中大的兩大足球場——崇基學院嶺南運動場及夏鼎基運動場分別於1966年及1978年落成，為中大人切磋球技的主要場所。夏鼎基運動場啓用同年，足球成爲了中大體育的選修課。課堂之外，學生及教職員亦會各自組成隊伍，參與系˴院 ˴校際的比賽。例如1981年的「校長杯」教職員運動錦標賽，由中大行政部門及各學院對賽；「中大教職員足球會」亦於1992成立，定期進行練習及參與賽事；中大學生會更於1998年創辦「中大足球超級聯賽」，讓本科生自由組隊參加；聯賽曾停辦數年，2017年徇眾要求再次舉辦。2004年，為誌中大和香港大學協力對抗非典型肺炎，舉行「兩大校長盃」教職員足球賽，成為兩間大學一年一度的體育盛事；十四年以來，中大共贏九場、港大勝一場，四次打成平手。
此外，當然不得不提中大足球校隊。球員代表中大參加大專體育協會舉辦的「大專盃男子足球賽」，去年進入決賽，與香港教育大學爭奪冠軍寶座，雙方在法定時間踢成1：1，以十二碼分勝負，最終中大以總比數5：4擊敗對手，暌違23年再奪冠軍！
The World Cup 2018 has come to an end. We still remembered eight years ago, a crowd of about a thousand people had assembled at the CUHK’s University Mall watching live broadcast of the World Cup final on a huge projector screen. Let’s look back and recall some football activities at CUHK.
The two major football fields Chung Chi College’s Lingnan Soccer Pitch and The Sir Philip Haddon-Cave Sports Field were built in 1966 and 1978 respectively. In the same year of the opening of the Sir Philip Haddon-Cave Sports Field, students could take football as elective course of physical education. Beyond the classes, CU students as well as staff also like to form football teams to join inter-departmental / faculty / collegiate / university competitions. For instance the University organized the first “Vice-Chancellor’s Cup” (1981) which was a competition between the administrative staff and faculty members. The University staff formed the “CUHK Staff Football Team” (1992) to organize regular practice and play matches. The Student Union organized the “CUHK Super League” (1998) for the undergraduates. The League has been suspended for several years and resumed in 2017. Another football event is “The Vice-Chancellor’s Cup” Soccer Match which was first played in 2004 to commemorate the collaboration of the two universities CUHK and the University of Hong Kong (HKU) during the SARS ordeal. In the past 14 years CUHK has won nine games, HKU has won once, and the teams have tied four times.
It is worth mentioning that in the final game of the “Men's Soccer Competition 2016-2017”, which was held by the University Sport Federation of Hong Kong (USFHK), CUHK competed with the Education University of Hong Kong (EDUHK) for the championship. The two teams tied 1:1 in the play time, and then CUHK defeated the opponent in penalty shootout by 5:4, bringing back the championship trophy after 23 years!
連結 Links
中大體育部——我們的校隊：足球隊
CUHK Physical Education Unit – Our Team: Soccer Teams
中大男足 CUHK Soccer Team Facebook
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| 崇基學院嶺南運動場於1966年落成。運動場命名「嶺南」，以答謝嶺南大學校友陳德泰先生捐資興建。 Chung Chi College’s Lingnan Stadium and Soccer Pitch was built in 1966. The stadium and soccer pitch were named “Lingnan” in appreciation of the generous donations made by Mr. Chan Tak Tai, alumnus of Lingnan University. |
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| 夏鼎基運動場於1978年落成。運動場原名大學運動場，1987年1月命名夏鼎基運動場， 以答謝前任布政司夏鼎基爵士對香港的貢獻。 The University Sports Field was built in 1978 and renamed The Sir Philip Haddon-Cave Sports Field in January 1987 as a tribute to Hong Kong’s former Chief Secretary Sir Philip Haddon-Cave for his distinguished public service. |
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| 中大自1978/79學年開始，實施大學體育課程，為一年級學生必修課，另有選修課程，各年級學生可以自選。《香港中文大學概況》（一九七九至一九八零年度）中所見，足球課程只限男生選修，今日中大女生亦可選修足球了。 The University’s Physical Education Programme was fully implemented in 1978/79. Under this programme, physical education was required of all first-year students. There was also an elective programme open to students of all years. In CUHK Calendar 1979-80 we can see that Football courses were open for men only. Today there are football courses for both men and women. |
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| 群星杏林足球嘉年華 (18/9/1994) – 舉辦慈善足球比賽為中大醫學院籌募癌症研究經費。校長高錕教授 (右) 致送 紀念品予明星足球隊譚詠麟先生。 The All Star Medical Soccer Carnival (18/9/1994) – a charity soccer tournament to raise funds for cancer research at CUHK’s Faculty of Medicine. The Vice-Chancellor Professor Charles Kao (right) presented souvenir to Mr. Alam Tam from Hong Kong Movie Star Sport Association. |
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| 2010年世界盃中大在百萬大道轉播賽事，氣氛熱烈。 CUHK people watched live broadcast of the World Cup Finals 2010 on a giant screen installed at the University Mall. |
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| 2010年世界盃中大在百萬大道轉播賽事，氣氛熱烈。 CUHK people watched live broadcast of the World Cup Finals 2010 on a giant screen installed at the University Mall. |
