Emmet Wan (, born 26 March 1992) is a professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who currently plays for

Hong Kong Premier League The Hong Kong Premier League () is a Hong Kong professional football league organised by the Football Association of Hong Kong, China. It is currently sponsored by BOC Life and officially known as BOC Life Hong Kong Premier League (). The inau ...

club Eastern District.

Club career

Kitchee

Wan joined

Kitchee Kitchee Sports Club (; ; ) is a Hong Kong professional Association football, football club based in Kowloon. It was founded in 1931 and currently competes in the Hong Kong Premier League. The club has won 12 List of Hong Kong football champion ...

in 2013. Soon he raised the interest of

Kim Pan-gon Kim Pan-gon (, born 1 May 1969) is a South Korean football manager and former player who played as a winger. He is the current manager of Ulsan HD. Early life Kim was born into a family of peasants in Jinju, a small town in South Gyeongs ...

to pick him for the

Hong Kong national under-23 football team The Hong Kong Olympic Football Team (also known as Hong Kong under-23 or Hong Kong U-23) represents Hong Kong in international football competitions in the Olympic Games, the Asian Games, as well as any other under-23 international football tour ...

as he holds a

Hong Kong SAR passport The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region passport () is a passport issued to permanent residents of Hong Kong who also hold Chinese citizenship. Note that: The passport is referred to both as the HKSAR Passport and the Hong Kong Special A ...

Southern

After three loan spells in five years, Wan left Kitchee in 2018 for a permanent move to fellow Hong Kong club Southern.

HKFC

On 16 August 2022, it was reported that Wan would return to

HKFC Hong Kong Football Club (HKFC; ), established in 1886, is a private members' club in Hong Kong. The name reflects the origin as a club for playing association football and rugby. The club is situated in Happy Valley, with the sports pitches ...

to play in the

International career

In the summer of 2014, Wan was selected by

coach Kim Pan Gon to play in the 2014 Asian Games football tournament. He took part in the warm-up match against

Newcastle United Newcastle United Football Club is a professional association football club based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football league system, English football. Since th ...

under-21 team. He played in the last 16 match against

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and t ...

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Emmet Wan
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Emmet Wan
at Goal.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Wan, Emmet Living people 1992 births Hong Kong men's footballers Hong Kong men's youth international footballers Republic of Ireland men's association footballers Hong Kong people of Irish descent Men's association football midfielders Hong Kong Premier League players Hong Kong First Division League players Kitchee SC players Southern District FC players Lee Man FC players Citizen AA players Hong Kong FC (football) players Footballers at the 2014 Asian Games Asian Games footballers for Hong Kong Association footballers from Cork (city) 21st-century Irish sportsmen