Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism Rosanna Law said she will talk to the Kai Tak Sports Park management to improve the quality of the football pitch after several players slipped during a match at the stadium on Tuesday night.

That happened during the game in which the Hong Kong, China, men's team drew 1-1 with Bangladesh in the third round of qualifiers for the 2027 Asian Cup.

The draw has not affected the SAR's ranking as it remains unbeaten and tops Group C with eight points after two wins and two draws.

Rosanna Law was among the 45,489 spectators who packed the stadium – the highest attendance for a sporting event at the site.

"I noticed the issue and spoke with Hong Kong team leader Edmond Yapp after the match about the pitch quality," she said after the match.

"He said there’s room to improve the evenness of the pitch.

"I will ask Kai Tak Sports Park to study it and do their best to enhance it."

Law also said talks are ongoing between the Football Association of Hong Kong, China and the facility's management to make the sports park the regular, or de facto, home for the SAR team.

She said any such arrangement had to be reasonable and beneficial to both parties and that the government would act as a facilitator.

On the match result, Law said to get a win would have been best but that the draw was good enough under the circumstances given that centre back Oliver Gerbig was sent off after getting a second yellow card in the 76th minute, leaving Hong Kong with only 10 players on the pitch.

She thanked fans in particular, noting that they had been chanting for hours, even before the match started.

Law is confident that Hong Kong will secure a spot for the Asian Cup, given that the team had so many supporters and high quality players.

The team will play Singapore next month, again on home turf, and she emphasised that the players only have to do their best to try and win the match, instead of caring about results in other matches.