Still candidate, but ...
Any V.League season starts, Hanoi FC is always classified as a group of candidates. Since the promotion in 2009, the Capital team has only reached the top 3 teams twice.
At that time, Hanoi FC also won 6 V.League championships. No club is more achieved more than they throughout the 25 -year history in this arena.
At the military discharge ceremony before V.League 2024-2025, the Chairman of the Hanoi Club emphasized the goal of winning after two seasons ranked behind Hanoi and Nam Dinh police.
Moreover, never in the past 16 years, Hanoi FC has not won in 3 consecutive seasons. But with what is going on, they will probably fall into such a situation.
The first 12 rounds of the season have passed, Hanoi FC ranked 5th with 17 points, 7 points behind Nam Dinh. In theory, the remaining 14 matches are enough for Hanoi FC to turn the situation. However, if continuing the drifting performance like the first leg, the capital team for the first time did not win the V.League for 3 consecutive seasons that could occur.
The objective problem of Hanoi FC is too much. They dropped 10 out of 15 maximum points from the above draws. Comparing the last 2 seasons, Hanoi FC only drew 9 times out of 46 matches. In the previous 6 championships, only 2 seasons in Hanoi FC Hoa over 5 times (2019 and 2022).
It should be added that, in the first leg, Hanoi FC also lost points to the lower rival such as Hong Linh Ha Tinh, Hai Phong, Quang Nam, Thanh Hoa. Not to mention that they did not win the teams to directly compete the throne as if Viettel, Hanoi Police and Nam Dinh.
Worry from the force
The bad results of Hanoi FC originated from the force not strong enough. The first is the chief coach position. After two periods of golden gold associated with Mr. Phan Thanh Hung (2010 - 2015) and Chu Dinh Nghiem (2015 - 2021), Hanoi FC replaced the "general" continuously.
Over the past 4 years, this team has appointed 9 captain. However, the achievement is only a national Super Cup 2023, 1 National Cup 2022 and 1 V.League Championship 2022.
Particularly this season, Hanoi FC replaces the coach right before the Lunar New Year. Coach Le Duc Tuan - who was trusted at the beginning of the season, had to leave the "hot seat", giving way to Mr. Hoang Van Phuc as a temporary role.
The problem of foreign recruiting also needs to mention. Over the past 5 years, Hanoi FC has registered to 30 foreign soldiers spread 3 routes. But except for Pape Omar, Rimario and Moses, few of the rest can impress.
Particularly in the first leg of V.League 2024-2025, Hanoi FC soon replaced three foreign soldiers because the quality was not guaranteed to be Keziah, Chidi Kwem and Jaha. Particularly Keziah was liquidated after only 1 appearance. This shows the inefficiency in the foreign selection of the capital team for half a decade.
A few years ago, Hanoi FC used to own national players No. 1 V.League such as Hong Son, Cong Vinh, Ngoc Duy, Sy Cuong, Thanh Luong, Quang Hai, Dinh Trong, Viet Anh, Van Hau or Van Quyet, Hung Dung. However, this season, Hanoi FC's inner forces have different problems.
Van Quyet, Duy Manh and Hung Dung began on the other side of the slope of his career by the signs of age. The next group of players like Xuan Manh, Hai Long, Thanh Chung or Tuan Hai has not shown the stability throughout. Meanwhile, "Sao Mai" Van Tung, Van Truong and Van Chuan is still not mature even though it has exceeded the U22 threshold.
The internal force revealed the problem from many sides, the stronger opponents in the past time made Hanoi FC fall into a "dilemma" in the task of reclaiming the V.League king.
