Under FIFA’s decision, the Women’s World Cup will be expanded from the next edition in 2023.

In the 24-team format, national teams in Asia vie for five slots. Even though FIFA has yet to announce the number of berths awarded to each of the continental zones in the new format, Asia is expected have at least one more representative at the future Women’s World Cup.

Members of the Vietnamese women's football team celebrate their gold medal at the 29th SEA Games.

The national women’s football team of Vietnam stayed at the 35th position overall and sixth place in Asia in the latest FIFA rankings.

Five teams of Australia, Japan, China, the Republic of Korea (RoK) and Thailand represented Asia at the 2019 Women’s World Cup.

Vietnam had entered the final qualifying tournament but they were placed in a tough group comprising of Australia, Japan and the RoK.

Toyota junior football camp 2019 to kick off

The Toyota Junior Football Programme 2019 for young players aged from 9 to 12 will be held between June 22 and August 11.

Football body, German club inks cooperation deal

The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) and Germany’s VfL Wolfsburg football club inked a cooperation memorandum of understanding (MoU) in Hanoi on June 18.

Hai named in top 6 Asian footballers ready to play in Europe

Vietnamese midfielder Nguyen Quang Hai has been named one of six notable names of Asia that are good enough to play in Europe this summer.

Vietnam football team, coach appointed ambassadors for anti-plastic waste campaign

The Vietnamese national men’s football team and its coach will be ambassadors for a campaign to limit single-use plastic products.

10 football clubs ready to compete in Vietfootball Cup 2019

The Vietfootball Cup 2019 is scheduled to take place between June 9 and August 11 in Hanoi, with a total of 10 football clubs from across the country set to participate.

Source: VNA