1979

Lunar New Year Cup The Lunar New Year Cup, previously known as the Carlsberg Challenge or the Carlsberg Cup, is an annual invitational football tournament organised in Hong Kong by the Hong Kong Football Association (HKFA) since 1908. It is usually held on the firs ...

was a

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

tournament, played on the first few days of

Chinese New Year Chinese New Year is the festival that celebrates the beginning of a New Year, new year on the traditional lunisolar calendar, lunisolar and solar Chinese calendar. In Sinophone, Chinese and other East Asian cultures, the festival is commonly r ...

Participating teams

* Hong Kong League XI * Guangdong * Öster

Match results

References

* Takungpao, 1979-01-27, page 12 * Wah Kiu Yat Po, 1979-01-30, section 3 page 4 (total page 12) * Takungpao, 1979-01-31, page 12 * Takungpao, 1979-02-02, page 12 * Takungpao, 1979-02-03, page 12

Participating teams

Match results

References

See also