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{{Infobox Football club
| clubname = NT Realty Wofoo Tai Po<br />{{lang|zh-hant|新界地產和富大埔}}
| image = [[Image:Tai_Po_FC_crest.png|150px|Tai Po FC crest]]
| fullname = Tai Po Football Club
| founded = 2002
| ground = [[Tai Po Sports Ground]]<br />[[Tai Po]]<br />[[Hong Kong]]
| capacity = 3,000
| chairman = {{flagicon|Hong Kong}} [[Chu King Yuen]]
| manager = {{flagicon|Hong Kong}} [[Chan Ho Yin]]
| mgrtitle = Head Coach
| league = [[Hong Kong First Division League|Hong Kong First Division]]
| season = [[Hong Kong First Division League 2007-08|2007&ndash;08]]
| position = First Division, 3rd
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'''Tai Po Football Club''' ({{zh-t|t=大埔足球會}}, also known as '''NTR WF Tai Po''' due to sponsorship, {{zh-t|t=新界地產和富大埔}}) is a [[Hong Kong]] [[football club]]. The club is formed by the [[Tai Po District]] Council. The club is named after their major sponsors, [[New Territories Realty Association]] and [[Wofoo Social Enterprises]].

== History ==

The club entered the newly formed [[Hong Kong Third District Division League|third 'district' division]] in 2002-03 season. They promoted to the Second Division the next season. In 2005-06 season, they gained the promotion to the First Division after finishing second in the Second Division, behind [[Hong Kong Football Club|HKFC]].

===2006-07 Season===

====Poor Start====
Tai Po struggled during early stage of the 2006-07 season, conceded 13 goals in the first three league matches, which is consistent with many pre-season predictions.

====The Home game====
Wofoo Tai Po's fourth game of the season was at home against local giant [[South China AA]] on [[30 September]] [[2006]]. This was the first ever [[Hong Kong First Division League]] game to be played in [[Tai Po Sports Ground]]. With over 2,500 supporters cheering the home team and the signings of three Brazilian players, the club played courageously and only lost the game in the last minute by 2-3.

====Improvements====
The club's performance vastly improved since the home game. They recorded some surprising victories including a great come back (scored a 4-3 from 1-3) against the defending league champion [[Happy Valley AA|Happy Valley]] and a last minute winner(a direct free kick to make it 2-1 by defender [[Joel Bertoti Padilha|Joel]] in 90') against multiple cup winner [[Kitchee FC|Kitchee]] in November 2006.

Tai Po secured their First Division berth for the 2007-08 season after defeating [[HKFC]] 3-0 on [[April 5]], [[2007]], which also resulted in HKFC's relegation.

====Achievements====
* [[Hong Kong First Division League]]: 7th
* [[Hong Kong Senior Shield|HKFA Choi Fung Hong Senior Shield]]: Quarter-final ''([[Hong Kong Senior Shield 2006-07|Details]])''
* [[Hong Kong League Cup]]: First Round (Third in Group A) ''([[Hong Kong League Cup 2006-07|Details]])''
* [[Hong Kong FA Cup]]: First Round

===2007-08 Season===
After the inaugural season, the club's coach [[Chan Hiu Ming]] (Chinese:'''陳曉明''')left the club for the newly promoted [[Workable FC|Workable]] (Chinese:'''華家堡'''). Tai Po FC spent most of the off-season searching for a new coach. Finally, former Hong Kong football star [[Tim Bredbury]], who coached [[Hong Kong Rangers FC|Rangers]] for a short period of time in the previous season, accepted the job. Moreover, in response to the successful and popular home game last season, Tai Po FC has applied for 5 home games to be played in Tai Po in the following season.

[[The Hong Kong Football Association|HKFA]] has announced the decision: the first 9 matches of [[Tai Po FC]], no matter scheduled as home or away game, will be played in [[Tai Po Sports Ground]].<ref>〈[http://www.takungpao.com/news/07/08/04/WF-775279.htm 大埔主場或有「雙料娛樂」]〉, 大公報, 4th August 2007</ref> But the arrangement was strongly criticized and objected by the first game opponent, [[Shek Kip Mei Sports Association|Workable]]'s manager also Tai Po FC's ex-coach [[Chan Hiu Ming]]. [[Chan Hiu Ming]] expressed his team would not play their home game at [[Tai Po Sports Ground]] firmly and questioned the fairness about the arrangement<ref>〈[http://www.takungpao.com/inc/photo/photo_cont.asp?id=260767&nid=777046&cid=852 大埔對手華家堡堅拒作客]〉, 大公報, 8th August 2007</ref>. Eventually, [[HKFA|HKFA]] re-arranged the schedule, where Tai Po FC would only play their home game at [[Tai Po Sports Ground]] for the entire season.

