Concerns about V-League hitting 'desolate' bottom

The V-League organizers and VPF have been thinking about the prospect of the V-League gradually losing its audience and one day not far away will have to face deserted stands.

Or one day when the owners and clubs are "caught" like Dong Nai is, the V-League will burst like a bubble and the teams will have to reorganize, then where will everything go?

With Vietnamese football, if every locality acts harshly and correctly like Dong Nai by "attacking" spending that is not in line with goals, policies, financial loss, investment waste... then the areas related to football will definitely be heavily affected.

Professional football in Vietnam is essentially just a "cover" for many owners, the rest still live mainly on subsidy, although every team is built as a joint stock company model but the revenue is never enough to cover expenses.

The stands were deserted.

Most football managers do not calculate the profit or loss from football, but only calculate the investment in this team, what the province will give, how many preferential projects and how much prime land will be cut... Not to mention that many teams still cling to the budget, which if touched correctly and seriously, will go bankrupt like the Dong Nai team is going bankrupt or many leaders will go to jail like the leader of the Lam Dong Lottery team who went to jail.

The "example" before our eyes is Dong Nai Club, which has been playing professional football for three years and was touched, leaving a deficit of over 90 billion VND with no solution.

More importantly, the way the clubs do things has greatly affected the quality and interest of fans. How many stadiums are always as crowded as the home stadiums of Thanh Hoa, Than Quang Ninh or sometimes even HA Gia Lai, SL Nghe An…?

Recently, VPF General Director Cao Van Chong called on all parties to roll up their sleeves and build a truly professional football. That is very necessary, but more than anyone else, VPF must be the leader in the campaign to create a new version of V-League.

Previously, the Thai-League was the same and there were matches where the number of officials on duty was larger than the number of spectators, but it was the drastic innovation of Thai football managers that turned Thai-League version 2.0 into a festival and the clubs were able to stand and walk on their own two feet.

Last season, Singapore’s S-League had to “buy” audiences. Typically, each spectator who entered the stadium to watch a match would receive a free meal and pocket 10 Singapore dollars (equivalent to 165,000 VND). And now, the Singaporean football leaders have determined that if they do not change, they will die, so they are determined to reform.

As for V-League, only the VPF general director is screaming, even lamenting that the people above should stop fighting and join hands to take care of V-League.

How many people are worried that V-League has hit rock bottom and are sad when the stadiums are increasingly empty of spectators while still being decorated with titles from AFF and AFC?

According to PLO