2015 V.League 1

The 2015 V.League 1 (known as the Toyota V.League 1 for sponsorship reasons) season was the 32nd season of the V.League 1, the highest division of Vietnamese football and the 15th as a professional league. The season began on 4 January 2015 and finished on 20 September 2015.^[1]

Toyota V.League 1 – 2015

Season	2015
Dates	4 January – 20 September
Champions	Becamex Bình Dương
Relegated	Đồng Nai
Champions League	Becamex Bình Dương Hà Nội
Mekong Club Championship	Becamex Bình Dương
Matches played	182
Goals scored	555 (3.05 per match)
Top goalscorer	Tambwe Patiyo (18 goals)
Biggest home win	Hà Nội 7–0 Đồng Tháp
Biggest away win	XSKT Cần Thơ 0–5 SHB Đà Nẵng
Highest scoring	SHB Đà Nẵng 7–3 Đồng Tâm Long An
Highest attendance	20,000
Lowest attendance	1,500
Total attendance	1,346,500
Average attendance	7,400
← 2014 2016 → All statistics correct as of 13:40, 21 September 2015.

Changes from last season

Team changes

The following teams have changed division since the 2014 season.

To V.League 1 Promoted from V.League 2 Đồng Tháp Sanna Khánh Hòa XSKT Cần Thơ

From V.League 1 Relegated Hùng Vương An Giang

Rule Changes

In season 2015, a team standing on the 14th position was relegated to V-League 2. There was no play-off match as usual between team standing on 13th at V-League 1 and the second-position team at V-League 2.

Also, one club was only allowed to register 2 foreign players plus one naturalized player. Becamex Bình Dương and Hanoi T&T could register one more AFC player due to the qualification for AFC Champions League.

Teams

Đồng Tháp were promoted after winning the 2014 V.League 2 championship, but in November 2014 they decided to withdraw from the league altogether.^[2] They later revered their decision once sponsorship was found to fund the side for the coming season.^[3]

Becamex Bình Dương

Đồng Nai

Đồng Tâm Long An

Đồng Tháp

Hà Nội

Hải Phòng

Hoàng Anh Gia Lai

QNK Quảng Nam

Sanna Khánh Hòa

SHB Đà Nẵng

Sông Lam Nghệ An

Than Quảng Ninh

Thanh Hóa

XSKT Cần Thơ

Locations of the 2015 V.League 1 teams

Stadia

Team	Based	Home stadium	Capacity
Becamex Bình Dương	Thủ Dầu Một	Gò Đậu Stadium	18,250
Đồng Nai	Biên Hòa	Đồng Nai Stadium	25,000
Đồng Tâm Long An	Tân An	Long An Stadium	19,975
Đồng Tháp	Đồng Tháp	Cao Lãnh Stadium	23,000
Hà Nội	Hà Nội	Hàng Đẫy Stadium	22,000
Hải Phòng	Hải Phòng	Lạch Tray Stadium	28,000
Hoàng Anh Gia Lai	Pleiku	Pleiku Stadium	12,000
QNK Quảng Nam	Tam Kỳ	Tam Kỳ Stadium	15 624
Sanna Khánh Hòa	Nha Trang	19/8 Nha Trang Stadium	25,000
SHB Đà Nẵng	Đà Nẵng	Chi Lăng Stadium	28,000
Sông Lam Nghệ An	Vinh	Vinh Stadium	12,000
Than Quảng Ninh	Cẩm Phả	Cẩm Phả Stadium	15,000
Thanh Hóa	Thanh Hóa	Thanh Hóa Stadium	14,000
XSKT Cần Thơ	Cần Thơ	Cần Thơ Stadium	60,000

Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Manager1	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Becamex Bình Dương	Nguyễn Thanh Sơn	Nguyễn Anh Đức		Becamex IDC
Đồng Nai	Trần Bình Sự	Nguyễn Hải Anh
Đồng Tâm Long An	Ngô Quang Sang	Phan Văn Tài Em		Đồng Tâm
Đồng Tháp	Phạm Công Lộc	Nguyễn Duy Khánh		Xổ số kiến thiết Đồng Tháp HappyFood
Hà Nội T&T	Phan Thanh Hùng	Gonzalo Marrkonle	Kappa	T&T Group
Hải Phòng	Trương Việt Hoàng	Nguyễn Minh Châu
Hoàng Anh Gia Lai	Nguyễn Quốc Tuấn	Lương Xuân Trường		NutiFood
QNK Quảng Nam	Hoàng Văn Phúc	Đinh Thanh Trung
Sanna Khánh Hòa BVN	Võ Đình Tân	Trần Văn Vũ
SHB Đà Nẵng	Lê Huỳnh Đức	Nguyễn Vũ Phong		SHB
Sông Lam Nghệ An	Ngô Quang Trường	Nguyễn Minh Đức		Bắc Á Bank
Than Quảng Ninh	Phạm Như Thuần	Vũ Minh Tuấn
FLC Thanh Hóa	Hoàng Thanh Tùng	Lê Đức Tuấn		Viettel
XSKT Cần Thơ	Nguyễn Thanh Danh	Nguyễn Thế Anh		Xổ số kiến thiết Cần Thơ

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
QNK Quảng Nam	Vũ Quang Bảo	Resigned	27 August 2014	Pre-Season	Hoàng Văn Phúc	2 September 2014
Sông Lam Nghệ An F.C.	Nguyễn Hữu Thắng	Resigned[4]	7 November 2014		Ngô Quang Trường	19 November 2014
Hải Phòng	Dylan Kerr	Contract ended	26 August 2014		Trương Việt Hoàng	23 December 2014
Hoàng Anh Gia Lai F.C.	Choi Yun-Kyum	Sacked			Guillaume Graechen
FLC Thanh Hóa F.C.	Hoàng Thanh Tùng	Interim			Vũ Quang Bảo
XSKT Cần Thơ	Nguyễn Văn Sỹ	Sacked	3 March 2015	13th	Nguyễn Thanh Danh	3 March 2015
Thanh Hóa	Vũ Quang Bảo	Resigned	3 April 2015	2nd	Hoàng Thanh Tùng	6 April 2015
Than Quảng Ninh F.C.	Đinh Cao Nghĩa	Resigned	12 July 2015	6th	Phạm Như Thuần	7 August 2015
Hoàng Anh Gia Lai F.C.	Guillaume Graechen	Sacked	16 August 2015	14th	Nguyễn Quốc Tuấn	16 August 2015

Foreign players

V.League teams are allowed to use two foreign players and one naturalised player^[5]

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Naturalised Vietnamese Player	Former Players1
Becamex Bình Dương	Moses Oloya	Cheikh Abass Dieng	Marko Šimić	→ Nguyễn Quốc Thiện Esele	Oseni Ganiyu Bolaji
Đồng Nai	Nsi Amougou	Kisekka Henry		→ Nguyễn Hằng Tcheuko Minh	Peter Omoduemuke → Huỳnh Kesley Alves
Đồng Tâm Long An	Souleymane Diabate	Rafael
Đồng Tháp	Felix Ajala	Samson Kpenosen			→ Nguyễn Hằng Tcheuko Minh
Hà Nội T&T	Gonzalo Marrkonle	Víctor Ormazábal	Antoine Goulard	→ Hoàng Vũ Samson	Hughtun Hector Daneil Cyrus
Hải Phòng	Diego Fagan	Errol Stevens		→ Lê Văn Phú
Hoàng Anh Gia Lai	Franklin Clovis Anzité	Moussa Sanogo			Darko Lukanović Mitja Mörec
QNK Quảng Nam	Tambwe Patiyo	Suleiman Oladoja		→ Hoàng Vissai	Kisekka Henry
Sanna Khánh Hòa	Tales dos Santos	Uche Iheruome		→ Huỳnh Kesley Alves
SHB Đà Nẵng	Yaikel Pérez	Sean Fraser			Candelario Gomez Anto Pejić
Sông Lam Nghệ An	Baba Ouattara	Haruna Abdul			Koen Bosma Aboubakar Mahadi
Than Quảng Ninh	Geoffrey Kizito	Candelario Gomez		→ Đinh Hoàng Max	Jhonatan Bernardo
Thanh Hóa	Pape Omar Faye	Danny van Bakel		→ Lê Văn Tân	Timothy Anjembe
XSKT Cần Thơ	Akanni-Sunday Wasiu	Oseni Ganiyu Bolaji		→ Nguyễn Rodgers	Luiz Henrique Adrian Valentić

