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The Hong Kong Senior Shield
Hong Kong Senior Shield
Hong Kong Senior Challenge Shield is the oldest football knockout inter-club competition in Asia. Usually only the teams in First Division would enter into the competition...

2007–08, also known as the 2007–08 HKFA Choi Fung Hong Senior Shield, is the 106th staging of the Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

's oldest football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

knockout competition.

The competition started on 22 November 2007 with 10 Hong Kong First Division

Hong Kong First Division League

Hong Kong First Division League is the top division football league in Hong Kong which was established in 1908, the oldest in Asia. It does not affiliate to any football leagues in the People's Republic of China.-Competition format:...

clubs and concluded on 23 December 2007 with the final.

Eastern

Eastern AA

Eastern Athletic Association is a football club and now plays in Hong Kong Third Division "A" League. It was a very successful team especially in the 1990s and was given the name 'Eastern Dynasty'. Eastern had originally competed in Second Division League during 2006/07 season and demoted to Third...

captured their 7th title of the competition after beating Kitchee

Kitchee

Kitchee Sports Club is a Hong Kong sports club best known for its footballing exploits. The club was founded in 1931 and currently plays in Hong Kong First Division League....

by 3-1 in the final.

Teams

Bulova Rangers
Citizen
Convoy Sun Hei
Eastern
Eastern AA
Eastern Athletic Association is a football club and now plays in Hong Kong Third Division "A" League. It was a very successful team especially in the 1990s and was given the name 'Eastern Dynasty'. Eastern had originally competed in Second Division League during 2006/07 season and demoted to Third...
Happy Valley
Kitchee
Kitchee
Kitchee Sports Club is a Hong Kong sports club best known for its footballing exploits. The club was founded in 1931 and currently plays in Hong Kong First Division League....
Lanwa Redbull
South China
Wofoo Tai Po
Workable
Workable
Workable may refer to:* Shek Kip Mei SA, a football club which play under the name Workable FC in 2007–2008 season in Hong Kong First Division League....

Bracket

First round

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Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Final

Scorers

6 goals Rodrigo

Rodrigo Andreis Galvão

Rodrigo Andreis Galvão , also known as Rodrigo, is a Brazilian footballer, who is currently playing for Tarxien Rainbows F.C. Rodrigo has a high profile with previous experience in big clubs in Brazil. In 2007–2008, he was named as the Top Scorer of the Hong Kong Top Professional League, scoring 18...

(Eastern
Eastern AA
Eastern Athletic Association is a football club and now plays in Hong Kong Third Division "A" League. It was a very successful team especially in the 1990s and was given the name 'Eastern Dynasty'. Eastern had originally competed in Second Division League during 2006/07 season and demoted to Third...

)

3 goals Detinho

Detinho

José Wellington Bento dos Santos, commonly known as Detinho , is a Brazilian football player who is playing for the Hong Kong First Division League club Citizen.-Football career:...

(South China)

2 goals Sham Kwok Keung

Sham Kwok Keung

Sham Kwok Keung is a Hong Kong international footballer that plays striker for Hong Kong and Citizen. On 17 August 2006, Sham scored two goals in a draw against Uzbekistan in the 2007 AFC Asian Cup qualifier ....

(Happy Valley) Goran Stankovski

Goran Stankovski

Goran Stankovski is a Macedonian football striker who plays for FC Dacia Chişinău in the Moldova Moldovan National Division.- External links :* * * at HKFA.com at Antwerpsupporter.be...

Lo Kwan Yee

Lo Kwan Yee is a professional footballer who currently plays as wingback or midfielder for Hong Kong side Kitchee. He is an attacking midfielder who can operate in central midfield or on the right wing...

Godfred Karikari

Godfred Karikari is a Ghanaian-born Hong Kong professional football player who currently plays for TSW Pegasus.-Early years:Godfred arrived in Hong Kong in 2002 and joined Fukien. In 2005 he moved to Hong Kong Rangers FC.-Happy Valley:...

(Bulova Rangers) Siumar (Bulova Rangers) Chen Zhizhao

Chen Zhizhao

Chen Zhizhao , is a Cantonese footballer, who plays as either a midfielder or striker for Nanchang Hengyuan.-Club career:Chen Zhizhao originally began his football career playing for the Shanghai Shenhua youth team, however he was unable to break into their senior team...

(Citizen) Fabio

Fábio Lopes Alcântara

Fábio Lopes Alcântara , or simply Fábio Lopes, is a football player from Brazil. He then played as a striker for Eastern, having signed from Happy Valley in August 2007. Now, he is playing for Shatin....

Tomy Adriano Giacomeli

Tomy Adriano Giacomeli is a Brazilian football player. He is a free agent.He has played for Happy Valley AA, Sai Kung Friends, Sagesse. He won the Hong Kong Footballer of the Year in 2000, being the second foreign player to win the honour after Dimitre Kalkanov who won the prize in...

(Happy Valley) Chan Siu Ki

Chan Siu Ki

Chan Siu Ki is a Hong Kong professional association football player who currently plays as a striker for South China AA. He is the all-time top scorer for the Hong Kong national football team with 29 goals. As he is capable of playing with either feet, he is sometimes tactically deployed as winger...

Julius Akosah

Julius Pongla Akosah is a Cameroonian-Hongkonger professional association football player, his position is striker. He was called for Cameroon but he is eligible to play for Hong Kong in international tournaments. Hong Kong football fans commonly use Agumon as a nickname for him because of his...

