With second place in Group B, the Vietnamese women's futsal team will face the Thai futsal team, the team that won first place in Group A in the semi-finals of the 2026 Southeast Asian Futsal Championship held at Thailand's home ground.
This is considered a fateful match, when in 2 consecutive years 2024 and 2025, Thailand lost 2 regional championships to the Vietnamese futsal team, and this time they are determined to reclaim those debts.
At SEA Games 33 at the end of 2025 taking place in Thailand, Thai sports set a goal to win a full set of gold medals in football events including men's, women's football, men's and women's futsal. Among them, Thai women's futsal is the superior and brightest candidate.
However, Thai women's futsal lost in the semi-finals to Indonesia and the Vietnam women's futsal team won the gold medal when they defeated the women's futsal team from the Land of Ten Thousand Islands in the final.
Further back, at the 2024 Southeast Asian Futsal Championship, it was also the Vietnamese women's team that defeated the Thai women's team in the final with a score of 2-1 to win the championship in a very convincing way.
Therefore, the Thai women's futsal team expressed high determination in the confrontation with coach Nguyen Dinh Hoang's team in the semi-finals of the 2026 Southeast Asian Championship to avenge their previous debts.
The Thai women's futsal team is ready in both defensive and attacking styles when there is careful research on the Vietnamese women's futsal team. If the match lasts in extra time, we will have a physical advantage because we played 1 match less, while the opponent played 3 matches in 3 consecutive days and only had 1 day off," coach Thanathorn Santhanaprasit of the Thai women's futsal team shared with Siam Sport newspaper.
The captain of the Thai women's team also said that he appreciates the name Le Thi Thanh Ngan of the Vietnamese women's futsal team and has had tactics to lock down this attacking spearhead of the opponent.
Our players are very confident in this confrontation, even when the match enters the penalty shootout. Because we have the support of a large number of fans, this has a great impact on the morale of the whole team," Mr. Thanathorn Santhanaprasit emphasized.
