Eastern AA
| Eastern AA (Eastern Long Lions) 東方 足球隊 ( 東方 龍獅 ) |
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| Surname | Eastern Athletic Association Football Team Limited 東方 體育 會 足球隊 有限公司 |
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| Seat | Unit 1008-10, 10 / F, Tower 1, Grand Century Place, 193 Prince Edward Road West, Mongkok , Kowloon , Hong Kong , China 
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| founding | 1932 | ||
| Colours | blue | ||
| president | LAM, Kin Ming 林 建 名 |
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| Website | www.easternlonglions.com | ||
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| Head coach | LEE, Chi Kin (as of November 2019) 李志堅 |
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| Venue | Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground | ||
| Places | 3,500 | ||
| league | Hong Kong Premier League | ||
| 2018/19 | 5th place | ||
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Eastern AA , short for Eastern AA Football Team ( Chinese 東方 足球隊 / 东方 足球队 , officially Eastern Athletic Association Football Team Ltd. 東方 體育 會 足球隊 有限公司 / 东方 体育 会 足球队 有限公司 ), is a football association team Hong Kong and was founded in 1932. The soccer team is a division of the general sports club Eastern Athletic Association - also called Eastern Sports Club , Eastern SC for short ( 東方 體育 會 / 东方 体育 会 ), which also has a basketball department in addition to soccer . The Eastern AA Football Team currently plays in the city's highest league, the Hong Kong Premier League . Due to the change to the main sponsor Nenking Group ( 能 興 集團 / 能 兴 集团 ) from Foshan , the team has been listed as Eastern Long Lions ( 東方 龍獅 / 东方 龙狮 ) in the HKPL since August 2016 . (As of 2019)
Club history
The most successful phase of the team was in the late 80s and early 90s. In the 1992/93 season they set a new record when they won nine games in a row in the first half of the season and scored 30 goals. In the end, they won their first championship title in 37 years. In addition, the team won the Association Cup and the Senior Shield this season and had thus won the three most important competitions in Hong Kong in one season. The championship title was defended two more times before relegation to the second division became a reality at the end of the 1996/97 season. With only 2 wins out of 24 games they finished last and were relegated for the first time in history. That was not enough, in 2002/03 even relegation to the third division was on the agenda. Only two years later, in 2005/06, they were promoted to the second division. From a sporting point of view, the 2006/07 season ended in a relegation zone, which would have meant going to the third division again. The champions of the 2nd division and sporting climber Tung Po had to cede his place to the Eastern AA after they were invited to the first division by the Hong Kong Association. The return to the upper house was immediately followed by the first title since relegation. In 2007/08 the team won the Senior Shield for the seventh time and even qualified for the 2009 AFC Cup . As a champion from 1993 to 1996 you have already played three times in the Asian Club Championship but never got beyond the second round. In 2016, the club became champions for the fifth time and wrote football history with the title of coach Chan Yuen-Ting ( 陳婉婷 / 陈婉婷 ), for the first time a woman led a men's team in professional football to a first-class title.
Stadion
Home stadium
The club does not have its own home stadium and plays its home games in the local sports field, the Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground ⊙ in the Sai Kung district in the New Territories . The Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground has a maximum capacity of 3500 seats. The stadium, which opened in March 2009, is owned by the Hong Kong Government and operated by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD). (As of 2019)
- Tseung Kwan O SG
Stadium - Before opening, March 2009
Staircase - main entrance, 2009
Grandstand for the sports festival, 2009
Access via footbridge, 2014
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Club successes
National
league
- Hong Kong First Division League (until 2014) or Hong Kong Premier League (from 2014)
- Masters 1955–56, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 2015–16
- Hong Kong Second Division League
- 1947-48, 2012-13
- Hong Kong Third Division "A" League
- 2004–05, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12
Cup
- Winner 1983–84, 1992–93, 1993–94, 2013–14
- Finalist 1994/95
- Hong Kong Senior Shield
- 1939–40, 1952–53, 1955–56, 1981–82, 1986–87, 1992–93, 1993–94, 2007–08, 2014–15, 2015–16
- Viceroy Cup Champion
- 1970-72, 1980-81
International
| season | Cup | round | team | home | Away | total |
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| 1994 | Asian Club Championship | First round |
 Verdy Kawasaki
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1–0 | 1-3 | 2-3 |
| 1995 | Asian Club Championship | First round |
Verdy Kawasaki
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0-3 | 0-3 | 0-6 |
