Hong Kong national football team all-time record

This page covers the record of the Hong Kong national football team in the FIFA World Cup and the Asian Cup. In the "Results" section, home results are written before away results. Where Hong Kong only played a team once, (h), (a) and (n) indicates home, away and neutral.

Major Tournaments

Tournament	Section	Placing	Results	Notes
1930 World Cup	Did not enter	-	-	-
1934 World Cup
1938 World Cup
1950 World Cup
1954 World Cup
1956 Asian Cup	Qualified as hosts	-	-	Hong Kong came 3rd in the tournament
1958 World Cup	Did not enter	-	-	-
1960 Asian Cup	3 teams, one qualifies	2nd, 2pts/4	Philippines 7–0 (a) Republic of China 4–7 (n)	-
1962 World Cup	Did not enter	-	-	-
1964 Asian Cup	Qualified automatically	-	-	Came last out of the 4 teams in the final tournament.
1966 World Cup	Did not enter	-	-	-
1968 Asian Cup	5 teams, 1 qualifies	1st, 8pts/8	South Vietnam 2–0 (h) Malaysia 3–1 (h) Singapore 2–0 (h) Thailand 2–0 (h)	Came last out of the 5 teams in the final tournament.
1970 World Cup	Did not enter	-	-	-
1972 Asian Cup	2 groups of 3 teams, 4 qualify, then Knockout	3rd, 0pts/4	Indonesia 1–2 (n) Khmer Republic 1–2 (n) Malaysia 1–2 (n)	Lost in the first group stage of qualifying.
1974 World Cup	AFC/OFC Zone A Group stage, then knock-out	1st 4/4, knocked out in 1⁄2 finals	Japan 1–0 (n) South Vietnam 1–0 (n) South Korea 1–3 (a)	Lost in Semi Finals of qualifying.
1976 Asian Cup	Group stage then knock-out	2nd, 2/4pts; knocked out in 1⁄2 finals	Brunei 3–0 (h) China 0–1 (h) North Korea 3–3 (10–11 pen.) (h)	Lost in Semi Finals of qualifying, but came 3rd in 'mini-tournament'.
1978 World Cup	AFC/OFC Groups stages	1st 6/8, then 0/16pts	Indonesia 4–1 (n) Singapore 2–2 (a) Thailand 2–1 (n) Malaysia 1–1 (n) Iran 0–2 (h), 0–3 (a) South Korea 0–1 (h), 2–5 (a) Kuwait 1–3 (h), 0–4 (a) Australia 2–5 (h), 0–3 (a)	Lost in last round robin of qualifying.
1980 Asian Cup	Groups (2 groups of 3 and 1 group of 7)	2nd 4/6 pts then knockout	North Korea 0–3* (n) Thailand 0–1 (h) Singapore 3–1 (n) Sri Lanka 5–0 (n) Malaysia 0–0 (4–5 pen) (n)	Lost in semi finals of qualifying.
1982 World Cup	AFC/OFC Groups stages	2nd 2/6 pts then knockout	China 0–1* (h) Singapore 1–1 (h) North Korea 2–2 (h) China 0–0 (4–5 pen) (h)	Lost in semi finals of group.
1984 Asian Cup	Groups (3 groups of 5, 1 group of 6)	4th 2/8 pts	China 0–2 (a) Qatar 0–1 (n) Jordan 1–1 (n) Afghanistan 0–0 (n)	Did not qualify.
1986 World Cup	Group stages knockout	1st, 11/12 pts knockout	China 0–0 (h), 2–1 (a) Brunei 8–0 (h), 5–1 (a) Macau 2–0 (h), 2–0 (a) Japan 1–2 (h), 0–3 (a)	Lost in semi finals of group to Japan.
1988 Asian Cup	Groups (1 group of 6, 2 groups of 5, 1 group of 4)	4th 1/8 pts	North Korea 0–1 (n) Syria 0–2 (n) Iran 0–2 (n) Nepal 0–0 (a)	Did not qualify.
1990 World Cup	Group stages then final round	4th, 3/12pts	North Korea 1–2 (h), 1–4 (a) Indonesia 1–1 (h), 2–3 (a) Japan 0–0 (h), 0–0 (a)	Did not make it through first group stage of qualifying.
1992 Asian Cup	Groups (2 groups of 4, 4 groups of 3)	3rd, 3/6 pts	Macau 2–2 (n) North Korea 0–0 (a) Chinese Taipei 0–0 (n)	Did not qualify.
1994 World Cup	Groups (4 group of 5, 2 groups of 4) then final round	4th, 5/16 pts	Bahrain 2–1 (n), 0–3 (n) Lebanon 2–2 (a), 1–2 (n) South Korea 0–3 (n), 1–4 (a) India 2–1 (n), 1–3 (a)	Did not qualify for final round.
1996 Asian Cup	Groups (4 groups of 4, 5 groups of 3, 1 group of 2)	2nd, 6/9 pts	China 0–2 (h) Macau 4–1 (h) Philippines 8–0 (h)	Needed to beat China to qualify.
