Wu Lei (center) receives his Chinese Footballer of the Year award on Thursday in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province ...

China’s men’s soccer team fell to a 7-0 loss to arch-rivals Japan on Thursday night, a startling new low for a ...

Policy plans and funding packages now direct a national plan to make China a powerhouse soccer team by 2050. Sixty thousand new fields will be built by 2020. Moneyed academies and professional ...

A former Chinese soccer star and coach of the country’s national men’s team has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for corruption, state media reported on Friday. Li Tie, 47, who played for ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping is reported to be a big soccer fan, and he promised in a 2015 document to resuscitate the men's national team, damaged by abysmal results on the global stage and ...

BEIJING--Retired Chinese soccer player Hao Haidong has angered ... The 50-year-old Hao was a striker for China’s national team and also played for Bayi and Dalian Shide. He also briefly joined ...

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The FIFA World Cup—the ultimate stage for soccer teams around the globe—takes place every four years, and is for some Chinese fans the only reason they’ll turn on their televisions. Most fans are ...

XINHUA With the men's team struggling in its World Cup qualifying effort, and the domestic league losing its appeal, Chinese soccer signed off an eventful year craving a healthier future ...

Chinese investors with cash to spend have been pouring money into soccer, as President Xi Jinping, a soccer fan himself, looks to make the country a global force in the sport. Chinese investors ...

After Australia comfortably defeated Chinese Taipei 5-1 on Monday in Kuwait, the Socceroos will turn their focus to topping Group B.

In November, a Rongjiang youth team traveled to Brazil ... Xu, who has been playing soccer for two years, told China Daily that he was inspired by a foreign soccer star he saw on TV, whose ...