Happy Valley AA

Happy Valley AA 愉 園 體育 會
Basic data
Surname	Happy Valley Athletic Association Limited 愉 園 體育 會 有限公司
Seat	16 / F., Empire Court, 2 Hysan Avenue, Causeway Bay , Hong Kong , China
founding	1950
Colours	green
president	Kwan-Kay PUI 貝 鈞 奇
Board	Zhishi CHEN 陳志 實
Website	www.facebook.com/hvaafootball
First soccer team
Head coach	Ka-Yiu PAU 鮑家耀 (as of November 2019/20)
Venue	Hammer Hill Road Sports Ground , Siu Sai Wan Sports Ground - formerly (11,981 seats), Tai Po Stadion Sports Ground - formerly (3,200 seats) Mong Kok Stadium - formerly (6,769 seats)
Places	2,200
league	Hong Kong Premier League (as of 2019/20)
2018/19	1st place First Division League ▲
home Away

Hammer Hill Road Sports Ground - HVAA Home Stadium 2019/20 Season, Kowloon 2008

Happy Valley AA , HVAA for short ( Chinese  愉 園 體育 會  /  愉 园 体育 会 , Pinyin Yúyuán Tǐyùhuì , Jyutping Jyu ⁴ jyun ⁴ Tai ² juk ⁶ wui ² , English Happy Valley Athletic Association ) is an association team from Hong Kong and was founded in 1950. The club's own soccer team currently plays in the city's highest league, the Hong Kong Premier League . (As of 2019/20) Happy Valley ( 愉 園  /  愉 园 , Yúyuán , Jyutping Jyu ⁴ jyun ⁴  - "literally Happy Garden", local nickname 快活谷 , Kuàihuógǔ , Jyutping Faai ³ wut ⁶ guk ¹  - "literally Happy Valley") As the locals also colloquially call the team, they are next to South China AA one of the most successful in the history of football in Hong Kong until the team was relegated to the second division in 2010/11. In the more than sixty-year history of the club, the number of runner-ups is greater than the number of championships won. The greatest continental success was reaching the quarter-finals of the 1998/99 Asian Cup Winners' Cup .

Stadion

Home stadium

See also : Stadium allocation in Hong Kong Premier League

Of the club does not have a home stadium and plays its home games since the season 2019/20 on the sports field of the hammer Hill Road Sports Ground ⊙ ( 斧山道運動場 ) from near the Diamond Hill in District Wong Tai Sin in the east of the peninsula Kowloon . The Hammer Hill Road Sports Ground has a maximum capacity of 2,200 seats. The stadium, which opened in September 1989, is owned by the Hong Kong Government and operated by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD). In the past, the team played its home games at the Siu Sai Wan Sports Ground as well as the Tai Po Sports Ground and the Mong Kok Stadium (MKS).

Club successes

National

league

• Hong Kong First Division League

Champion 1964/65, 1988/89, 1998/99, 2000/01, 2002/03, 2005/06, 2018/19 ▲ 

Runner-up in 1959/60, 1960/61, 1961/62, 1963/64, 1965/66, 1974/75, 1977/78, 1978/79, 1979/70, 1981/82, 1985/86, 1987/88, 1990 / 91, 1999/00, 2001/02, 2004/05, 2012/13

Cup

• Hong Kong Senior Shield

Winner 1969/70, 1977/78, 1982/83, 1989/90, 1997/98, 2003/04

Finalist 1966/67, 1983/84, 1984/85, 1987/88, 1994/95, 1999/00, 2002/03, 2004/05, 2005/06

• Hong Kong FA Cup

Winner 1999/00, 2003/04

Finalist 1986/87, 1993/94, 2004/05, 2005/06, 2006/07

Source: RSSSF - The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

player

(As of November 2019)

No. position Surname 1 TW Chung, Wai Ho 2 FROM Cheung, Chun Hin Marco 3 FROM Yung, Hui To 4th FROM Eduardo ( Edu ) Cruz FP U 5 MF Yip, Cheuk Man 6th FROM Luciano Silva da Silva FP U 7th MF Mahir Karić ( team captain ) FP 9 MF Wong, Chi Hong 10 ST Manu Gavilán 11 MF Poon, Pui Hin 12 FROM Fung, Tsz Hin Les 13 MF Lam, Lok Yin Jerry 15th FROM Wong, Ho Yin 16 MF Lai, Pui Kei

No. position Surname 17th TW To, Chun Kiu 18th FROM Lam, Ngai Tong LP 19th MF Wong, wing kit 20th FROM Igor Miović FP 22nd TW Ng, Wai Him 23 FROM Siu, Chi Ho 26th ST Yuen, Sai Kit 27 MF Ng, Ka Yeung 28 ST Chu, Wai Kwan 29 ST Chen, Liming 30th MF Jahangir Khan 32 FROM Alexander ( Alex ) Christian Jojo FP U 33 ST Chiu, Siu Wai (on loan from Tai Po )

Source: Hong Kong Football Association, Soccerway

annotation

^FP Registered as a Foreign Player (FP).

^LP Registered as a local player (LP).

^U Underlined name equals first name.

Trainer since 2005

Surname	from	to
Wong Yiu Shun	July 1, 2005	June 30, 2006
José Ricardo Rambo	July 1, 2006	? ? 2006
Lo Kai Wah	? ? 2006	? ? 2007
Chan Hung Ping	? ? 2007	? ? 2008
Wong Yiu Shun	? ? 2008	? ? 2009
He Jianbo & Cheng Qiang	? ? 2009	? ? 2013
Sergio Timoner	? July 2013	October 8, 2013
Paul Foster	October 9, 2013	? ? 2015
Poon Man Tik	20th January 2015	? ? 2016
Shum Kwok Pui	? ? 2016	? ? 2019
Pau Ka Yiu	? ? 2019	today

See also

• The Hong Kong Football Association

Web links

• Official website on Facebook (Chinese)
• Hong Kong Football Association - Happy Valley AA (Chinese, English)
• Hong Kong Premier League - Points Table (Chinese, English)
• Happy Valley AA at transfermarkt.de
• Happy Valley AA at soccerway.com
• Former club blog on Blogspot until 2008 (Chinese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Happy Valley Athletic Association Limited - Club Info. The Hong Kong Football Association , accessed November 4, 2019 (Chinese, English).  
2. ^ ^{A b} Leisure and Cultural Services Department - Sports Ground - Hammer Hill Road Sports Ground. In: www.lcsd.gov.hk. Retrieved November 4, 2019 (Chinese, English). 
3. ↑ Jeff Hardbattle: Happy Valley AA - Hong Kong Football's Sleeping Giants. In: www.offside.hk. December 23, 2017, accessed November 4, 2019 .  
4. Jump up ↑ Soccerway - Happy Valley AA Stadium. In: soccerway.com. Retrieved November 4, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Atsushi Fujioka, Tom Lewis, Karel Stokkermans: Hongkong - List of Champions and Runners-Up - List of champions and runners-up of Hong Kong. In: www.rsssf.com. Accessed November 4, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Happy Valley Athletic Association Limited - Team Players. The Hong Kong Football Association , accessed November 10, 2019 (Chinese, English).  
7. Jump up ↑ Happy Valley AA roster. The Hong Kong Football Association , accessed November 10, 2019 .