• ^1 Players who left their clubs after first half of the season.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Becamex Bình Dương	26	16	4	6	57	33	+24	52	Qualification for the Mekong Club Championship AFC Champions League group stage
2	Hà Nội	26	13	7	6	51	30	+21	46	Qualification for the AFC Champions League preliminary round 2
3	FLC Thanh Hóa	26	13	5	8	42	44	−2	44
4	Than Quảng Ninh	26	13	3	10	39	31	+8	42
5	Sanna Khánh Hòa	26	12	6	8	35	35	0	42
6	Hải Phòng	26	11	8	7	31	28	+3	41
7	Sông Lam Nghệ An	26	10	7	9	36	33	+3	37
8	QNK Quảng Nam	26	9	9	8	49	39	+10	36
9	SHB Đà Nẵng	26	10	6	10	42	32	+10	36
10	Đồng Tâm Long An	26	8	9	9	39	42	−3	33
11	XSKT Cần Thơ	26	6	7	13	32	52	−20	25
12	Đồng Tháp	26	7	3	16	34	54	−20	24
13	Hoàng Anh Gia Lai	26	6	6	14	33	50	−17	24
14	Đồng Nai	26	5	6	15	35	52	−17	21	Relegation to V.League 2

Updated to match(es) played on 20 September 2015. Source: Vietnam Professional Football
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head to head; 3) Goal difference; 4) Number of goals scored

Positions by round

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
Becamex Bình Dương	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
XSKT Cần Thơ	9	10	11	13	13	14	13	13	13	14	14	14	14	13	12	12	13	12	12	12	13	12	12	13	13	11
SHB Đà Nẵng	10	13	13	14	14	12	12	12	11	8	8	8	8	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	8	8	9	9
Đồng Nai	11	14	14	12	12	13	14	14	14	13	13	13	13	14	14	14	14	14	13	13	12	13	14	14	14	14
Đồng Tháp	14	12	9	9	11	9	10	9	10	12	12	10	11	10	10	11	11	10	10	11	10	10	11	12	12	12
Đồng Tâm Long An	7	3	6	6	5	4	4	5	3	6	6	4	6	3	5	6	5	7	4	6	8	8	9	9	10	10
Hà Nội	8	4	5	5	7	6	8	8	8	9	9	9	9	8	8	8	8	5	5	4	5	4	3	3	2	2
Hải Phòng	2	2	2	2	1	3	3	4	6	5	5	7	4	5	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	5	6	6	4	6
Hoàng Anh Gia Lai	3	5	10	10	8	10	11	10	12	11	11	12	12	12	13	13	12	13	14	14	14	14	13	11	11	13
Sanna Khánh Hòa	12	7	7	7	9	8	7	7	7	7	7	5	7	7	7	7	6	4	6	5	4	3	4	5	6	5
Sông Lam Nghệ An	13	9	8	8	10	7	6	6	4	2	2	3	5	6	4	5	4	6	8	8	7	7	7	7	7	7
QNK Quảng Nam	8	11	12	11	6	11	9	11	9	10	10	11	10	11	11	10	10	11	11	10	11	11	10	10	8	8
Than Quảng Ninh	4	6	3	3	3	2	2	2	5	3	3	6	3	4	6	4	7	8	7	7	6	6	5	4	5	4
Thanh Hóa	5	8	4	4	4	5	5	3	2	4	4	2	2	2	2	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3

Updated to match(es) played on 20 September 2015. Source: Vietnam Professional Football

