CLB Long An


Câu lạc bộ Bóng đá Long An, simply known as Long An, is a professional football club, based in Long An, Vietnam. They are playing in V.League 2.
The team is playing at Long An Stadium. New name CLB Long An was adopted on December 12, 2015 to replace CLB Đồng Tâm Long An.

History

Forerunner of the football club Đồng Tâm Long An is the merger of the two football teams: Team Long An and Đồng Tâm Tiles young team.
From the mid-'90s, Đồng Tâm has focused on sports activities for staffs in the company, especially football. Since then young football team movement Gach Đồng Tâm was born in 1996 and developed in parallel with the general business activities of the Company.
In 2000, in response to the state's glue called the socialization of sports in Vietnam, and the attention and support of the Long An Province People's Committee, the Company has been working and consulting with the Department of Provincial Sport Long An Province to take over the football team Long An are playing in the Championship.
After receiving teams, Board staff sent abroad to visit and learn from professional football model in developing football nations like Argentina, Portugal, Italy.. selection, application and model building successful first professional football club in Vietnam.
In 2001, the team switched to a professional model, is transferred to the Đồng Tâm Joint Stock Company management, merged into the team of the Company, the implementation new game called football club, Đồng Tâm Long An Tiles. Vo Quoc Thang, Chairman of Đồng Tâm Joint Stock Company, interested in construction investment, the team had many outstanding progress and become one of the "big four" in the V-League with Becamex Bình Dương, SHB Đà Nẵng and Hoàng Anh Gia Lai.
The club also built a reserve squad named Tile Dong Tam Long An to play in the Second Division. In late 2005, the club received the team's football club Bank of East Asia to build a second team called Son Dong Tam Long An to play in the National Football League in Vietnam 2006. However, the end of the 2006 season, the team Son Dong Tam Long An was transferred to the limited liability company Royal Sports Development for the core football club founded Cement Vinakansai Ninh Binh.
From the 2007 season, the team changed its name to football club Đồng Tâm Long An.

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Stadium

Long An Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Tân An, Vietnam. It is used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Đồng Tâm. The stadium holds 20,000 people.

Record as V.League 1 member

SeasonPldWonDrawLostGFGAGDPTSFinal positionNotes
2003 V-League2211743417+17402nd
2004 V-League2212284133+8383rd
2005 V-League2212644325+1842ChampionsQualified for 2006 AFC Champions League
2006 V-League2412483832+640ChampionsQualified for 2007 AFC Champions League
2007 V-League2612864429+15442nd
2008 V-League2613675136+15452nd
2009 V-League2671364337+63410th
2010 V-League2613494331+12435th
2011 V-League2686123144−133013thRelegation to 2012 Vietnamese First Division
2013 V.League 12071123153−22229th
2014 V.League 12256112945−162111th
2017 V.League 12624203066−361014thRelegation to 2018 V.League 2

Honors

National competitions

;League
;Cup
SeasonCompetitionRoundClubHomeAwayAggregate
2006AFC Champions LeagueGroup G Shanghai Shenhua2–41–32nd
2007AFC Champions LeagueGroup G Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma1–21–44th
2007AFC Champions LeagueGroup G Adelaide United0–20–34th
2007AFC Champions LeagueGroup G Shandong Luneng Taishan2–30–44th

Current squad

As April 2018

Current coaching staff

Head coach history

Head coaches by Years
NameNatPeriodHonours
Henrique Calisto2001
Henrique Calisto2003–08
Ernaldo de Melo Patricio2008
Stefan Hansson2008
Trần Công Minh2008–09
José Luís2009–10
Trần Công Minh2010
Ricardo Formosinho2010

NameNatPeriodHonours
Marcelo Javier Zuleta2010–11
Marco Cerqueira2011
Simon McMenemy2011
Ranko Buketa2011–12
Trần Công Minh2012
Francisco Vital2012–13
Marcelo Javier Zuleta2013
Ngô Quang Sang2013–2017
Nguyễn Minh Phương2017–2018
Phan Văn Giàu2018–2019
Ngô Quang Sang2019–