Hong Kong Senior Shield

Hong Kong Senior Shield
Founded	1895 (as Hong Kong Football Cup); 1896 (as Hong Kong Challenge Shield)
Region	Hong Kong
Teams	9
Current champions	Eastern; (12th title)
Most championships	South China; (31 titles)
	2025–26 Hong Kong Senior Shield

The Hong Kong Senior Shield (Chinese: 香港高級組銀牌), known commonly as the Senior Shield, is the football knockout inter-club competition held in Hong Kong and the fourth oldest football tournament in Asia. Traditionally, only teams that play in the Hong Kong Premier League take part in the competition. However, sometimes teams in the lower divisions, usually the champions of the Junior Shield, are invited in order to increase the number of participating teams.

The current Senior Shield holders are Eastern.

History

Hong Kong Football Cup was a knockout cup competition which was established in 1895.^[1] It had been renamed to Hong Kong Challenge Shield due to the changes of the trophy. It had been divided in Senior Shield and Junior Shield since 1922–23 season. The knockout format has been used except in 1982–83 and 1996–97 seasons.^[2] In 1982–83, group matches format was used. In 1996-1997, a double knock-out system were used.^[3] Before 1978, a re-match would be played after a draw. After 1978, extra time and penalty kicks were used. Penalty shoot-out has been used for 3 times in the final in history (1988, 1994, 1995). In 2011–12 and 2012–13 season, the competition was transformed to a two-legged home-and-away ties format.

Lee Kin Wo is the player who has won the most number of Senior Shield. He won it for 10 times between 1987 and 2005. (Eastern: 1987, 1993, 1994; South China: 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003; Sun Hei: 2005). Ho Ying Fan and Wu Kwok Hung have won the competition for 9 times.

There are 3 teams after World War II which won Senior Shield immediately after their promotions to First Division League. They are Rangers (1966), Jardine (1969) and Seiko (1973).

In 1987–1988, it was the first time to have external sponsor for the competition. Camel Paints sponsored the competition for 6 consecutive years. In 1993–1994, the sponsor was Emperor Financial Services Group. In 2003–2004 and 2004–2005, Sunray Cave was the sponsor and the most recent sponsor is Choi Fung Hong.

One of the most unexpected results in the competition history is a 6–5 win by Army against Happy Valley in 1965. At the time, Army was at the bottom of the First Division League and had to relegate to the Second Division next season while Happy Valley was the league Champion.

Trivia

In 1981–82, Eastern invited English football legend Bobby Moore to play in the final. The 40-year-old famous player played for 12 minutes only in the match, which Eastern beat Rangers by 4–0.

Finals

Key

(R)	Replay
(1)	First leg
(2)	Second leg
*	Match went to extra time
^	Match went to extra time with golden goal
†	Match decided by a penalty shootout after extra time

