Person in history
Nguyễn Công Phượng
Nguyễn Công Phượng, Vietnamese footballer
Life at a glance
- Born
- 1995 · January 21
- Age this year
- 31No death recorded in our data
- Known as
- association football player. Citizenship: Vietnam
- Born
- 31st anniversary of their birth this year
Their story
Who they were
Personal life Công Phượng is the cousin of Nguyễn Thái Quốc Cường , who is also a professional footballer and currently plays for V.League 1 side Ho Chi Minh City . He officially got married on 6 June 2020. [ 1 ] Age fabrication accusation The rumours that Công Phượng had fabricated his age to play in younger age football competition began to circulate soon after his team won the 2014 International U-21 Thanh Niên Newspaper Cup . [ 2 ]
Nguyễn Công Phượng is a Vietnamese professional footballer who plays as a forward or an attacking midfielder for V.League 1 club Đồng Nai City.
Early life
Early life Công Phượng was born on 21 January 1995 in Mỹ Sơn, Đô Lương District , Nghệ An Province . He is the fifth child out of 17 children of Nguyễn Công Bảy and Nguyễn Thị Hoa; his family was poor when he was growing up. [ 1 ] Công Phượng has been interested in football since his childhood. Around the age of 5, he started to play football using a ball made of straw with his 2-year-older brother Nguyễn Công Khoa, [ 2 ] who later drowned in 2004 at the age of 9. [ 3 ]
Path and career
Career statistics Club As of match played 13 September 2026 [ 1 ] Appearances and goals by club, season and competition Club Season League National Cup Continental Other Total Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Hoàng Anh Gia Lai 2015 V.League 1 25 6 2 0 — — 27 6 2017 26 7 1 0 — — 27 7 2018 24 12 4 4 — — 28 16 2021 12 6 0 0 — — 12 6 2022 16 5 2 0 6 [ a ]
Honours Trường Tươi Đồng Nai V.League 2 : 2025–26 Vietnam AFF Championship : 2018 VFF Cup : 2022 King’s Cup : runner-up 2019 Vietnam U23 VFF Cup : 2018 SEA Games : third place 2015 AFC U-23 Championship : runner-up 2018 Individual Vietnamese Young Player of the Year : 2015 Vietnamese Most favorite player : 2017, 2018 V.League 1 Team of the Season : 2018 , 2020 V.League 2 Team of the Season: 2024–25
Why this date
Nguyễn Công Phượng appears on our January 21 calendar for 1995 as a birth entry.
The world when they were born
Other entries we record for 1995.
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Born the same day
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Sources
Cite this page
“Nguyễn Công Phượng”, What's On This Date, https://whatsonthisdate.com/app/people/nguyen-cong-phuong, accessed October 28, 2026.
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Questions about Nguyễn Công Phượng
When was Nguyễn Công Phượng born?
January 21 1995.
How old would Nguyễn Công Phượng be today?
31 this year, based on the birth year we hold. We have no death record for them in our data, which is not proof either way.
Who else was born on January 21?
Alisha Lehmann, Pervis Estupiñán, Fūju Kamio and others — the list is on this page and on the date page.
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