Unfortunately, [[Tai Po Sports Ground]]'s refurbishment didn't help much on the pitch quality. Up to this point, no Tai Po FC's game has been held at [[Tai Po Sports Ground]].

Apart from promoting players from the youth team, the team kept most of its important homegrown players, except [[Kan Tsz Yeung]](Chinese:'''簡子洋''') and [[Chung Kin Keung]] (Chinese:'''鍾健強'''), both left to join [[Shek Kip Mei Sports Association|Workable]]. The three foreign players also stayed with the team in the new season, including the fans' favourite [[Christian Kwesi Annan]]. New players was introduced after the season has started. Chinese player [[Ye Jia]](Chinese:'''葉佳''') was signed from [[Rangers FC]] after the first match, and followed by the Brazilian forward [[Rafael|Rafael dos Santos, Betine "Betine"]], who has also scored a debut goal in the match against [[Rangers FC]].

The first 5 matches in the season resulted in 7 league points, which met the expectation. The contract of [[Tim Bredbury]] was terminated with agreement from both parties, however. Some notable reasons are the board disagreeing on some decisions of [[Tim Bredbury|Bredbury]] on starting line up and substitution. [[Tim Bredbury]] has also had very poor relationship with the players caused by the training methods. Formation, tactics and player deployment was also highly questionable(some notable decisions were deploying players well known with skill to play in center position to the wing, and wingers were deployed in the central midfield). [[Chan Ho Yin]](Chinese:'''陳浩然''') was appointed as the main coach after [[Tim Bredbury]]'s departure.<ref>〈[http://www11.discuss.com.hk/redirect.php?tid=5510812&goto=newpost 和富大埔炒巴貝利]〉, 蘋果日報, 10th October 2007</ref>

Another notable events of the club in the season was the penalty dispute in the league game against [[Eastern AA]] at 2<sup>nd</sup> December, 2007. In the 25<sup>th</sup> minutes, [[Tai Po]] was awarded a penalty and scored by [[Edgar Aldrighi Júnior|Dega]]. However, Dega was judged, by the game referee Pau Sai Yin, performed interrupting movement during approaching the ball. According to the rule of FIFA, for infractions by the kicking team, should a goal be scored the kick is retaken. However, the referee awarded a free kick to [[Eastern AA]] which has violated the rule of FIFA. After the game, [[Tai Po Football Club]] made an official objection to the HKFA and the objection has been approved by the example of the rematch decision made by FIFA on 2006 Asian World Cup Qualigying game Bahrain vs Uzbekistan<ref>〈[http://hkfa.com/includes_files/board_details.php?news_id=5457 處理有關2007年12月2日甲組聯賽『和富大埔 對 東方』和富大埔之抗議事宜]〉,香港足總 , 10th December 2007</ref>. In the rematch, [[Tai Po Football Club]] won by 3-1, [[Edgar Aldrighi Júnior|Dega]] scored a penalty kick without any disputes.

The team had some bad matches in the middle of the season but ended the season strongly, especially with two fabulous 2-1 winning against the eventually league champion [[South China]]. In the first match, [[Tai Po Football Club]] delayed the league championships declaration of [[South China]] and knocked it out of [[Hong Kong FA Cup]] in semi-final in the second match.

[[Tai Po Football Club]] ended the league in the 3rd position with is over expectation. The team also played in first top division competition final against [[Citizen]] at 18th May 2008 in [[Hong Kong Stadium]] and lost the match in 0-2.

====Achievements====
* [[Hong Kong First Division League]]: 3rd
* [[Hong Kong Senior Shield|HKFA Choi Fung Hong Senior Shield]]: First Round
* [[Hong Kong League Cup]]: First Round (Fifth in Group A)
* [[Hong Kong FA Cup]]: First Runner-up

===2008-09 Season===
=====A Promising Start=====
With the success in the previous seasons, Tai Po FC secures several new sponsors in this season. [[New Territories Realty Association]] (Chinese:'''新界地產商會''') and [[Creative Property Services Consultants Limited]] (Chinese:'''創毅物業服務顧問有限公司''') are amongst the more remarkable new sponsors. Tai Po FC starts the 2008-09 Season in a rather good style. Until Sept 22nd 2008, they have recorded three straight wins. They have beaten Tuen Mun Progoal, Sheffield United and TSW Pegasus respectively.

== Stadium ==

''Main article(s): [[Tai Po Sports Ground]]''

===2006-07 Season===
[[Tai Po FC]] played their first home matches on [[Tai Po Sports Ground]] at 30th September, 2006, against [[South China AA]]. As a public integrated sport facilities and is owned by the [[Leisure and Cultural Services Department]](Hong Kong Government), the pitch and grass quality are insufficient to meet the requirement of professional football.

