The most important sports competition for Viet Nam this year will be the Asian Games (ASIAD), in which the country targets three gold medals.

 V.League 2018 will begin at Tam Ky Stadium on March 10, with a match between defending champions Quang Nam FC and Sai Gon FC.

 A Japanese delegation of 15 students will visit Viet Nam and play friendly judo matches with Viet Nam’s national judo team and judo athletes in Hanoi and Nha Trang City from March 6-14.

 Two Vietnamese players arrived in Kolkata for the India F2 Men’s Futures tennis tournament on March 5-11, their first event after the Lunar New Year festival.

 Two national under-23 players scored to help Song Lam Nghe An beat Johor Darul Ta’zim 2-0 in their second match of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Cup’s Group H in Vinh city, the central province of Nghe An on February 28.

 Song Lam Nghe An (SLNA) are set to meet Johor Darul Tazim (JDT) of Malaysia in the second match of AFC Cup’s Group H on February 28 at Vinh stadium in the central province of Nghe An.

 FIFA expert Belinda Wilson is in Hanoi to survey the national women’s youth football teams.

 Thanh Hoa lost to Yangon United of Myanmar 1-2 in the second match of Group G of the AFC Cup 2018 in Myanmar on February 27.

 V.League 1 club HCM City have signed a contract with midfielder Paulo Daniel Fernandes Tavares of Portugal to prepare for the upcoming football season.

 Vietnamese goalkeeper Bui Tien Dung finished third in the poll of top goalies of the Southeast Asian (SEA) region carried out by foxsportsasia.com.

 Viet Nam national U19 team have been invited to compete in the Four Nations Tournament to be held in South Korea on April 18-22.

 Vietnam are in Group B of the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) Futsal Championship 2018, according to the event’s draw.

 The Vietnamese traditional martial arts Son Long Quyen Thuat league made its debut in Algiers, Algeria on February 24.

 Defending V.League 1 champions, Quang Nam, defeated winners of the Vietnamese National Football Cup, Song Lam Nghe An (SLNA), 1-0 to lift the trophy of the National Super Cup which took place in Hanoi's Hang Day Stadium on February 24.

 The Vietnamese billiards team lost to South Korea 21-40 in the first Group C match at the World Championship for national teams in Viersen, Germany on February 22.

 V. League 1 club HCM City announced yesterday that they chose not to sign former Manchester United midfielder Rodrigo Possebon after more than a month on trial.

 Southeast Asia sprint queen Le Tu Chinh and her coach Nguyen Thi Thanh Huong will set off for the US on February 23 to join a training course at the IMG Academy – a sport training destination in the US State of Florida.

 The upcoming National Super Cup match will be free for fans nationwide, the Viet Nam Professional Football Joint Stock Company (VPF) has announced.

More than 200 Vietnamese athletes will take part in the Asian Games (ASIAD) 2018 to be held in Indonesia in August, according to the National Sports Administration (NSA).

Vietnam’s two leading billiards players are competing in the World Championship in Viersen, Germany on February 22-25.