HANOI: Ho Chi Minh City will play host to the 2012 ASEAN Football Federation Women's Championship to be held September 13-22. The move is expected to boost women's profiles in the country and improve the construct of women and sport, activists and women's rights advocates told Bikyamasr.com. The tournament will be divided into two groups, with Vietnam, MyanmarSingapore and the Philippines in group A, and Thailand, Laos, Indonesia and Malaysia in group B. They will compete in a round robin format to select the two group winners and runners-up for the semi-finals. The host team Vietnam will play Singapore, while Myanmar will face the Philippines in the opening matches of the tournament.