Leung Kwun Chung (; born 1 April 1992 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 Delt ...

) is a

professional

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player who plays as a

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for

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club

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. He is the older brother of current Zhejiang Pro player

Leung Nok Hang Jacky Leung Nok Hang (; born 14 November 1994 in Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong professional footballer who currently plays as a centre back for Chinese Super League club Zhejiang Pro. He is the brother of current Eastern player Leung Kwun Chun ...

Club career

Leung played for

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club

Sham Shui Po Sham Shui Po is an area of Kowloon, Hong Kong, situated in the northwestern part of the Kowloon Peninsula, north of Tai Kok Tsui, east of Cheung Sha Wan and south of Shek Kip Mei (). It is located in and is the namesake of the Sham Shui P ...

when he was young. In 2012, Leung signed for Hong Kong First Division club

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. On 18 May 2015, Leung won the Hong Kong Top Footballer Awards 2014/15 Best Youth Player. Before the start of the

2015–16 Hong Kong Premier League 2015–16 Hong Kong Premier League (also known as BOCG Life Hong Kong Premier League for sponsorship reasons) is the second season of Hong Kong Premier League, the top division of Hong Kong football. Teams A total of 9 teams contested the leag ...

, Leung signed for

club

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. On 3 February 2016, Leung scored his first goal in the 2015–16 Hong Kong FA Cup against Hong Kong First Division club

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, which wins the match 6:1. On 6 June 2018, Leung confirmed that he had renewed his contract with

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. On 17 July 2019, Leung moved to

International career

On 31 December 2015, Leung made his debut for

against

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in the 2016 Guangdong–Hong Kong Cup, which the match ended in a 4:5 loss in aggregate.省港盃　殺人王搞掂港隊　廣東反勝3連霸
東方日報 2015年1月3日 Leung made his first International 'A' match debut on 3 June 2016, against Vietnam.

Career statistics

International

Honours

Club

;Eastern *

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 ...

: 2019–20 *

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: 2019–20 ;Sham Shui Po * Hong Kong Second Division: 2010–11 *

: 2009–10 * Hong Kong Third Division District League: 2009–10 ;Pegasus *

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 ...

: 2015–16 ;Tai Po *

: 2018–19

Individual

* Best Young Player: 2014–15

References

External links

Leung Kwun Chung
at HKFA * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Leung, Kwun Chung 1992 births Living people Hong Kong footballers Hong Kong international footballers Hong Kong First Division League players Hong Kong Premier League players Men's association football defenders Footballers at the 2014 Asian Games Sham Shui Po SA players Hong Kong Pegasus FC players South China AA players Tai Po FC players Eastern Sports Club footballers Asian Games competitors for Hong Kong