Hanoi FC Reserves and Academy

The Hanoi Football Club Reserves & Academy (Vietnamese: Trung tâm đào tạo bóng đá trẻ Hà Nội FC) are the reserve team and academy of Vietnamese team Hanoi FC, based in Hanoi. The reserves squad play in the Vietnamese Second League, the third division of Vietnamese football league system.

After Hanoi T&T Football Club was established in 2006, the team's youth academy was inaugurated. The academy received training for a large number of youth players from the Hanoi Sports Center in Gia Lâm, Hanoi. In 2012, the academy merged with the VSH Academy owned by former Vietnamese international Văn Sỹ Hùng in Nghệ An and turned it into a satelitte academy of the main academy. The VSH branch would only trained players under-15 players and promising young talents will be transferred to the Hanoi Center to pursuit with higher training.^[1] In 2022, the club opened another satelitte youth academy in Bắc Giang.^[2]

Hanoi FC sent many scouts to many localities in the North. Scouts will closely follow youth tournaments in many provinces to discover players with high potential from 11 years old to welcome them into the centralized accommodation at Hanoi's youth training center.^[3]

The team's training method is done scientifically, with connections between the age categories, ensuring the continuous and unified development of the players. The team builds a tight connection with its satellite academies, unifying the playing style of the players and the management apparatus. All exercises and development plans are aimed at building the football philosophy of the club's first team. The coaches in the Hanoi FC youth academy are required to have at least an AFC Pro Diploma.^[4][5]

With several achievements at Vietnamese youth football tournaments and the number of alumni players that became Vietnamese internationals, the Hanoi FC football academy is considered as one of the best football academies in Vietnam and in Southeast Asia.^[1][6] In the 2023 V.League 1 season, the Hanoi FC academy had the most former academy players competing in the league.^[7]

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• Vietnam National U-21 Championship

Winners : 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2022

Runners-up : 2014, 2021

Third place : 2009, 2023

• Vietnam National U-19 Championship

Winners : 2011, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022, 2024

Runners-up : 2015, 2018

Third place : 2013, 2023

• Vietnam National U-17 Championship

Winners : 2024

Runners-up : 2014,

Third place : 2013, 2016, 2022

• Vietnam National U-15 Championship

Runners-up : 2011, 2012, 2016, 2019

Third place : 2014, 2015

The following players were registered for the 2025 Vietnamese Second Division.^[8]

As of 25 March 2025

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

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Below is a non-exhaustive list of notable players who trained in the youth or reserve teams of Hanoi FC. Players in bold are those who capped for their National team.^[6]

• Official website