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Hong Kong 08

football club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ3140040 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hong Kong 08 (Chinese: 香港08) was a Hong Kong football club which competed in the Hong Kong football league system between 2002 and 2007. It was established to train young talents for the 2008 Olympics, thus was named as "Hong Kong 08".

Editorial summary

“Hong Kong 08” enters the record as football club. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hong, Kong and football can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002, 2007, 2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hong, Kong and football.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Hong Kong 08” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Hong, Kong and football provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3140040. The first chronological checks are 2002, 2007 and 2008.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hong Kong 08” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.