The Hong Kong League Cup 2006–07 is the 7th staging of the

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. The competition started on 11 January 2007 with 10 Hong Kong First Division clubs and was concluded on 18 March 2007 with the final.

Kitchee Kitchee Sports Club (; ; ) is a Hong Kong professional Association football, football club based in Kowloon. It was founded in 1931 and currently competes in the Hong Kong Premier League. The club has won championships in Hong Kong 11 times, in ...

regained their second consecutive

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champion by winning 2-1 against Happy Valley in the final. They also won a HKD$80,000 championship prize.

Teams

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* Happy Valley *

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* Rangers *

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Details

* The 10 teams in

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is divided into groups A and B. Each team plays one match with other teams in the group once. The top 2 teams of the groups qualify for semi-finals. * The teams are allocated in the groups according to their league positions after half season. Group A consists of

(1st),

(4th),

(5th),

(8th) and

(10th). Group B consists of

(2nd), Rangers (3rd), Happy Valley (6th),

(7th) and

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Group stage

Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

''All times are

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(UTC+8).''

Bracket

Semi-finals

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Final

Scorers

; 4 goals * Victor Eromosele Inegbenoise of

; 3 goals * Fábio Lopes of Happy Valley *

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; 2 goals *

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* Jorginho of

Gerard Ambassa Guy Gerard Ambassa Guy (; born 21 September 1978), nicknamed JJ (), is a Cameroonian-born Hong Kong association football coach and former professional player who currently as an amateur plays for Hong Kong Third Division League, Hong Kong Third Divi ...

of Happy Valley *

Law Chun Bong Law Chun Bong (; born 25 January 1981) is a former Hong Kong professional footballer. He can play in many positions (forward, left winger, left midfielder and left wing back), mostly as a left midfielder. He is a pacey, and has good finishing ...

of Happy Valley *

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of Happy Valley * Darko Rakočević of

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Julius Akosah Julius Pongla Akosah ( ''Akosah'', born ) is a former Cameroon-born Hong Kong professional footballer who currently plays as an amateur for Hong Kong Second Division club Fu Moon. His position was striker. He was once called up by Cameroon in ...

* Wilfed Bamnjo of

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of Rangers *

Detinho José Wellington Bento dos Santos (; born 11 September 1973), known as Detinho, is a former Brazilian professional footballer who played as a striker. He also holds a Portuguese passport. He spent his entire professional career in Portugal a ...

; 1 goal *

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of Happy Valley *

Evanor Evanor João Fantin, simply known as Evanor ( Chinese: 伊雲羅 ''Evanor'', born March 16, 1974) is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays as a defensive midfielder for Eastern in the Hong Kong First Division. Honours With Happy Valley: * ...

of Happy Valley *

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* Michael John Challoner of

* Wong Yiu Fu of

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* Liu Quankun of

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* Lin Zhong of

* Alex Xavier of Rangers *

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of Rangers *

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of Rangers *

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* Cristiano Alves Pereira of

Li Haiqiang Li Haiqiang () is a former Chinese-born Hong Kong professional footballer. He played for various professional clubs and also the Hong Kong national football team. Li played the role of a midfielder and is nicknamed "The Golden Left Foot" be ...

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* Christian Kwesi Annan of

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* Barnes Colly Ezeh of

* Chan Yiu Lun of

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Individual prizes

* Best Defensive Player Award: Darko Rakočević of

* Top Goalscorer: Victor Eromosele Inegbenoise of

Trivia

* Happy Valley has lost in the

for the 5th consecutive season. * Happy Valley suffers their 7th consecutive losses in the final of local competitions. * All three goals in the final were from free kicks. The goal of Happy Valley was from a

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while the two goals of

were from a

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and

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respectively. * The semi-finals were originally scheduled to play in

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. However, the 4 teams in the semi-finals suggested HKFA to move the matches to

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. However, after the matches, many football fans expressed their opinions that this is a main cause for the low attendance on that day.

References

External links

Fixtures
at HKFA.com {{DEFAULTSORT:2006-07 Hong Kong League Cup

Hong Kong League Cup

Teams

Details

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Knockout stage

Bracket

Semi-finals

Final

Scorers

Individual prizes

Trivia

See also

References

External links