===2007-08 Season===
However with the refurbishment in 2007, [[Tai Po FC]] has applied to have 5 home games, between September to November, to be held in the Sports Ground in season 2007-08.

[[The Hong Kong Football Association|HKFA]] later decided the first 9 matches of [[Tai Po FC]], no matter scheduled as home or away game, will be played in [[Tai Po Sports Ground]] however, which is even more than the club demanded.

[[The Hong Kong Football Association|HKFA]] has also considered to arrange two matches at the same match day in the [[Tai Po Sports Ground|sports ground]].(This type of arrangement is common in recent years of [[Hong Kong First Division League]] game, where two matches will be played immediately one after another in the same stadium, usually in weekend, so that fans can watch two matches with single match ticket price. It's known as [[double header]]. (Chinese:'''雙料娛樂''')

However, in a 2007-08 pre-season pitch examination, HKFA eventually decided that the ground was not up to standard for First Division matches and in the end no game was held at the ground.



===2008-09 Season===
[[The Hong Kong Football Association|HKFA]] finally decided the all the 12 HOME games of [[Tai Po FC]] in the season will be played in [[Tai Po Sports Ground]].

Thus, nearly two years after Tai Po FC played their first ever home game in the sports ground in the First Division, Tai Po FC played the home game at the sports ground again against [[Sheffield United (Hong Kong)|Sheffield United]] on [[13 September]] [[2008]].

1,136 fans attended the game and Tai Po won 2:1.

== Supporters ==

[[Tai Po FC]] fans are generally [[Tai Po District]] residents. The fans also give enough impact in terms of quantity and atmosphere in season 2006-07.<ref>〈[http://appledaily.atnext.com/template/apple_sub/art_main.cfm?iss_id=20070424&sec_id=38163&subsec_id=6984416&art_id=7031523 本地波Fans對撼]〉, 蘋果日報副刊, 22th April 2007</ref>

==Book==
<!-- Deleted image removed: [[Image:Wofoo taipo book.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Wofoo Tai Po - Football can fulfill dreams]] -->
Wofoo Tai Po published its own book to commemorate its first season in the [[Hong Kong First Division League]]. The book is titled '''Wofoo Tai Po - Football can fulfill dreams''' (和富大埔—足可圓夢). The book has about 160 colour pages and is completely in Chinese. It contains many player interviews, history and views on district football and Hong Kong's participation in the [[Homeless World Cup]]. It retails at HK$68 (US$9). Its [[ISBN number]] is: 978-988-99851-1-0.

==Current squad==
{{Football squad start}}
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{{Football squad player|no=1|nat=Hong Kong|pos=GK|name=[[Li Hon Ho]]}}
{{Football squad player|no=3|nat=Hong Kong|pos=DF|name=[[Chan Sze Wing]]}}
{{Football squad player|no=4|nat=Hong Kong|pos=DF|name=[[Chiu Chun Kit]]}}
{{Football squad player|no=5|nat=Brazil|pos=MF|name=[[Edgar Aldrighi Júnior|Junior]]}}
{{Football squad player|no=6|nat=Brazil|pos=DF|name=[[Joel Bertoti Padilha|Joel]]}}
{{Football squad player|no=7|nat=Hong Kong|pos=MF|name=[[Lee Hong Lim]]}}
{{Football squad player|no=8|nat=Hong Kong|pos=MF|name=[[So Hong Shing]]}}
{{Football squad player|no=9|nat=Hong Kong|pos=FW|name=[[Lee Wai Lim]]}}
{{Football squad player|no=10|nat=Hong Kong|pos=MF|name=[[Lui Chi Hing]]}}
{{Football squad player|no=11|nat=Hong Kong|pos=FW|name=[[Sze Kin Wai]]}}
{{Football squad player|no=12|nat=Hong Kong|pos=GK|name=[[Leung Man Lai]]}}
{{Football squad player|no=14|nat=Hong Kong|pos=DF|name=[[Kwok Wing Sun]]}}
{{Football squad mid}}
{{Football squad player|no=15|nat=Ghana|pos=FW|name=[[Christian Annan]]}}
{{Football squad player|no=16|nat=Hong Kong|pos=FW|name=[[Mao Mengsuo]]}}
{{Football squad player|no=17|nat=Hong Kong|pos=MF|name=[[So Loi Keung]]}}
{{Football squad player|no=18|nat=Hong Kong|pos=MF|name=[[Fung Chung Ting]]}}
{{Football squad player|no=19|nat=Hong Kong|pos=|name=[[Wong Tak Ho]]}}
{{Football squad player|no=20|nat=Hong Kong|pos=DF|name=[[Cheung Chi Yung]]}}
{{Football squad player|no=21|nat=Hong Kong|pos=DF|name=[[Chan Yuk Chi]]|other=captain}}
{{Football squad player|no=22|nat=Hong Kong|pos=|name=[[Sin Shing Chun]]}}
{{Football squad player|no=23|nat=China|pos=MF|name=[[Ye Jia]]}}
{{Football squad player|no=31|nat=Hong Kong|pos=MF|name=[[Li Shu San]]}}
{{Football squad player|no=32|nat=Hong Kong|pos=|name=[[Chan Hin Kwong]]}}
{{Football squad player|no=33|nat=Hong Kong|pos=GK|name=[[Pang Tsz Kin]]}}
{{Football squad end}}

