the 2011–12 season was the best ever season in the club history. being the newly promoted team with any experiences in hong kong second division, the club had not only kept the players, but also signed more ex-first division such as lo chun kit and colly barnes ezeh. as an underdog at the beginning of the season, they performed unexpectedly well, having chance to win promotioni to the hong kong first division. although they could not get promoted, they still placed in the fourth place, only 7 points behind southern, the runner-up of the league which get promoted. they performed well in cup competition too. they defeated hong kong football club, fire services, shatin and wing yee to reach the final of the 2011—12 hong kong junior shield. their season culminated in victory over happy valley 3–0 to claim the hong kong junior shield at hong kong stadium on 18 february 2012.