Fighting over "renting a house"
According to the competition schedule, round 26 of V.League 2024-2025, The Cong Viettel will host Ho Chi Minh City at My Dinh. However, at this time, it is still unknown where coach Popov and his team will play at their home stadium.
Because according to the latest announcement from the event organizer, My Dinh Stadium will host a music night by singer G-Dragon (BigBang) on June 21, that is, 1 day before the competition between The Cong Viettel and Ho Chi Minh City takes place.
It should be emphasized that at that time, The Cong Viettel could not borrow Hang Day Stadium as a backup plan as before, because the 7 matches in round 26 were held at the same time as 5:00 p.m. on June 22. In which, Hanoi Police Club will face Hai Phong at Hang Day.
This is not the first time The Cong Viettel has had a headache with this. At this time 1 year ago, Hanoi Police Club, Hanoi FC and The Cong Viettel "matched" to use Hang Day as their home stadium. According to the Asian Football Confederation, a stadium cannot have up to 3 teams.
In July 2024, the Hanoi People's Committee issued a document of consensus for Hanoi FC and Hanoi Police to continue using Hang Day Stadium. Meanwhile, The Cong Viettel must choose another location as their home stadium for the 2024-2025 season.
In August 2024, The Cong Viettel registered to choose My Dinh Stadium. However, their "oring out" was not going smoothly. After the 2nd and 3rd rounds competing at My Dinh, the former V.League champion had to borrow Hang Day Stadium when hosting Binh Duong (round 5) because the national stadium hosted a famous music event.
When will there be peace?
After only 1 match returning to My Dinh when meeting Hong Linh Ha Tinh (round 7), Huu Thang and his teammates once again went to Hang Day in round 8 to welcome Thanh Hoa, when the "home stadium" hosted another event - which had signed a contract with a previous partner.
The most peaceful period... of The Cong Viettel lasts from mid-January to early April 2025 with 6 matches. However, they also have to patiently endure the degraded quality of My Dinh grass after a series of music events. That invisibly led to two injuries to central defenders Pham Ly Duc (Hoang Anh Gia Lai) and Vu Tien Long (Quang Nam).
By the end of April, because My Dinh continued to organize art events, The Cong Viettel was approved by the Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports (asee management unit) and VPF to go to Hang Day Stadium to compete against Song Lam Nghe An (round 20), Da Nang (round 21) and Hai Phong (round 24.
However, in the match against Song Lam Nghe An, The Cong Viettel encountered difficulties when they were not allowed to use a dressing room, LED board... This forced them to borrow a functional room at the stadium to renovate it into a dressing room, as well as rent other equipment to ensure the match organization.
