Guangdong–Hong Kong Cup

History

Milestones

• 1979 – The first Guangdong–Hong Kong Cup concluded with the Guangdong team winning 4–1.
• 1982 – The first time Hong Kong's team included foreign players. Extra time was the first used to decide the winner.
• 1983 – The first time the result was decided by penalty shootout.
• 1989 – The Hong Kong team came back from a 3-goal deficit win 4–3 and ended six consecutive wins for Guangdong.
• 1990 – The first Hong Kong consecutive victory.
• 1993 – Ross Greer's goal at 1:48 was the quickest goal in the competition's history.
• 1994 – The Chinese Jia A League was established. For the first time, Guangdong team included players from outside Guangdong. Fan Zhiyi was sent off during extra time of the second match. He was the first player to be sent off in the competition's history.
• 1995 – The rule of "registering a maximum of 4 foreign players, a maximum of 3 players used" was established.
• 1999 – No maximum limit of foreign players to be used in the competition was established.
• 2003 – Each team was allowed to register a maximum of 5 foreign players, among which only 3 could be played in the match at the same time.
• 2007 – The Guangdong match was played in Panyu Fo Ying Dong Stadium in remembrance of the death of Henry Fok, who established the Cup in 1979; Panyu is the home town of Mr. Fok.

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Past winners

Winners table