Last Saturday saw the end of the 2025–2026 season in Hong Kong football. Tai Po beat Eastern District and won the FA Cup for the second time in their history. The Premier League campaign finished two weeks earlier. Kitchee secured the title with four rounds to spare. It’s their 13th championship (and the seventh since the establishment of the Premier League).

And North District won nothing.

In the four matches of the second phase, the Sheung Shui side earned only one point against an unmotivated Kitchee side and dropped to fifth place in the standings. In the FA Cup semi-final, North District lost to Eastern District on penalties (2–2 after normal time).

That’s fine though.

All season long, North District played an attractive brand of football, never parked the bus, scored bizarre goals from absolutely bonkers attempts, and snatched late draws. I didn’t witness a single defeat (four wins and six draws). Decadence of supporting a hopeless local underdog existed only in the titles of my posts.

Every match I attended was blessed with great weather. I absorbed 22 beers and one non-alcoholic one (it doesn’t count).