 Tsang playing for Kitchee in 2012 | ||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Tsang Kam To | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1989-06-21)21 June 1989 (age 36) | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Hong Kong | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||
| Position | Right back | |||||||||||||
| Team information | ||||||||||||||
Current team | Kowloon City | |||||||||||||
| Number | 21 | |||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||
| 2005–2006 | Hong Kong 09 | |||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 2006–2007 | Hong Kong 08 | 13 | (1) | |||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | Workable | 17 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2008–2015 | Kitchee | 55 | (4) | |||||||||||
| 2015–2020 | Eastern | 56 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2020–2023 | Lee Man | 24 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2023– | Kowloon City | 37 | (0) | |||||||||||
| International career‡ | ||||||||||||||
| 2009–2011 | Hong Kong U23 | 10 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2011–2021 | Hong Kong | 6 | (0) | |||||||||||
| Managerial career | ||||||||||||||
| 2025– | Kowloon City (assistant coach) | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 25 May 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 15 June 2021 | ||||||||||||||
| Tsang Kam To | |||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 曾錦濤 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 曾锦涛 | ||||||||||
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Tsang Kam To (Chinese:曾錦濤; born 21 June 1989) is aHong Kong professionalfootballer who currently plays as afull back forHong Kong Premier League clubKowloon City. He is also the assistant coach of the club.
Tsang has representedHong Kong in international competitions since childhood. In 2009, he won a gold medal at theEast Asian Games as a member of theHong Kong national under-23 football team.
Known for his versatility, Tsang played asforward when he played forHong Kong 08. He is adept at different position includingwingback andwinger. For the Hong Kong under-23 football team, he occasionally plays atcentre-back.
Tsang was born in Hong Kong, and went to St.Patrick's Catholic Primary School inWang Tau Hom. He has started playing football in there in his third year. He showed his talent on the school team, and he captained it in his fifth and sixth years in school.[1]
During his last year in primary school he was selected byHong Kong Football Association to train with the Hong Kong under-14 team.[1] He had his secondary education in POH Chan Kai Memorial College,Sha Tin.[2]
Because of his early international career, Tsang was a member of the long-term training section for2009 East Asian Games. The Football Association signed him for the newly foundedHong Kong First Division League club "Hong Kong 08" with other members of training section for the2008 Olympic Games because of his good performance inHong Kong 09.[3] In his early years, he mostly played as astriker.[4] In the league match againstLanwa Redbull on 17 September 2006, the second league match of Tsang's senior career, he scored his first league goal in the 18th minute.[5] He played 18 matches and had 2 goals in2006–07 season.[6]
After2008 Summer Olympics qualification, Hong Kong 08 had been dissolved. Another new first division teamWorkable contracted former Olympics team members including Tsang.[1][4] In Workable, for his high-speed, coachLee Kin Wo has changed his position from striker towingback.[7] He was the regular player of the team and he played 21 matches in2007–08 season.[8]
Tsang's performance impressed the football world of Hong Kong and he agreed a deal to sign forKitchee in the summer of 2008.[9] He scored his first goal for Kitchee in his first appearance of the team in a league match againstXiangxue Eisiti on 28 February 2009.[10][11] He was mainly used as a substitute in the2008–09 season sincecaptainLeung Chi Wing, CanadianLandon Ling andCameroonianHugues Nanmi occupied the wingback positions of two sides. In the following season, all three wingbacks left the club butJosep Gombau, the new coach, selectedcentre-backLi Hang Wui for the position, leaving Tsang as a substitute for most matches.[8][12][13][14]
In the summer in 2010, Kitchee planned to loan Tsang toTai Chung, giving him more chances to play football. However, Tsang performed wonderfully in pre-season friendly matches and managerKen Ng cancelled the plan.[15] During the2010–11 season, Tsang still mostly acted as a substitute of his teammates[16] but he was also used in the 2011 Canon Cup match againstVillarreal.[17][18]
Because Kitchee had won the2010–11 Hong Kong First Division League, Tsang had had a chance to participate in the2011 Barclays Asia Trophy.[19] He started in both the semi-final match againstChelsea[20] and third place play-off againstBlackburn Rovers.[21] In the third place play-off, Tsang was fouled byMartin Olsson in thepenalty box and apenalty kick was awarded, thoughUbay Luzardo missed the penalty.[22] Kitchee got thewooden spoon.[21][22]
On 23 October 2011, Tsang came off the substitutes bench as awinger in the 73rd minute to assist a crucial equaliser againstTSW Pegasus in the 83rd minute and score inside the penalty area in the 86th minute, defeating TSW Pegasus by 3–2.[23][24] Tsang claim his sense of striker still strongly exist and he want to prove that Hong Kong footballers can feel up to be a shooter in the team.[25][26] Tsang always have training for shoot frequently to convince Josep Gombau to select him as aforward.[25][26]
Tsang had more opportunities to play in the field later. He played theHong Kong derby winning by two goals with Kitchee in2011–12 Hong Kong FA Cup.[27] He also played four2012 AFC Cup group stage matches againstTerengganu,Sông Lam Nghệ An andTampines Rovers and Kitchee finally won the first place in the stage.[28][29] In the final fixture of the league, Kitchee beatBiu Chun Rangers by 4–1 and Tsang scored in the 11th minute.[30]
Although Kitchee won the2011–12 Hong Kong League Cup and2011–12 Hong Kong First Division League, the team was eliminated byArema in2012 AFC Cup round of 16. In the round of 16, Tsang came off the bench athalf-time but he did not make any score or assist.[31]
In2012–13 season, Tsang still was a substitute player for Kitchee in local competitions. Pleasantly, he scored inthe league game againstSouthern District on 13 September 2012.[32] Kitchee won theFA Cup, first editionseason play-off andFirst Division League again this season. By the way, Tsang played most of Kitchee's2013 AFC Cup matches, againstSemen Padang,Churchill Brothers andWarriors ingroup stage andKelantan andAl-Faisaly inknockout stage. In the AFC Cup home match against Warriors, Tsang scored the fourth goal and Kitchee won by five.[33]
Tsang joinedEastern in 2015 and left 5 years later on 1 June 2020 after the expiration of his contract.
