2009 Lunar New Year Cup

The 2009 Lunar New Year Cup is a football tournament held in Hong Kong on the first and fourth day of the Chinese New Year of the Earth Ox Year (26 January and 29 January 2009).

Format
The two semi-finals for the four participating teams will be held on the first day of the Chinese New Year of Ox (26 January 2009). The winning teams will enter the final and the losing teams play the third-place playoff (Both matches on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, i.e. 29 January.) Draw in the semi-finals and third-place playoff would be settled by penalty shootout directly, that means no extra time would be played. For the final, a thirty-minute extra time would be played after a draw. A further draw would lead to the penalty shootout.

Participating teams

 * 🇭🇰 Hong Kong League Selection (host)
 * 🇭🇰 South China Pegasus Team
 * 🇨🇿 Sparta Prague
 * 🇰🇷 Suwon Samsung Bluewings

Hong Kong League Selection

 * Team Managers: 🇭🇰 Leung Hung Tak, 🇭🇰 Pui Kwan Kay, 🇭🇰 Ken Ng
 * Coaches: Julio Moreno (Kitchee), 🇭🇰 Chan Ho Yin (NT Realty Wofoo Tai Po)
 * Physical coach: 🇫🇷 Vianney Selin (Kitchee)
 * Physio: 🇭🇰 So Chun Lung

South China Pegasus Team

 * Team Managers: 🇭🇰 Steven Lo, 🇭🇰 Wong Wai Shun
 * Head coach: 🇰🇷 Kim Pan-Gon (South China)
 * Coaches: 🇭🇰 Liu Chun Fai, 🇧🇷 Ricardo
 * Assistant coaches: 🇭🇰 Ku Kam Fai, 🇭🇰 Leung Cheuk Cheung
 * Management: 🇭🇰 Lam Kai Tai, 🇭🇰 Lo Kwun Ming, 🇭🇰 Lee Yun Wah

Sparta Prague

 * Head of Delegation: Jozef Chovanec
 * Technical manager: David Simon
 * Coaches: Martin Hašek, Jan Kmoch
 * Coach Assistant: Jan Stejskal
 * Doctor: Jiří Váchal
 * Masseurs: Tomáš Stránský, Vít Zelenka
 * Kitman: David Matěka
 * Marketing Director: Michal Viktorin

Suwon Samsung Bluewings

 * Head coach: Cha Bum-kun
 * Coaches: Lee Lim-saeng, Park Kun-ha
 * Goalkeeper coach: Cho Byung-deuk
 * Official: Kim Jin-hoon
 * Team manager: Yang Dae-hyun
 * Therapist: You Hoan-mo
 * Video analyst: 🇨🇳 Jin Qingyi
 * Interpreter: Park Sung-jin
 * Kit manager: Kim Si-woong

Fixtures
All times given in Hong Kong Time (UTC+8).

Top scorers
1 goal
 * 🇭🇰 Zamudio
 * 🇭🇰 Cacá
 * 🇭🇰 Tales Schütz
 * 🇭🇰 Kim Yeon-gun
 * 🇨🇿 Ondřej Kušnír