Result

Summary

Home \ Away	BBD	ĐNA	ĐLA	ĐTH	HNT	HAI	HGL	QNK	SKH	SDN	SNA	THO	CTH	TQN
Becamex Bình Dương		2–1	3–1	6–1	1–0	3–1	4–1	1–3	1–2	3–2	1–1	5–2	4–1	1–2
Đồng Nai	1–2		0–0	0–4	0–0	1–1	1–2	3–1	1–0	1–2	1–1	5–2	1–0	0–2
Đồng Tâm Long An	3–1	4–4		3–0	1–3	1–0	2–1	4–3	2–0	0–0	1–1	2–1	1–2	0–1
Đồng Tháp	2–4	4–1	1–1		1–2	1–2	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–4	2–2	2–0	1–1	0–0
Hà Nội	2–2	2–0	1–1	7–0		1–1	4–3	4–4	3–0	2–0	1–0	4–1	4–1	1–0
Hải Phòng	0–0	2–1	1–1	2–1	1–2		1–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	2–2	2–0	4–2	0–0
Hoàng Anh Gia Lai	2–1	2–2	0–0	2–2	3–2	1–1		2–2	4–2	1–0	3–1	1–2	1–1	1–2
QNK Quảng Nam	2–4	3–1	2–2	2–0	2–2	5–0	4–0		4–1	2–1	0–1	0–0	0–0	2–0
Sanna Khánh Hòa	1–0	2–1	0–0	2–1	1–0	0–0	3–1	1–0		2–1	2–2	2–3	4–0	0–5
SHB Đà Nẵng	0–2	2–1	7–3	3–1	1–1	2–0	2–0	1–1	1–1		1–2	0–0	3–1	2–0
Sông Lam Nghệ An	0–1	1–2	2–1	1–0	2–0	0–3	2–0	3–2	0–1	1–1		4–0	2–2	3–1
FLC Thanh Hóa	1–1	3–2	4–3	1–0	2–1	0–1	2–1	3–4	1–1	2–1	2–1		2–0	3–1
XSKT Cần Thơ	1–3	4–3	0–1	1–1	1–3	2–1	3–1	0–0	0–3	0–5	3–0	1–1		2–3
Than Quảng Ninh	0–1	4–1	3–1	3–1	0–1	2–1	3–0	1–1	3–3	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–3

Source: Vietnam Professional Football
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistic

As of 21 September 2015

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Tambwe Patiyo	QNK Quảng Nam	18
2	Lê Văn Thắng	XSKT Cần Thơ	16
3	Hoàng Vũ Samson	Hà Nội T&T	15
4	Christian Nsi Amougou	Đồng Nai	14
	Souleymane Diabate	Đồng Tâm Long An
5	Hoàng Đình Tùng	FLC Thanh Hóa	13
	Nguyễn Văn Quyết	Hà Nội T&T
	Errol Anthony Stevens	Hải Phòng
6	Samson Kpenosen	Đồng Tháp	12
	Iheroume Uche	Sanna Khánh Hòa

Own goals

Player	Club	Against	Round
Nguyễn Thành Trung	Đồng Nai	Đồng Tháp	3
Lê Đức Tuấn	Thanh Hóa	Sông Lam Nghệ An	6
		Becamex Bình Dương	10
		Đồng Nai	21
Vũ Ngọc Thịnh	Hải Phòng	Becamex Bình Dương	11
Trần Quốc Anh	Đồng Tháp	Hà Nội T&T	16
Nguyễn Thế Dương	FLC Thanh Hóa	Đồng Tâm Long An	17
Gonzalo Marrkonle	Hà Nội T&T	Hoàng Anh Gia Lai	24

Hattrick

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Hoàng Vũ Samson	Hà Nội T&T	QNK Quảng Nam	4–4	17 January 2015 (2015-01-17)
Lê Văn Thắng	XSKT Cần Thơ	Hoàng Anh Gia Lai	3–1	7 February 2015 (2015-02-07)
Hoàng Đình Tùng	Thanh Hóa	Đồng Tháp	3–1	12 April 2015 (2015-04-12)
Nguyễn Văn Quyết	Hà Nội T&T	Đồng Tháp	7–0	15 July 2015 (2015-07-15)
Yaikel Pérez	SHB Đà Nẵng	Đồng Tâm Long An	7–3	15 August 2015 (2015-08-15)
Souleymane Diabate	Đồng Tâm Long An	SHB Đà Nẵng	3–7	15 August 2015 (2015-08-15)
Đinh Thanh Trung	QNK Quảng Nam	Hải Phòng	5–0	28 August 2015 (2015-08-28)
Nghiêm Xuân Tú	Than Quảng Ninh	Sanna Khánh Hòa	5–0	1 September 2015 (2015-09-01)

Awards

Monthly awards

Month	Club of the Month	Coach of the Month		Player of the Month
		Coach	Club	Player	Club
January	Than Quảng Ninh	Trương Việt Hoàng	Hải Phòng	Nguyễn Quang Hải	Than Quảng Ninh
February	No award
March
April	Sông Lam Nghệ An	Ngô Quang Trường	Sông Lam Nghệ An	Trần Phi Sơn	Sông Lam Nghệ An
May	No award
June
July	Hà Nội T&T	Phan Thanh Hùng	Hà Nội T&T	Nguyễn Văn Quyết	Hà Nội T&T
August	Becamex Bình Dương	Nguyễn Thanh Sơn	Becamex Bình Dương	Nguyễn Anh Đức	Becamex Bình Dương
September

