Hồ Chí Minh City Youth

Ho Chi Minh City Youth FC (Vietnamese: Câu lạc bộ bóng đá Thanh Niên Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh) is a Vietnamese football club based in Ho Chi Minh City. The club is playing its home matches at the 15,000-capacity Thống Nhất Stadium. They currently play in the V.League 2, after winning the promotion play-off game in the 2024 Vietnamese Second Division.

Ho Chi Minh City Youth was established in 2019 to compete in the Vietnamese Third Division, the fourth tier of Vietnamese football system. The team was owned by the Thống Nhất Sports Center. In the first season at the Third Division, club finished first in their group, thus gain a promotion to be 2020 Vietnamese Second Division.

In 2024, Vietnamese retail bank LPBank became the main sponsor of the club and rebranded the club name into the current LPBank Ho Chi Minh City FC but failed to register the name changed before the deadline set by Vietnam Football Federation. Consequently, they competed under the old name Ho Chi Minh City Youth FC during the season. The team managed to finish second in their group in the Second Division, gaining them a qualification to the promotion play-off game. There, they defeated Bắc Ninh in the penalty shootout (after a 2–2 draw) and promoted to the 2024–25 V.League 2. Before the beginning of the season, the owner of the team decided to swap the entire squad and staff members of LPBank HCMC with Phù Đổng Ninh Bình, another team belonging to LPBank.

On 9 September 2025, the club's request to change their name from Trẻ Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh to Thanh Niên Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh and crests was approved by VPF (both names mean Ho Chi Minh City Youth in English).