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The Chinese Football Team was founded in 1904 by a group of Chinese students in Hong Kong, including Mok Hing () and Tong Fuk Cheung (, the captain of China national football team in the 1910s). In 1910, the team was renamed as South China Football Club.

In the 1917 Far Eastern Games and 1919 Far Eastern Games (also known as the Far East Olympics Tournament), the club represented the Republic of China and won the football championship. It is the only team in Hong Kong sports history to have accomplished this feat. China lost in the final to the Philippines in the first to be held, in 1913,

but in the next nine it won every time, right through until the last FECG to be held in 1934. On that occasion China was a joint winner with Japan. Throughout these tournaments, the majority of the China team was composed of SCAA players.

On 1920, South China which began as a club called the South China Athletic Association founded by Mok Hing.

Around 1920–1922, the club formally adopted the present name of South China Athletic Association and diversified into other sports such as basketball.