Hong Kong football’s CEO has denied that an end-of-season fixture clash represents a missed opportunity, with the HKFC Standard Chartered Soccer Sevens set to partially eclipse a potential final-day title decider in the city’s Premier League. A season curtain-closer, the Soccer Sevens is to take place from May 24 to 26 at Hong Kong Football …
There have also been moves made by top-flight clubs to push the FA to share control of the domestic game, with Lee Man president Norman Lee Man-yen and Eastern vice-chairman Frankie Yau both telling the Post the FA did not have the knowledge or ability to promote local football. Elected unopposed as association chairman last …
The insufficient quality and intensity of the local league has had Andersen tearing his hair out since his appointment in December 2021. HKFA chairman Eric Fok has yet to commit to an overhaul of the local league. Photo: Xiaomei Chen Talking on stage at the AGM, Andersen issued a series of withering comments about the …
Hong Kong head coach Jorn Andersen wished Srecko Katanec a speedy recovery after the Uzbekistan boss fell ill and returned to Slovenia, ahead of the teams’ Fifa World Cup qualifier on Tuesday. Assistant coach Ales Ceh, a Slovenia international under Katanec at the 2002 World Cup, will take charge of the hosts at the 34,000-capacity …
“I met him at the weekend, and I am very happy with [the appointment],” Andersen said. “He has the same situation as Carlos [Anton, technical director until July 2023], who focused on many other things, and not too much on the first team. “He has good experience from England … and I think he can …
Hong Kong football bosses have confirmed the surprise appointment of a new technical director, raising further questions over the future of head coach Jorn Andersen. Ex-Brighton and Hove Albion academy manager John Morling, who was sacked by the Premier League club in February 2022 for what it said was a breach of Covid protocols, has …
Video circulating on social media showed one side taking a free-kick in the wrong direction, and a goalkeeper deliberately allowing a ball to roll into the net. A spokesman for the Football Association of Hong Kong, China (HKFA) said it suspected people involved in a five-a-side football tournament of “instigating or encouraging players of match-fixing …
Mainland China-based footballer Matt Orr has urged his Hong Kong teammates to quit the city’s waning domestic league for careers outside its borders, in a bid to raise the standard of the national side. Striker Orr, a member of the squad preparing for Hong Kong’s first Asian Cup finals appearance since 1968, made the leap …
Hong Kong has struggled to retain promising players, and two members of the city’s under-23 squad who reached the Asian Games semi-finals, Ellison Tsang Yi-hang and Kyle Lau Ka-kiu, promptly moved to England to study. Ellison Tsang (in red) helped achieve Hong Kong’s best Asian Games showing but is no longer available. Photo: Xinhua Jorn …
Michael Udebuluzor’s impressive start in Hong Kong colours has attracted interest from two-times European champions FC Porto, and a number of high-flying German clubs. The teenage striker has scored twice in five national team appearances, after his debut in September drew a line under a long-running passport saga. He also has eight goals from 10 …