Tai Po FC

Tai Po FC (Wofoo Tai Po) 大埔 足球 會 ( 和 富 大埔 )
Basic data
Surname	Tai Po Football Club 大埔 足球 會
Seat	Pun Chung Community Education Center, Pun Chung Village, Tai Po, Hong Kong , China
founding	2002
Colours	green
president	Lee, Chung-Tak Joseph 李宗德 Cheung, Hok-Ming 張學明 (as of 2019)
Board	Chu, King-Yuen 朱景玄 Tam, Wing-Fun Eric (deputy) 譚榮勳 Choy, Sheung-Ki Gary ( team manager ) 蔡尚 圻 (as of 2019)
Website	www.taipofc.com
First soccer team
Head coach	Fung, Hoi-Man  (as of November 2019) 馮凱文
Venue	Tai Po Sports Ground, New Territories
Places	3200
league	Hong Kong Premier League
2018/19	master
home Away

Tai Po FC ( Chinese  大埔 足球 會  /  大埔 足球 会 , Pinyin Dàbù Zúqiúhuì , Jyutping Daai ⁶ bou ³ Zuk ¹ kau ⁴ wui ² , English Tai Po Football Club ) is a football club from Hong Kong founded in 2002 . Tai Po FC plays in the Hong Kong Premier League , the highest league in the Chinese Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong and is there as Wofoo Tai Po ( 和 富 大埔 , Héfù Dàbù , Jyutping Wo ⁴ fu ³ Daai) due to the sponsorship agreement with the main sponsor Wofoo Social Enterprises ⁶ bou ³ ) listed in the league. The Tai Po FC team is also known colloquially by its fans as the “ Green Warriors ” ( 綠 戰士  /  绿 战士 ). (As of 2019)

Club history

The football club Tai Po FC was on 3 September 2002 by the Council of the District Municipality of Tai Po ( 大埔區議會  /  大埔区议会 , english Tai Po District Council established) in Hong Kong football season 2002-2003. Started in the third division of Hong Kong, the club won the table in the 2003/2004 season and moved to the first division for the 2006-2007 season within 2 years . Tai Po FC is thus the first team in the third division to be promoted to the Hong Kong First Division. After a seventh place as a promoted club, the 2007-2008 season ended in third place in the league's first division. At the beginning of the 2014-2015 season , the club made it to the top division, the Hong Kong Premier League , which was newly created in 2014, and after a short stay rose again to the Hong Kong Football Association's second division , the First Division, at the end of the season due to a poor game record and mediocre performance from. After a successful 2015-2016 season as leaders in the First Division, Tai Po FC has been playing in the top division, the Hong Kong Premier League, since the beginning of the 2016-17 season, which the club finished sixth at the end of the season.

Since the promotion to the 2016-17 season, the club has been back in the top division, the Hong Kong Premier League. (As of 2019)

Stadion

Tai Po Sports Ground

Tai Po Sports Ground - home ground, 2006

Tai Po FC vs TSW Pegasus , Tai Po Sports Ground 2009

Tai Po Sports Ground - Main Stand, 2008

Tai Po Sports Ground - Running Track, 2008

Tai Po Sports Ground - Scoreboard, 2008

Tai Po Sports Ground - grandstand seating, 2008

Tai Po Sports Ground - Panorama, 2017

Home stadium

See also : Stadium allocation in Hong Kong Premier League

The club does not have its own home stadium and plays its home games in the local sports field, the Tai Po Sports Ground ⊙ in the Tai Po district of the New Territories . The Tai Po Sports Ground has a maximum capacity of 3200 seats. The stadium, which opened on September 23, 1992, is owned by the Hong Kong Government and operated by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD).

