Vietnam's NK finished runners-up at the 2026 FC Pro Champions Cup after losing a seven-game final 4-3 to T1 in South Korea.
Tuoi Tre reported a prize of 55,000 dollars, approximately 1.4 billion dong in the article's conversion.
Final goes the distance
NK lost the first three games before recovering to 3-3.
ThanhMan beat Hoseok 3-2 in game six. In the decider, LHAT drew 2-2 with Hoseok before losing the penalty shoot-out 5-4.
The Vietnamese roster comprised ThanhMan, LHAT, Endyy and NamThi.
This was an FC Online esports competition, played by competitors controlling simulated football teams, rather than a national-team football World Cup.
Route through the tournament
The event ran from October 13 to 18 at Seoul's DDP Showroom, with 12 teams and a total prize pool of 300,000 dollars.
NK placed third in Group A before beating China's SCMJ 3-1 in the quarter-finals.
They then defeated Gen City 3-2 in the semi-finals, overturning a 2-1 deficit through wins by ThanhMan and LHAT.
Vietnam's other representative, TA Global, had exited in the group stage.
Quarter-finals and semi-finals used best-of-five series, while the final was best-of-seven. The 4-3 final score therefore counts game wins rather than goals within a single football match.
The runners-up finish concludes an international campaign in which NK reached the last possible game of the title series.