Results

Edition	Season	Winners	Score	Runners-up	Venue	Attendance
1	1896–97	HMS Centurion	2–1	Kowloon	Happy Valley	2,000–3,000
2	1897–98	G Coy., King's Own Regiment	3–0	25th Coy. S.D., R.A.
3	1898–99	HKFC	1–0	38th Coy. S.D., R.A.
4	1899–1900	Royal Welch Fus.Co. G	3–1	Royal Welch Fus.Co. H
5	1900–01	R.G.A.	6–0	Royal Welch Fus.Co. H
6	1901–02	Royal Welch Fus.	3–2	HMS Glory
7	1902–03	HMS Glory	2–1	Argonauts	Hong Kong Football Club Stadium	~5,000
8	1903–04	HMS Albion	3–0	HMS Cressy
9	1904–05	Royal West Kent Regt.	2–0	HMS Glory		~4,000
10	1905–06	HMS Diadem	2–0	HKFC
11	1906–07	R.G.A.	3–2	HKFC
12	1907–08	HKFC	2–1	HMS Bedford
13	1908–09	HMS Bedford	4–3	Buffs
14	1909–10	Buffs	4–1	Naval Yard
15	1910–11	Naval Yard	2–0	K.O.Y.L.I.
16	1911–12	K.O.Y.L.I.	5–0	Naval Yard
17	1912–13	Royal Engineers	5–0	D.C.L.I.
18	1913–14	R.G.A.	13–1	HMS Hampshire		~5,000
19	1914–15	Royal Engineers	2–0	HKFC
20	1915–16	HKFC	1–0	Royal Engineers
21	1918–19	HKFC	1–0	South China
22	1919–20	Police	3–1	St. Joseph's
23	1920–21	HMS Titania	4–2	R.G.A.
24	1921–22	HKFC	2–0	R.G.A.
25	1922–23	Kowloon	2–1	The King's Liverpool Regiment
26	1923–24	East Surrey Regiment	3–1	Kowloon
27	1924–25	Kowloon	4–2	Police	Hong Kong Football Club Stadium
28	1925–26	Kowloon	3–2	East Surrey Regiment
29	1926–27	The King's Own Borderers	2–0	Kowloon
30	1927–28	Kowloon	2–1	Police
31	1928–29	South China	5–0	Kowloon
32	1929–30	Somerset Light Infantry	2–1	Royal Navy
33	1930–31	South China	6–1	South Wales Borderers	Hong Kong Football Club Stadium
34	1931–32	South Wales Borderers	3–2	HKFC
35	1932–33	South China	3–1	South Wales Borderers
36	1933–34	South Wales Borderers	3–0	South China
37	1934–35	South China B	2–1	Police
38	1935–36	South China A	2–1	Police	Hong Kong Football Club Stadium
39	1936–37	South China	2–0	Wiltshire Regiment	Hong Kong Football Club Stadium
40	1937–38	South China A	3–0	South China B
41	1938–39	South China	5–3	Police
42	1939–40	Eastern	3–2	South China A
43	1940–41	South China	2–0	Royal Navy
44	1945–46	Royal Navy B	3–3	No. 1 Commando	Causeway Bay
44	1945–46 (R)	Royal Navy B	4–3	No. 1 Commando
45	1946–47	Sing Tao	4–1	South China
46	1947–48	Sing Tao	1–0	Eastern	Hong Kong Football Club Stadium
47	1948–49	South China A	5–3	Kitchee
48	1949–50	Kitchee	1–0	St. Joseph's
49	1950–51	KMB	2–1	South China
50	1951–52	Sing Tao	1–0	Kitchee
51	1952–53	Eastern	2–1	South China
52	1953–54	Kitchee	3–2	KMB
53	1954–55	South China	6–1	Army
54	1955–56	Eastern	2–1	Kitchee	Government Stadium	24,500
55	1956–57	South China	6–2	KMB
56	1957–58	South China	3–0	KMB
57	1958–59	South China	4–2	Tung Wah
58	1959–60	Kitchee	5–3	Tung Wah
59	1960–61	South China	4–0	Tung Wah
60	1961–62	South China	3–0	Police
61	1962–63	Kwong Wah	2–1	South China
62	1963–64	Kitchee	1–0	KMB
63	1964–65	South China	4–2	Yuen Long
64	1965–66	Rangers	1–0	Police
65	1966–67	Sing Tao	2–0	Happy Valley	Government Stadium	27,000
66	1967–68	Yuen Long	2–0	Tung Sing		14,051
67	1968–69	Jardine	4–2	Police		12,787
68	1969–70	Sing Tao	1–1	Fire Services		27,238
68	1969–70 (R)	Sing Tao	2–0	Fire Services		6,335
69	1970–71	Rangers	3–2	South China		25,061
70	1971–72	South China	2–1	Eastern		28,286
71	1972–73	Seiko	2–1	Tung Sing		28,330
72	1973–74	Seiko	3–1	South China		28,351
73	1974–75	Rangers	2–0	Urban Services		6,261
74	1975–76	Seiko	2–0	Rangers		28,258
75	1976–77	Seiko	2–1	South China		28,137
76	1977–78	Happy Valley	3–2	Seiko		28,079
77	1978–79	Seiko	4–2	South China		28,104
78	1979–80	Seiko	3–1	Bulova		13,067
79	1980–81	Seiko	4–2	Sea Bee		28,210
80	1981–82	Eastern	4–0	Rangers		24,155
81	1982–83	Happy Valley	3–2	Seiko		8,954
82	1983–84	Bulova	0–0	Happy Valley		10,859
82	1983–84 (R)	Bulova	2–0	Happy Valley		6,469
83	1984–85	Seiko	1–0	Happy Valley		17,480
84	1985–86	South China	3–0	Sea Bee		27,859
85	1986–87	Eastern	2–0	Tsuen Wan		4,971
86	1987–88	South China	5–2	Happy Valley		15,215
87	1988–89	South China	2–0	Tsuen Wan		10,256
88	1989–90	Happy Valley	2–1	South China		25,330
89	1990–91	South China	1–0	Lai Sun		21,915
90	1991–92	Sing Tao	1–1	Instant-Dict		14,024
90	1991–92 (R)	Sing Tao	2–1	Instant-Dict		7,675
91	1992–93	Eastern	4–0	South China
92	1993–94	Eastern	6–5	Instant-Dict
93	1994–95	Rangers	†2–2 †	Happy Valley
94	1995–96	South China	2–1	Sun Hei
95	1996–97 (1)	South China	3–1	Instant-Dict
95	1996–97 (2)	South China	1–0	Instant-Dict
96	1997–98	Happy Valley	1–0	Sing Tao
97	1998–99	South China	2–0	Sing Tao
98	1999–2000	South China	4–3	Happy Valley
99	2000–01	Orient & Yee Hope Union	1–0	Instant-Dict	Hong Kong Stadium	5,784
100	2001–02	South China	3–2	Sun Hei	Mong Kok Stadium	1,734
101	2002–03	South China	^2–1 ^	Happy Valley		3,666
102	2003–04	Happy Valley	3–0	Sun Hei		1,977
103	2004–05	Sun Hei	4–2	Happy Valley	Hong Kong Stadium	1,493
104	2005–06	Kitchee	3–0	Happy Valley	Mong Kok Stadium	2,217
105	2006–07	South China	2–1	Sun Hei	Hong Kong Stadium	4,980
106	2007–08	Eastern	3–1	Kitchee		2,493
107	2008–09	Pegasus	3–0	Sun Hei		2,828
108	2009–10	South China	4–2	Kitchee	Siu Sai Wan Sports Ground	2,760
109	2010–11	Citizen	†3–3 †	South China	Hong Kong Stadium	4,694
110	2011–12	Sun Hei	†1–1 †	South China		6,234
111	2012–13	Tai Po	†2–2 †	Citizen		3,294
112	2013–14	South China	2–1	Pegasus		6,820
113	2014–15	Eastern	3–2	Kitchee		6,133
114	2015–16	Eastern	2–0	Southern		4,558
115	2016–17	Kitchee	2–1	Eastern		6,216
116	2017–18	Yuen Long	3–0	Eastern		3,711
117	2018–19	Kitchee	3–2	Tai Po		3,399
118	2019–20	Eastern	2–0	Lee Man	Mong Kok Stadium	0^[1]
	2020–21	Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong
	2021–22	Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong
119	2022–23	Kitchee	†1–1 †	Eastern	Hong Kong Stadium	7,192
120	2023–24	Kitchee	2–1	Eastern	Mong Kok Stadium	4,570
121	2024–25	Eastern	1–0	Lee Man		4,495
122	2025–26

