Ho Chi Minh City Cups


See also the file on Vietnam tournaments 1965-1974 for the Vietnam National Day Soccer Tournament, Vietnam Independence Cup and Quoc Khanh Tournament 1974.

The tournaments below were called Cup Bong da Quoc te Than Po Ho Chi Minh (i.e. Ho Chi Minh City Cup in at least 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001 and 2002; the 2000 tournament may have been part of the LG Cup series, the 2002 edition definitely was.


Palmares

Year Winners
Tournaments in Ho Chi Minh City since 1995
1995 Korean Housing Bank
1996     unknown
1997     unknown
1998 Halmstads BK
1999 Tien Phong Hoan Dao (China - Guangdong XI?)
2000 Parramatta Power
2001 PSM (Makassar)
2002 India U-23
2003 Vietnam U-23
2004-07  unknown
2008 Turkmenistan
2009 Singapore


Ho Chi Minh City Cup 1995
(in Ho Chi Minh City)

Group Stage:
  -  -1995  Vietnam (National Team) 1-0 Estonia

Played in two groups of 4 teams each;
group winners: Korean Housing Bank (3 wins) and Ba Yi (China) (3 wins)
runners-up: Vietnam National Team (2 wins, 1 loss) and Vietnam II (2 wins, 1 loss)
other participants: Hanoi XI, Central Area XI, Estonia, Malaysia Olympic

Semifinals:
Korean Housing Bank and Ba Yi won,
Vietnam I and Vietnam II lost

Third Place Match
not played

Final
  -  -1995  Korean Housing Bank     bt  Ba Yi (China)

Fair Play award: Vietnam II
Player of the tournament: Kim Kwang-su (Korean Housing Bank) 

NB: Korean Housing Bank scored 11 goals and conceded 1.

Ho Chi Minh City Cup 1996
(in Ho Chi Minh City); only one result from group stage known

  -  -1996  Vietnam (National Team) 1-3 Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam)

Vietnam Independence Cup 1998
(in Ho Chi Minh City); only results Halmstad known

  - 1-1998  Vietnam (National Team) 0-4 Halmstads BK (Sweden)
12- 1-1998  Halmstads BK (Sweden)   1-0 Johor (Malaysia)      
              [Petter Hanson)
  - 1-1998  Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam)   1-3 Halmstads BK (Sweden)

Final
19- 1-1998  Halmstads BK (Sweden)   2-2 Ulsan (South Korea)    [5-3 pen]

Vietnam Independence Cup 1999
(in Ho Chi Minh City); identity of some teams unclear

 4-10-1999  Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam)   2-0 Cambodia 
 5-10-1999  Cuu Long (Vietnam)      1-2 Hoan Dao (China)
 7-10-1999  Cambodia                0-6 Hoan Dao (China)
 7-10-1999  Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam)   1-0 Cuu Long (Vietnam)
 9-10-1999  Cuu Long (Vietnam)      1-0 Cambodia
 9-10-1999  Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam)   1-1 Hoan Dao (China)

 1.Hoan Dao        3  2  1  0  9- 2  7  [*1]
 2.Ho Chi Minh XI  3  2  1  0  4- 1  7  
 3.Cuu Long XI     3  1  0  2  2- 3  3  [*2]
 4.Cambodia        3  0  0  3  0- 9  0

[*1] team listed as Tien Phong Hoan Dao, with coach Lee Jang Soo 
     and players including: Jiang Hui, Zeng Li, Jiang Bin, Luo Di, 
     Zeng Qinggao, Paul Rideout (then at Shenzhen Ping'an); Chinese 
     team, probably Guangdong province representation
[*2] listed as Tuyen Dang B.S. Cuu Long; Vietnamese team, probably 
     Cuu Long province representation 

Ho Chi Minh City Cup 2000
(in Ho Chi Minh City)

Details

Group A
25- 8-2000  Vietnam (National Team) 2-2 Sri Lanka
27- 8-2000  Yunnan Hongta (China)   2-1 Sri Lanka
29- 8-2000  Vietnam (National Team) 1-0 Yunnan Hongta (China)

 1.Vietnam         2  1  1  0  3- 2  4
 2.Yunnan Hongta   2  1  0  1  2- 2  3
 3.Sri Lanka       2  0  1  1  3- 4  1

Group B
25- 8-2000  Parramatta Power (Aus.) 2-2 Korea University (South Korea)
27- 8-2000  Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam)   0-2 Parramatta Power (Australia)
29- 8-2000  Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam)   1-0 Korea University (South Korea)

 1.Parramatta Pow. 2  1  1  0  4- 2  4
 2.Ho Chi Minh XI  2  1  0  1  1- 2  3
 3.Korea Univ.     2  0  1  1  2- 3  1

Semifinals
31- 8-2000  Vietnam (National Team) 6-2 Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam)
31- 8-2000  Parramatta Power (Aus.) 3-0 Yunnan Hongta (China)

Final
 2- 9-2000  Vietnam (National Team) 1-2 Parramatta Power (Australia)

