Ho Chi Minh City FC

The Saigon Port Football Club and the Saigon Port Corporation are the two predecessors of the Ho Chi Minh City Football Club. The Saigon Port Company, formerly known as the Saigon Port Football Club, was formally created on November 1, 1975.

The Saigon Port Corporation's officials claimed at the end of 2008 that they no longer had the means to support the football squad. Due to the fact that they only had one primary sponsor, the Vietnam Steel Company, the club's leadership decided to alter the team's name in order to operate on a professional model. The name Ho Chi Minh City Football Club was adopted with the permission of the club's management unit, the Ho Chi Minh City Football Company Ltd, and the Ho Chi Minh City Football Federation, with a 15 billion Vietnamese dong investment for the team.

Because of their devotion to the heritage connected with the name Saigon Port, the club's supporters have expressed disappointment and resistance to the decision to alter the name. Yet, the club's objective was to become a major football club in Ho Chi Minh City, as well as to promote the acquisition of government and commercial aid. The club officially changed its name to Ho Chi Minh City Football Club on January 22, 2009, with the Vietnam Steel Corporation serving as the team's primary sponsor.

The supporters were vehemently opposed to the name change. The whole Fans Association Executive Committee resigned, and the Saigon Port Football Supporters Association dissolved, generating problems for the team in its first season under the new name. They were demoted again in the 2009 season.

The Ho Chi Minh City Football Club won the 2016 V.League 2 and was promoted to the V.League 1. The squad finished 12th in the league standings in 2017.

Following returning to the V.League 1 in 2017, the team focused more on drawing spectators to the stadium by listening to supporters' criticism and renovating the stadium, stands, and so on. As a consequence, the club's reputation among supporters progressively improved. After that, the Ho Chi Minh City Football Club Fans Association was formed.

All results list Ho Chi Minh City's goal tally first.

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1993–94	Asian Cup Winner' Cup	First round	Sarawak FA	w/o[lower-alpha 1]
		Second round	Semen Padang	0–1	1–1	1–2
1995–96	Asian Club Championship	First round	Pahang FA	w/o[lower-alpha 2]
1998–99	Asian Club Championship	First round	Pohang Steelers	0–2	0–4	0–6
2000–01	Asian Cup Winners' Cup	First round	Singapore Armed Forces	0–0	2–0	2–0
		Second round	Shimizu S-Pulse	0–2	0–4	0–6
2002–03	AFC Champions League	Qualification	Churchill Brothers	0–2	1–0	1–2
2020	AFC Champions League	Preliminary round 2	Buriram United	1–2
	AFC Cup	Group stage	Yangon United	2–2[lower-alpha 3]	Cancelled	1st (Cancelled)
			Hougang United	3–2[lower-alpha 3]	Cancelled
			Lao Toyota	2–0[lower-alpha 3]	Cancelled

• AFC Champions League: 2 appearances

  2002–03: Qualification round 3

  2020: Preliminary round 2

• AFC Cup: 1 appearance

  2020: Group stage

• Official website (in Vietnamese)
• Soccerway profile
• V.League profile (in Vietnamese)