Yeung Ching Kwong

Yeung Ching Kwong
Personal information
Full name	Yeung Ching Kwong
Date of birth	7 May 1976 (age 45)
Place of birth	Hong Kong
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s)	Centre midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team
1993–1994	Kitchee
1994–1995	Kui Tan
1995–1997	Eastern
1997–2009	South China
2008–2009	→ Pegasus (loan)
2009	→ Eastern (loan)
2009–2012	Pegasus
National team‡
2001–2010	Hong Kong
Teams managed
2009–2012	Pegasus (player-coach)
2012–2015	South China (assistant coach)
2015	Eastern
2015–2017	Meizhou Hakka (assistant coach)
2017	Pegasus (assistant coach)
2017–2018	Pegasus
2018–2020	R&F
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14 October 2020; ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 24 February 2008

Yeung Ching Kwong (Chinese: 楊正光; Jyutping: joeng⁴ zing³ gwong¹, born 7 May 1976 in Hong Kong) is a former Hong Kong professional football player and currently a football coach.

Managerial career[]

Yeung worked previously as an assistant with Pegasus and South China.

In 2015, he served as head coach of Eastern before resigning on 8 December 2015 to become an assistant coach with Meizhou Hakka.^[1] His successor, Chan Yuen Ting, led Eastern to the 2015–16 Hong Kong Premier League title and became the first woman to lead a men's professional side to a league title.^[2]

On 31 March 2017, Pegasus announced via Facebook that Yeung had returned to the club to become an assistant coach under manager Kevin Bond.^[3] Following Bond's departure to join Harry Redknapp's coaching staff at Birmingham City, Yeung was promoted to be the head coach in June 2017.^[4]

On 14 June 2018, Yeung was announced as the head coach of Hong Kong Premier League side R&F.^[5] On 19 May 2019, Yeung disclosed to the media that he had renewed his contract for a further two years.^[6] On 14 October 2020, he left the club after his club announced its withdrawal from HKPL in the new season.

Career statistics[]

Club[]

As of 1 February 2009.

Club performance			League		Cup		League Cup		Continental		Total
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Hong Kong			League		FA Cup & Shield		League Cup		Asia		Total
2005–06	South China	First Division	7	2	2	0	0	0	-		9	2
2006–07			9	1	3	1	1	0	-		13	2
2007–08			5	0	1	0	2	0	6	0	14	0
2008–09	TSW Pegasus		4 (3)	0	0 (2)	0	-		-		4 (3)	0
2008–09	Eastern		5 (0)	1	1 (0)	0	1 (0)	0	4 (0)	0	11 (0)	1
2009–10	TSW Pegasus		0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	-		0 (0)	0
Total	Hong Kong		?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?

References[]

^ "港足史上首位女主帥誕生！陳婉婷接替楊正光執東方教鞭". 體路. Retrieved 8 December 2015. (in Chinese)
^ Chan, Kin-wa (22 April 2016). "Hong Kong's Chan Yuen-ting becomes first woman ever to coach a men's soccer team to top-flight title". South China Morning Post.
^ "港超聯返嚟喇！楊正光任香港飛馬助教博爭盃". on.cc. 東網. (in Chinese)
^ "【未講得住】飛馬外援換血三線各一新援遲啲公布". Apple Daily. Retrieved 19 June 2017. (in Chinese)
^ "公告｜杨正光先生出任港超R&F富力主教练". Guangzhou R&F. (in Chinese)
^ Gao, Si Kei. "富力險勝飛馬來季外援註六出四力爭亞冠資格". HK01. Retrieved 19 May 2019. (in Chinese)

External links[]

Yeung Ching Kwong at HKFA
Scaafc.com 球員資料 - 8. 楊正光 (in Chinese)
SCAA Official Blog 8號楊正光 (Yeung Ching Kwong) (in Chinese)

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[1] "港足史上首位女主帥誕生！陳婉婷接替楊正光執東方教鞭". 體路. Retrieved 8 December 2015. (in Chinese)

[2] Chan, Kin-wa (22 April 2016). "Hong Kong's Chan Yuen-ting becomes first woman ever to coach a men's soccer team to top-flight title". South China Morning Post.

[3] "港超聯返嚟喇！楊正光任香港飛馬助教博爭盃". on.cc. 東網. (in Chinese)

[4] "【未講得住】飛馬外援換血三線各一新援遲啲公布". Apple Daily. Retrieved 19 June 2017. (in Chinese)

[5] "公告｜杨正光先生出任港超R&F富力主教练". Guangzhou R&F. (in Chinese)

[6] Gao, Si Kei. "富力險勝飛馬來季外援註六出四力爭亞冠資格". HK01. Retrieved 19 May 2019. (in Chinese)

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