Normally, if you are a full-time undergraduate / postgraduate student of the HKU (including exchange students who study in the HKU on a full-time basis during their exchange period), you can simply use your student card to get access to the sports centre without applying for a separate membership. If you are a student enrolled in a programme other than full-time undergraduate / postgraduate study, you can check your eligibility to use the sports facilities by one of the following two methods:
To come to sports centres in person to test if the student card can be accepted by the sports centre entrance turnstiles; or To try to make an online sports facility booking, without making confirmation, via HKU portal (Main Menu > Campus Information Services > Service Departments > Centre for Sports and Exercise > Sports Facilities Booking) to see if your student number is accepted by the system.
If you are successful in any one of the above methods, then you are eligible to use the University's sports facilities just by presenting the student card without the need of applying for a separate membership.
Sports members (including students and other sports members) who would like to use the fitness room are advised to see FAQ - Booking (Question 5) for more details on the related regulations and guidance notes.
With effect from 1 December, 2017, eligible staff and retirees and their family members can access to the sports facilities without the need of applying for sports membership. Please click this link for more details.
The processing time of membership application normally take 7 working days of the CSE's General Office. (Working days: Mon-Fri, excluding Sat, Sun, Public/HKU’s holidays). However, if the required documents / photos submitted in your online application are not in order or there is a need for CSE to clarify with you some of the application / card issuance matters, there may be a delay in your application processing. Also, for the processing of membership for HKU tenants, FT students of HKU SPACE Community College, which involves third party verification, the completion time may take additional 2-10 working days, depending on the third party’s response time required.
Sports members are welcome to bring their family members / friends who do not have sports membership to use the facilities together subject to a payment of guest fee ($30.00 per guest of HKU students or staff holding sports membership or $60.00 per guest of Community Members, holder of HKU- SPACE CSE Sports Membership and holders of HKU-CSE Tenants Sports Membership). For details, please further see our guest policy.
On the other hand, sports members are not allowed to bring their coaches to conduct any coaching activities within the CSE's facilities which are for our students' / members' training and recreational uses. Any activities involving monetary transactions (including private coaching) are thus strictly prohibited in any of the CSE’s sports facilities.
There are various kinds of sports facilities available for the sports members use. To name a few: Badminton, table-tennis, basketball, fitness, swimming and volleyball. To view the complete list of the facilities, please click here. Please note that for some facilities, only group bookings are allowed. Please note that the ACTIVE (Centennial Campus) is reserved for HKU’s current students holding student cards and HKU’s full-time/visiting staff and retirees and their eligible family members.
If you are an exchange student but are not issued with a student card for normal access to the Sports Centres, you can apply for a special permission to get to the Sports Centre via your Department in the HKU which should write to the CSE to request for such permission. Normally, upon CSE's approval of the request, exchange students will also need to pay for a guest fee of HK$30 for each visit / 1-hour activity session as appropriate. Normally, overseas exchange students without HKU student cards are not eligible to use the ACTIVE (Centennial Campus).