"Kitchie" played a draw with "Lee Man Warriors" (2:2) in the final round of the Hong Kong Championship and became the champion of the country.
As part of the Kitchi team, the Turkmen midfielder Ruslan Mingazov won the title. The current season is a breakthrough for him: the player has 17 goals and 18 league matches. Now the player's transfer fee is estimated at 550 000 euros.
FC Kitchi was founded in 1931. Kitchee won the league title for the 12th time in their history.
31-year-old Ruslan Mingazov is a pupil of the honored coach of Turkmenistan Vasily Karpov and the son of Kamil Mingazov, a well-known winger of the Ashgabat Kopetdag and the national team of Turkmenistan. In 2008, as part of Ashgabat, he became the champion and owner of the Super Cup of Turkmenistan. Since 2009, he has been regularly called up to the national team of Turkmenistan, for which he played 27 matches, scoring 4 goals in them.
Ruslan Mingazov also played in a number of European teams. As part of the Riga Skonto, he became the champion of Latvia in 2010, the owner of the Cup in 2012 and the Super Cup in 2013 of this country, as well as the winner of the Baltic League in 2011. He is also the first Turkmen football player to play in the Czech Championship for the clubs Jablonec, Slavia, Mlada Boleslav, Pribram. In the 2016/17 season, he won gold medals in the national championship with Slavia Prague.
After the Czech stage of his career, Mingazov played for the Kazakh clubs Irtysh, Shakhtar and Kaspiy. In March 2022, Ruslan Mingazov signed a contract with Kitchee as a free agent, becoming the first Turkmen legionnaire in the Hong Kong Football Championship.
In 2023, the Kitchi football club announced the extension of the contract with the Turkmen midfielder Ruslan Mingazov. The term of the new agreement is calculated until 2025.
