Vietnam's First Polo Club Opens in Ho Chi Minh City — Asia-Pacific Expansion Continues
The Saigon Polo Club opens its doors as Vietnam's first dedicated polo facility, part of a broader Southeast Asian expansion that now includes clubs in seven countries across the region.
Southeast Asia's polo map expanded significantly this February with the formal opening of the Saigon Polo Club on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City — Vietnam's first dedicated polo facility and a landmark in the sport's spread across the Asia-Pacific region.\n\nThe club, developed over three years on a 28-hectare site in Bình Chánh district, opens with two full-size outdoor fields, stabling for 40 horses, a polo school programme and a clubhouse designed by a local architecture firm around traditional Vietnamese courtyard principles. An initial stock of 22 horses — a mix of Argentine and Australian breeds — arrived in December, with a full complement of 40 horses expected by June.\n\nThe founding patron is a consortium of Vietnamese business leaders with international polo experience, several of whom first encountered the sport during residencies in Australia and the United Kingdom. The managing director, Linh Nguyen, trained as a polo instructor at the Guards Polo Club in Windsor and spent two seasons in Buenos Aires before returning to Vietnam with a specific mission to establish the sport domestically.\n\n"Vietnam has the right conditions — climate in the north, space in the south, and a growing affluent class that wants premium sport experiences," said Nguyen at the opening ceremony. "We are not trying to build an exclusive club. We want this to be a serious sporting facility that Vietnam can be proud of internationally."\n\nThe club already has 45 founding members and a waiting list, with beginner lesson packages priced in VND accessible to a broader segment than international polo school pricing. The FIP's Asia-Pacific development fund contributed approximately USD 120,000 to the project's first phase.\n\nThe Saigon Polo Club joins a growing list of APAC polo clubs that now includes recent openings in Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia.