A Chinese soccer club has been fined by the Chinese Professional Football League (CFL) for placing ‘feudal superstitious items’ in the away team’s dressing room. Changchun Xidu FC, who play in China ...

China’s football dreams have again suffered a huge blow, with the men’s national team exiting the 2024 Asian Cup in the group stage without scoring a goal. It’s just the latest embarrassment on the ...

China has banned 73 people for working in football for life and deducted points from 13 professional clubs, including Chinese Super League (CSL) holders Shanghai Port, in its anti-corruption campaign ...

Guangzhou FC, the most successful soccer club in Chinese history, disbanded on Monday due to crippling debts. The club, formerly known as Guangzhou Evergrande, has been unable to meet the Chinese ...

The former head of China’s official soccer association has been sentenced to life in prison by a court in the central Chinese province of Hubei, in the latest crackdown on the country’s ...

As the World Cup grips North America this summer, China will again watch from the sidelines, while its fans cheer on unlikely amateur soccer stars — from delivery drivers to villagers — now playing in ...

Mediapro and the Chinese Professional Football League have renewed their agreement for the international commercialisation of audiovisual rights to the country’s leading football competitions for the ...

Chinese soccer historically plagued by poor performances, match fixing, corruption Amateur leagues on the rise after success of rural games played by farmers, blue-collar workers Amateur talent helps ...

In late June, a rumor spread across Chinese social media. Cabo Verde, the tiny African island nation of 500,000 people that had just charmed the World Cup, had supposedly invited China to a ...

The Chinese Football Association CFA announced on Thursday that it has issued lifetime bans to 73 individual including former national team coach Li Tie as part of major effort to combat match-fixing ...

For Chinese football fans watching the 2026 FIFA World Cup from afar, the tournament offered more than a discussion about who ...

Relations between China and Africa are increasingly important in understanding the dynamics that shape our world. But until now, the role of sport was overlooked. A new book, Global China and the ...