The Chinese national under-20 football team got off to a winning start at the home AFC U20 Asian Cup on Wednesday by defeating Qatar 2-1 at the Shenzhen Youth Football Training Base Centre Stadium ...

Guangzhou FC, China’s most successful football club, have not been granted permission to play professionally during the 2025 season due to financial issues. The eight-time Chinese Super League ...

The Communist Party’s top graft-buster says corruption is holding back Chinese football, revealing details of match-fixing and bribery scandals in a documentary aired on state television.

The Chinese state TV on Tuesday aired interviews of former football officials confessing to bribe-taking that allegedly resulted in the poor performance of the team in international tournaments.

In a lengthy message to his nearly 3.2m followers he excoriated men’s football in China, suggesting that “fundamental flaws” in the Chinese game were hampering the country’s efforts to ...

A trophy inscribed in Chinese - a memento from the 1984 China Great Wall Cup international football tournament - immediately caught the eye. "That was my first time in China," Schlappner said ...