PVF-CAND FC


PVF-Cong An Nhan Dan Football Club, simply known as PVF-CAND, is a professional football club based in Hưng Yên, Vietnam. The club play their home matches at PVF Stadium and compete in the V.League 1, the top flight of Vietnamese football league system. Formed in 2018 as Phố Hiến FC, the club adopted their current name in 2023.

History

Prior to the creation of the team, the PVF Football Academy handed every year all its graduated players to other Vietnamese professional football clubs, which caused difficulties for several players to adapt to the new environment. For that reason, Vingroup, the owner of the PVF Academy established Phố Hiến FC in April 2018 in order to receive the graduated players from the PVF Academy and introduce them to the professional football level. The team's home ground PVF Stadium is situated in the PVF Football Academy training center located in Hưng Yên. During the first season of its existence, club competed in the 2018 Vietnamese National Football Second League and won the promotion to the 2019 V.League 2 after defeating Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu in the promotion play-offs. In the following season at the professional level, the club left big impressions to the media and fans as they finished runner-up in the V.League 2 with the youngest squad among all the teams.
Since 2023, the club is owned by the Ministry of Public Security and adopted the name PVF-CAND, with CAND as an abbreviation for People's Public Security. In the 2023 season, the club finished as V.League 2 runner-up for the second time in their history and reached the Vietnamese Cup semi-finals, being the first V.League 2 team to achieve that since 2005.
On 4 August 2025, following Quang Nam withdrawal from the 2025–26 V.League 1, PVF-CAND, who finished third in the 2024–25 V.League 2's was chosen by the VPF to replace Quang Nam's slot, as V.League 2 runners-up Truong Tuoi Dong Nai refused to participate. This will be PVF-CAND's first ever appearance in the V.League 1.

Name history

  • 2018–2022: Pho Hien FC
  • 2023–present: '''PVF-CAND FC'''

    Domestic league records

Players

Current squad

''As of 27 August 2025''

Out on loan

Notable players

The players in bold had capped for the Vietnam national team while playing for the club.

Current staff

PositionName
Manager

Managerial history

Honours

Senior

National competitions

  • Vietnamese League Two
  • *Third place : 2018
  • V.League 2
  • *Runners-up : 2019, 2023, 2023–24
  • Vietnamese National Football Cup
  • *Third place : 2023

    Other competitions

  • Four-Team Football Tournament - Thái Nguyên:
  • *Third place : 2025

    Youth

  • Vietnamese National U-21 Football Championship
  • *Winners : 2023
  • *Runners-up : 2019
  • *Third place : 2021

    Reserves team

The reserves team of PVF-CAND currently competes at the 2025–26 V.League 2.

Coaching staff

Current squad

''As of 3 October 2025''