Annual awards

Individual

Award	Recipient	Club	Notes
Most Valuable Player	Nguyễn Anh Đức	Becamex Bình Dương
Young Player of the Year	Đỗ Duy Mạnh	Hà Nội T&T
Manager of the Year	Phan Thanh Hùng	Hà Nội T&T
Top scorer	Tambwe Patiyo	QNK Quảng Nam	18 goals
Goal of the Season	Lê Quốc Phương	FLC Thanh Hóa
Best Referee	Võ Minh Trí
Best Assistant Referee	Nguyễn Trung Hậu

Team of the Year

Goalkeepers	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
Huỳnh Tuấn Linh (Than Quảng Ninh)	Nguyễn Xuân Thành (Becamex Bình Dương) Lê Đức Tuấn (FLC Thanh Hóa) Danny van Bakel (FLC Thanh Hóa) Hoàng Vissai (QNK Quảng Nam)	Nguyễn Văn Quyết (Hà Nội F.C) Moses Oloya (Becamex Bình Dương) Đinh Thanh Trung (QNK Quảng Nam) Phạm Thành Lương (Hà Nội F.C)	Hoàng Đình Tùng (FLC Thanh Hóa)) Nguyễn Anh Đức (Becamex Bình Dương)

Team

Award	Recipient	Notes
Fair Play	Becamex Bình Dương
Best Organizer	Than Quảng Ninh
Best Young Training	Hoàng Anh Gia Lai
Best Fan Club	Than Quảng Ninh
Best Field	Becamex Bình Dương

Attendances

As of 22 September 2015

By club

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Hoàng Anh Gia Lai	129,000	13,000	7,500	9,923	n/a†
2	Than Quảng Ninh	116,500	12,000	7,000	8,961	n/a†
3	Becamex Bình Dương	113,500	18,000	3,000	8,730	n/a†
4	SHB Đà Nẵng	109,000	25,000	3,000	8,384	n/a†
5	Hải Phòng	108,500	20,000	5,000	8,346	n/a†
6	Đồng Tháp	104,500	13,000	4,000	8,038	n/a†
7	Thanh Hóa	102,000	13,000	4,000	7,846	n/a†
8	Đồng Nai	98,000	25,000	3,000	7,538	n/a†
9	Sông Lam Nghệ An	93,500	20,000	2,000	7,153	n/a†
10	Đồng Tâm Long An	84,500	15,000	3,000	6,500	n/a†
11	Sanna Khanh Hoa BVN	84,000	10,000	4,500	6,461	n/a†
12	QNK Quảng Nam	79,500	15,000	3,000	6,115	n/a†
13	Hà Nội T&T	66,500	15,000	1,500	5,115	n/a†
14	XSKT Cần Thơ	47,000	12,000	1,000	3,615	n/a†
	League total	1,346,500	25,000	1,000	7,400	n/a†

Updated to games played on 22 September 2015
Source: Vietnam Professional Football

By round

2015 V.League 1 Attendance

Round	Total	Games	Avg. Per Game
Round 1	53,500	7	7,643
Round 2	68,000	7	9,714
Round 3	47,000	7	6,714
Round 4	56,000	7	8,000
Round 5	60,000	7	8,571
Round 6	43,500	7	6,214
Round 7	64,000	7	9,143
Round 8	49,000	7	7,000
Round 9	56,000	7	8,000
Round 10	52,000	7	7,428
Round 11	56,000	7	8,000
Round 12	56,000	7	8,000
Round 13	53,500	7	7,642
Round 14	48,500	7	6,928
Round 15	48,000	7	6,857
Round 16	50,500	7	7,214
Round 17	36,500	7	5,214
Round 18	54,000	7	7,714
Round 19	56,000	7	8,000
Round 20	45,000	7	6,428
Round 21	64,000	7	9,142
Round 22	47,000	7	6,714
Round 23	61,500	7	8,785
Round 24	37,000	7	5,285
Round 25	34,500	7	4,928
Round 26	42,500	7	6,071
Total	1,346,500	182	7,400