Ho Chi Minh City Cup 2001
(in Thong Ngat stadium, Ho Chi Minh City)

Group A
10- 8-2001  Ho Chi Minh XI          6-1 Kyun Hee University (S.Korea)
              [Huỳnh Hồng Sơn 2, 40, David Serene 32, 66,
               Nguyễn Văn Tuấn 70, 88; Lee Yoon-sup 75]
12- 8-2001  Kyun Hee Univ. (S.K.)   1-2 Malaysia U-23
              [?; Hairudin Omar (2)]
14- 8-2001  Ho Chi Minh XI          2-0 Malaysia U-23

 1.Ho Chi Minh XI  2  2  0  0  8- 1  6
 2.Malaysia U-23   2  1  0  1  2- 3  3
 3.Kyun Hee Univ.  2  0  0  2  2- 8  0

Group B
10- 8-2001  PSM (Indonesia)         2-0 Melbourne Knights (Australia)
              [Mirobaldo Bento 18, Eduard Ivakdalam 46]
12- 8-2001  PSM (Indonesia)         1-0 SLNA (Vietnam)
              [Aples Tecuari 75]
14- 8-2001  SLNA (Vietnam)          0-1 Melbourne Knights (Australia)
              [Jasko Sehic 86]

 1.PSM            2  2  0  0  3- 0   6
 2.Melbourne Kn.  2  1  0  1  1- 2   3
 3.SLNA           2  0  0  2  0- 2   0

Semifinals
16- 8-2001  Ho Chi Minh XI          1-1 Melbourne Knights      [5-4 pen]
              [Võ Hoàng Bưu; Tota Da Costa 10]
16- 8-2001  PSM (Indonesia)         3-1 Malaysia U-23
              [Eduard Ivakdalam 26, Suwandi Hadi 43, Mirobaldo Bento 66;
               Ahmal Rizal 65pen]

Final
18- 9-2001  PSM (Indonesia)         1-0 Ho Chi Minh XI
              [Eduard Ivakdalam 21]

Ho Chi Minh City Cup 2002

Played at Thong Nhat Stadium, sponsored by LG

Group A
[Aug 2]
Singapore U-23   2-2 India U-23
  [Aliff Shafaein Safie'e, Ashrin Bin Shaffif; Mohammed Faizal 3og, K. Ajayan]
  [India line-up: Naseem Aktar, Debjit Ghosh, Deepak Mondal, Mahesh Gawli,
   Samir Naik, Jo Paul Ancheri, Shanmugam Venkatesh, K.Ajayan (Shasti Duley),
   Bijen Singh (Tomba Singh), Alex Ambrose (Praveen Kumar), Baichung Bhutia]
[Aug 4]
Singapore U-23   2-1 Vietnam U-23
  [Masrezwan Bin Masturi, Aliff Shafaein Safie'e 65; Vű Như Thành 45pen]
[Aug 6]
Vietnam U-23     1-3 India U-23
  [Đặng Thanh Phương 78pen; Baichung Bhutia 48, Abhishek Yadav 86, 
   Tomba Singh 89] 
  [India line-up: Sangram Mukherjee, Mahesh Gawli, Deepak Mondal, Debjit Ghosh,
   Samir Naik (Manitombi Singh), Shanmugam Venkatesh, K.Ajayan, Bijen Singh
   (Tomba Singh), Jo Paul Ancheri, Alex Ambrose (Abhishek Yadav), 
   Baichung Bhutia]

 1.India U-23            2  1  1  0  5- 3  4
 2.Singapore U-23        2  1  1  0  4- 3  4
 3.Vietnam U-23          2  0  0  2  2- 5  0

Group B
[Aug 2]
Petrokimia Putra 1-3 Vietnam
  [Kurniawan Dwi Yulianto 20; Huỳnh Hồng Sơn 14, 69, Lê Huỳnh Đức 56] 
[Aug 4]
Petrokimia Putra 2-0 Thailand U-20
  [Ellie Aboy 48, Jainal Ikhwan 91]
[Aug 6]
Thailand U-20    3-1 Vietnam
  [Panai Kongpraphan 20, Ekkapan Intasen 75, Kittipol Papunga 85; 
   Lê Huỳnh Đức 72]

 1.Vietnam               2  1  0  1  4- 4  3
 2.Petrokimia Putra      2  1  0  1  3- 3  3
 3.Thailand U-20         2  1  0  1  3- 3  3

NB: 2nd place decided by draw; Petrokimia are an Indonesian club team

Semifinals [Aug 8]
India U-23       3-0 Petrokimia Putra
  [Shanmugam Venkatesh 21, Debjit Ghosh 47, Bijen Singh 66]
  [India line-up: Rajat Ghosh Dastidar, Mahesh Gawli, Debjit Ghosh, Deepak
   Mondal, Samir Naik, K.Ajayan, Shanmugam Venkatesh, Tomba Singh (Satish
   Bharti), Jo Paul Ancheri (Arun Malhotra), Alex Ambrose (Bijen Singh), 
   Baichung Bhutia]
Vietnam          3-0 Singapore U-23
  [Huỳnh Hồng Sơn 3, 24, Lê Huỳnh Đức 26]

