A decade after the splash of Chinese cash first made waves in the global football market, the once racing certainty that China would become a major player in the game looks increasingly like a ...

Chinese football's love affair with big-name coaches continues. Soon after Marcello Lippi's return to the country last month to take charge of the long-suffering national team, Andre Villas-Boas was ...

For Chinese football fans watching the 2026 FIFA World Cup from afar, the tournament offered more than a discussion about who lifted the winners' trophy. It has raised a more fundamental question: ...

The former chief of China’s national football association Chen Xuyuan has been sentenced to life in prison for accepting bribes, state media has reported, following one of the biggest anticorruption ...

BEIJING, June 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The expanded 48-team World Cup kicked off on Thursday. For fans worldwide, the central question remains unchanged: Who will lift the trophy? Alongside the ...

A foreign spectator watches a match alongside Chinese fans during a "Suchao" game in Jiangyin, Jiangsu province, on May 30. WAN CHENGPENG/FOR CHINA DAILY Notwithstanding the Chinese Football ...

Shanghai Shenhua ensured the Chinese contingent made a perfect start to the new AFC Champions League Elite campaign on Tuesday -- following up Shandong Taishan's earlier win by coming from behind to ...

Most of the time, Sima Nan is a cheerleader for his country and its ruling Communist Party. His posts on Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter, are often venomous about the West. But on February 20th ...