Club successes

National

league

• Hong Kong Premier League

Champion: 2018/19

• 1st Division League

Champion: 2015/16 ▲ 

• 2nd Division League

Champion: 2013/14 ▲ 

• 3rd Division League

Champion: 2003/04 ▲ 

Cup

• Hong Kong FA Cup

Winner: 2009

• Senior Challenge Shield

Winner: 2013

• Sapling Cup

Winner: 2016–2017

2nd place: 2017-2018

International

• AFC Cup

Group stage 2010

Group stage 2019

Source: Hong Kong Football Association, Soccerway, The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF)

player

(As of November 2019)

No. position Surname 1 TW Alex Palalei Chin U 2 MF Eugene Petit Mbende Mbome U 3 FROM Benjamin Patrick Van Meurs FP 4th ST Nakamura, Yuto 5 FROM Luís Eduardo ( Dudú ) Chebel Klein Nunes FP U 6th FROM Lew, Wai Yip 7th ST Kim, Minki ( team captain ) FP 8th MF Leung, Sing Yiu 9 ST Alessandro ( Sandro ) Ferreira Leonardo U 10 MF Luk, Chih Ho Michael 11 ST Michel Antunes Lugo FP 12 MF Cheng, Tsz Sum 13 FROM Yeung, Chi Lun 14th MF Liu, Chi Him 15th FROM Yang, Tsz Pan

No. position Surname 17th ST Chan, Man Fai 19th TW Luk, Felix 20th TW Ho, Yiu 23 MF Sun, Ming Him 24 MF Toby Philip Down U 25th MF Hui, Ka Lok 27 MF Fong, Chun Yip 28 FROM Che, Runqiu 31 FROM Philip Michael To 44 MF Ho, Chun Ting 80 MF Ng, Man Hei 86 TW Paulo César Da Silva Argolo FP U

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.

Best goal scorers since 2014

season	Surname	Gates
2014/2015	Vincent Weijl	8th
2015/2016	Caleb Ekwegwo	17th
2016/2017	Lucas Espindola da Silva	11
2017/2018	Igor Sartori	9
2018/2019	Igor Sartori	8th
2019/2020

Trainer since 2006

Surname
	from	to
Hiu-Ming chan	July 1, 2006	June 30, 2007
Tim Bredbury	July 31, 2007	October 9, 2007
Ho-Yin Chan	July 1, 2008	June 30, 2009
Po-Chuen Cheung	July 1, 2008	30th of June 2013
Ka-Yiu Pau	July, 1st 2013	June 30, 2016
Chi-Kin Lee	4th july 2016	? ? 2019
Hoi-Man Fung	? ? 2019	today

literature

• Yat Fung MOK, Hoi Wing WONG: Wofoo Tai Po - Where dreams come true. Up Publication, Hong Kong 2007 (Chinese) - 莫 逸風, 黃海榮: 和 富 大埔 ── 足 可 圓夢. 上 書局 出版社, 香港 二 〇〇 七年, ISBN 978-988-99851-1-0

Web links

• Official website (Chinese, English)
• Hong Kong Football Association - Tai Po FC (Chinese, English)
• Hong Kong Premier League - Points Table (Chinese, English)
• Tai Po FC at transfermarkt.de
• Tai Po FC at soccerway.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Hong Kong Football Association - Tai Po Football Club. Club info, team players. In: The Hong Kong Football Association . Retrieved May 21, 2019 (Chinese, English). 
2. ↑ AFC Cup new boys Tai Po keen to make an impact. (No longer available online.) In: the-afc.com. Archived from the original on June 14, 2018 ; accessed on June 5, 2019 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Soccerway - Wofoo Tai Po FC. In: soccerway.com. Retrieved May 21, 2019 . 
4. ↑ HKFA - Premier League 2014/15. In: The Hong Kong Football Association . Retrieved September 30, 2018 (Chinese, English). 
5. ↑ HKFA - Premier League 2016/17. In: The Hong Kong Football Association . Retrieved September 30, 2018 (Chinese, English). 
6. ↑ Hong Kong Football Association - Premier League. In: The Hong Kong Football Association . Retrieved September 30, 2018 (Chinese, English). 
7. ^ Leisure and Cultural Services Department - Sports Ground - Tai Po Sports Ground. In: www.lcsd.gov.hk. Retrieved May 21, 2019 (Chinese, English). 
8. ↑ Soccerway - Wofoo Tai Po FC - Stadium. In: soccerway.com. Retrieved May 21, 2019 . 
9. ↑ 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 . 
10. ↑ 2018-2019 BOC Life Hong Kong Premier League. In: The Hong Kong Football Association . Retrieved June 5, 2019 (Chinese, English).