Fernando Augusto Azevedo Pedreira (; born 14 November 1986), commonly known as Fernando, is a Brazilian-born

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 ...

professional

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who currently plays for Hong Kong Premier League club

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 ...

Club career

In June 2015, Fernando joined

. He was named Hong Kong's Footballer of the Year award for

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. On 1 July 2020, Eastern announced the signing of Fernando. He left the club on 9 July 2022. On 25 July 2022, Fernando returned to

International career

On 21 February 2021, Fernando officially announced that he had received a Hong Kong passport, making him eligible to represent

internationally. On 17 May 2021, Fernando received his first call-up to the Hong Kong national football team to play against Iran, Iraq and Bahrain for the 2022 World Cup qualifiers. However, he withdrew from the squad due to injury on 25 May 2021. On 1 June 2022, Fernando made his international debut for

in the friendly match against

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Career statistics

Club

;Notes

Honours

Club

;Kitchee * Hong Kong Premier League: 2016–17, 2017–18, 2019–20 *

Hong Kong Senior Shield The Hong Kong Senior Challenge Shield (), known commonly as the Senior Shield, is the football knockout inter-club competition held in Hong Kong and the fourth oldest football tournament in Asia. Traditionally, only the teams in the Hong Kong Pr ...

: 2016–17, 2018–19 *

Hong Kong FA Cup Hong Kong FA Cup () is a knockout cup competition in Hong Kong football, run by and named after The Hong Kong Football Association. The first edition of the competition was held in 1975, before then the cup was known as the Golden Jubilee Cup. Th ...

: 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19 * Hong Kong Sapling Cup: 2017–18, 2019–20, 2020–21 * Hong Kong League Cup: 2015–16 ;Eastern * Hong Kong Sapling Cup:

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Individual

Hong Kong Footballer of the Year The Hong Kong Top Footballers Awards (), established by the Hong Kong Football Association in 1978, recognizes the top performers for each season's Hong Kong Premier League. The prizes are decided according to the votes from mass media and the ge ...

: 2017

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* * 1986 births Living people Brazilian footballers Hong Kong footballers Hong Kong international footballers Brazilian emigrants to Hong Kong Naturalized footballers of Hong Kong Sportspeople from Salvador, Bahia Yokohama FC Hong Kong players Kitchee SC players Eastern Sports Club footballers Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Hong Kong Brazilian expatriates in Hong Kong Brazilian expatriate footballers Association football midfielders Hong Kong League XI representative players {{Brazil-footy-midfielder-1980s-stub