Song Lam Nghe An FC
association football club in Vietnam
Song Lam Nghe An Football Club (Vietnamese: Câu lạc bộ Bóng đá Sông Lam Nghệ An), simply known as SLNA, is a professional football club based in Thành Vinh ward, Nghệ An, Vietnam. The club play their home matches at Vinh Stadium and compete in the V.League 1, the top flight of Vietnamese football league system.
On the domestic level, with 10 major titles at the first team and several titles in Vietnamese youth competitions, Song Lam Nghe An is one of the most successful football clubs in Vietnam. In the 2009–2010 and 2010–2011 seasons, under head coach Nguyễn Hữu Thắng, Song Lam Nghe An achieved all three major domestic titles: the V.League 1, Vietnamese Cup, and the Vietnamese Super Cup. Song Lam Nghe An have a tradition of only using domestic players from the club's youth academy. Most domestic players in the club's history are from Nghệ An province or Hà Tĩnh province, a usual thing among Vietnamese teams. With a quality youth academy, Song Lam Nghe An are one of the clubs that had contributed the most players to the Vietnam national football team. Furthermore, they are the first and only team to have reached 1000 points in the V.League 1.
History
During the French colonial period, the Vinh - Ben Thuy area once had a famous football team called the Yellow Shirt Team. This is considered the beginning of Nghe An football tradition.
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