Hong Kong Football Club Stadium (Chinese: 香港足球會球場) is a multi-purpose stadium located in Sports Rd, Happy Valley, Hong Kong. The main pitch is used for football and rugby (union) matches, and there is an adjoining hockey pitch. The playing surface has been synthetic since 2004.
The stadium (which is owned by the Hong Kong Football Club) holds 2,750 people, and hosts the annual Hong Kong Tens tournament and the HKFC International Soccer Sevens tournament.
Sports Road was the venue for the world famous Hong Kong Sevens from its inception in 1976 till it outgrew its home and was moved to the Hong Kong Government Stadium (now the Hong Kong Stadium) in 1982.
Famous quotes containing the words football, club, soccer and/or pitch:
“In this dream that dogs me I am part
Of a silent crowd walking under a wall,
Leaving a football match, perhaps, or a pit,
All moving the same way.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“I spoke at a woman’s club in Philadelphia yesterday and a young lady said to me afterwards, “Well, that sounds very nice, but don’t you think it is better to be the power behind the throne?” I answered that I had not had much experience with thrones, but a woman who has been on a throne, and who is now behind it, seems to prefer to be on the throne.”
—Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919)
“We want beans, not goals.”
—Mexican steelworkers’ banner at opening ceremony of 1986 World Cup soccer championship.
“I dream that I have brought
To such a pitch my thought
That coming time can say,
“He shadowed in a glass
What thing her body was.””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)