Hong Kong Rangers FC
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| Full name | Hong Kong Rangers Football Club |
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| Founded | 1958, as Rangers Football Team 1960, as Hong Kong Rangers FC |
| Ground | Tsing Yi Sports Ground |
| Capacity | 1,500 |
| President | Lee Man Yan |
| Head Coach | Fung Hoi Man |
| League | Hong Kong Premier League |
| 2015–16 | Premier League, 8th |
| Website | Club home page |
Hong Kong Rangers Football Club (Chinese: 流浪足球會, often abbreviated to Rangers, renamed as Lee & Man Rangers due to sponsorship reasons), is a Hong Kong football club and plays in Hong Kong Premier League. They have won the Hong Kong First Division League once, the Senior Challenge Shield 4 times, and the FA Cup twice.
The club was founded in 1958 by a Scottish expatriate from Glasgow named Ian John Petrie. He named his club after Rangers. It was the first Asian football club with a modern football club managing system. In the early days, the club could not compete with the bigger clubs financially. So Petrie relied on young players and the team was known as a breeding ground for young players. Kwok Ka Ming was the best known players discovered by Petrie in the 1960s. In 1970, the club brought three Scottish professional players to Hong Kong. They were the first European professional players to play in the Hong Kong League, opening a new chapter in Hong Kong's football history. Great players such as Ian Taylor, Joe Brennan, Jimmy Liddell, and Derek Currie were a few to name. More were to follow in the 1980s such as Steve Paterson Jimmy Bone, and Tommy Nolan.
Since 12 October 2001, the club had been named after its sponsor, Buler, resulting in the name "Buler Rangers" up until Summer 2006. On 15 September 2007, the club announced that it has secured a large sponsorship from Bulova, a watch brand which used to fund a famous Hong Kong football team decades ago, and used "Bulova Rangers" as the team name.
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