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Both men’s and women’s U22 national football teams of Vietnam left for the Philippines on November 22 afternoon to compete in the 30th Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 30).

Midfielder Nguyen Quang Hai will take the armband for U22 Vietnam at the upcoming SEA Games in the Philippines.

The women’s national football team will leave for the Philippines this afternoon to defend their Southeast Asian Games title.

Vietnam’s achievements at 15 SEA Games events.

Midfielders Nguyen Trong Hoang and Do Hung Dung have been chosen as the two over-22 players for Vietnam’s national U22 team to compete in the upcoming 30th SEA Games in the Philippines.

The Vietnamese delegation aims to bag 65-70 gold medals to rank in the top three at the region’s biggest sporting event, 30th SEA Games, in the Philippines.

A send-off ceremony was held in Hanoi on November 16 evening for the 568 athletes who are heading for the 2019 upcoming Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in the Philippines.

The 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 31) and the 11th ASEAN Para Games (Para Games 11) are scheduled to take place in Vietnam in late 2021.

The National Sports Administration will host a ceremony to send off Vietnam’s SEA Games squad in Hanoi on November 16.

Park Hang-seo has extended his contract to coach Vietnam’s national and U23 football teams until 2022.

Vietnam’s national male basketball team and its core of naturalised overseas Vietnamese players are expected to bring home a medal at the upcoming Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in the Philippines.

The capital city of Hanoi has teamed up with the Vietnam Airlines Corporation (Vietnam Airlines) for a promotion campaign both nationally and globally.

Vietnam's U21 team trounced Hanyang University of the Republic of Korea 4-1 in the first match of the International U21 Football Championship 2019 at Hoa Xuan Stadium in the central city of Da Nang on October 30.

As the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games approach, the Vietnam national U22 football team are hard to work preparing for their tilt at the gold medal.

Vietnam's top Muay Thai fighter Nguyen Tran Duy Nhat will compete against Japanese rival Yuta Watanabe in the ONE: Edge of Greatness event to be held at Singapore Indoor Stadium on November 22.

Vietnamese Grandmaster Le Quang Liem finished ninth, while his teammate GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son came 14th at the FIDE Grand Swiss 2019 chess tournament which concluded in England on October 21.

Ly Duy Thanh has been voted first president of the Vietnam Wrestling Federation, which was introduced to the public in Hanoi on October 20.

The Hanoi Promotion Agency (HPA) will launch a tourism promotion programme in Japan and join the Tourism Expo Japan (JATA) 2019 in Osaka later this month, aiming to further exploit the nearly 127 million-strong market.

It has been missing from the last three Southeast Asian Games, but come November, chess will be checking in.

The Vietnamese U22 men’s football team has been drawn to Group B with U22 Thailand and U22 Indonesia at the upcoming 30th Southeast Asia (SEA) Games, according to the drawing results announced by the Olympic Council of Asia.