The Cross Straits, Hong Kong & Macau Football Competition for the Youth (Chinese :兩岸暨港澳青少年足球賽) is an annual football competition co-organised by the Chinese Football Association, the Hong Kong Football Association, the Macau Football Association and the Chinese Taipei Football Association. It was first organized in 2011 in Wuhan, Hubei. [1] Each year the four football associations will compete with each other in a chosen host city. The tournament is organised for under-16 group.
Traditional Chinese characters are Chinese characters in any character set that does not contain newly created characters or character substitutions performed after 1946. They are most commonly the characters in the standardized character sets of Taiwan, of Hong Kong and Macau, and in the Kangxi Dictionary. The modern shapes of traditional Chinese characters first appeared with the emergence of the clerical script during the Han Dynasty, and have been more or less stable since the 5th century.
The Chinese Football Association (CFA) is the governing body of football in the People's Republic of China. Original formed in Beijing during 1924, the association would affiliate itself with FIFA in 1931 before relocating to Taiwan following the end of Chinese Civil War. During 1955 in Beijing, the CFA refused to affiliate itself with any other major association until it joined the Asian Football Confederation in 1974, followed up with FIFA once more in 1979. Since rejoining FIFA, the CFA claims to be a non-governmental and a nonprofit organization, but in fact the CFA is the same bureau with Management Center of Football, which is a department of the Chinese State General Administration of Sports.
The Hong Kong Football Association Limited, often abbreviated to the HKFA, is the governing body of association football in Hong Kong. Its current chairman is Brian Leung Hung-Tak and its Acting Chief Executive Officer is Paul Woodland.
