Full name | Hong Kong Pegasus FC Limited |
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Founded | 2008 | , as TSW Pegasus FC
Ground | Hong Kong Stadium |
Capacity | 40,000 |
Chairman | Canny Leung |
Manager | Kevin Bond |
League | Hong Kong Premier League |
2015–16 | 5th (as HK Pegasus) |
Website | Club home page |
Hong Kong Pegasus FC (Chinese: 香港飛馬足球會) is a Hong Kong professional football club founded in 2008. The club currently plays in Hong Kong Premier League. Their manager is Kevin Bond.
The club was named TSW Pegasus FC (Chinese: 天水圍飛馬足球會) until 2011–12 season. The club was also named Sun Pegasus FC (Chinese: 太陽飛馬足球會) from 2012-2013 season until 2014-2015 season under Sun International Resources Limited's management. After Sun Pegasus' broke with Sun International Resources Limited after 2014-2015 season, the club was named Hong Kong Pegasus FC (Chinese: 香港飛馬足球會) up until now under Canny Leung's management.
TSW Pegasus was established on June 2008, and they had their first season in Hong Kong First Division League 2008–09 with a budget of about HKD$10,000,000.
In July 2012, the club was renamed as Sun Pegasus following introduction of a new sponsor.
In July 2015, the club was renamed as Hong Kong Pegasus FC after Sun International pulled their sponsorship from the club.
Pegasus's home colours are a red shirt with white shorts. Their away colours are a white shirt with black shorts. The current kits are designed by adidas. The team historically has played with an all yellow kit as their home colours, but after their name change to Hong Kong Pegasus, the club owners decided to make a change. It proved to be a largely unpopular decision with the club's fans.
The current Pegasus badge is a pegasus inside a yellow and red shield, which is representative of "creating miracles", "vigor", "vitality" and "creativeness" in Greek mythology.