Li Chun Yip

Li Chun Yip

Personal information
Full name	Li Chun Yip
Date of birth	(1981-09-18) 18 September 1981 (age 42)
Place of birth	Hong Kong
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
0000–1998	Rangers (HKG)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1998–2000	Rangers
2000–2001	Instant-Dict FC
2001–2006	Happy Valley
2006–2007	Citizen
2007–2009	Telecom		(28)
2009–2010	Happy Valley
2010–2012	Tai Po
2012–2014	Happy Valley	8	(0)
International career‡
2001–2003	Hong Kong U-23
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 9 August 2011 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 9 August 2011

Li Chun Yip (Chinese: 李圳業) is a former Hong Kong professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Club career

Early career

Li played his first league match for Rangers. He was a member of the Hong Kong national under-23 football team. Subsequently, he moved to Instant-Dict.

After Instant-Dict was disbanded, Li joined Happy Valley. In 2004, he was also called up for the Hong Kong national football team.

In 2006, he moved to Citizen, but due to a serious injury, his contract was not renewed at the end of the season.

Telecom

In 2007, Li gave up being a professional footballer and went to work for PCCW. He played amateur football in the Hong Kong Third Division League for Telecom. He was too good at this level and scored 28 goals in two seasons.^[1]

Li scored 19 goals in the 2007–08 season to finish second in the goal scorers chart.^[2]。

Happy Valley

In the 2009–10 season, Happy Valley recruited Li and appointed him as the club's captain.^[3]

Tai Po

After Happy Valley was relegated, Li joined Tai Po. He scored 4 goals for his new club in his first four games, 3 of them are free kicks, helping the team defeat fellow New Territories rivals Pegasus^[4] and Tuen Mun.^[5] Tai Po's coach Cheung Bo Chun also claimed his performances have been phenomenal.^[6]

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