Hélio José de Souza Gonçalves (born 31 January 1986), commonly known as Hélio (; , ), 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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player who plays as a

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for

Hong Kong Premier League The Hong Kong Premier League () is a Hong Kong professional football league organised by the Hong Kong Football Association. It is currently sponsored by BOC Life and officially known as BOC Life Hong Kong Premier League (). The inaugural seaso ...

club

Kitchee Kitchee Sports Club (; ; ) is a Hong Kong professional 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, including 6 Hong Kong ...

. Hélio acquired his

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on 31 October 2015, which means he is eligible to represent

on the international level.

Club career

Early career

He was transferred from Sántos B to Ceará SC for an unknown fee in the January transfer window of the 2006–07 season, and was then transferred to Olímpia SP for an unknown fee in the January transfer window of the next season without playing a single game for Ceará. He played 20 games for Olímpia, scoring 2 goals. He was then sold to

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in the summer transfer window 6 months later for an unknown fee.

Citizen

He played a total of 118 league games for Citizen, scoring 10 goals in his 6-year stay at the club. He won the HKFA Senior Challenge Shield once with the club. He left the club for

in the summer transfer window of 2014.

Kitchee

He has played a total of 82 league games for

thus far, scoring a single goal, and has won the HKPL and the HKFA League Cup twice with the team, and has won the Season play-offs and Senior Challenge Shield once with Kitchee. He also completed the treble with the team in the 2016–17 season. On 27 March 2018, Hélio suffered an injury in a crucial Asian Cup qualifier against

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and was substituted in the 11th minute. The injury left him out of action for nine months until he returned on 16 December as a late substitute against Hoi King.

Career Statistics

Club

''As of 22 May 2021''

International

Honours

Club

;Citizen *

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 ...

: 2010–11 ;Kitchee *

: 2014–15, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2019–20 *

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 ...

: 2014–15, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19 *

: 2016–17, 2018–19 *

Hong Kong Sapling Cup Hong Kong Football Association Sapling Cup (), more commonly known as Sapling Cup (), is a Hong Kong domestic football competition contested by all the teams in the Hong Kong Premier League. The objective of the Cup is to provide more playing opp ...

: 2017–18, 2019–20 *

Hong Kong League Cup Hong Kong Football Association League Cup () is an annual football competition contested by clubs in the top-tier Hong Kong domestic football league (currently Hong Kong Premier League). The cup was relaunched for the 2014–15 season after being ...

: 2014–15, 2015–16 *

Hong Kong Community Cup Hong Kong Community Cup (), formerly known as Hong Kong Community Shield (), is the football super cup competition in Hong Kong played between the winners of the Hong Kong Premier League (previously the Hong Kong First Division League) and the ...

: 2016–17, 2017–18 *

AFC Cup The AFC Cup is an annual continental club football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). Under its current rules, the competition is played primarily between clubs from nations that did not receive direct qualifying s ...

Play-off: 2015–16

References

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* * 1986 births Living people Hong Kong footballers Hong Kong international footballers Brazilian footballers Brazilian emigrants to Hong Kong Association football defenders Citizen AA players Kitchee SC players Hong Kong First Division League players Hong Kong Premier League players Naturalized footballers of Hong Kong Hong Kong League XI representative players People from Ribeirão Preto Footballers from São Paulo (state) {{HongKong-footy-bio-stub