On 2 June 2020,Lee Man announced the signing of Tsang.[34]
In July 2023, Tsang joinedKowloon City.[35]
Tsang has earned caps with all of Hong Kong's youth and senior teams for which he was eligible.[1]Hong Kong Football Association have decided to play Tsang in an age group above his age, so he was selected by theHong Kong national under-14 football team in his last primary school year.[1] The association had planned him as a player of2009 East Asian Games team originally and he was contracted toHong Kong 08 later, formed for training youngsters for2008 AFC Pre-Olympic Tournament.[3]
Tsang did not play in any matches of the 2008 Pre-Olympic Tournament in 2007; the coach preferredstrikers with greater strength. He left the summer training section of2009 East Asian Games team in Croatia for personal reasons, and thereforePhilip Lee, general director of EAG team, criticised five absentees so conceited.[36][37]
One year later,Goran Paulić took up the head coach of EAG team, and he recalled Tsang becauseSouth China andTSW Pegasus boycotted Paulić.[37] Tsang earned his first cap ofunder-23 football team as adefender in2009 Hong Kong–Macau Interport on 20 June 2009, and he was age of 19.[38]
Tsang was selected for the 2009 East Asian Games, but he did not play in the group stage matches and semi-final match, sinceLau Nim Yat was the first choice of theright back position.[39] Due to the injury of Lau, Tsang was able to play in the final of the tournament againstJapan on 12 December 2009 as the starter of the right back position, and Hong Kong defeated Japan atpenalty shootout finally.[37][39][40]
In2010 Asian Games, Tsang was the regular start-up player of the Hong Kong team and played all four games. Although Hong Kong was knocked out in the quarter-final, head coachTsang Wai Chung paid tribute to Tsang for his bravery.[41] In February 2011, Tsang was selected forthe senior team by Tsang Wai Chung for a friendly againstMalaysia inKuala Lumpur.[42] He earned his first senior cap but Hong Kong lost by two goals.[43][44]
After two major under-23 events, Tsang became a leader of the 2012 Pre-Olympic team. Because of a shortage of centre backs, Tsang was selected atcentre-back in the Pre-Olympic team.[45] He played both the first round againstMaldives and the second againstUzbekistan at the2012 AFC Pre-Olympic Tournament and Hong Kong were eliminated in a 3–0 defeat to Uzbekistan.[46]
On 9 February 2011, Tsang made his international debut forHong Kong in a friendly match againstMalaysia.
Kitchee
Eastern
Hong Kong U-23
| Club performance | League | Cup | League Cup | Continental | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Club | League | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Hong Kong | League | FA Cup &Shield | LC &Play-offs | Asia | Total | |||||||
| 2006–07 | Hong Kong 08 | Hong Kong First Division League | 13[6] | 1[6] | 2[48][49] | 1[48][49] | 3[50] | 0[50] | – | 18 | 2 | |
| 2007–08 | Workable | 17[8] | 0[8] | 1[51] | 0[51] | 3[52] | 0[52] | – | 21 | 0 | ||
| 2008–09 | Kitchee | 5[53] | 1[53] | 0 | 0 | 1[54] | 0[54] | – | 6 | 1 | ||
| 2009–10 | 12[55] | 0[55] | 3[56][57] | 0[56][57] | – | – | 15 | 0 | ||||
| 2010–11 | 11[58] | 0[58] | 2[59] | 0[59] | 0 | 0 | – | 13 | 0 | |||
| 2011–12 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 19 | 2 | ||
| 2012–13 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 2 | ||
| 2013–14 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 15 | 0 | ||
| 2014–15 | Hong Kong Premier League | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 12 | 0 | |
| 2015–16 | Eastern | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| Total | Hong Kong | 87 | 5 | 16 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 23 | 1 | 137 | 7 | |
| Career total | 87 | 5 | 16 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 23 | 1 | 137 | 7 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hong Kong | 2011 | 1 | 0 |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2018 | 4 | 0 | |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 6 | 0 | |
| # | Date | Venue | Opponent | Result | Scored | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1[65] | 9 February 2011 | Shah Alam Stadium,Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |  Malaysia | 0–2 | 0 | Friendly |
