Tourney Name: | Lunar New Year Cup |
Year: | 2008 |
Country: | Hong Kong |
Num Teams: | 4 |
Venues: | 1 |
Cities: | 1 |
Champion: | HKG |
Count: | 4 |
Matches: | 4 |
Goals: | 11 |
Top Scorer: | Mladen Bartolović (Hajduk Split) Goran Stankovski (Hong Kong League Selection) (2 goals) |
Prevseason: | 2007 |
Nextseason: | 2009 |
The 2008 Lunar New Year Cup, officially known as Wing Lung Bank 2008 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 Year of Rat (8 February and 11 February 2008).
The two semi-finals for the four participating teams will be held on the first day of the Chinese New Year of Rat (7 February 2008). 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. 10 February 2008.) 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.
All times given in Hong Kong Time (UTC+8).
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