The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) and Vietnam Professional Football Joint Stock Company (VPF) are considering a plan to support clubs in this transition.
Hang Day Stadium is only allowed to be the home ground of 2 teams in V-League.
At the end of 2023, VFF received an official dispatch from AFC requesting VFF to implement regulations on criteria for organizing professional football tournaments. According to AFC, the national championship must be organized in a home-away format and only allows a maximum of 2 clubs to share a stadium. Hang Day Stadium is currently the home stadium of 3 clubs including Hanoi, Hanoi Police and The Cong Viettel. These three clubs are not the owners of Hang Day Stadium, but the stadium is managed by the Hanoi People's Committee and the Hanoi Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
On January 22, a representative of one of the three clubs said: "In the official dispatch of VFF and VPF, it is clearly stated that if the three clubs continue to share the same stadium in the 2023-2024 season, VFF will not be eligible to be allocated a direct slot by AFC to participate in Asian club tournaments from the 2024-2025 season and the following seasons. That direct slot will be transferred by AFC to another member federation. We are quite worried because we received the notice when the season had already started for 8 rounds, all plans for facilities, media, advertising... related to the tournament had been built from the beginning of the season, so it is not as simple as saying to move the stadium and move immediately. There also needs to be a roadmap. Moreover, we really want to stay at Hang Day Stadium."
VFF has assigned VPF to monitor and support 3 clubs in implementing the plan of one of the 3 clubs moving to another qualified stadium. In Hanoi at the moment, there are some natural grass stadiums (for 11 players) but to meet the standards of the professional tournament, in addition to Hang Day Stadium, there is only My Dinh Stadium. Moving the stadium as recommended by AFC "as soon as possible" is very difficult to implement. Therefore, VPF hopes that the 3 clubs will have a meeting to discuss and negotiate which team will have to leave Hang Day Stadium, before reporting to the Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports. The final decision does not belong to VFF or VPF but to the Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports.
VFF and VPF are also considering another option, maybe the teams need to send a proposal letter to VPF so that VPF has a basis to report to VFF, about asking AFC for permission to postpone the stadium conversion to the 2024-2025 season, because this season is difficult to make it in time.
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