Vietnam Women

Hà Thị Hạnh has spent fifteen years in Vietnam's goal circle and she carried the captaincy through both of its Southeast Asian Games titles. The first came in 2022, on home ground in the Bắc Ninh–Hanoi edition of the SEA Games, where Vietnam beat Thailand 39-27 in the final. The second arrived in Thailand itself in 2025, a tighter 24-16 win over the same opponent — a rematch settled with less room to spare.

Beyond Southeast Asia the record reads thinner. Vietnam finished sixth at the Asian Women's Handball Championship in both 2008 and 2017, and their best showing at the Asian Games remains eighth, from Doha in 2006; no medal there yet.

Vietnam train and are based in Hanoi, under head coach Nguyễn Thanh Tùng, and play in yellow shirts that earned them the nickname the Women in Yellow — a tag that has nothing to do with the men's "Golden Stars" despite the shared shade. Home fixtures have moved between venues in the capital, among them the Hanoi Indoor Games Gymnasium, which holds just over three thousand.

The federation that runs the team split off from the Vietnam Football Federation and was formally established in 2013, though Vietnam had already been affiliated with the International Handball Federation since 2002.