2021–22 Hong Kong Premier League

On 5 January 2022, the Hong Kong government announced a tightening of social distancing measures between 7 January to 20 January in order to control the Omicron outbreak.[1] Public recreation facilities, such as football pitches, were closed and members of the public were barred from gathering in groups of more than two, making it impossible for the season to continue. The Hong Kong Football Association announced on the same day that it would also postpone any scheduled matches in the successive two week period.

After the measures were extended several times in the following weeks, the government announced on 22 February that it would extend the measures until 20 April, making it nearly impossible to complete the season before most player contracts expired on 31 May.[2] The HKFA held an emergency meeting with the clubs on 25 February, after which it was determined that the remainder of the season would be cancelled.[3]

A total of 8 teams contest the league, including six teams from the 2020–21 Hong Kong Premier League, one team promoted from the 2020–21 Hong Kong First Division and one newly established team. Pegasus and Happy Valley decided to self-relegate to amateur leagues due to lack of funds.

• Pink denotes a newly promoted/established club entering the league this year.

Stadia and locations

Southern

Rangers

HKFC

Resources Capital
HK U23

Eastern
Kitchee

Lee Man

Locations of the Hong Kong based teams.

Primary venues used in the Hong Kong Premier League:

Kitchee Eastern	Rangers	Lee Man
Mong Kok Stadium	Sham Shui Po Sports Ground	Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground
Capacity: 6,664	Capacity: 2,194	Capacity: 3,500
HK U23 Resources Capital	HKFC	Southern
Tsing Yi Sports Ground	HKFC Stadium	Aberdeen Sports Ground
Capacity: 1,500	Capacity: 2,750	Capacity: 4,000

Personnel and kits

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Captain	Kit Manufacturer	Main sponsor
Eastern	Lam Kin Ming	Roberto Losada	Leung Chun Pong	Adidas	Upbest Group
Kitchee	Ken Ng	Chu Chi Kwong	Huang Yang	Nike	EDPS Systems Ltd.
Lee Man	Norman Lee	Chan Hiu Ming	Fernando Recio	Adidas	Lee & Man Chemical
Rangers	Peter Mok	Chiu Chung Man Wong Chin Hung Lai Ka Fai	Lam Ka Wai	Ucan	Biu Chun Watch Hands & Parts Manufacturers Ltd.
Southern	Matthew Wong	Zesh Rehman	Shu Sasaki[4]	Macron	Isuzu
Resources Capital	Hanson Wong	Joan Esteva	Cheng King Ho		Future Hong Kong Football Development Charity Limited
HKFC	Tony Sealy	Tony Hamilton-Bram	Freek Schipper	Adidas	The Executive Centre
HK U23	Eric Fok	Cheung Kin Fung	Wong Wai	Lotto	Key Connect

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Kitchee	Chu Chi Kwong	Change of Role	2 August 2021	Pre-season	Kim Dong-jin	2 August 2021
Kitchee	Kim Dong-jin	Change of Role	3 March 2022	2nd	Chu Chi Kwong	3 March 2022

Foreign players

The number of foreign players is restricted to six per team, with no more than five on the pitch during matches, the fifth player must be a marquee player.

According to the decision made by Hong Kong Football Association Board of Directors on 15 July 2020, the marquee player must fulfil one of the following criteria:

i) played for a club which is in a world's top professional league of one of the top 50 associations in the FIFA ranking published by FIFA on 11 June 2020 for at least 1 season or ii) fielded by his association in an international match, which his association is one of the top 50 associations in the FIFA ranking published by FIFA on 11 June 2020.

Marquee Player

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Player 6	Former/Unregistered Players
Eastern	Marcos Gondra	Mikael	Víctor Bertomeu	Tamirlan Kozubayev			Toni Dovale Everton Eduardo Praes
Kitchee	Manuel Gavilán	Raúl Baena	Dejan Damjanović	Park Jun-heong	Charlie Scott	Cleiton	Ruslan Mingazow
Lee Man	Gil	Junior Dutra	Jonathan Acosta	José Ángel	Kim Seung-yong	Manolo Bleda
Southern	Stefan Pereira	Zesh Rehman	Dudu	Luciano	Shu Sasaki	Kota Kawase
Rangers	Oleksii Shliakotin	Juninho	Leandro Bazán	Kim Min-kyu	Ryota Hayashi
Resources Capital	Albert Canal	Felipe Sá	Carles Tena	Joan Esteva	Jordon Brown		Diego Peláez

There are no restrictions on the number of foreign players HKFC can register. However, the team must have at least nine Hong Kong players in the squad, with no less than three on the pitch during matches.

Club	HK Player 1	HK Player 2	HK Player 3	HK Player 4	HK Player 5	HK Player 6	HK Player 7	HK Player 8	HK Player 9
HKFC	Christopher Chung	Brian Fok	To Chun Kiu	Oliver Laxton	Poon Ka Ming	Chan Wai Hin	Hardikpreet Singh	Lucas Yan	Tristan Cheung
	HK Player 10	HK Player 11	HK Player 12	HK Player 13	HK Player 14	HK Player 15	HK Player 16	HK Player 17	HK Player 18
	Noa Fjelddahl	Ghislain Bell Bell	Liu Sui Man	Yue Yixing	Robert Scott	Freek Schipper	Stephen Liu	Robert Bacon	Matthew Hoare

HK U23 is not allowed to register any foreign players. Meanwhile, the number of overaged players is restricted to five for the team, with no more than three on the pitch during matches. The rest of the players must meet the registration status of U23 local players.

Club	Overaged Player 1	Overaged Player 2	Overaged Player 3	Overaged Player 4	Overaged Player 5
HK U23	Wong Wai	Law Hiu Chung	Kwok Tsz Kaai	Chan Ching Him	Wong Ho Yin

To preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for round 7, but then played between rounds 8 and 9, it will be added to the standings for round 8.

As of matches played 12 December 2021