Main Sponsor Announcement Ceremony and Draw to schedule the Women’s National Football Championship – Thai Son Bac Cup 2022

On the morning of August 8, at VFF’s house, a ceremony to announce the main sponsor and a draw to schedule the match schedule of the National Women’s Football Championship – Thai Son Bac Cup 2022 which is organised by VFF coordinated with Thai Son Bac Electrical Equipment Trading Company.

  08/08/2022 22:48:57

The delegation included Mr. Ngo Ich Quan – Director of the High Performance Sports Department of the General Department of Physical Training and Sports. On the VFF’s side, there were Mr. Tran Anh Tu – Standing Member of the Executive Committee, Mr. Le Hoai Anh – General Secretary, Mr. Pham Ngoc Tuan – Member of the Executive Committee, Head of the Grassroots Football Committee; Mr. Nguyen Minh Chau – Deputy General Secretary and Mrs. Nguyen Thanh Ha – Deputy General Secretary. On the main sponsor side, Thai Son Bac Electrical Equipment Trading Co., Ltd. has Mr. Bui Dinh Te – Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company. The ceremony to announce the main sponsor and draw the schedule for the National Women’s Football Championship – Thai Son Bac Cup 2022 also attended by Mr. Mai Duc Chung – Head coach of the national women’s team. Mr. Mai The Hung – Director of External Relations – Communication of Dong Luc Joint Stock Company and representatives of football teams and press agencies in Hanoi.

Speaking at the ceremony, Mr. Le Hoai Anh – VFF General Secretary said that the Women’s National Championship – Thai Son Bac Cup was held following the Women’s National Cup, thereby helping female players to have a conditions to compete more, accumulate experience, prove capacity to be selected by the coaching assistants of the national women’s team and have the opportunity to participate in the formation to compete in the FIFA World Cup 2023.

“VFF appreciates and thanks for the companionship into the 11th year of Thai Son Bac Electrical Equipment Trading Co. for the women’s national football championship. Besides, Dong Luc Joint Stock Company continues to be the ball sponsor for the tournament. This partnership further contributes to the socialization of football, promoting the development of this dedicated sport. Once again, VFF would like to thank the cooperation of the Sponsor – Thai Son Bac Electrical Equipment Trading Co., Ltd., Dong Luc Joint Stock Company and other partners “- Mr. Le Hoai Anh shared.

In the role of the main sponsor of the tournament, Mr. Bui Dinh Te – Chairman of the Board of members of Thai Son Bac Electrical Equipment Trading Co., Ltd said: “As of this year, Thai Son Bac Company has accompanied the national women’s football championship for 11 consecutive years. In the 11 years, Vietnamese women’s football has maintained, developed and won many proud achievements. This year, our women’s football won the 31st SEA Games and participated in the women’s soccer World Cup for the first time next year. It can be seen that women’s football has become one of the strong sports of Vietnam and this is also the main reason for us to try to maintain the companionship with the women’s tournament. Mr. Bui Dinh Te shared, in terms of movement, women’s football needs to have a breakthrough, although has achieved some remarkable achievements as well as attracted more attention from the public, even there are some new sponsors joining, the number of football clubs in the country has not increased. “We hope that in the coming time, there will be a stronger involvement of the authorities and society to help women’s football grow stronger in both depth and breadth, attract more players and spectators come to this playground. As the main sponsor of the tournament, we believe that with the enthusiastic and professional work of the organizers, with the attention and support of the media, the award will be a great success. and through the tournament, the best team will be selected for the national team to participate in this year’s world cup,” said Mr. Bui Dinh Te.

After the signing of cooperation between VFF and Thai Son Bac Electrical Equipment Trading Co., Ltd, the draw ceremony to schedule the women’s national championship – Thai Son Bac Cup 2022 took place. Participating in this year’s tournament are 7 teams: defending champion Ho Chi Minh City I, Hanoi I, Hanoi II, Ho Chi Minh City II, Phong Phu Ha Nam, Vietnam Coal and Minerals and Thai Nguyen T&T. Teams compete in round-robin format (first leg and second leg) to rate from First to Seventh. This year’s tournament still applies FIFA’s new rules on player substitution, whereby each team is allowed to replace up to 5 players in a maximum of 3 substitutions.

The first leg of the tournament will start from August 30 to September 24, 2022, at the Vietnam Youth Football Training Center. The second leg is expected to take place from October 5 to October 30, 2022 at Ha Nam Stadium (Phu Ly City, Ha Nam Province).

Also in the ceremony, the representative of VFF announced notable information about VFF continuing to extend the contract with coach Mai Duc Chung as the head coach of the national women’s football team (contract period from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023).