Expanding Footy 9s into Vietnam is part of our plan to grow the game in Asia.
Footy 9s is played on rectangular fields, allowing the sport to be played on any soccer or rugby field.
There are 3 great formats to choose from – Men’s Footy, Women’s Footy and Touch Footy.
Get Involved
If you are keen to be involved with the development of the sport in Vietnam, we would love to hear from you. Please contact us via info@aflinternational.com.
AUSTRALIA & VIETNAM
According to the 2016 Census, aside from English, Vietnamese was the fourth most common language spoken at home in Australia (1.2 per cent of the total population). The first major wave of Vietnamese migration to Australia started in the mid-1970s, with the arrival of large numbers of refugees following the end of the Vietnam War. Australian and Vietnamese links continue to grow via personal ties forged through tourism, business, education and volunteering.
The 2016 census recorded 294,798 people of Vietnamese ancestry, with 219,355 people born in Vietnam.
AFL PLAYERS
Jayden Nguyen
TEAM VIETNAM
Team Vietnam has participated in the AFI Harmony Cup in Melbourne.
Vietnam is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. The name Vietnam translates as “Southern Viet” (synonymous with the much older term Nam Viet); it was first officially adopted in 1802 by Emperor Gia Long, and was adopted again in 1945 with the founding of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh.
The country is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and Malaysia across the South China Sea to the southeast. Its capital city has been Hanoi since the reunification of North and South Vietnam in 1976.
Vietnam was part of Imperial China for over a millennium, from 111 BC to AD 939. The Vietnamese became independent in 939, following the Vietnamese victory in the Battle of Bạch Đằng River. Successive Vietnamese royal dynasties flourished as the nation expanded geographically and politically into Southeast Asia, until the Indochina Peninsula was colonized by the French in the mid-19th century.
Following a Japanese occupation in the 1940s, the Vietnamese fought French rule in the First Indochina War, eventually expelling the French in 1954. Thereafter, Vietnam was divided politically into two rival states, North and South Vietnam. Conflict between the two sides intensified, with heavy intervention from the US, in what is known as the Vietnam War. The war ended with a North Vietnamese victory in 1975.
