Eastern Sports Club
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Eastern Athletic Association Football Team Limited,[1][2] also known as Eastern Sports Club (Chinese: 東方體育會), is a Hong Kong professional sports club whose football section competes in the Hong Kong Premier League, the top flight of Hong Kong football.[3]
Full name | Eastern Sports Club Football Team Limited[1] (東方體育會足球隊有限公司) | ||
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Founded | 1932; 92 years ago (1932) | ||
Ground | Mong Kok Stadium | ||
Capacity | 6,664 | ||
Owner | Lippo Limited (Lippo Group) | ||
President | Stephen Riady | ||
Head Coach | Roberto Losada | ||
League | Hong Kong Premier League | ||
2023–24 | Premier League, 3rd of 11 | ||
Website | Club website | ||
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In 2017, Eastern became the first club from Hong Kong to compete in the group stage of the AFC Champions League.
Eastern also has notable manager in the past with former West Ham United legend and 1966 FIFA World Cup winner, Bobby Moore who was once a player at the club in 1981 where he helped the club to win the 1981–82 Hong Kong Senior Shield, returned as a manager in August 1982. He left the club in March 1983. In December 2015, Eastern appointed Chan Yuen Ting where she became the first woman to coach a men's professional football team in the Hong Kong Premier League at the age of 27. In 2017, she became the first woman to coach a male football club in a top-flight continental competition when she managed the club in the 2017 AFC Champions League match against Chinese side Guangzhou Evergrande.