The 2008–09 season in Hong Kong football, starting July 2008 and ending June 2009:

Overview

Events

On 9 July 2008,

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goalkeeper

Zhang Chunhui Zhang Chunhui (; born 13 March 1983) is a Chinese-born Hong Kong football coach and former professional footballer. Club career Zhang was selected in the Hong Kong Top Footballer Awards (Best XI Squad) in the 2006–07 season. On 2 July 20 ...

was sentenced imprisonment for 8 months due to inflicting grievous bodily harm upon another person. He injured a 17-year-old boy in

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on 19 December 2007. On 22 July 2008, HKFA confirmed the

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team list for 2008-09 season. 13 teams will compete in the top division, among which TSW Pegasus and Xiangxue Eisiti will enter using competing membership, and they will need to sponsor one local cup competition each. There are two team name changes:

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renamed to be

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and

Wofoo Tai Po Tai Po Football Club () is a Hong Kong professional football club which currently competes in the Hong Kong Premier League, the top flight of Hong Kong football. In the 2018–19 season, Tai Po won their first league title becoming the thir ...

renames to be NT Realty Wofoo Tai Po.HKFA
2008/09年度甲組聯賽參賽隊伍事宜 On 2 September 2008, the 2008–09 season of

started at

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, with the match between

and

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, with Citizen drawing South China 1–1. On 17 September 2008,

head coach

Tsang Wai Chung Tsang Wai Chung () is a former Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the four ...

left his post.

Representative team

Hong Kong Team

The home team is on the left column; the away team is on the right column.

Friendly matches

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Guangdong-Hong Kong Cup

Hong Kong representative football team participated in 31st Guangdong-Hong Kong Cup. ----

Asian Cup qualifiers

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is going to play in their Asian Cup 2011 qualifying campaign. ----

Hong Kong U-23

Hong Kong Macau Interport

Honours

Overall Top-scorers

First Division

Asian clubs competitions

AFC Cup 2008

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- Eliminated in group stage *

- Eliminated in group stage

AFC Cup 2009

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- Eliminated in group stage *

- ''Quarter-finals''

Hong Kong Top Footballers Awards

* Footballer of the Year:

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( NT Realty Wofoo Tai Po) * Best Youth Footballer: Au Yeung Yiu Chung (

), Li Hon Ho ( NT Realty Wofoo Tai Po) * Coach of the Year:

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( Convoy Sun Hei) * Top Footballers: *#

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('' TSW Pegasus'' /

) *# Li Haiqiang (

) *#

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(

) *# Xu Deshuai (

) *# Edgar Aldrighi Júnior ( NT Realty Wofoo Tai Po) *# Lee Hong Lim ('' NT Realty Wofoo Tai Po'' / TSW Pegasus) *#

( NT Realty Wofoo Tai Po) *#

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(

) *# Itaparica ( TSW Pegasus) *#

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(

) *# Giovane ( Convoy Sun Hei)

Exhibition matches

ING Cup

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award:

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