Hong Kong League Cup 2007-08

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The Hong Kong League Cup 2007–08 is the 8th staging of the Hong Kong League Cup.

The competition started on 19 January 2008 with 10 Hong Kong First Division clubs and concluded on 22 March 2008 with South China beat Kitchee by 4-2 in the final. South China won their second League Cup title.

Contents 1 Teams 2 Details 3 Group stage 3.1 Group A 3.2 Group B 4 Knockout stage 4.1 Bracket 4.2 Semi-finals 4.3 Final 5 Scorers 6 Individual prizes [1] 7 Trivia 8 References 9 See also

[edit] Teams

• Rangers
• Citizen
• Convoy Sun Hei
• Eastern
• Happy Valley
• Kitchee
• Lanwa Redbull
• South China
• Wofoo Tai Po
• Workable

[edit] Details

• The 10 teams in Hong Kong First Division League is divided into groups A and B. Each team plays one match with other teams in the group once. The top 2 teams of the groups qualify for semi-finals.

• The teams are allocated in the groups according to their league positions after half season. Group A consists of South China (1st), Wofoo Tai Po (4th), Kitchee (5th), Happy Valley (8th) and Workable (10th). Group B consists of Citizen (2nd), Lanwa Redbull (3rd), Convoy Sun Hei (6th), Eastern (7th) and Bulova Rangers (9th).

[edit] Group stage

[edit] Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
South China	9	4	3	0	1	9	5	+4
Kitchee	7	4	2	1	1	9	5	+4
Workable	5	4	1	2	1	2	2	0
Happy Valley	5	4	1	2	1	6	7	-1
Wofoo Tai Po	1	4	0	1	3	2	9	-7

19 January 2008 14:00	Wofoo Tai Po	0 - 1	Happy Valley	Mong Kok Stadium Attendance: 1,867 Referee: Ng Kai Lam
		[1] [2] (in chinese)	Law Chun Bong  35'

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19 January 2008 16:00	South China	0 - 1	Workable	Mong Kok Stadium Attendance: 1,867 Referee: Fung Ka Yu
		[3] [4] (in chinese)	Wong Chun Yue  82'

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26 January 2008 14:00	Workable	1 - 1	Wofoo Tai Po	Mong Kok Stadium Attendance: 923 Referee: Chan Siu Hung
	Roberto Fronza  81' (PEN.)	[5] [6] (in chinese)	Ye Jia  14'

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26 January 2008 16:00	Happy Valley	3 - 3	Kitchee	Mong Kok Stadium Attendance: 923 Referee: Ng Kai Lam
	Poon Yiu Cheuk  25' (PEN.)  38' (PEN.) Sham Kwok Keung  39'	[7] [8] (in chinese)	Chan Siu Ki  46' (PEN.) Lo Kwan Yee  53' Ewane Ngassa  64'

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29 January 2008 18:00	Kitchee	1 - 0	Workable	Mong Kok Stadium Attendance: 926 Referee: Liu Kwok Man
	Goran Stankovski  80'	[9] [10] (in chinese)

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29 January 2008 20:00	Wofoo Tai Po	1 - 3	South China	Mong Kok Stadium Attendance: 926 Referee: Wong Chi Tang
	Rafael  31'	[11] [12] (in chinese)	Maxwell  1' Tales Schutz  46'  90'

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3 February 2008 14:00	Workable	0 - 0	Happy Valley	Siu Sai Wan Sports Ground Attendance: 1,538 Referee: Cheung Yim Yau
		[13] [14] (in chinese)

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3 February 2008 16:00	South China	2 - 1	Kitchee	Siu Sai Wan Sports Ground Attendance: 1,538 Referee: Ching Oi Jo
	Fan Weijun  39' Maxwell  65'	[15] [16] (in chinese)	Ivan Jevic  74'

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17 February 2008 14:00	Kitchee	4 - 0	Wofoo Tai Po	Mong Kok Stadium Attendance: 2,360 Referee: Ng Chiu Kok
	Wilfed Bamnjo  2' Chan Siu Ki  28' Julius Akosah  51' Hugues Nanmi  88'	[17] [18] (in chinese)

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17 February 2008 16:00	Happy Valley	2 - 4	South China	Mong Kok Stadium Attendance: 2,360 Referee: Ching Oi Jo
	Denisson  11' Godfred Karikari  22'	[19] [20] (in chinese)	Itaparica  33' Tales Schutz  45' Maxwell  49'  81'

[edit] Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Convoy Sun Hei	8	4	2	2	0	7	2	+5
Eastern	6	4	1	3	0	4	3	+1
Bulova Rangers	5	4	1	2	1	6	4	+2
Citizen	3	4	0	3	1	2	4	-2
Lanwa Redbull	2	4	0	2	2	2	8	-6

20 January 2008 14:00	Citizen	1 - 1	Bulova Rangers	Mong Kok Stadium Attendance: 751 Referee: Wong Chi Tang
	Wang Xuanhong  90'	[21] [22](in chinese)	Liang Zicheng  17'

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20 January 2007 16:00	Lanwa Redbull	1 - 1	Eastern	Mong Kok Stadium Attendance: 751 Referee: Ching Oi Jo
	Aldo Villalba  45'	[23] [24](in chinese)	Rodrigo  54'

