On July 19, the Hanoi People's Committee issued an official written response regarding 2 of the 3 football teams, Hanoi FC, The Cong Viettel and Hanoi Police, being allowed to use Hang Day Stadium as their home stadium during the season. 2024-2025 tournament.
Accordingly, Viettel The Cong Club is the team that will look for another home ground, while Hanoi FC and Hanoi Police continue to use Hang Day as their home ground next season.
"Based on the regulations of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) as well as ensuring that the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) is eligible for AFC to allocate direct slots to attend European club-level tournaments. Asia in the 2024-2025 season, supporting Viettel The Cong club to use Hang Day stadium as their home field this season is not appropriate. The regulations of the Asian Football Federation have created many difficulties for the players The club in choosing the home field is also beyond the wishes of the city of Hanoi. We hope that the Ministry of National Defense will share with the city of Hanoi.
To ensure AFC regulations, Hanoi city respectfully requests the Ministry of National Defense to contact the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, consider and support Viettel Sports Club to use a suitable stadium. suitable to register as a home field for the 2024-2025 season and in the following seasons," the official dispatch stated.
In the written notice, City People's Committee. Hanoi also said that currently two football teams, Hanoi FC and Hanoi Police, are carrying out the task of training youth football and representing Capital football to participate in national and international tournaments.
It is known that The Cong Viettel has exchanged documents with VFF regarding support when the team cannot continue to choose Hang Day Stadium as their home field in the 2024-2025 professional football season.
Also today (July 19), The Cong Viettel has completed the registration procedure to participate in the new season, including registration of the playing field. Procedures when submitting competition registration documents to Vietnam Professional Football Joint Stock Company (VPF) require a competition venue rental contract.
In the 2023 and 2023-2024 seasons, Viettel The Cong Club, Hanoi and Hanoi Police both use the same Hang Day stadium.
According to AFC's requirements, each stadium is only allowed to be used by a maximum of 2 clubs to avoid overload, affecting the professional quality of matches. If regulations are not followed, AFC will cut participation in Asian tournaments for Vietnamese football clubs.
Initially, all three teams using the same Hang Day stadium had the desire to continue to stay here even though for many months, VFF, Vietnam Football Joint Stock Company (VPF) and representatives of the three teams There have been many meetings to agree on this issue.
After many months, the decision was made by the Hanoi People's Committee.