Final [Aug 10]
Vietnam          2-3 India U-23
  [Lê Huỳnh Đức (1-0), Phùng Thanh Phương (2-0); Baichung Bhutia 44, 48,
   Abhishek Yadav]
  [India line-up: Rajat Ghosh Dastidar, Mahesh Gawli, Debjit Ghosh, Deepak
   Mondal, Samir Naik, K.Ajayan, Shanmugam Venkatesh, Tomba Singh, Jo Paul
   Ancheri, Alex Ambrose (Abhishek Yadav), Baichung Bhutia]

India U-23 squad:

Coach: Stephen Constantine
Sangram Mukherjee	East Bengal Club
Rajat Ghosh Dastidar	Mohun Bagan AC
Nasim Akhtar		Mahindra United
Debjit Ghosh		Mohun Bagan AC
Deepak Mandal		East Bengal Club
Mahesh Gawli		Churchill Brothers SC
Satish Kumar Bharti	Mohun Bagan AC
Samir Naik		Dempo SC
Arun Malhotra		East Bengal Club
Renedy Singh		Mohun Bagan AC
Jo Paul Ancheri		JCT Mills
Manitombi Singh		Salgaocar SC
Tomba Singh		Salgaocar SC
K.Ajayan		Kerala
Shanmugam Venkatesh	East Bengal Club
Sasthi Duley		East Bengal Club
Baichung Bhutia		Mohun Bagan AC
Bijen Singh		Dempo SC
Alex Ambrose		Salgaocar SC
Abhishek Yadav		Mahindra United
Praveen Kumar		Punjab Police

Ho Chi Minh City Cup 2003

Group A
22- 8-2003  Vietnam U-23            0-2 Kookmin Bank FC
24- 8-2003  Kookmin Bank FC         7-0 Pra PON Papua 
26- 8-2003  Vietnam U-23            3-0 Pra PON Papua 

 1.Kookmin Bank FC 2  2  0  0  9- 0  6
 2.Vietnam U-23    2  1  0  1  3- 2  3
 3.Pra PON Papua   2  0  0  2  0-10  0

NB: Pra PON Papua are a regional representation from Indonesia

Group B
22- 8-2003  Thailand U-21           2-1 Singapore U-23 
              [?; Ashrin Shariff]
24- 8-2003  Ho Chi Minh XI          1-3 Thailand U-21
26- 8-2003  Ho Chi Minh XI          3-1 Singapore U-23 
              [?; Aliff Shafaein]

 1.Thailand U-21   2  2  0  0  5- 2  6
 2.Ho Chi Minh XI  2  1  0  1  4- 4  3
 3.Singapore U-23  2  0  0  2  2- 5  0


Semifinals
28- 8-2003  Kookmin Bank FC         3-0 Ho Chi Minh XI          
28- 8-2003  Thailand U-21           0-2 Vietnam U-23

Final
30- 8-2003  Kookmin Bank FC         2-3 Vietnam U-23

Singapore Squad:
GK: Chai Yeow Hwee/Fadfil Salim
DF: Abdul Hadi/Dennis Lim/Faizal Abdul Hamid/Faizal Sazali/Razaleigh Khalik/
    Sevki Sha'aban
MF: Anuar Shah/Dhanaraj Adrian/Firdaus Salleh/Jamil Ali/Shahril Ishak/
    Khairani Sanuci/Ridhuan Muhamad
FW: Aliff Shafaein/Ashrin Shariff/Masrezwan Masturi
Coach: PN Sivaji

Ho Chi Minh City Cup 2009

20-10-2009  Vietnam             1-0 Turkmenistan
20-10-2009  Singapore           1-0 South Korea Univ.
22-10-2009  Vietnam             0-2 South Korea Univ.
22-10-2009  Singapore           4-2 Turkmenistan
24-10-2009  Vietnam             2-2 Singapore
24-10-2009  South Korea Univ.   8-6 Turkmenistan

 1.Singapore                  3  2  1  0  7- 4  7
 2.South Korea University XI  3  2  0  1 10- 7  6
 3.Vietnam                    3  1  1  1  3- 4  4
 4.Turkmenistan               3  0  0  3  8-13  0


About this document

Sources: Persatuan Bolasepak Malaysia (Malaysian FA), Ligina and http://ozsoccer.thehub.com.au/ark/AusSoc.html

Thanks to Arunava Chaudhuri for line-ups and squad of India 2002

Prepared and maintained by Barrie Courtney, Erik Garin, Mikael Jönsson, Bojan Jovanovic, Neil Morrison and Pieter Veroeveren for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

Authors: Barrie Courtney (BzCourtney@aol.com), Erik Garin (garinerik@hispeed.ch), Mikael Jönsson, Bojan Jovanovic, Neil Morrison (nfm24@cam.ac.uk) and Pieter Veroeveren (pieter.veroeveren@chello.be)
Last updated: 13 Jan 2011

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