# PVF Football Academy

The Promotion Fund of Vietnamese Football Talent Football Academy (PVF), officially operating as the PVF Youth Football Training Center - Ministry of Public Security (Vietnamese: Trung tâm Đào tạo Bóng đá trẻ PVF - Bộ Công An), is a privately-established football academy based in Hưng Yên. The institution is now under the formal administration of the Vietnam Ministry of Public Security.
By 2020, PVF has been recognized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) as a three-star academy under the AFC Elite Youth Scheme, becoming the first football academy in Southeast Asia to enjoy the status.

## History

The Promotion Fund of Vietnamese Football Talent (PVF, Vietnamese: Quỹ Đầu tư và Phát triển Tài năng Bóng đá Việt Nam) was founded and contributed capital by 03 members of Vingroup Group: Thien Tam Fund (80% contribution); PVF Investment and Trading, JSC (10%) and Vinpearl One Member Limited Company (10%). The foundation was founded on the idea of the late Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet with the aim of forming a system of training young professional soccer players of international standards, contributing to building young generations of young players. the talent and ethics, culture for the country football.
On December 4, 2008, PVF officially launched and June 12, 2009 opened the first course with 50 students selected from all over the country at the age of birth in 1997–1998. Since its founding, PVF's teams have made great achievements in the national youth football tournaments. By the beginning of 2016, PVF has made seven enrollments nationwide and has 175 students from 11 to 18 years of age in eight gifted classes. In the V-League 2016, all 13 players of the first course were loaned to PVF for loan.
PVF Youth Training Center is located in Van Giang district, Hung Yen province, which is the youngest football training center in Southeast Asia.

## Facilities

PVF football training center is invested by Vingroup Group to build the most modern facilities on the area of nearly 22ha. PVF is equipped with the world's first soccer-themed decorations such as the dream: the 360s studio set was developed by Portugal's Benfica Lab 1; PlayerTek - Player performance monitor; sports science and sports facilities with 1600m2 gym equipped with 66 specialized equipment; 02 extreme polar extremes, 01 foam processing material under water.
With stadium 3,600 web pages equipped with system technology and standard tournament equipment of the national tournament, is a set of systems of Vietnam including 06 stadiums 11v11 with grass field staff created. FIFA Quality Pro certification. The special, first at a field, standard roof panel 11v11 was built with a 12m high covering covering the entire area of more than 8,800 m2. Design and build the airport design from the best materials and equipment: drainage systems in Australia's Megaflo, the Hunter system in the United States, and plants that produce Greenfields products in the Netherlands.
PVF continues to lead the 8-storey dormitory system with a cafeteria, conference hall, library, movie theater, gym and sports tournaments.

## Honours
### National competitions
#### Senior tournaments

* Vietnamese Second League
    Group third place : 2020
* Vietnamese Third League
    Group winners : 2019

#### Youth tournaments

* Vietnam National U-21 Championship
    Winners : 2023
    Runners-up : 2019, 2024
    Third place : 2021
* Vietnam National U-19 Championship
    Winners : 2015, 2020, 2021
    Runners-up : 2017
    Third place : 2016
* Vietnam National U-17 Championship
    Winners : 2014, 2015, 2017, 2022
    Runners-up : 2013, 2016, 2019
    Third place : 2018, 2020, 2023, 2024
* Vietnam National U15 Championship
    Winners : 2012, 2013, 2017, 2022, 2023
    Runners-up : 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019
    Third place : 2018, 2020
* Vietnamese National U-13 Championship
    Winners : 2010, 2012, 2021
    Runners-up : 2011, 2018
    Third place : 2019, 2022
* Vietnam National U-11 Championship
    Winners : 2011
    Third place : 2019, 2020

