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Basketball team in Hong Kong From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Eastern Sports Club basketball team (Chinese: 東方籃球隊), is a professional men's basketball team of the Eastern Sports Club.[1] The team also known as Chinese: 東方男籃; lit. 'Eastern Men's Basketball' and Hong Kong Eastern for sponsorship reason.
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Nickname | HK Eastern |
Leagues | A1 Division Hong Kong |
Founded | 1932 |
Arena | Southorn Stadium |
Capacity | 2,000 |
Location | Hong Kong |
Head coach | Mensur Bajramović |
Ownership | Eastern Sports Club |
Championships | 3 Hong Kong A1 Division 2 ASEAN Basketball League |
Website | easternsportsclub |
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Traditional Chinese | 香港東方籃球隊 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 香港东方篮球队 | ||||||||||
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Eastern competes in the Hong Kong A1 Division,[2][3] and the ASEAN Basketball League since 2016.[4] It has won the Hong Kong A1 championship three times, in 1956, 2017 and 2023.
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Eastern basketball team is a section of Eastern Sports Club (officially known as Eastern Athletic Association Football Team Limited). In 2015 season the team won Hong Kong A2 Division Championship and promoted to 2016 Hong Kong A1 Division Championship.[2] The team became fully professional in 2016.[2][3] In the same year, the club would adopt the name Hong Kong Eastern and join the ASEAN Basketball League (ABL).[5]
They won the 2016–17 ABL season, and finished as semifinalists for the next two seasons. They also became Hong Kong A1 Division champions in 2018. The ABL's 2019–20 season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is scheduled to resume in 2023 with Eastern as among its participating teams. Eastern also plans to join the Chinese Basketball Association in the future.[5]
Hong Kong Eastern won its second A1 Division championship in 2024.[6]
In 2024, Eastern is also looking to play in the Philippine Basketball Association as a guest team in the 2014 Commissioner's Cup. It also plans to join the East Asia Super League.[7]
Champions | Season champions | Runners-up | Playoff berth |
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2016–17 | ABL | 1st | 20 | 16 | 4 | .800 | Won Semifinals (Heat) 2–0 Won ABL Finals (Slingers) 3–1 |
Edu Torres |
2017 | HKA1 | 2nd | 7 | 6 | 1 | .857 | Lost Semifinals (Winling) 1–2 | |
2017–18 | ABL | 2nd | 20 | 14 | 6 | .700 | Lost Semifinals (Alab Pilipinas) 0–2 | |
2018 | HKA1 | 3rd | 7 | 5 | 2 | .714 | Won Semifinals (Winling) 2–1 Won HKA1 Finals (South China) 3–2 | |
2018–19 | ABL | 7th | 26 | 13 | 13 | .500 | Won Quarterfinals (Alab Pilipinas) 2–0 Lost Semifinals (Slingers) 0–2 | |
2019 | HKA1 | 4th | 9 | 6 | 3 | .667 | Won Quarterfinals (Fukien) 1–0 Lost Semifinals (South China) 0–2 | |
2019–20 | ABL | 9th | 10 | 3 | 7 | .300 | Season cancelled* | Jordan Brady |
2021–22 | HKA1 | 4th | 9 | 6 | 3 | .667 | Won Quarterfinals (Pegasus) 1–0 Won Semifinals (Tycoon) 2–0 Lost HKA1 Finals (South China) 0–3 |
Željko Pavličević |
2023 | ABL | 2nd | 14 | 10 | 4 | .714 | Won Semifinals (NS Matrix) 2–0 Won ABL Finals (Heat) 2–1 | |
2023-24 | HKA1 | 2nd | 9 | 10 | 0 | 1.000 | Won HKA1 Finals (Tycoon) 3-1 | Mensur Bajramović |
*Note: Season cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic.[8]
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