The new V-League season starts in September, with only breaks for FIFA Days and the AFF Cup.
Vietnam Professional Football Joint Stock Company has just consulted 24/25 professional clubs on the plan to organize the 2024-2025 season, most notably the proposal to open the V-League next September.
"According to the plan, the 2023/2024 season will end in mid-July 2024, and soon after that, the 2024/2025 season is expected to start at the end of August 2024. Vietnam Professional Football Joint Stock Company (VPF Company) hopes to continue to receive the cooperation, consensus, sharing, and responsible cooperation from the Clubs, all together overcoming challenges, starting to implement the best preparation plans for the new season.
The program of the Conference on deploying preparations for organizing the National Professional Football tournaments 2024/2025 today focuses on contents related to the expected competition plan, draft tournament regulations, contents related to the VAR implementation plan, issues to note regarding legal work, and anti-doping medical testing.
In addition, the Conference also took time for the Clubs to participate in discussions and give constructive comments related to the competition plan and draft technical regulations... Based on the comments, VPF Company will be responsible for receiving and synthesizing to continue perfecting the contents and implementing them in the upcoming National Professional Football season", Mr. Nguyen Minh Ngoc - General Director of VPF Company expressed his opinion at the Conference on deploying preparations for organizing the 2024-2025 National Professional Football tournaments.
After some clubs expressed their opinions that the break between the two seasons was too short, the plan to postpone the opening date of V-League 2024-2025 to early September was voted on and approved at the Conference.
Thus, V-League 2024-2025 will open in September 2024 and end in June 2025, there will still be some periods of high-density competition.
One notable point is that the total time V-League 2024 - 2025 is on hiatus for the Vietnamese national team to gather and compete is 116 days, but the tournament will not be affected when the youth teams gather and compete.
After the conference, VPF will send a confirmation document to each Club in V-League, before proposing to the VFF Executive Committee to change the time frame of the national championship.
