Vietnam team plays friendly match with Thailand at My Dinh Stadium on September 5

Vietnamese and Thai audiences are about to enjoy a friendly match that promises to be very exciting. This match opens up an opportunity for both sides to test their skills, before the AFF Cup 2024. Thailand and Vietnam are also the teams that have won the AFF Cup 5 times recently (Thailand won the 2014, 2016, 2020 and 2022 tournaments, the Vietnamese team won in 2018).

In the 2022 AFF Cup, these are also the 2 teams that reached the final. With the best results in Southeast Asia in the most recent AFF Cups, the Vietnamese and Thai teams are the seeds in the 2 groups of the 2024 AFF Cup (Thailand is the No. 1 seed in Group A, Vietnam is the No. 1 seed in Group B).

Due to being in two different groups, the Vietnamese and Thai teams will not face each other in the group stage of this year's Southeast Asian Championship. Instead, the two sides will have a friendly match before the AFF Cup.

According to information from the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF), this match will take place at My Dinh Stadium (Hanoi) on September 5. Because the match takes place during the FIFA Days series, it will be easier for teams to gather their players for international duty, especially the Thai team.

The Thai-League, Thailand's professional football tournament, opened in early August. Thai clubs have entered a new season, so only on FIFA Days do these teams "release" players for the national team to participate in international matches.

For the Vietnamese team, the V-League has not started yet, this tournament will start from October, so the Vietnamese players may be at a disadvantage compared to the Thai players in terms of performance, in the upcoming friendly match at My Dinh Stadium.

However, the result is not the most important factor in a friendly match. What is important for the Vietnamese team is to play a friendly match with a team as good as the Thai team.

At the same time, this is also one of the teams that Vietnamese fans are most interested in, so the match between Vietnam and Thailand will be an opportunity to "heat up" the football atmosphere in the country before our important tournaments this year including V-League and AFF Cup (starting from December 9, 2024, lasting until January 5, 2025).

The match with Thailand is also an opportunity for coach Kim Sang-sik to test the squad and play style for the Vietnamese team against the strongest and most combative opponent in Southeast Asia. As for the players, the match with Thailand will be an opportunity for Quang Hai, Hoang Duc, Viet Anh, Tien Linh, Nguyen Filip, etc. to evaluate their abilities and current form before entering the campaign to conquer the Southeast Asian championship title at the end of this year.