PVF Football Academy

PVF Youth Football Training Center Trung tâm đào tạo bóng đá trẻ PVF
Location
Văn Giang, Hưng Yên Vietnam
Information
Other name	PVF Football Academy
Type	Football academy
Established	2009 (2009)
Founder	Vingroup
Color(s)	Red and white
Teams	PVF-CAND
Owner	Vietnam Ministry of Public Security
Website	www.pvf.com.vn

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.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}

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.^[8][9]

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.

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.

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

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

Official Global Partners
Kelme
Van Lang University

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.^[10] Players in bold are those who capped for their National team.

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.

• Official website