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27 January 2008 14:00	Bulova Rangers	3 - 0	Lanwa Redbull	Mong Kok Stadium Attendance: 631 Referee: Cheung Yim Yau
	Chan Ho Man  9'  89' Caleb Ekwenugo  72'	[25] [26] (in chinese)

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27 January 2008 16:00	Eastern	1 - 1	Convoy Sun Hei	Mong Kok Stadium Attendance: 631 Referee: Ng Chiu Kok
	Wong Yiu Fu  35'	[27] [28] (in chinese)	Batoum Roger  54'

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31 January 2008 18:00	Convoy Sun Hei	1 - 1	Bulova Rangers	Mong Kok Stadium Attendance: 199 Referee: Wong Po On
	Chan Yiu Lun  84'	[29] [30] (in chinese)	Edson Minga  3'

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31 January 2008 20:00	Lanwa Redbull	1 - 1	Citizen	Mong Kok Stadium Attendance: 199 Referee: Ng Chiu Kok
	David Godwin  14'	[31] [32] (in chinese)	Wang Xuanhong  65'

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16 February 2008 14:00	Bulova Rangers	1 - 2	Eastern	Mong Kok Stadium Attendance: 969 Referee: Ng Kai Lam
	Caleb Ekwenugo  51'	[33] [34] (in chinese)	Rodrigo  46'  76'

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16 February 2008 16:00	Citizen	0 - 2	Convoy Sun Hei	Mong Kok Stadium Attendance: 969 Referee: Fung Ka Yu
		[35] [36] (in chinese)	Giovane  11'  78'

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19 February 2008 18:00	Convoy Sun Hei	3 - 0	Lanwa Redbull	Mong Kok Stadium Attendance: 371 Referee: Liu Kwok Man
	Giovane  31'  43'  75'	[37] [38] (in chinese)

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19 February 2008 20:00	Eastern	0 - 0	Citizen	Mong Kok Stadium Attendance: 371 Referee: Wong Po On
		[39] [40] (in chinese)

[edit] Knockout stage

All times are Hong Kong Time (UTC+8).

[edit] Bracket

	Semifinals					Finals
	A1	South China	1
	B2	Eastern	0
						South China		4
						Kitchee		2
	A2	Kitchee	2
	B1	Convoy Sun Hei	0

[edit] Semi-finals

2 March 2008 14:00	Kitchee	2 - 0	Convoy Sun Hei	Mong Kok Stadium Attendance: 4,403 Referee: Ching Oi Jo
	Goran Stankovski  55' Cheung Kin Fung  67'	[41] [42] (in chinese)

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2 March 2008 16:00	South China	1 - 0	Eastern	Mong Kok Stadium Attendance: 4,403 Referee: Cheung Yim Yau
	Detinho  88'	[43] [44] (in chinese)

[edit] Final

24 March 2008 15:00	South China	4 - 2	Kitchee	Mong Kok Stadium Attendance: 4,630 Referee: Ng Chiu Kok
	Li Haiqiang  50' Detinho  59'  64'  87' (PEN.)	[45] [46] (in chinese)	Liu Quankun  17' Wilfed Bamnjo  84'

[edit] Scorers

5 goals

• Giovane (Convoy Sun Hei)

4 goals

• Detinho (South China)
• Maxwell (South China)

3 goals

• Rodrigo (Eastern)
• Tales Schutz (South China)

2 goals

• Caleb Ekwenugo (Bulova Rangers)
• Chan Ho Man (Bulova Rangers)
• Wang Xuanhong (Citizen)
• Poon Yiu Cheuk (Happy Valley)
• Chan Siu Ki (Kitchee)
• Goran Stankovski (Kitchee)
• Wilfed Bamnjo (Kitchee)

1 goal

• Edson Minga (Bulova Rangers)
• Liang Zicheng (Bulova Rangers)
• Batoum Roger (Convoy Sun Hei)
• Chan Yiu Lun (Convoy Sun Hei)
• Wong Yiu Fu (Eastern)
• Denisson (Happy Valley)
• Godfred Karikari (Happy Valley)
• Law Chun Bong (Happy Valley)
• Sham Kwok Keung (Happy Valley)
• Cheung Kin Fung (Kitchee)
• Ewane Ngassa (Kitchee)
• Hugues Nanmi (Kitchee)
• Ivan Jević (Kitchee)
• Julius Akosah (Kitchee)
• Liu Quankun (Kitchee)
• Lo Kwan Yee (Kitchee)
• Aldo Villalba (Lanwa Redbull)
• David Godwin (Lanwa Redbull)
• Fan Weijun (South China)
• Itaparica (South China)
• Li Haiqiang (South China)
• Rafael (Wofoo Tai Po)
• Ye Jia (Wofoo Tai Po)
• Wong Chun Yue (Workable)
• Roberto Fronza (Workable)

[edit] Individual prizes ^[1]

• Top Scorer Award: Giovane (Convoy Sun Hei)
• Best Player Award: Rodrigo (Eastern)

[edit] Trivia

• The final was originally scheduled on the 22 March, but was prosponed to 24 March due to heavy rain. ^[2]

[edit] References

1. ^ HKFA Website 聯賽盃決賽 南華 4:2 傑志 (Chinese)
2. ^ HKFA Website 2007/2008 League Cup Final postponed

[edit] See also

• Hong Kong League Cup
• The Hong Kong Football Association
• Hong Kong FA Cup 2007-08
• Hong Kong First Division League 2007-08
• Hong Kong Senior Shield 2007-08

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