Results by team

Teams shown in italics are no longer in existence in Hong Kong football league system.

Club	Wins	Last Final Won	Runners-up	Last Final Lost
South China	31	2013–14	16	2011–12
Eastern	12	2024–25	6	2023–24
Kitchee	9	2023–24	6	2014–15
Seiko	8	1984–85	2	1982–83
Sing Tao	6	1991–92	2	1998–99
Happy Valley	5	2003–04	10	2005–06
HKFC	5	1921–22	4	1931–32
Kowloon	5	1927–28	4	1928–29
Rangers	4	1994–95	2	1981–82
R.G.A.	3	1913–14	1	1921–22
Sun Hei	2	2011–12	5	2008–09
Royal Welch Fus.	2	1901–02	2	1900–01
South Wales Borderers	2	1933–34	2	1932–33
Royal Engineers	2	1914–15	1	1915–16
Yuen Long	2	2017–18	1	1964–65
Police	1	1919–20	8	1968–69
KMB	1	1950–51	4	1963–64
HMS Glory	1	1902–03	2	1904–05
Naval Yard	1	1910–11	2	1911–12
Royal Navy	1	1945–46	2	1940–41
HMS Centurion	1	1896–97	1	1895–96
HMS Bedford	1	1908–09	1	1907–08
Buffs	1	1909–10	1	1908–09
K.O.Y.L.I.	1	1911–12	1	1910–11
East Surrey Regiment	1	1923–24	1	1925–26
Bulova	1	1983–84	1	1979–80
Citizen	1	2010–11	1	2012–13
Pegasus	1	2008–09	1	2013–14
Tai Po	1	2012–13	1	2018–19
G Coy., King's Own Regiment	1	1897–98	–	–
HMS Albion	1	1903–04	–	–
Royal West Kent Regt.	1	1904–05	–	–
HMS Diadem	1	1905–06	–	–
HMS Titania	1	1920–21	–	–
The King's Own Borderers	1	1926–27	–	–
Somerset Light Infantry	1	1929–30	–	–
Kwong Wah	1	1962–63	–	–
Jardine	1	1968–69	–	–
Yee Hope	1	2000–01	–	–
Instant-Dict	–	–	4	2000–01
Tung Wah	–	–	3	1960–61
St. Joseph's	–	–	2	1949–50
Tung Sing	–	–	2	1972–73
Sea Bee	–	–	2	1985–86
Tsuen Wan	–	–	2	1988–89
Lee Man	–	–	2	2024–25
25th Coy. S.D., R.A.	–	–	1	1897–98
38th Coy. S.D., R.A.	–	–	1	1898–99
Argonauts	–	–	1	1902–03
HMS Cressy	–	–	1	1903–04
D.C.L.I.	–	–	1	1912–13
HMS Hampshire	–	–	1	1913–14
The King's Liverpool Regiment	–	–	1	1922–23
Wiltshire Regiment	–	–	1	1936–37
No. 1 Commando	–	–	1	1945–46
Army	–	–	1	1954–55
Fire Services	–	–	1	1969–70
Urban Services	–	–	1	1974–75
Lai Sun	–	–	1	1990–91
Southern	–	–	1	2015–16

References

External links

HKFA website
Hong Kong Football Archived 2020-08-07 at the Wayback Machine
RSSSF.com Hong Kong - List of Senior Shield Finalists

[1] "高級組銀牌賽回顧(三)".

[2] "高級組銀牌賽回顧(二)".

[3] "高級組銀牌賽回顧(一)".

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