==Management Staff <ref>[http://tpfc.org.hk/structure.asp Tai Po Football Club Official Homepage {{zh icon}}]</ref>==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!rowspan=2|Position
!colspan=2|Name
!rowspan=2|Notes
|-
!English
!Trad. Chinese
|-
|Chief President
|{{flagicon|HKG}} [[Cheung Hok Ming]]
|{{lang|zh-hant|張學明}}
|Member of [[Legislative Council]]; Vice-Chairman of [[Heung Yee Kuk]]; Member of [[The Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong|DAB]]
|-
|President
|{{flagicon|HKG}} [[:zh:李宗德|Joseph Lee]]
|{{lang|zh-hant|李宗德}}
|Member of [[The Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong|DAB]]; Member of [[Hong Kong]] Representative of 9th-11th [[National People's Congress]]
|-
|Honorary Football Supervisor
|{{flagicon|HKG}} [[Lau Ming Sum]]
|{{lang|zh-hant|柳明心}}
|Chairman of [[New Territories Realty Association]]
|-
|Football Supervisor
|{{flagicon|HKG}} [[:zh:鄭俊平|Cheng Chun Ping]]
|{{lang|zh-hant|鄭俊平}}
|Member of [[Tai Po]] [[District Council]]; Member of [[The Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong|DAB]]
|-
|Chairman
|{{flagicon|HKG}} [[:zh:朱景玄|Chu King Yuen]]
|{{lang|zh-hant|朱景玄}}
|Member of [[Tai Po]] [[District Council]]; <br/> Principal of [[NT Women & Juveniles Welfare Assn. Ltd Leung Sing Tak Primary School]]
|-
|Manager
|{{flagicon|HKG}} [[Choi Kwok Sai]]
|{{lang|zh-hant|蔡國璽}}
|
|-
|Honorary Manager
|{{flagicon|HKG}} [[Albert Hung]]
|{{lang|zh-hant|洪祖杭}}
|Honorary Vice-President of [[Hong Kong Football Association|HKFA]]
|-
|Honorary Manager
|{{flagicon|HKG}} [[Ng Sau Kei]]
|{{lang|zh-hant|吳守基}}
|Vice President of [[Yan Cahi Hospital]]
|-
|Match Supervisor
|{{flagicon|HKG}} [[Lau Yat Leung]]
|{{lang|zh-hant|柳日樑}}
|Employee under Property Development Department of [[New Territories Realty Association]]
|-
|Match Supervisor
|{{flagicon|HKG}} [[Chan Hiu Fai]]
|{{lang|zh-hant|陳曉暉}}
|
|-
|Chinese Medicine Advisor
|{{flagicon|HKG}} [[Fong Chun Chun]]
|{{lang|zh-hant|方俊鎮}}
|Member of [[Southern District, Hong Kong|Southern]] [[District Council]]; Member of [[Liberal Party (Hong Kong)|Liberal Party]]
|-
|Secretary
|{{flagicon|HKG}} [[Chan Ping]]
|{{lang|zh-hant|陳平}}
|Former Member of [[Tai Po]] [[District Council]]; Former Member of [[Regional Council (Hong Kong)|Regional Council]]
|-
|Treasurer
|{{flagicon|HKG}} [[Wan Koon Kao]]
|{{lang|zh-hant|溫官球}}
|Member of [[The Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong|DAB]]; Indigenous Inhabitant Representative of [[Tai Po Rural Committee]]
|}

==External links==
*{{zh icon}} [http://tpfc.org.hk Official site]
*[http://www.geocities.com/hkgfootball/2006-07/tai_po.htm Hong Kong Football]
*{{zh icon}} [http://wofoo.hk 和富集團]
*{{zh icon}} [http://www.cpschk.com/cpsc_index.htm 創毅物業服務顧問有限公司]

== References ==
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