FPT Polytechnic Win Arena of Glory Winter 2026, Beat BOOM 4-2 in Front of 25,000 Fans

FPT Polytechnic are champions of Vietnam. The college-backed team beat BOOM Esports 4-2 in the Arena of Glory Winter 2026 grand final at My Dinh National Stadium in Hanoi on November 7, ending a nine-year hold on the title by Team Flash and Saigon Phantom. Around 25,000 fans watched inside the home of Vietnam's national football team, the first esports tournament the stadium has ever hosted, and the final closed a weekend that Garena built into a full festival for ten years of Arena of Valor in Vietnam.

How the Arena of Glory Winter 2026 final played out

BOOM Esports started the series like a team with nothing to lose. The Indonesian organisation, playing its debut season in Vietnam's top league, went 2-1 up behind a star turn from their dragon lane carry DucTiep on Violet, and for a moment the upset looked real. Then FPT Polytechnic won three games in a row to take the title 4-2, a comeback built on discipline rather than flash: the college team stopped forcing fights, let BOOM overextend, and punished every mistake.

BOOM's run to the final was already a story in itself. They beat Saigon Phantom 4-2 in the lower final earlier on Saturday to earn the last spot, knocking out one half of the duopoly that had owned this league since 2017. FPT Polytechnic had advanced directly to the final after beating Saigon Phantom twice in the space of a week. The final, then, was a meeting of the two teams that had taken turns ending the old order.

Vit, the Finals MVP

The Finals MVP award went to FPT Polytechnic captain Vit, whose real name is Le Van Viet. Vit plays in the Dark Slayer lane, the solo lane where games are often decided before the team fights begin, and his series turned on control: winning his lane, rotating at the right moments, and holding the line while BOOM threw everything at the middle of the map. The award carries a 50 million dong bonus on top of the team's prize, and it caps a season in which the captain's shot-calling became the identity of the side.

Vit is the story of the team in miniature. FPT Polytechnic is backed by a Vietnamese college and only entered Garena's top Arena of Valor league, known locally as Dau Truong Danh Vong, in 2025. One year later, the students are champions of Vietnam. It is the kind of rise that rarely happens in a league this settled, and it is why the crowd at My Dinh stayed loud through all six games.

A final that broke a nine-year duopoly

The scale of the result is hard to overstate. Since Winter 2017, every Arena of Glory title in Vietnam had gone to either Team Flash or Saigon Phantom. FPT Polytechnic are the first champions from outside that pair in nine years, and they did it in their second season in the league. The 1 billion dong first prize is the largest share of the playoff prize money, with BOOM taking 500 million dong as runners-up.

The result also scrambles the picture for the rest of the year. Both finalists now move on to the Arena of Valor International Championship, which runs from December 3 to 27, split between Ho Chi Minh City and Bangkok for the first time. FPT Polytechnic will arrive as Vietnam's champions rather than its underdogs, and every team in the draw will have spent the last three days studying how they closed out BOOM.

My Dinh: a football stadium hosts esports

The venue was almost as big a story as the result. My Dinh National Stadium holds around 40,000 people and had never hosted an esports tournament before Saturday. Garena expected around 40,000 people across the two days of its Lien Quan 10Fest celebration, and local reports put Saturday's crowd at about 25,000, with more than 28,000 watching on Garena's main YouTube stream alone during the closing games.

The final opened the festival, which marks ten years of Arena of Valor in Vietnam, where the game is called Lien Quan Mobile. Sunday brought more than 30 artists to the same stadium, including ambassador Bich Phuong, SOOBIN, and Da LAB, turning the grand final into the opening act of a weekend-long party. For a mobile esport that rarely gets stadium treatment outside Asia's biggest markets, it was a statement about where the scene sits in Vietnam right now.

What comes next

For FPT Polytechnic, the next test is immediate. The Arena of Valor International Championship starts on December 3, and the gap between a domestic title and an international one is where young teams usually find their limits. BOOM, meanwhile, leave Hanoi with proof that their debut season in Vietnam was no fluke: they beat Saigon Phantom, took the champions to six games, and return to Indonesia as runners-up in a foreign league.

The bigger picture is a changing of the guard. A college team with one year in the top flight now holds the Sword and Shield of Fame, and the two teams that owned the league for nine years both lost to the finalists on the same weekend. If FPT Polytechnic carry this form into December, the Winter 2026 final will be remembered as the weekend Vietnamese Arena of Valor got a new order. Read the full match report on TalkEsport, and check our BMIC 2026 results and MPL PH Season 18 champions for more mobile esports from the region.