Hoang Anh Gia Lai F.C.

Early years

The forerunner of the club is Gia Lai - Kon Tum football team, founded in November 1975 and first compete in regional championship in the early of 1976. Despite being an amateur team, the team also once won the A2 championship (equivalent to the A2 championship) including South Central and Central Highlands. In 1991, the province Gia Lai - Kon Tum was separated into Gia Lai and Kon Tum. As the result, the team was split into the Gia Lai football team and Kon Tum football team. Some players of the former Gia Lai - Kon Tum team returned to be the core of the new Gia Lai team.

Hoang Anh Gia Lai era

For 10 years, the team was organized with the model of a career unit with an average performance in the First Division and not very well known on the football map of Vietnam. In 2001, the team was transformed into a semi-professional model under the sponsorship of Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group. Before the football season V.League 2 2001–2002, the club's chairman Đoàn Nguyên Đức signed a contract with the captain of Thailand national football team at that time, Kiatisuk Senamuang. In the Thai press ran big "headline" "Who is Hoang Anh? Where is Gia Lai" full of ridicule, and the media in Vietnam also have many doubts about the ability to attract a high-class player like Kiatisuk to Gia Lai. However, all rumors ended on February 17, 2002, when Kiatisuk and teammate defender Chukiat Noosarung came to Vietnam to prepare to play for the team. This is considered…

Head coaches by years (2003–present)

National competitions

League V.League 1 Winners: 2003, 2004, 2021 Third place: 2007, 2013 Cup Vietnamese Super Cup: Winners: 2003, 2004 Vietnamese Cup Runners-up: 2010 Third place: 2014, 2022

Other competitions

ASEAN Club Championship: Third place: 2005 BTV Cup: Winners : 2018 Quang Trung Emperor's Cup: Winners: 2022 Four-Team Football Tournament - Thái Nguyên: Winners: 2025