Kitchee SC

Infobox Football club
clubname = Kitchee


fullname = Kitchee Sports Club
nickname = Home-made Hotspurs
founded = 1928 as "Kitchee Football Team"
1931 as "Kitchee SC"
ground = Mong Kok Stadium
Kowloon, Hong Kong
capacity = 8,500
chrtitle = President
chairman = flagicon|HKG Tam Wai Ho
mgrtitle = Head Coach
manager = flagicon|CHI Julio Moreno
league = Hong Kong First Division
season = 2007–08
position = First Division, 6th
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Kitchee Sports Club (zh-t|t=linktext|傑|志|體|育|會) is a Hong Kong sports club best known for its footballing exploits. The club was founded in 1931 and currently plays in Hong Kong First Division. Following its return to the First Division in 2003, Kitchee became one of the most prominent in Hong Kong. Handled by their previous coach, Dejan Antonic, Kitchee won two trophys in one season (2005-2006) and under the same cold-hand coach, Dejan Antonic, in their 2006-07 season, the club secured 2nd place in the league, whereas the champion South China had already qualified for AFC Cup as Hong Kong Senior Shield winner. As a result, Kitchee becomes one of the two Hong Kong representatives to the AFC Cup 2008.

Kitchee also holds the best record against Italian teams by a Hong Kong team. They defeated AC Milan 2-1 on May 31 2004 [cite web
title = AC Milan humiliated by Hong Kong side in exhibition play
publisher = AFP
date = 2005-05-31
url = http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200405/ai_kepm477861
accessdate = 2005-05-31] and beat Juventus 5-3 on penalties (2-2 after regular time) on June 4 2005 [cite web
title = Juventus draw 2-2, lose on penalties in exhibition against Hong Kong side
publisher = AFP
date = 2005-06-04
url = http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200506/ai_n14754183
accessdate = 2005-06-04] in summer friendly matches played in Hong Kong.

Honours

"Major trophies are listed below."
*Hong Kong First Division League
**Winners (3): 1947-48, 1949-50, 1963-64
**Runners-up (5): 1952-53, 1954-55, 1956-57, 2003-04, 2006-07

*Hong Kong League Cup
**Winners (2): 2005-06, 2006-07

*Hong Kong Senior Shield
**Winners (5): 1949-50, 1953-54, 1959-60, 1963-64, 2005-06
**Finalists (4): 1948-49, 1951-52, 1955-56, 2007-08

*Hong Kong FA Cup
**Finalists (1): 2003-04

ponsors

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Current first team squad

"As of September 7, 2008."

Notable former players

;Hong Kong
*flagicon|HKG|colonial flagicon|ROC Cheung Chi Doy
*flagicon|HKG|colonial flagicon|ROC Lam Sheung Yee
*flagicon|HKG|colonial flagicon|HKG Yau Kin Wai
*flagicon|HKG|colonial flagicon|HKG Chan Chi Kwong
*flagicon|NGA flagicon|HKG Lawrence Akandu
*flagicon|HKG|colonial flagicon|HKG Tam Wai Kwok
*flagicon|HKG|colonial flagicon|HKG Lam Hing Lun
*flagicon|HKG|colonial flagicon|HKG flagicon|CRI Cheng Siu Chung
*flagicon|HKG|colonial flagicon|HKG Fung Ka Ki
*flagicon|HKG Chan Yiu Lun
*flagicon|HKG Lam Ka Wai
*flagicon|HKG Yip Chi Ho
*flagicon|CHN flagicon|HKG Feng Jizhi
*flagicon|CHN flagicon|HKG Xiao Guoji;Brazil
*flagicon|BRA Anilton da Conceição
*flagicon|BRA Ailton Grigorio de Araújo
*flagicon|BRA Leandro Webber dos Santos;Cameroon
*flagicon|CMR Armel Tchakounte;China
*flagicon|CHN Zhang Shudong
*flagicon|CHN Zhou Yi;England
*flagicon|ENG Mark Barham (1992-93) [http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/player/markbarham.htm] ;Ghana
*flagicon|GHA Joe Addo;Indonesia
*flagicon|IDN Rochy Putiray;Japan
*flagicon|JPN Dan Ito; Liberia
*flagicon|LBR Musa Shannon ;Paraguay
*flagicon|PAR flagicon|USA Gerardo Javier Laterza;Serbia
*flagicon|SRB Darko Rakočević;Slovakia
*flagicon|SVK Martin Jančula;St. Kitts & Nevis
*flagicon|SKN Keith Gumbs

Coaches

*flagicon|Hong Kong Chan Hung Ping (-2003)
*flagicon|Hong Kong flagicon|Costa Rica Cheng Siu Chung, flagicon|Hong Kong Lam Hing Lun (2003-2005)
*flagicon|Serbia Dejan Antonić (2005-2007)
*flagicon|Hong Kong Chu Chi Kwong "(caretaker)" (2007-2008)

Recent Seasons

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Trivia

*Kitchee's theme song is [http://kai_yee.mysinamail.com/artwork/Play_my_game.mp3 "Play My Game"]

References

External links

*zh icon [http://www.kitchee.com Kitchee.com] Official website
* [http://www.hkfa.com/en/team_list.php?club_id=4 Kitchee] at HKFA.com