Kitchee SC

Kitchee SC 傑 志
Basic data
Surname	Kitchee Sports Club Limited 傑 志 體育 會 有限公司
Seat	Jockey Club Kitchee Center, 23 On Muk Street, Shatin , Hong Kong , China
founding	1928 (as Kitchee Football Team)
Colours	blue
president	Ng, Ken K. 伍 健 (as of November 2019)
Board	Fung, Benny Wing-Kan 馮 泳 勤 Ng, Wilson Hoi-Wai ( General Manager ) 吳凱威 (as of November 2019)
Website	www.kitchee.com
First soccer team
Head coach	Blaz Sliskovic (as of July 2019)
Venue	Mong Kok Stadium , Kowloon
Places	Max. 6769 (6600 seats)
league	Hong Kong Premier League
2018/19	4th Place
home Away Alternatively

Mong Kok Stadium ( MKS ), 2018

Kitchee SC ( Chinese  傑 志 體育 會  /  杰 志 体育 会 , Pinyin Jiézhì Tǐyùhuì , Jyutping Git ⁶ zi ³ Tai ² juk ⁶ wui ² , English Kitchee Sports Club ) is a club from Hong Kong and was founded in 1928 as a Kitchee Football Team. He currently plays (as of 2018/19) in the highest league in the Special Administrative Region , the Hong Kong Premier League . Its home games wearing the team in the stadium of Mongkok from (FMD). After the club was relegated to the 2nd league at the end of the 2000/01 season, it was promoted again in 2002/03, building on old successes from the 50s and 60s. As a climber, the SC finished second after the 2003/04 season. This was followed by winning the Senior Shield Cup in 2007/08. The Kitchee team is often referred to colloquially by its fans as “ Bluewaves ” ( 藍 浪  /  蓝 浪 ) or “ Bluebirds ” ( 藍鳥  /  蓝鸟 ). The local citizens of Hong Kong jokingly refer to the club as the “ Barca of Hong Kong” ( 香港 巴塞 ).

Club successes

National

• Hong Kong Premier League

Champion: 2014/15, 2016/17, 2017/18

Vice champion: 2015/16

• Hong Kong First Division League

Champion: 1947/48, 1949/50, 1963/64, 2010/11, 2011/12, 2013/14

Runner-up: 1952/53, 1954/55, 1956/57, 2003/04, 2006/07, 2008/09, 2012/13

• Hong Kong Senior Shield

Winner: 1949/50, 1953/54, 1959/60, 1963/64, 2005/06, 2016/17

Finalist: 1948/49, 1951/52, 1955/56, 2007/08, 2009/10

• Hong Kong FA Cup

Winner: 2011/12, 2012/13, 2014/15, 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19

Finalist: 2003/04, 2013/14

• Hong Kong League Cup

Winner: 2005/06, 2006/07, 2011/12, 2014/15, 2015/16

• Hong Kong Community Shield

Winner: 2009

• Sapling Cup

Winner: 2017/2018

Source: Soccerway, The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF)

Stadion

Home stadium

See also : Stadium allocation in Hong Kong Premier League

The association does not have a stadium and plays its home games since the 2013/14 season in the Mong Kok Stadium ⊙ in the district of Mongkok in Kowloon from. The MKS has a capacity for a maximum of 6769 spectators (according to the international standard 6600). The stadium is owned by the Hong Kong government. The stadium will be operated by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD).

Training center

Jockey Club Kitchee Center - complete facility, 2014

The Kitchee Training Center is located in Sha Tin on On Muk Street ( 安 睦 街 ) near the MTR - Shek Mun Subway Station . Since the completion of the Jockey Club Kitchee Center ( 賽 馬會傑 志 中心  /  赛 马会杰 志 中心 ) in July 2015, the Kitchee team has been training at the club's own training center in Shek Mun ( 石門  /  石门 ) in the northeast of the Shatin district . On a leased by the Hong Kong government's 15,050 square meter area, the training center of the club and the premises of Kitchee Football Academy located ( English Kitchee Academy ). The center has four football pitches for the "seven-a-side football" ( Spanish: Fútbol siete ), which can be combined to form a regular standard football pitch . The association's own football academy makes youth work there for six to eleven-year-old youth with thrice-weekly free soccer training on the model of FC Barcelona , La Masia . The academy works internationally with the youth department of “Barca” and locally with the professional football support program of the YCHTCY-Memorial Secondary School ( 仁濟 醫院 董 之 英 紀念 中學  /  仁济 医院 董 之 英 纪念 中学 ) and the Hong Kong Education Office (“Hong Kong Education Bureau ”, HKEDB for short, 香港 教育局 ) together. In addition to Kitchee and its academy, the facility is available to both the YCHTCY Memorial Secondary School and the Hong Kong national football team . The facility is partially accessible for public use at set times.

