HUYA

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 23, 2022

Registration No. 333-            

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

HUYA INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Building A3, E-Park, 280 Hanxi Road

Panyu District, Guangzhou 511446

People’s Republic of China

+86 (20) 2290-7888

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

Amended and Restated 2021 Share Incentive Plan

(Full title of the plan)

Cogency Global Inc.

122 East 42nd Street, 18th Floor

New York, NY 10168

(800) 221-0102

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act.  ☐

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

This registration statement on Form S-8 is being filed by HUYA Inc. (the “Registrant”) to register additional Class A ordinary shares of the Registrant (the “Class A Ordinary Shares”) issuable pursuant to the Amended and Restated 2021 Share Incentive Plan (the “Amended Plan”) and consists of only those items required by General Instruction E to Form S-8. Pursuant to the Amended Plan, the maximum aggregate number of Class A Ordinary Shares available for grant of awards is increased from 3,530,111 under the Registrant’s original 2021 Share Incentive Plan, for which a registration statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-257763) was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on July 8, 2021 (the “Prior Registration Statement”), to 8,018,111. The additional securities registered hereby consist of 4,488,000 Class A Ordinary Shares.

In accordance with General Instruction E to Form S-8, the contents of the Prior Registration Statement are incorporated herein by reference, except as otherwise set forth herein.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

The following documents previously filed by the Registrant with the Commission are incorporated by reference herein:

All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), after the date of this registration statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this registration statement which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this registration statement and to be part hereof from the date of filing of such documents. Any statement in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in this registration statement will be deemed to be modified or superseded to the extent that a statement contained in this registration statement or in any other later filed document that also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded will not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to be a part of this registration statement.

See the Index to Exhibits attached hereto.

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EXHIBIT INDEX

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Guangzhou, China, on December 23, 2022.

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POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints, severally and not jointly, Mr. Rongjie Dong and Ms. Ashley Xin Wu, with full power to act alone, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact, with the power of substitution, for and in such person’s name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto each said attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each said attorney-in-fact may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

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SIGNATURE OF AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE IN THE UNITED STATES

Pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned, the duly authorized representative in the United States of HUYA Inc. has signed this registration statement or amendment thereto in New York, New York, the United States on December 23, 2022.

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