More than 7,000 runners will take part in the first marathon in HCM City on January 14. The event has been renamed from the annual HCM City Run.

Nguyễn Văn Phương and teammate Trịnh Linh Giang won the National Tennis Championships’ men’s team event for Becamex Bình Dương yesterday in HCM City.

Phạm Văn Mách won a gold medal from the ongoing World Bodybuilding and Physique Sports Championships in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

Two former football champions, Sông Lam Nghệ An and Becamex Bình Dương, will face-off in the final of the National Cup, after both teams won their semi-final matches yesterday.

England manager Gareth Southgate conceded his team were a "work in progress" after they qualified for next year's World Cup with a desperately laboured 1-0 victory over Slovenia.

Quảng Bình representative Nguyễn Huy Hoàng defeated Southeast Asian Games winner Nguyễn Hữu Kim Sơn in the men’s 400m individual medley event at the National Swimming Championships in HCM City on Thursday.

Title favourites, HCM City, lost in the women’s and men’s team events, at the National Tennis Championship at the city’s Lan Anh Club on Wednesday.

Sông Lam Nghệ An Football Club (FC) are ensuring an optimum performance at the National Cup.

Cần Thơ will host the 11th Thanh Niên Newspaper International U21 Football Tournament this year, according to Lê Văn Tâm, deputy chairman of Cần Thơ City’s People’s Committee.