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Hồ Chí Minh City Police FC

Hồ Chí Minh City Police FC

Vietnamese football club

Ho Chi Minh City Police F.C. (Vietnamese: Công An Thành Phố Hồ Chí Minh) were a Vietnamese football club based in Ho Chi Minh City. They were champions in the 1995 season of the V-League, Vietnam's top-level association football league. They placed as runners-up in the 1993–94, 1996, 1999–2000, and 2001–02 seasons.[1] Star striker Lê Huỳnh Đức, who later went on to lead Đà Nẵng F.C. to win the 2009 V-League championship as manager, played for the club from 1992 through 2000.[2][3] In 1998, the team played a nationally televised friendly match against the semi-professional San Francisco Bay Seals, winning 3–1. The match marked the first time an American professional soccer team had played in post-war Vietnam.[4]

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Achievements

National competitions

League
1st place, gold medalist(s) Winners : 1995
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runners-up : 1993–94, 1996, 1999–2000, 2001–02
Cup
1st place, gold medalist(s) Winners : 1998,2001
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runners-up : 2000
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runners-up : 1999, 2001

Notes and references

  1. [1]
    Lịch sử Vleague (V-League History) Archived 2011-04-27 at the Wayback Machine. V-League. 2010.
  2. [2]
    "Huỳnh Đức Lê". National-Football-Teams.com.
  3. [3]
    Le Huynh Duc – the young talented manager Archived 2011-08-15 at the Wayback Machine. Vietnamese Ministry of Culture and Information. August 14, 2009.
  4. [4]
    U.S. Semipro Soccer Team Visits Vietnam. Associated Press. February 15, 1998.


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