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Lee Ka Yiu

Hong Kong footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ6514277 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lee Ka Yiu (Chinese: 李嘉耀; Jyutping: lei5 gaa1 jiu6; born 10 April 1992) is a Hong Kong professional footballer who currently plays for Hong Kong Premier League club Southern.

Club career

Sham Shui Po

Lee Ka Yiu joined Sham Shui Po youth team when he was young. In 2008, Third 'District' League team Sham Shui Po youth team members were all promoted to the first team to gain experience. In the first season, the club reached the final of Junior Shield, which eventually lost 0–2 to Shatin. The club then gained promotion to Second Division in their second season.

Lee helped the club to gain promote from Second Division by scoring 4 goals in 16 games in the 2010–11 season. In the 2011–12 season, he featured every game for Sham Shui Po, including 18 league games, 2 Senior Shield, 2 League Cup and 2 FA Cup matches. However, the team eventually regulated after finishing on the second last place of the league.

Yokohama FC Hong Kong

Lee joined Yokohama FC Hong Kong in July 2012, alongside former Sham Shui Po manager Lee Chi Kin and other Sham Shui Po players.

Tai Po

After the conclusion of his contract, Lee once again followed Lee Chi Kin, this time to newly promoted HKPL club Tai Po.

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“Lee Ka Yiu” enters the record as hong Kong footballer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hong, Kong and footballer can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992, 2008, 2010, 2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1992-04-10. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hong, Kong and footballer.
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“Lee Ka Yiu” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Hong, Kong and footballer provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6514277. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1992, 2008, 2010 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lee Ka Yiu” 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.