Full name | Sun Hei Sports Club Limited |
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Nickname(s) | Sunrise |
Founded | 1986 |
Ground | Po Kong Village Road Park |
Capacity | 1,000 |
President | Chow Man Leung |
Coach |
Chiu Chung Man (Caretaker) |
League | Hong Kong First Division |
2015–16 | 3rd |
Sun Hei Sports Club (Chinese: 晨曦體育會), is a Hong Kong football club which plays in the Hong Kong First Division League.
The club plays its home matches at Po Kong Village Road Park, Tin Yip Road Park, Happy Valley Recreation Ground and Kowloon Tsai Park.
Sun Hei entered the Hong Kong First Division League under the name Golden (Chinese: 好易通) in the 1994–95 season. In 1996, Golden under the name Golden XI played against England. England was in Hong Kong preparing for the UEFA Euro 1996 later in the summer. It was in Hong Kong that Paul Gascoigne's famous dentist chair incident took place.
After securing the sponsorship of Xiangxue Pharmaceutical, the club competed in the league under the team name Xiangxue Sun Hei (Chinese: 香雪晨曦) from 2005–07.
In the season 2004–05, Sun Hei achieved The Quadruple, winning all four senior football competitions, including the Hong Kong First Division League, the Senior Shield, the League Cup and the FA Cup. In the 2005 AFC Cup, Sun Hei also got through to the semi-finals stage, the best result for a Hong Kong football club in the competition to date.