Chow Cheuk Fung (, born 1 August 1989 in

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 Delta i ...

) is a former

professional

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who currently plays as an amateur player for Hong Kong First Division club Icanfield.

Club career

During his youth, Chow trained with

Hong Kong Rangers Hong Kong Rangers Football Club (), often abbreviated to Rangers, currently known as Biu Chun Rangers due to sponsorship reasons, is a Hong Kong football club which currently competes in the Hong Kong Premier League. They have won the Hong Kong ...

academy. In 2006, Chow moved to

Tuen Mun Tuen Mun or Castle Peak is an area near the mouth of Tuen Mun River and Castle Peak Bay in the New Territories, Hong Kong. It was one of the earliest settlements in what is now Hong Kong and can be dated to the Neolithic period. In the more ...

where his father was also the Director of Football, in order to assist with his family's transportation business. During the 2008–09 season, Chow led Tuen Mun to the

Hong Kong Third District Division League Hong Kong Third 'District' Division League was a division of the third overall tier of the Hong Kong football league system organised by the Hong Kong Football Association in Hong Kong, along with Hong Kong Third 'A' Division League. It was fo ...

title and first place in the

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. The following season, he led Tuen Mun to their second successive promotion, finishing runners up in the 2009-10 Second Division season. As a result of reaching the top flight, Chow was rewarded with a full-time contract. On 11 January 2011, Chow scored the first goal of his professional career in a

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match against South China. Chow returned to Rangers in the summer of 2012 after six years with Tuen Mun. On 5 February 2016, Chow scored his first goal in four years in a

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Round 1 victory over

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. In June 2017, Chow signed a contract with R&F worth a monthly salary of HKD 50,000.

International career

In 2011, Chow was named to the

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for the 2012 Olympic qualifiers. On 23 March 2015, Chow was selected but did not appear with the

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for a friendly against

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Chow Cheuk Fung
at HKFA * {{DEFAULTSORT:Chow, Cheuk Fung 1989 births Hong Kong men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Tuen Mun SA players Hong Kong Rangers FC players Metro Gallery FC players R&F (Hong Kong) players Hong Kong First Division League players Hong Kong Premier League players Living people