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Hong Kong football clubs in Asian competitions

Hong Kong clubs participating in the AFC Champions Leagues

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ131759322 ↗
Source-derived summary

This article shows the history of Hong Kong clubs participating in the AFC Champions League Elite and AFC Champions League Two.

In 2026–27 season, Hong Kong was not allocated a direct slot in the new Elite competition format, and instead had two direct spots in the AFC Champions League Two.

Hong Kong football clubs in the AFC Champions League Elite

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Eastern

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Kitchee

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Lee Man

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Rangers

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South China

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Tai Po

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Hong Kong football clubs in the AFC Champions League Two

Participations

Club statistics

Citizen

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Eastern

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Happy Valley

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Kitchee

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Lee Man

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South China

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Sun Hei

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Remarks:

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2026—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Hong, Kong and football is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Hong Kong football clubs in Asian competitions” 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.