(Kitchee
Kitchee
Kitchee Sports Club is a Hong Kong sports club best known for its footballing exploits. The club was founded in 1931 and currently plays in Hong Kong First Division League....

) Li Yao (Kitchee
Kitchee
Kitchee Sports Club is a Hong Kong sports club best known for its footballing exploits. The club was founded in 1931 and currently plays in Hong Kong First Division League....

) Wilfed Bamnjo

Wilfed Bamnjo

Wilfred Bamnjo is a football player from Cameroon, playing in the team Convoy Sun Hei in the Hong Kong First Division League...

Kwok Kin Pong

Kwok Kin Pong is a Hong Kong professional footballer playing for Hong Kong First Division League side South China. He can play as a midfielder or forward. As he resembles Hong Kong artist and singer Edison Chen, he was given the nickname 'Edison'....

(South China) Yip Chi Ho

Yip Chi Ho

Yip Chi Ho is a Hong Kong professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Fourway. He moved to South China from Rangers after the end of the 2006-07 season and represented the team in all six 2008 AFC Cup matches in the season. He was released by TSW Pegasus in 2010.-Club career:As of 14...

(South China) Lee Wai Lim

Lee Wai Lim

Lee Wai Lim is a Hong Kong football player, who currently plays as a forward for South China. He joined Tai Po FC in the 2003–04 season. He is the brother of TSW Pegasus player Lee Hong Lim.-Tai Po FC:...

(Wofoo Tai Po)

Teamwise

Champion (HKD$80,000): Eastern
Eastern AA
Eastern Athletic Association is a football club and now plays in Hong Kong Third Division "A" League. It was a very successful team especially in the 1990s and was given the name 'Eastern Dynasty'. Eastern had originally competed in Second Division League during 2006/07 season and demoted to Third...
1st-Runner-up (HKD$20,000): Kitchee
Kitchee
Kitchee Sports Club is a Hong Kong sports club best known for its footballing exploits. The club was founded in 1931 and currently plays in Hong Kong First Division League....
Knock-out in the Semi-Finals (HKD$10,000 each): Happy Valley, South China
Knock-out in the Preliminary (HKD$5,000 each): Bulova Rangers, Citizen, Convoy Sun Hei, Lanwa Redbull, Wofoo Tai Po, Workable
Workable
Workable may refer to:* Shek Kip Mei SA, a football club which play under the name Workable FC in 2007–2008 season in Hong Kong First Division League....

Individual

Top Scorer Award (HKD$5,000): Rodrigo Andreis Galvao
Rodrigo Andreis Galvão
Rodrigo Andreis Galvão , also known as Rodrigo, is a Brazilian footballer, who is currently playing for Tarxien Rainbows F.C. Rodrigo has a high profile with previous experience in big clubs in Brazil. In 2007–2008, he was named as the Top Scorer of the Hong Kong Top Professional League, scoring 18...

(Eastern
Eastern AA
Eastern Athletic Association is a football club and now plays in Hong Kong Third Division "A" League. It was a very successful team especially in the 1990s and was given the name 'Eastern Dynasty'. Eastern had originally competed in Second Division League during 2006/07 season and demoted to Third...

)
Best Defender Award (HKD$5,000): Luciano (Eastern
Eastern AA
Eastern Athletic Association is a football club and now plays in Hong Kong Third Division "A" League. It was a very successful team especially in the 1990s and was given the name 'Eastern Dynasty'. Eastern had originally competed in Second Division League during 2006/07 season and demoted to Third...

)

Trivia

Eastern
Eastern AA
Eastern Athletic Association is a football club and now plays in Hong Kong Third Division "A" League. It was a very successful team especially in the 1990s and was given the name 'Eastern Dynasty'. Eastern had originally competed in Second Division League during 2006/07 season and demoted to Third...

head coach Casemiro Mior
Casemiro Mior
Casemiro Mior is a Brazilian football head coach.During his career as a footballer, he played for Grêmio, Internacional and Internacional de Limeira.In 2002, Mior was appointed to be the head coach of Hong Kong....

captured the Hong Kong Senior Shield
Hong Kong Senior Shield
Hong Kong Senior Challenge Shield is the oldest football knockout inter-club competition in Asia. Usually only the teams in First Division would enter into the competition...

for the 5th time. For the last four times, he led another First Division League
Hong Kong First Division League
Hong Kong First Division League is the top division football league in Hong Kong which was established in 1908, the oldest in Asia. It does not affiliate to any football leagues in the People's Republic of China.-Competition format:...

team South China, including for the last season in 2006-07.
Originally, Eastern
Eastern AA
Eastern Athletic Association is a football club and now plays in Hong Kong Third Division "A" League. It was a very successful team especially in the 1990s and was given the name 'Eastern Dynasty'. Eastern had originally competed in Second Division League during 2006/07 season and demoted to Third...

should have reglated to the Third 'A' Division League
Hong Kong Third A Division League
Hong Kong Third 'A' Division League is a division of the Hong Kong Football Association in Hong Kong. Along with Hong Kong Third 'District' Division League, it is the third overall tier of the Hong Kong football league system....

for the 2007-08 season, and therefore unqualified for competing in Senior Shield. However, the team was invited to enter the First Division and was able to compete in Senior Shield. This was similar to the case happened in the previous season for the champion team South China, as South China should have reglated to the Second Division League and unqualified for Senior Shield.

External links

Fixtures at HKFA.com

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