VSAF Football Championship 2013 Event Report

Foreword
The success of the Badminton Tournament taken place shortly two months before our actual championship and expectations from our sport lovers had greatly encouraged us to work hard on finding deserved teams of honour. We would like to give our gratitude towards all the volunteers and supporters who help contributing for the greatest moments of this sport to happen.

Helsinki, 10 September, 2013 Organizing Team VSAF Football Championship 2013

About The Vietnamese Students Association in Finland (Vietnamilaiset Opiskelijat Ry abbreviation VSAF) founded in 2003 with the aim of organizing social activities that help preserving national culture among Vietnamese oversea students and Viet-origin Finns in Finland. So far since establishment, weve managed to hold several sport events, culturalexchange activities and other welcoming activities for newbies to help them integrating with Finnish social life, weve also organized Finnish Education Seminars in Vietnam. Upcoming events can be found on our Facebook fanpage: www.facebook.com/vsaf.org

Table of Content
1. General Information ............................................................................................................... 2 Concept, date and time ............................................................................................................. 2 Goal................................................................................................................................................. 2 Target ............................................................................................................................................. 2 Attendance .................................................................................................................................... 2 Event fun facts............................................................................................................................. 2 2. Marketing/ Promotion ........................................................................................................... 1 Social Media Channel ............................................................................................................... 1 3. Financial Management .......................................................................................................... 2 Budget Overview ........................................................................................................................ 2 Sponsors ........................................................................................................................................ 3 4. Future Development............................................................................................................... 3 Appendix A Award Results................................................................................................. 4 Appendix B Recognition ...................................................................................................... 4

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1. General Information
Concept, date and time The Football Championship lies in series of activities to celebrate 40th year anniversary of diplomatic relation between Finland- Vietnam (1973- 2013) and Vietnam National Day September 2nd. This is a one-day event starting from 9am and finishing at 8pm on September 7th with a lot of excitement, surprise and glory happiness. Were grateful to have A-link Arena (Kylvainiontie 20, Espoo) as the hosting site for 2 consecutive years. Goal The goal of the Football championship is to promote exchanges of football playing techniques and to raise awareness of healthy lifestyle by practicing sports to the community. Target Since the Championship is held when autumn semester start at almost every universities, we decided to organize it as one-day event only. Therefore the limitation has been put down to 10 participating teams. However the goal was not met since one team resigned at last-minute. Attendance The 2013 championship is the first time we have foreign participants from a whole team to join. Below is the list of 9 fearless squads divided into 2 groups, their team members come from cities of Vaasa, Kouvola, Lahti and the greater Helsinki area: Group A FC C t (FC Grand Uncles) VietFin United Vaasa 2 Vina Team Event fun facts Group B Vaasa 1 Lahti Avenger Plus Headless Chicken Kouvola Plus

matches played

football players

fans and supporters

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2. Marketing/ Promotion
Social Media Channel Link to Event photos: http://goo.gl/7A4C1m Our main communication channel is the Championships own Facebook fanpage. Below are some statistics reflecting the reaches to audiences as of 20 September, 2013. Fanpage: www.facebook.com/FootballVSAF

198 likes 2960 highest reach External refereers : VSAF Forum, VSAF Homepage and Google search

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3. Financial Management
Budget Overview Income Participant fee Vietnamese Embassy donation Suomen Vietnamilaisten Yhteis Ry Other Sponsors Expenditure Venue Referee cost Food & Beverage Prize in cash, cup & medals VietCharm Dancers show Organizing cost Surplus 1 600 700 200 250 400 340 100 650 50 430 780

The reason for huge amount of surplus is because of prohibition from the hosting site to bring inside event foods other than sweets and breads. We also earn savings from spending on balls and full- price of referee and venue costs. The profit will be reserved separately from the main account as capital for our football championship in summer 2014.

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Sponsors The Board and Organizing Team would like to thank Sponsors listed below for their supports. Without these sponsors the event would not be possible.

Suomen Vietnamilaisten Yhteis Ry

Vietnam Embassy In Finland

Ruoholahti

Meng Loong Restaurant

Helsinki * Other individual sponsors are listed in Appendix B Recognition.

4. Future Development
We promise to rock harder next time! After getting feedbacks and suggestions from participants here are some issues that can be improved: On-the-go foods offered during matches, especially Vietnamese exquisites for foreign players. Some street foods such as Saigon baguette, summer and spring roll, sticky rice, dessert soup are chosen as the most appropriate and recommended on the menu list. Warming-up show at the beginning, or some relaxing games at the closing ceremony for getting every player to know about other players.

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Appendix A Award Results First prize Second prize Third prize Golden Boot VinaTeam FC Grand Uncles Vaasa 2 Nguyen Duc Vuong

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Appendix B Recognition Recognition of Sponsors Mr. Tran Binh (Hyvink) Mr. Nguyen Thi Loan - Meng Loong Restaurant Manager Mr. Nguyen Thanh Dung (Helsinki) Recognition of the Organizing Team Le Tran Duy Hien Nguyen Trong Hieu Nguyen Tran Nhat Linh Nguyen Anh Vu Nguyen Le Minh Quang

Recognition of the Referee Team Abdirahman Sugulle Truc Nhat Nha Nguyen Khanh Toan Izet Mehinovic

Cheerleading group VietCharm Dancers Ly Kieu Diem Nguyen Thi Ha Duong Nguyen Thanh Huong Other Recognition Nguyen Sy Au (Catering) Huynh Phuong (MC) Vu Hoang Nam (Photographer) Tran Thy Khanh Dung (PG) Nguyen Huy Nhat (Photograhpher) Nguyen Da Linh Luu Pham Quynh Trang Nguyen Hanh Tuyen Nguyen Thi Van

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