Vietnam National Games


The Vietnam National Games is a major national multi-sport event normally held in Vietnam once every four years, organised by the . The inaugural Games took place in 1985 in Hanoi, and the most recent was held in 2022 in Quảng Ninh.
Almost every sports delegations representing provinces, cities, ministries, and sectors that have participated in the Games throughout history have won at least one medal in every edition, except for four delegations: Hà Tuyên, Nam Hà, Nghĩa Bình và Thuận Hải, which have never won any medals; these were all former provinces that have now been dissolved, forming eight successor administrative units: Hà Giang and Tuyên Quang, Nam Định and Hà Nam, Quảng Ngãi and Bình Định, Bình Thuận and Ninh Thuận. After becoming independent, these provinces continued to send athletes to participate as separate sports delegations, and it was from this point that they began to achieve their first significant successes.
The Games have been held in 5 provinces & cities: five times in Hanoi, and once each in Đà Nẵng, Nam Định, Quảng Ninh, and Ho Chi Minh City.
Hanoi hosted five times, while four provinces & cities have each hosted once: Ho Chi Minh City will host the games for the second time in 2026. Hanoi leads the all time medal count for the Vietnam National Games, and has topped the medal table on 6 separate occasions.

Hosting

Hanoi has hosted the Vietnam National Games five times in 1985, 1990, 1995, 2002 and 2018.
The other provinces & cities to have hosted the Vietnam National Games are Đà Nẵng, Nam Định, Quảng Ninh, and Ho Chi Minh City. with provinces & cities having hosted only one occasion. The 10th Vietnam National Games in Ho Chi Minh City will mark the second time on which the Vietnam National Games have been hosted.

History

The National Games were held every 5 years from 1985 to 1995, with the first National Games occurred in Hanoi, the games were held every five years, then it paused for almost a decade. It wasn't until 2002 that the next National Games, the 4th National Games, was held and since then the National Games has been held regularly every four years until the present.

Future Games

The 10th National Games will be held in Ho Chi Minh City, making it the second city after Hanoi to host the National Games two times.

Sports

There has been a total of 60 sports in the National Games, with many of them are Summer Olympics, Asian Games, and the SEA Games.

All-time medal table

Notes:
  • All medal achievements listed below are based only on the statistics up to the end of the 2018 Vietnam National Games.
  • The three-code abbreviation for the names of participating sports delegations only began to be used on the system starting from the 2022 Vietnam National Games, so sports delegations that ceased to exist before that time will not have an abbreviation.
''status after the 2022 Vietnam National Games''

Medal leaders by year

Number of occurrences
RankNumber of games
1 Hanoi6 times
2Ho Chi Minh City3 times