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.

Long An FC
Full nameLong An Football Club
Nickname(s)Trâu chiến (The War Buffalo)
Short nameLFC
Founded2000; 24 years ago (2000)
GroundLong An Stadium
Tân An, Vietnam
Capacity19,975
ChairmanVõ Thành Nhiệm
ManagerTrịnh Duy Quang
LeagueV.League 2
2023–24V.League 2, 6th
Websitehttp://lafc.vn/
Current season

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

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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

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

Stadium

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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

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Period Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor
2016-2019 Kappa Cảng Long An
Dong Tam Group
2019–present

Record as V.League 1 member

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Season Pld Won Draw Lost GF GA GD PTS Final position Notes
1998 V-League 26 5 12 9 20 29 -9 27 12th
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
2005 V-League 22 12 6 4 43 25 +18 42 Champions Qualified for 2006 AFC Champions League
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
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
2017 V.League 1 26 2 4 20 30 66 −36 10 14th Relegation to 2018 V.League 2

Honours

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Domestic competitions

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League

Cup

Other competitions

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

Performance in AFC competitions

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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

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As of 1 October 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
1 GK   VIE Huỳnh Trần Bảo Duy (on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai)
3 DF   VIE Nguyễn Hoàng Thắng (on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai)
4 DF   VIE Âu Dương Quân (on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai)
5 DF   VIE Đinh Thành Đạt (on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai)
6 MF   VIE Võ Hoàng Uy (on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai)
7 FW   VIE Nguyễn Minh Tâm (on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai)
8 MF   VIE Nguyễn Khánh Duy (on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai)
9 FW   VIE Nguyễn Nhĩ Khang (on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai)
10 FW   VIE Cao Hoàng Tú (on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai)
11 FW   VIE Hoàng Minh Tiến (on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai)
12 MF   VIE Môi Sê (on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai)
15 DF   VIE Lê Đình Nguyên Giáp
16 MF   VIE Lê Huy Kiệt (on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai)
17 MF   VIE Ngô Hoàng Anh
No. Pos. Nation Player
19 MF   VIE Phạm Ngô Minh Quang (on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai)
20 DF   VIE Đinh Quang Kiệt (on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai)
21 DF   VIE Nguyễn Đăng Thọ (on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai)
22 MF   VIE Nguyễn Hùng Khang (on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai)
23 GK   VIE Đinh Phước Sang (on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai)
26 MF   VIE Trương Vĩnh Phát (on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai)
27 DF   VIE Trần Nguyễn Anh Vũ
29 MF   VIE Phạm Thế Nam (on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai)
30 FW   VIE Trần Hữu Đăng (on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai)
38 DF   VIE Võ Phước Bảo (on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai)
47 GK   VIE Nguyễn Hữu Long
59 DF   VIE Nguyễn Thành Tài
62 MF   VIE Nguyễn Công Tuyển
79 FW   VIE Nguyễn Như Ý

Current coaching staff

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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

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Head coaches by years (2001–present)

References

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