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Hong Kong National Football Team

Hong Kong
Shirt badge/Association crest
Association Hong Kong Football Association (HKFA)
Confederation AFC (Asia)
Sub-confederation EAFF (East Asia)
Head coach Kim Pan-Gon
Captain Yapp Hung Fai
Most caps Lee Wai Man (68)
Top scorer Chan Siu Ki (36)
Home stadium Hong Kong Stadium
Mong Kok Stadium
FIFA code HKG
FIFA ranking
Current 142 Decrease 2 (9 February 2017)
Highest 90 (February 1996)
Lowest 172 (November 2012)
Elo ranking
Current 160 (October 2016)
Highest 58 (February 1948)
Lowest 169 (June 2015)
First international
non-FIFA International
 Macau 0–2 Hong Kong Hong Kong
(Macau; 16 April 1939)
FIFA International
 South Korea 3–3 Hong Kong Hong Kong
(Manila, Philippines; 2 May 1954)
Biggest win
Hong Kong Hong Kong 15–0 Guam 
(Taipei, Taiwan; 7 March 2005)
Biggest defeat
 China PR 7–0 Hong Kong Hong Kong
(Guangzhou, China; 17 November 2004)
Hong Kong Hong Kong 0–7 Paraguay 
(Hong Kong; 17 November 2010)
Hong Kong Hong Kong 0–7 Argentina 
(Hong Kong; 14 October 2014)
Asian Cup
Appearances 3 (first in 1956)
Best result Third place, 1956
Hong Kong national football team
Traditional Chinese 香港足球代表隊
Simplified Chinese 香港足球代表队

The Hong Kong national football team (Chinese: 香港足球代表隊), represents Hong Kong in international association football competitions such as the FIFA World Cup, AFC Asian Cup and East Asian Football Championship. The team is represented and supervised by the Hong Kong Football Association, the governing body for football in Hong Kong. Although usually known as simply Hong Kong, the EAFF refer to the team as Hong Kong, China.

The team had been representing Hong Kong in international football events before 1997 when Hong Kong was a colony of the United Kingdom. It continues to represent Hong Kong even after Hong Kong was handed over to the People's Republic of China by the United Kingdom and became a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China in 1997. This team is a separate team from the national team of the People's Republic of China, as the Basic Law and the principle of "One country, two systems" allows Hong Kong to maintain its own representative teams in international sports competitions. In Hong Kong, the Hong Kong football team is colloquially referred as the "Hong Kong team" (Chinese: 香港隊), while the Chinese national team is referred as the "national team" (Chinese: 國家隊).

Hong Kong played its first international match after World War II in 1949, against South Korea. Its first victory came in 1953, a 4–0 win against South Korea.


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