Former national midfielder Phan Van Tai Em on October 8 announced his retirement from football. 

 Vietnamese gymnasts scored resounding victories at the Szombathely World Challenge Cup 2016 in Hungary on October 9 securing two gold medals in the men’s vault and parallel bars disciplines, and one bronze in the men’s rings event.

 Coach Hoang Anh Tuan will introduce a different squad at the coming Asian U19 Football Championship in Bahrain. 

 Vietnamese Dang Nam claimed a bronze medal at the Szombathely World Challenge Cup 2016, which closed on October 9 in Hungary.

Four players in the world’s top 100 will be participating in the 2016 Vietnam Open tennis tournament from October 8-16.

 SHB Da Nang, the third-placed team in the 2016 V-League 1, will take part in the 2016 Toyota Mekong Club Championships, according to the Vietnam Football Federation.

 Vietnam will meet Myanmar in the first match of the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Championship’s Southeast Asia Zonal qualification round on October 8 in Thailand.

 Vietnam came from behind to trounced North Korea 5-2 in afriendly match yesterday in HCM City.

 Vietnam’s shooting star Hoang Xuan Vinh remains in the top spot of the world men’s 10m air pistol October rankings of the International Shooting Sport Federation. 

 Vietnam’s national men’s football team will take on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in a friendly match that will take place at Thong Nhat Stadium in Ho Chi Minh City on October 6. 

 Junior wushu practitioners from Vietnam finished third overall at the 6th World Junior Wushu Championships (WJWC) in Bulgaria.

 Thai referee Mongkolchai Pechsri will referee the friendly football match between Vietnam and North Korea at Thong Nhat Stadium in HCM City on Thursday, the Vietnam Football Federation has announced.

The International Football Fedderation (FIFA) has chosen Nguyen Minh Tri’s goal in the Sept. 11 match between Vietnam and Guatemala at the Futsal World Cup Colombia 2016 as one of the tournament’s top 10 goals. 

 Vietnamese chess player Tran Minh Thang won a bronze medal in the boys’ U16 category of the World Youth Chess Championship 2016, which wrapped up in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, on Monday.

 Vietnamese athletes shined at the 10th World Taekwondo Poomsae Championship that closed in Lima, Peru, on October 3 with two gold medals.

Grandmaster Le Quang Liem has retained position No. 30 in the latest International Chess Federation rankings for October with an Elo rating of 2,723.

 Vietnam’s top tennis player Ly Hoang Nam has jumped 228 spots to 701 in the men’s singles rankings in the latest Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) world rankings.

 The VN futsal team won the fair play award following their impressive performance at the 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup.

Hosts Vietnam triumphed in the Asian Beach Games 5 (ABG5) after 10 competition days, bagging 52 gold, 44 silver and 43 bronze medals in 14 sports.

Top Vietnamese badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh won the men’s singles title of the Kawasaki Vietnam International Series badminton tournament which concluded in Bac Giang yesterday.