Việt Trì Stadium

Việt Trì Stadium is an association football stadium located in Thanh Miếu ward, Phú Thọ province, Vietnam. This stadium, with a capacity of nearly 20,000 seats, is located in the premises of the Sports Complex of Phú Thọ province.^[1]

The stadium is the home ground of Phú Thọ Football Club and is emerging as a new favorite home ground for the Vietnam national football team, due to the ever-victorious record of the team when playing at this stadium, also citing Vietnam's successful campaigns at the 2021 SEA Games and the 2024 ASEAN Championship.

Việt Trì Stadium has existed since the 1960s. In 2005, it was invested and built by the People's Committee of Phú Thọ province with an investment of about 100 billion VND.^[2] Due to many years without a major tournament, many items of the yard have deteriorated. However, in recent years, the sport movement has received the attention of the Provincial Party Committee and the People's Committee of Phú Thọ province, especially strongly investing in football. In April 2019, the province focused resources on repairing and upgrading Việt Trì Stadium's facilities and a number of other necessary sports items and institutions, serving the sports needs of the people and host domestic and international football matches.^[3][4] After being renovated, the stadium hosted an international friendly match between Vietnam U23 and Myanmar U23 on June 7, 2019; It is also the venue for the matches of Phú Thọ Football Club in Vietnamese League Three 2019, Vietnamese League Two 2020.

Việt Trì Stadium hosted Group A in men's football at the 2021 SEA Games. It also hosted all of home matches at the 2024 ASEAN Championship including finals.