Japan's women's team produced a thorough display against Vietnam in the Asian Games Group Stage on September 17th, 2026, winning 8-0 at the Mỹ Đình National Stadium. The result leaves Japan top of their group with three points from one match, while Vietnam sit third with zero after that defeat.
Japan moved ahead in the twelfth minute when C. Kamiya found the net, and they doubled their lead shortly before half-time through Y. Shiokoshi in the nineteenth. Vietnam's defence folded further when H. Cu Thi turned the ball into her own goal on forty-four minutes, and M. Hamada added a fourth just after the interval with a strike in the forty-fifth minute plus two.
There were six substitutions around the restart, Vietnam bringing on V. T. Hoa and T. T. Thao Tran alongside three Japanese players including Hamada herself, who had already scored. Japan then extended their advantage through Kamiya again in the fifty-first minute, and the scoreline continued to stretch.
We had tipped Japan to win this one at 55 per cent confidence, and the result confirmed that assessment. The visitors had shown they could punish teams with pace, as their 8-0 victory over Thailand on September 14th had already suggested, and they brought that same intensity here. By then it was clear Vietnam struggled to match the tempo.
H. Nishio made it 5-0 in the seventy-eighth minute, followed by Y. Narumiya's goal in the eighty-first, and H. Yumura completed the scoring with a late strike in the ninety-third minute. There were more substitutions toward the end, with Thai Thi Thao and V. Ngan Thi coming on for Vietnam, while Kamiya was replaced in the seventy-first minute.
The defeat extends Vietnam's poor run, having lost 1-2 to Chinese Taipei, 0-3 to China, and 0-4 to Japan earlier this year. Japan, meanwhile, sit top of the group after building on their dominant performance in the previous fixture. The eight-goal margin tells you everything about the gap between these two sides at this level.
