rd of 14 | ||
Website | viettelsports | ||
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The Cong - Viettel Football Club (Vietnamese: Câu lạc bộ Bóng đá Thể Công - Viettel), commonly known as The Cong or by its most recent former name Viettel FC, is a Vietnamese professional football club based in Hanoi. The club belongs to Viettel Sports Co. Ltd, a part of Viettel Group and competes in the V.League 1, the top tier of the Vietnamese football league system.
The Cong - Viettel, formerly known as Thể Công,[6] is one of the most widely supported clubs and also one of the most successful club in Vietnamese football history, having won a record 13 North Vietnam national titles, including nine consecutively, from 1971 to 1979 and won and 6 V.League 1 titles after Vietnam's reunification. The club has also contributed many great players to the national team.
The Cong - Viettel's traditional colour is red, leading to the nickname Cơn lốc đỏ (Red Tornado). As Thể Công, they held a long-standing rivalry with Cong An Hanoi (a club run by the Hanoi Police, not to be confused with the recently rebranded Cong An Hanoi),[7][8][9][10] known as the "Hanoi Derby" or the "Vietnamese Clasico", from the mid-1950s to their dissolution in 2002. Nowadays, the derby is contested between The Cong - Viettel, Hanoi FC and the new Cong An Hanoi.[11]