Sport

Do Duy Manh of Hanoi T&T is the only footballer to be nominated for two categories of the 2015 Vietnam Golden Ball Awards – best male player and best young male player.

Over 5,000 local and foreign runners will race in the Da Nang Barefoot Run 2015-16 across central city's pristine white My Khe Beach on December 6.

Major Vietnamese TV stations have reached a pact on how much they are willing to pay for English Premier League football coverage for the 2016-2019 seasons.

Vietnam won a gold and a silver medal at the International Boxing Tournament Balkan 2015, which ended in Bulgaria.

Rock climbing was first introduced to Vietnam in 2006 by foreign climbers. The sport is now becoming more popular and attracting an increasing number of local young people.

Vietnam will have three players taking part in the 2015 Three-Cushion Billiards World Championship in Bordeaux, France on December 1 to 5.

Top badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh has moved into the quarter-finals of the 2015 Bahrain International Challenge, according to a post in the Tien Phong Online Newspaper.

The Ministry of Communications and Information has stepped into the on-going fight over exclusive broadcasting rights for English Premiere League in an attempt to halt a bidding war.

Nguyen Quoc Hy tied in the ninth match at the ongoing World Youth and Cadets Chess Championships in Greece.

The sport sector plans a budget of 1,757 billion VND (about 78 million USD) for the organisation of the 2021 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games, Tran Duc Phan, deputy head of the National Sports Administration, was quoted as saying in

Rainforest Challenge Vietnam 2015 has kicked off in the southern province of Binh Duong, with 33 domestic and foreign teams participating.

Viet Nam earlier this month, for the second time in four years, was named Golf Destination of the Year for Asia & Australasia by the International Association of Golf Tour Operators (IAGTO).

The Vietnam Professional Football Company appointed a new director and will attempt to overhaul its operations after widespread criticism of the quality of the domestic V-League.

Vietnamese gymnasts will get another chance to book their berth in the Summer Olympics in Brazil, despite their defeat at the world championships in Scotland recently.

The 2016 AFF U-16 Youth Football Championship is set to get underway in Vietnam, as approved by the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF), said the Vietnam Football Federation.

Vietnamese GM Le Quang Liem (Elo 2,697) was named the overall winner of the 2015 SPICE Cup Open chess tournament after drawing with former Ukrainian champion, Illya Nyzhnyk (Elo 2,628).

Over 500 Vietnamese and international runners are expected to take part in the first Laguna Lang Co Marathon races on October 24-25.

Thailand beat Viet Nam 3-0 to lead the group F in the 2018 FIFA World Cup/2019 AFC Asian Cup joint-qualifiers at Ha Noi's My Dinh Stadium yesterday.

Viet Nam's coach Toshyia Miura wants his team to beat Thailand by at least one goal when the two meet in the 2018 World Cup qualification round tonight in Ha Noi.