The 2024 Vietnam Workers and Civil Servants Football Tournament is jointly organized by the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor, the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) and Tuoi Tre Newspaper, with the support of other units. The draw ceremony took place on the afternoon of September 16 in Ho Chi Minh City.
This is one of the activities to celebrate the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Vietnam Trade Union, contributing to promoting the movement of physical exercise and sports, improving the cultural and spiritual life of workers, civil servants, laborers in particular and the whole society in general.
The tournament is organized in the format of 7-a-side football, according to the competition rules issued by VFF; implemented according to the Labor Federation system on a national scale, gathering nearly 60 participating teams - representing provincial/municipal trade unions, industry trade unions and enterprises across the country.
According to the regulations of the organizing committee, the subjects participating in the competition are male workers, civil servants, and laborers, with Vietnamese nationality, working in agencies, units, and enterprises of economic sectors with trade unions; having a labor contract and participating in social insurance and health insurance for 1 year or more up to the time of registration to participate in the competition; having a smartphone installed with the VssID application of Vietnam Social Security and having a personal identification account on the VNeID application of the Ministry of Public Security.
The 2024 Vietnam Football Championship for Workers and Civil Servants will go through 2 rounds. The qualifying round is scheduled to take place from September to October 2024 in 4 regions: Ho Chi Minh City, Binh Duong, Nghe An, Bac Ninh. The 16 best teams in the qualifying round will qualify for the National Finals, taking place in November 2024 in Hanoi.
The total prize of the 2024 Vietnam Workers and Civil Servants Football Tournament is up to 930 million VND, an increase from 840 million in 2023. Of which, the regional qualifying round champion receives 50 million VND, the national final round champion receives 150 million VND. In addition to the collective awards, the organizing committee also has many accompanying individual awards.
In addition, in addition to organizing football matches, at the competition areas of the qualifying and final rounds, the organizing committee also carries out supporting activities such as: Examination and consultation on musculoskeletal problems, sports injuries; free distribution of nutritional and physical medicine; booths selling discounted necessities... to take care of the cultural and spiritual life of workers, attracting spectators to the stadium to watch and cheer.
Also at the press conference, the organizing committee of the 2024 Vietnam Workers and Civil Servants Football Tournament received support from units with an amount of 1.1 billion VND, to contribute to helping people overcome the severe consequences of storm No. 3 in the northern provinces.