| 2009 | AFC Cup | Group G |
 Chonburi FC
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2–1 | 1-4 | 3rd place |
 Hà Nội ACB
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3–0 | 0-3 | ||||
 Kedah FA
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3–3 | 0-2 | ||||
| 2017 | AFC Champions League | Group G |
 Guangzhou Evergrande
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0-6 | 0-7 | 4th Place |
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Kawasaki Frontale
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1-1 | 0-4 | ||||
 Suwon Samsung Bluewings
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0-1 | 0-5 | ||||
| 2018 | AFC Champions League | round 2 |
FLC Thanh Hóa
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2-4 | ||
Source: Hong Kong Football Association, Soccerway, The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF)
player
(As of November 2019)
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Source: Eastern AA Football Team, Hong Kong Football Association, Soccerway
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Well-known former players
| Surname | from | to |
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 Alan Ball
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1982 | 1983 |
  Andrew Barisic
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2015 | 2016 |
 Andreas Nägelein
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2015 | 2016 |
Best goal scorers since 2015
| season | Surname | Gates |
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| 2015-2016 |
 Giovane da Silva
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10 |
| 2016-2017 |
 Manolo Bleda
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10 |
| 2017-2018 | N / A | N / A |
| 2018-2019 |
Manolo Bleda
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12 |
Trainer since 2007
| Surname | from | to |
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Casemiro Mior |
July 1, 2007 | May 27, 2008 |
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Kin-Wo Lee |
July 1, 2008 | June 30, 2009 |
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Hiu-Ming chan |
July 1, 2008 | June 30, 2009 |
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Kin-Wo Lee |
July 1, 2009 | September 30th, 2013 |
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Cristiano Cordeiro |
October 1, 2013 | June 9, 2015 |
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Ching-Kwong Yeung |
June 9, 2015 | December 7, 2015 |
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Yuen-Ting Chan |
December 8, 2015 | May 31, 2017 |
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Man-Chun Szeto |
June 1, 2017 | 19th January 2018 |
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Kin-Wo Lee |
20th January 2018 | June 30, 2018 |
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Yuen-Ting Chan |
19th July 2018 | 4th February 2019 |
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Chun-Yue Wong |
4th February 2019 | February 13, 2019 |
 Andrejs Stolcers |
February 14, 2019 | 17th July 2019 |
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Chi Kin Lee |
17th July 2019 | today |
Web links
- Official website (Chinese, English)
- Official website on Facebook (Chinese)
- Hong Kong Football Association - Eastern AA Football Team (Chinese, English)
- Hong Kong Premier League - Points Table (Chinese, English)
- Eastern at transfermarkt.de
- Eastern at soccerway.com
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d Hong Kong Football Association - Eastern AA Football Team. Club info, team players. In: Hong Kong Football Association . Retrieved December 3, 2019 (Chinese, English).
- ^ A b c Leisure and Cultural Services Department - Sports Ground - Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground. In: www.lcsd.gov.hk. Retrieved December 3, 2019 (Chinese, English).
- ^ Soccerway - Eastern SC - Stadium. In: soccerway.com. Retrieved December 3, 2019 .
- ^ A b About the Team - About Eastern Long Lions. In: www.easternlonglions.com. Retrieved December 3, 2019 (Chinese, English).
- ↑ About the Team - Director and Coaches. In: www.easternlonglions.com. Retrieved December 3, 2019 (Chinese, English).
- ^ Eastern Long Lions. In: www.easternlonglions.com. Retrieved December 3, 2019 (Chinese, English).
- ↑ Tom Lewis: Hong Kong 1996/97 - season table of games. In: www.rsssf.com. Retrieved December 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Chan, Kin-wa: Meet Chan Yuen-ting, the first woman ever to lead a men's team to a top-flight soccer title. In: South China Morning Post . April 23, 2016, accessed December 5, 2019 .
- Jump up ↑ Soccerway - Eastern SC - Achievements. In: soccerway.com. Retrieved December 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Atsushi Fujioka, Tom Lewis, Karel Stokkermans and RSSSF 1996/2019: Hongkong - List of Champions and Runners-Up - List of champions and runners-up. In: www.rsssf.com. Retrieved December 3, 2019 .
- ^ About the Team - Players. In: www.easternlonglions.com. Retrieved December 3, 2019 (Chinese, English).
- Jump up ↑ Soccerway - Eastern SC - Players. In: soccerway.com. Retrieved December 3, 2019 .