The Zhuhai Examination Tournament of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao University Football Championship opened, and seven universities competed for promotion quotas

Recently, the "Huafa Cup" 2025 Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macau University Football Championship Zhuhai Division Selection Competition, the first round of the competition kicked off at the football stadium of the Zhuhai Campus of Beijing Normal University. In the first two games, Sun Yat-sen University and Beijing Normal University won their first victories respectively. In the next two weeks, seven college football teams will compete fiercely in four rounds, determine the top three, and advance to the Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macao College Football Championship. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the 15th National Games jointly held in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, the event has formed a linkage with the road bicycle project with the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge as the track, and further promoted regional connectivity and cultural and sports integration. At the same time, as an important cooperation project launched at the first Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao University Science and Technology Achievements Investment and Trading Conference, this football championship is aimed at showing the spirit of young people in colleges and universities in the three places being enterprising and courageous in exploration, providing young people with a platform for communication, interaction and friendship, and helping the humanistic integration and coordinated development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. The

Championship will be held in three competition areas: Hong Kong, Macao and Zhuhai, and the competition area selection competitions will be held respectively. The top three players in each competition area will meet in Zhuhai to compete in the "final battle of the top nine". The entire event will last for 5 months, and the championship will be decided at the football stadium of Zhuhai Soka Sports Training Base in January 2026. There are 7 teams participating in the Zhuhai Division Selection Competition, divided into two groups: East and West. Through the group round-robin competition, the top two teams with points enter the second stage of the same-ranked duel, and the first and third place will be decided on September 27.

According to reports, during the 5-month competition, the organizer will also hold live broadcasts of key events, "Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macao show off their style!" College Student Short Video Competition, "Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macao Come on!" Final Day Football Carnival and other colorful online and offline activities. The organizer said that based on last year's Zhuhai-Macao University Football Championship, Zhuhai took the lead in joining Hong Kong and Macao, with the "Huafa Cup" 2025 Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao University Football Championship as a link to show the youthful vitality and competitive spirit of Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao University students. At the same time, the event will create a regional influence in college sports event IP, becoming an important bridge connecting young people in Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macao, effectively promoting in-depth exchanges and cooperation among the three places, and helping the integrated development of youth in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

The competition is co-organized by Zhuhai Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports, Zhuhai Municipal Bureau of Education, Zhuhai Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Bureau, Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Bureau of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Education and Youth Development Bureau of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government, and Zhuhai Huafa Group Co., Ltd.