Home and Away Football Tournament 2024 | Home and Away 足球錦標賽 2024
Date: 11 October 2024 | 10月11號
Time: 8:30am – 5:30pm | 上午8點半至下午5點半
Venue: King’s Park Sports Ground, Ho Man Tin | 何文田京士柏運動場
Since its inception in 2012, Branches of Hope has organised an annual charity football tournament to bring together our community and raise awareness and support for the organisation’s work assisting refugees, asylum seekers, and survivors of human trafficking.
“Home & Away” is a football term that refers to whether a team is playing at ‘home’ in their own venue, or away in someone else’s. With this event, we share a message that while the community we support are away from home and separated from their families, our city is one that cares. This event will provide a safe place for the marginalised and vulnerable to enjoy football with the diverse and inspiring individuals that call Hong Kong home and, as a result, form genuine friendships. Through this event, we aim to facilitate social integration across the city where all can feel cared for and experience a “Home away from Home”.
This friendly 7-a-side tournament will pit 20-30 teams all vying to be crowned the ‘Home & Away’ champion! Whether you’re a corporate hotshot or a casual player, we want YOU on our teams! So, gather your colleagues, friends, and neighbours, and get involved! Please click the link below to sign upbefore 31 August 2024.
All footballers must be aged 16 years old or above.
Players should be aware of their own physical fitness. For the sake of safety, persons with health problems such as asthma, heart and lung diseases, plantar fasciitis should seek medical advice before entering for the tournament.
Players taking part in this event are acting solely on his / her own discretion and at his / her own risk. The organizers accept no responsibility, nor liability, for accidents of any kind, resulting in death or injury, nor for any damage or loss of personal property during the event.
All registration fees and other donations are not refundable.
The Organiser (“Branches of Hope”) reserves the right to restrict or reject any application.
Cheque – Payable to “BRANCHES OF HOPE LTD”. Please mail cheque together with this registration form to “Branches of Hope, 29 Burrows Street, Wan Chai, Hong Kong”
Bank Transfer – Branches of Hope Ltd’s HSBC account (499-814499-838). Enclose the bank slips with this form, email to info@branchesofhope.org.hk.
Please make payment or raised on your fundraising page at least HKD 7,000 (Public Team) / HKD 25,000 (Corporate Team) by 14 September 2024 (Sat) to complete the team enrollment process.
Our prize for highest fundraising team and individual will be presented on the event day. If you want to win a prize, please make sure all related donations be received by Branches of Hope on or before 10 October 2024, donation through online platform and actual donation will both be counted.
All teams are encouraged to continue fundraising through the fundraising campaign until 30 November 2024. One of our corporate partners will be matching all funds raised through this initiative so every dollar you raise will be matched by another dollar, doubling the funds raised through your campaign!
All funds raised will be matched by a generous corporate partner, so every dollar given will have double the impact! All proceeds from the tournament will be allocated towards Branches of Hope care programmes supporting our community members in Hong Kong. These programmes include:
Child Education support
Casework and Counselling
Medical and Housing support
Durable Solutions: resettlement and voluntary repatriation
Adult Education classes
活動收益扣除成本後將會用於希望枝子的項目及社區工作,項目包括:
學生資助計劃
個案工作
醫療和住房支援
移居第三國和自願返回原居國支援
成人教育課程
GAME RULES
The normal rules of football will apply except that there will be no offside.
Shin-pads must be worn at all times.
Maximum number of players on the field will be 6 + 1 Goalkeeper. The minimum number of players is 5.
Each team must be ready to play at the appointed time.
There is no limit on substitutions. It is not necessary to request the referee’s permission before making substitutions. Substitutes must enter the game from the half-way line and may not do so until the substituted player has left the field. Substituted players may return to play.
Any player receiving a red card will be suspended for a minimum of one game. Any player receiving 2 yellow cards during the tournament will be suspended for the next match
Points system for all games: Win = 3 points, Draw = 1 points, Lose = 0 point.
All teams in the Group Stage will proceed to the Knock-out Stage. Schedule of play in Knock-out Stage will depend on the Group Stage ranking by points. In the event of a tie in points, it will be decided by goal average. In the event of a tie in goal average, it will be decided by the goal average between the tied teams.
In the event of a tie at Knock-out stage and Finals Stage, the match will proceed straight to sudden-death penalties. *Group Stage: 12 minutes one way (no half-time). *Knock-out Stage: 10 minutes each way with no half-time. *Finals Stage: 10 minutes each way with 2 minutes half-time.
*Note: format subject to change according to total number of teams