For the club's basketball team, see Eastern Sports Club (basketball).
Not to be confused with Eastern District SA.
"Eastern AA" redirects here. For the U.S. collegiate athletic conference formerly known as the Eastern Athletic Association, see Atlantic 10 Conference.
Football club
Eastern
Full name
Eastern Sports Club Football Team Limited[1] (東方體育會足球隊有限公司)
Founded
1932; 92 years ago (1932)
Ground
Mong Kok Stadium
Capacity
6,664
Head Coach
Roberto Losada
League
Hong Kong Premier League
2023–24
Premier League, 3rd of 11
Website
Club website
Home colours
Away colours
Current season
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]
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.
^ ab"Eastern Athletic Association Football Team Limited (CR No. 1253874)". ICRIS, Companies Registry, the Government of Hong Kong SAR. Archived from the original on 25 March 2016. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
^"Eastern A.A. Football Team". Hong Kong Football Association. Archived from the original on 12 March 2017. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
^"Eastern set aside HK$10 million to become first professional basketball team in Hong Kong". South China Morning Post. 9 July 2015. Archived from the original on 17 April 2019. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
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