1998 World Cup	Groups (6 group of 4, 4 groups of 3) then final round	4th, 3/12 pts	South Korea 0–2 (h), 0–4 (a) Thailand 3–2 (h), 0–2 (a)	Did not qualify for final round.
2000 Asian Cup	Groups (6 groups of 4, 3 groups of 5, 1 group of 3)	2nd, 7/12 pts	Indonesia 1–1 (h), 1–3 (a) Cambodia 4–1 (h), 1–0 (a)	Needed to beat Indonesia to qualify.
2002 World Cup	Groups (9 group of 4, 1 groups of 3) then final round	4th, 4/18 pts	Qatar 0–2 (h), 0–3 (a) Palestine 1–1 (h), 0–1 (n) Malaysia 0–2 (h), 2–1 (n)	Did not qualify for final round.
2004 Asian Cup	Preliminary (6 groups of 3, 1 group of 2) then final stage (7 groups of 4)	1st, 4/6 pts 4th, 4/18 pts	Laos 5–1 (h) Bangladesh 2–2 (h) Uzbekistan 1–4 (a), 0–1 (n) Thailand 2–1 (n), 0–4 (a) Tajikistan 0–0 (n), 0–1 (n)	Won their group in the Preliminary stage. Lost subsequent group stage.
2006 World Cup	1st round 2nd round (8 groups of 4)	Bye in 1st round 3rd, 6/18 pts	China 0–1 (h), 0–7 (a) Kuwait 0–2 (h), 0–4 (a) Malaysia 2–0 (h), 3–1 (a)	Did not qualify for final round.
2007 Asian Cup	Preliminary round Groups (6 groups of 4)	Bye in preliminary round 3rd, 8/18 pts	Qatar 0–3 (h), 0–2 (a) Uzbekistan 0–0 (h), 2–2 (a) Bangladesh 2–0 (h), 1–0 (a)	Did not qualify.
2010 World Cup	1st and 2nd round knockout	Won in 1st round Lost in 2nd round	East Timor 3–2 (h), 8–1 (a) Turkmenistan 0–0 (h), 0–3 (a)	Did not qualify for third round of qualifying.
2011 Asian Cup	Preliminary round Groups (5 groups of 4)	Bye in preliminary round 4th, 1/18pts	Japan 0–4 (h), 0–6 (a) Bahrain 1–3 (h), 0–4 (a) Yemen 0–0 (h), 0–1 (a)	Did not qualify.
2014 World Cup	1st and 2nd round knockout	Bye in 1st round Lost in 2nd round	Saudi Arabia 0–3 (h), 0–5 (a)	Did not qualify for third round of qualifying.
2015 Asian Cup	Groups (5 groups of 4)	3rd, 4/18 pts	United Arab Emirates 0–4 (h), 0–4 (a) Uzbekistan 0–2 (h), 0–0 (a) Vietnam 1–0 (h), 1–3 (a)	Did not qualify.
2018 World Cup	1st round knockout 2nd round (8 groups of 5)	Bye in 1st round 3rd, 14/24 pts in 2nd round	China 0–0 (h), 0–0 (a) Qatar 2–3 (h), 0–2 (a) Maldives 2–0 (h), 1–0 (a) Bhutan 7–0 (h), 1–0 (a)	Did not qualify for third round of qualifying.
2019 Asian Cup	1st round knockout 2nd round (8 groups of 5) Play-off round 3rd round (6 groups of 4)	Bye in 1st round 3rd, 14/24 pts in 2nd round Bye in play-off round 3rd, 5/18 pts in 3rd round	Lebanon 0–1 (h), 0–2 (a) North Korea 1–1 (h), 0–2 (a) Malaysia 2–0 (h), 1–1 (a)	Did not qualify.
2022 World Cup	1st round knockout 2nd round (8 groups of 5)	Bye in 1st round 4th, 5/24 pts in 2nd round	Iran 0–2 (h), 1–3 (a) Iraq 0–1 (h), 0–2 (a) Bahrain 0–0 (h), 0–4 (a) Cambodia 2–0 (h), 1–1 (a)	Did not qualify for third round of qualifying.
2023 Asian Cup	1st round knockout 2nd round (8 groups of 5) Play-off round 3rd round (6 groups of 4) Group stage (6 groups of 4)	Bye in 1st round 4th, 5/24 pts in 2nd round Bye in play-off round 2nd, 6/9 pts in 3rd round, 5th of best runner-up team 4th, 0 pts in group stage	Afghanistan 2–1 (n) Cambodia 3–0 (n) India 0–4 (n) United Arab Emirates 1–3 (n) Iran 0–1 (n) Palestine 0–3 (n)	Ranked 4th in group stage in the final tournament
2026 World Cup	1st round knockout 2nd round (9 groups of 4) 3rd round (3 groups of 6) 4th round (2 groups of 3) 5th round knockout then Final round (play-off)	Won in 1st round To be determined	Bhutan 4–0 (h), 2–0 (a) Iran – (h), 0–4 (a) Turkmenistan 2–2 (h), – (a) Uzbekistan 0–2 (h), 0–3 (a)	TBC
2027 Asian Cup	1st round knockout 2nd round (9 groups of 4) Play-off round 3rd round (6 groups of 4) Group stage (6 groups of 4)	Won in 1st round To be determined	To be determined	TBC

