Liu Jun, former chairman of the Chinese Super League company, operator of the country's top-tier professional football league ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

London (AFP) – China's astonishing spending spree on foreign players could all end in tears like the United States' first foray into building a football league in the 1970's, according to Brighton ...

GUIYANG, June 21 (Xinhua) -- England legend Michael Owen will visit China's grassroots football league, the Village Super League, known as "Cun Chao," in Rongjiang County, southwest China's Guizhou ...

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 ...

Although the FIFA World Cup has reached the semifinals, discussions over the continued absence of the world's two most ...

This is part five of our series on the people who own Premier League clubs. Having looked at owners from the UK, America and the Gulf states, here we look at four owners from four very different ...