Vũ Hồng Việt

Vũ Hồng Việt (born 16 March 1979) is a Vietnamese football manager and former footballer who is currently the head coach of V.League 1 club Thép Xanh Nam Định.

Playing career Hồng Việt started his football career in 1997 at Hà Nội (who later become Hà Nội ACB). The peal of his playing career was between 2003 and 2004, while he played for Hoàng Anh Gia Lai and managed to win two V.League 1 titles with the club in 2003 and 2004. He retired in 2009, with his lats club being Hòa Phát Hà Nội.

Managerial career After his retirement, Hồng Việt started his coaching career at Hà Nội reserves and youth side in 2011, where he remained for 8 years. As a manager, his "philosophy is to play small possession, short and attacking". From 2017 to 2018, he took charge of Vietnam's under-15s and under-19s and won the 2017 AFF U-15 Championship.

He coached V.League 1 side Quảng Nam from 2018 and 2020 before resigning in June 2020 after the club dropped into a relegated spot. Thereafter, he served as assistant under Park Hang-seo with the Vietnam national team until August 2022, after accepting the offer to coach Nam Định. There, he helped the club win back-to-back league title, the 2023–24 V.League 1, thus achieving also the first league title in his coaching career and the following season, the 2024–25 V.League 1 title.

On 24 October 2025, he appointed from his role from head coach to technical director of Thep Xanh Nam Dinh. This came after a string of poor results.

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Honours As player Hoàng Anh Gia Lai V.League 1: 2003, 2004 Vietnamese Super Cup: 2003, 2004 As manager Vietnam U15 AFF U-16 Championship: 2017 Vietnam U19 International Thanh Niên Newspaper Cup: 2017, 2018 Thép Xanh Nam Định V.League 1: 2023–24, 2024–25 Individual V.League 1 Manager of the Season: 2023–24, 2024–25