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, HKU SPACE Community College / Centennial 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 / Centennial College 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, snooker, squash, 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).

Child sports members should be accompanied by adult sports members to get to the Sports Centres at all times. In case you are not available to accompany your child(ren) to come to sports centre but would like to ask your maid to do so instead, please note the following required arrangements:

If your maid and child(ren) come to Sports Centre for general recreational activities:
You should write to the CSE Director (via email: csehku@hku.hk) to seek the Centre's prior approval of allowing the maid to buy a guest ticket on her own in order to get access to the sports centres (Normally, guest tickets can only be purchased by sports members for their guests). Please see our Guest Policy for further details.

If your maid takes your child(ren) to come to Sports Centre to attend programmes (e.g. ActiveKids programmes) organized by the CSE:
The guest tickets will normally be waived for the maid in such situations.

Please note that the above only states the general arrangements of the CSE in regard to admittance of maids who do not possess valid sports membership. The CSE reserves the right to alter the arrangement as it thinks fit as and when necessary on a case-by-case basis. If you have any questions on this issue, please contact us at csehku@hku.hk.

Previous Community Sports Members without holding FAC will need to apply for sports membership as a new applicant. Please create your own online account first before submitting your application. As a new applicant, you will also need to submit the required identification documents and photo for vetting and FAC issuance ($50@ for new issuance; $150@ for replacement). Please refer to our video tutorials on how to use our online system to do the above-mentioned procedures. (This answer is also applicable to previous Tenant Sports Members, Senior Citizen Sports Members and HKU-SPACE / Centennial College FT Students Sports Members who were issued with laminated membership cards).