## Current squad

The following players were named in PVF squad competing in the 2023 Vietnamese Second Division.
As of 1 September 2023
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 | Phạm Huy Hoàng |
| 2 | DF | VIE | Lê Thắng Long |
| 3 | DF | VIE | Nguyễn Quốc Khánh |
| 4 | DF | VIE | Võ Quốc Dân |
| 5 | DF | VIE | Nguyễn Phương Nam |
| 6 | MF | VIE | Quách Quang Huy |
| 7 | FW | VIE | Trịnh Long Vũ |
| 8 | MF | VIE | Đào Quang Anh |
| 9 | FW | VIE | Nguyễn Anh Tuấn |
| 10 | MF | VIE | Trần Vũ Ngọc Tài |
| 11 | FW | VIE | Phùng Quang Tú |
| 12 | FW | VIE | Nguyễn Sỹ Mạnh Dũng |
| 13 | MF | VIE | Nguyễn Quốc Toản |
| 14 | DF | VIE | Đỗ Minh Quang |
| 15 | FW | VIE | Bùi Hoàng Sơn |
| 16 | MF | VIE | Nguyễn Gia Bảo |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 17 | MF | VIE | Thái Bá Đạt (captain) |
| 18 | FW | VIE | Nguyễn Hoàng Anh |
| 19 | FW | VIE | Phạm Văn Sơn |
| 20 | DF | VIE | Hà Văn Việt |
| 21 | DF | VIE | Trần Gia Hưng |
| 22 | MF | VIE | Trần Gia Huy |
| 23 | MF | VIE | Lê Ngọc Hưng |
| 24 | MF | VIE | Nguyễn Khánh Hoàng |
| 25 | GK | VIE | Nguyễn Minh Kha |
| 26 | GK | VIE | Nguyễn Quang Trường |
| 27 | DF | VIE | Khúc Trung Hiếu |
| 28 | DF | VIE | Lê Minh Nhật |
| 29 | FW | VIE | Nguyễn Duy Hưng |
| 30 | DF | VIE | Lê Nguyễn Quốc Trung |
| 31 | DF | VIE | Lê Nguyễn Quốc Kiên |
| 32 | FW | VIE | Nguyễn Lê Phát |

## Management

| Management | Name |
| Academy Directress | Phan Thu Hương |
| Technical Director | Eric Abrams |
| Assistant Technical Director | Đinh Thế Nam |
| Head coach | Nguyễn Duy Đông |

## Sponsors

* Official Global Partners
* Kelme
* Van Lang University

## Notable alumni

Since its first generation graduated players in 2016, PVF Academy officially granted certificates of completion of formation courses to players and then handed some of them to Vietnamese professional football clubs. Therefore, since 2018, Phố Hiến FC was established and competes in the V.League 2, the second highest tier in the Vietnamese professional football system. The team is considered as the first team of the PVF Football Academy and is constituted mainly by its players. Below is a non-exhaustive list of notable players who trained in the youth or reserve teams of PVF. Players in bold are those who capped for their National team.
* Bùi Ngọc Long
* Bùi Tiến Dụng
* Bùi Văn Bình
* Bùi Vĩ Hào
* Đỗ Thanh Thịnh
* Hà Đức Chinh
* Hồ Minh Dĩ
* Hồ Văn Cường
* Huỳnh Công Đến
* Lâm Thuận
* Lê Ngọc Bảo
* Lê Văn Đô
* Lê Văn Xuân
* Lê Xuân Tú
* Mạc Đức Việt Anh
* Ngô Tùng Quốc
* Nguyễn Bảo Long
* Nguyễn Đức Phú
* Nguyễn Hồng Sơn
* Nguyễn Quốc Việt
* Nguyễn Thanh Nhàn
* Nguyễn Trọng Hùng
* Nguyễn Trọng Long
* Nguyễn Vũ Tín
* Phạm Trọng Hoá
* Thái Bá Đạt
* Trương Văn Thái Quý
* Võ Nguyên Hoàng

## Relations with clubs

In March 2016, PVF and Gamba Osaka (Japan) signed a comprehensive cooperation agreement in two years. Gamba Osaka team will take the coach to help PVF train players, as well as select a number of potential faces to bring to Japan for advanced training or competition for Gamba Osaka. In addition, each year, Gamba Osaka will invite PVF youth teams to Japan to compete in international competitions held by this club.