The premises of the center include an office building (238 m²), a service building with parents' rooms, a Kisok, a booking and treatment room - for example for first aid - (109 m²), two buildings for the team dressing room (109 m² each) Building with referee rooms and storage or equipment room (109 m²) as well as rooms for the technical building equipment and house connections (46 m²).

player

(Status: February 2020)

No. position Surname 1 TW Wang Zhenpeng 3 FROM Dani Cancela 4th FROM Li Ngai Hoi 5 FROM Helio 6th FROM Park Jun-heong 7th MF Fernando 8th FROM Matt Orr 9 ST Manuel Bleda 10 MF Cleiton 11 ST Wellingsson 15th FROM Brian Fok 16 MF Jared Lum 17th TW Wong Tsz Chung 18th ST Nikola Komazec 19th MF Huang Yang ( team captain )

No. position Surname 21st FROM Tong Kin Man 22nd MF Clement Benhaddouche 23 TW Guo Jianqiao 24 MF Ju Yingzhi 27 MF Bosley Yu 28 MF Cheng Chin Lung 30th ST Chang Kwong Yin 31 FROM Law Tsz Chun 34 MF Barak Braunshtain 35 MF Mark Swainston 37 ST Tong Hew Fung 39 ST Godfred Karikari 67 ST Seb Buddle 95 MF Shinichi Chan

Borrowed Players

No. position Surname TW Chan Ka Ho (on loan to Yuen Long FC ) TW Paulo César (loaned to -) MF Ho Chun Ting (on loan to Tai Po FC ) MF Yuto Nakamura (on loan to Tai Po FC )

Best goal scorers since 2014

season	Surname	Gates
2014/2015	Juan Belencoso	13
2015/2016	Alex Tayo Akande	7th
2016/2017	Sandro	21st
2017/2018	Lucas Silva	15th
2018/2019	Lucas Silva	12
2019/2020

Trainer since 2005

Surname
	from	to
Dejan Antonic	July 1, 2005	December 31, 2007
Chi-Kwong Chu	December 31, 2007	April 30, 2008
Julio César Moreno	May 1, 2008	March 30, 2009
Siu-Chung Cheng	March 31, 2009	July 31, 2009
Josep Gombau	August 1, 2009	April 30, 2013
Alex Gomez	July, 1st 2013	November 14, 2013
Siu-Chung Cheng	15th November 2013	May 23, 2014
Chi-Kwong Chu	15th November 2013	May 23, 2014
José Francisco Molina	May 24, 2014	May 31, 2015
Abraham García	July 14, 2015	4th March 2016
Chi-Kwong Chu	5th March 2016	3rd July 2019
Blaz Sliskovic	3rd July 2019	March 22, 2020
Chi-Kwong Chu	March 23, 2020	today

See also

• The Hong Kong Football Association

Web links

• Official Website (Chinese)
• Hong Kong Football Association - Kitchee SC (Chinese, English)
• Hong Kong Premier League - Points Table (Chinese, English)
• Kitchee SC at transfermarkt.de
• Kitchee SC at soccerway.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hong Kong Football Association - Kitchee Sports Club Ltd, Team Players. In: hkfa.com . Retrieved May 21, 2019 . 
2. ^ Kitchee Sports Club Ltd. - History. In: www.kitchee.com. Retrieved May 21, 2019 (Chinese). 
3. ^ Kitchee Sports Club Ltd. - Bluwave Family. In: www.kitchee.com. Retrieved May 21, 2019 (Chinese). 
4. Jump up ↑ Soccerway - Kitchee SC. In: soccerway.com. Retrieved May 21, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Atsushi Fujioka, Tom Lewis, Karel Stokkermans and RSSSF 1996/2019: Hongkong - List of Champions and Runners-Up. In: www.rsssf.com. Retrieved May 21, 2019 . 
6. ^ Kitchee Sports Club Ltd. - Home Stadium. In: www.kitchee.com. Retrieved May 21, 2019 (Chinese). 
7. ↑ Soccerway - KITCHEE SC - Stadium. In: soccerway.com. Retrieved May 21, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Jocky Club Kitchee Center - Contact. In: www.kitchee.com. Retrieved May 21, 2019 (Chinese). 
9. ↑ Jocky Club Kitchee Center - brief information. In: www.kitchee.com. Retrieved May 21, 2019 (Chinese). 
10. ↑ Jocky Club Kitchee Center - General Description. In: www.kitchee.com. Retrieved May 21, 2019 (English, Chinese).