Regional Tournaments

Tournament	Section	Placing	Results	Notes
1995 East Asian Dynasty Cup	1 groups of 4 teams, then Third Place Match or Final.	4th, 1/9 points in groups stage. Won China in Third Place Match.	Japan 3–0 (h) China 0–0 (h) South Korea 2–3 (h) China 1–1 (a.e.t.) 3:1 (p.s.o.) (h)	Hong Kong came 3rd in the tournament.
1998 East Asian Dynasty Cup	1 groups of 4 teams.	4th, 0/9 points	China 1–0 (n) Japan 5–1 (a) South Korea 1–0 (a)
2003 East Asian Football Championship Qualifying	1 group of 5 teams, winner goes through	1st, 12/12 points	Chinese Taipei 2–0 (h) Macau, China 3–0 (h) Mongolia 10–0 (h) Guam 11–0 (h)	Qualified for final tournament.
2003 East Asian Football Championship	1 group of 4 teams	4th, 0/9 points	South Korea 1–3 (n) Japan 0–1 (a) China 1–3 (n)
2005 East Asian Football Championship Qualifying	1 group of 5 teams, winner goes through	2nd, 9/12 points	North Korea 0–2 (n) Chinese Taipei 5–0 (a) Mongolia 6–0 (n) Guam 15–0 (n)	Did not qualify for final tournament.
2008 East Asian Football Championship Qualifying	2 groups of 3 teams, then knockout. Winners qualify for final tournament.	1st, 4/6 points Lost to North Korea in knockout stage.	Chinese Taipei 1–1 (n) Guam 15–1 (n) North Korea 0–1 (n)	Did not qualify for final tournament.
2010 East Asian Football Championship Qualifying	1 group of 4 teams. Winners qualify for final tournament.	1st, 7/9 points	Chinese Taipei 4–0 (a) North Korea 0–0 (n) Guam 12–0 (n)	Qualified for final tournament
2010 East Asian Football Championship	1 group of 4 teams	4th, 0/9 points	South Korea 0–5 (n) Japan 0–3 (a) China 0–2 (n)
2013 EAFF East Asian Cup preliminary round 2	1 group of 5 teams. Winners qualify for final tournament.	3rd, 6/12 points	Guam 2–1 (h) Australia 0–1 (h) Chinese Taipei 2–0 (h) North Korea 0–4 (h)	Did not qualify for final tournament.
2015 EAFF East Asian Cup Second Preliminary round	1 group of 4 teams. Winners qualify for final tournament.	2nd, 4/9 points	North Korea 1–2 (n) Chinese Taipei 1–0 (a) Guam 0–0 (n)	Did not qualify for final tournament.
2017 EAFF E-1 Football Championship Second Preliminary round	1 group of 4 teams. Winners qualify for final tournament.	2nd, 6/9 points	Guam 3–2 (h) Chinese Taipei 4–2 (h) North Korea 0–1 (h)	Did not qualify for final tournament.
2019 EAFF E-1 Football Championship Second Preliminary round	1 group of 4 teams. Winners qualify for final tournament.	1st, 7/9 points	Chinese Taipei 2–1 (a) North Korea 0–0 (n) Mongolia 5–1 (n)	Qualified for final tournament.
2019 EAFF E-1 Football Championship final round	1 group of 4 teams	4th, 0/9 points	South Korea 0–2 (a) Japan 0–5 (n) China 0–2 (n)
2022 EAFF E-1 Football Championship final round	1 group of 4 teams	4th, 0/9 points	Japan 0–6 (a) South Korea 0–3 (n) China 0–1 (n)	Qualified by FIFA Rankings
2025 EAFF E-1 Football Championship Preliminary round

External links

• Asian Nations Cup at RSSSF
• World Cup at RSSSF
• East Asian Cup at RSSSF
• International Football Results 1872-Present