PVF Football Academy

The Promotion Fund of Vietnamese Football Talent Football Academy (PVF), officially operating as the PVF Youth Football Training Center - Ministry of Public Security (Vietnamese: Trung tâm Đào tạo Bóng đá trẻ PVF - Bộ Công An), is a privately-established football academy based in Hưng Yên. The institution is now under the formal administration of the Vietnam Ministry of Public Security.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}

By 2020, PVF has been recognized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) as a three-star academy under the AFC Elite Youth Scheme, becoming the first football academy in Southeast Asia to enjoy the status.^[8][9]

The Promotion Fund of Vietnamese Football Talent (PVF, Vietnamese: Quỹ Đầu tư và Phát triển Tài năng Bóng đá Việt Nam) was founded and contributed capital by 03 members of Vingroup Group: Thien Tam Fund (80% contribution); PVF Investment and Trading, JSC (10%) and Vinpearl One Member Limited Company (10%). The foundation was founded on the idea of the late Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet with the aim of forming a system of training young professional soccer players of international standards, contributing to building young generations of young players. the talent and ethics, culture for the country football.

On December 4, 2008, PVF officially launched and June 12, 2009 opened the first course with 50 students selected from all over the country at the age of birth in 1997–1998. Since its founding, PVF's teams have made great achievements in the national youth football tournaments. By the beginning of 2016, PVF has made seven enrollments nationwide and has 175 students from 11 to 18 years of age in eight gifted classes. In the V-League 2016, all 13 players of the first course were loaned to PVF for loan.

PVF Youth Training Center is located in Van Giang district, Hung Yen province, which is the youngest football training center in Southeast Asia.

PVF football training center is invested by Vingroup Group to build the most modern facilities on the area of nearly 22ha. PVF is equipped with the world's first soccer-themed decorations such as the dream: the 360s studio set was developed by Portugal's Benfica Lab 1; PlayerTek - Player performance monitor; sports science and sports facilities with 1600m2 gym equipped with 66 specialized equipment; 02 extreme polar extremes, 01 foam processing material under water.

With stadium 3,600 web pages equipped with system technology and standard tournament equipment of the national tournament, is a set of systems of Vietnam including 06 stadiums 11v11 with grass field staff created. FIFA Quality Pro certification. The special, first at a field, standard roof panel 11v11 was built with a 12m high covering covering the entire area of more than 8,800 m2. Design and build the airport design from the best materials and equipment: drainage systems in Australia's Megaflo, the Hunter system in the United States, and plants that produce Greenfields products in the Netherlands.

PVF continues to lead the 8-storey dormitory system with a cafeteria, conference hall, library, movie theater, gym and sports tournaments.

Senior tournaments

• Vietnamese Second League

Group third place : 2020

• Vietnamese Third League

Group winners : 2019

Youth tournaments

• Vietnam National U-21 Championship

Winners : 2023

Runners-up : 2019, 2024

Third place : 2021

• Vietnam National U-19 Championship

Winners : 2015, 2020, 2021, 2024–25

Runners-up : 2017

Third place : 2016

• Vietnam National U-17 Championship

Winners : 2014, 2015, 2017, 2022

Runners-up : 2013, 2016, 2019

Third place : 2018, 2020, 2023, 2024

• Vietnam National U15 Championship

Winners : 2012, 2013, 2017, 2022, 2023

Runners-up : 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019

Third place : 2018, 2020

• Vietnamese National U-13 Championship

Winners : 2010, 2012, 2021

Runners-up : 2011, 2018

Third place : 2019, 2022

• Vietnam National U-11 Championship

Winners : 2011

Third place : 2019, 2020

As of 8 April 2025^[10]

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

Since its first generation graduated players in 2016, PVF Academy officially granted certificates of completion of formation courses to players and then handed some of them to Vietnamese professional football clubs. Therefore, since 2018, Phố Hiến FC was established and competes in the V.League 2, the second highest tier in the Vietnamese professional football system. The team is considered as the first team of the PVF Football Academy and is constituted mainly by its players. Below is a non-exhaustive list of notable players who trained in the youth or reserve teams of PVF.^[11] Players in bold are those who capped for their National team.

In March 2016, PVF and Gamba Osaka (Japan) signed a comprehensive cooperation agreement in two years. Gamba Osaka team will take the coach to help PVF train players, as well as select a number of potential faces to bring to Japan for advanced training or competition for Gamba Osaka. In addition, each year, Gamba Osaka will invite PVF youth teams to Japan to compete in international competitions held by this club.

• Official website