The French Football Federation (FFF) withdrew its support for Gianni Infantino's bid for a fourth term as Fifa president on Thursday, criticising his plans to bring private investors into Fifa's ...

Chinese fans wave slogans and national flags to show support to Chinese national men’s football team in the quarterfinal match against Iran national football team during the 2019 AFC Asian Cup in Abu ...

SHENYANG, China, May 27, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The 2026 Northeast China Football League officially kicked off on May 23, with simultaneous opening matches held in Shenyang (Liaoning), Changchun ...

To receive the Vogue Business China Edit, sign up here. Less than a month before the opening of the 2022 Fifa World Cup in Qatar, the subject of football is arousing intense interest in China and more ...

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 ...

It's a soft, humid morning in a southeastern suburb of Beijing, and a stern-faced gym teacher clad in a tracksuit nods approvingly as a group of 10-year-olds runs through dribbling drills and deposits ...

Jointly launched by the China Football Development Foundation and the Chinese Football Association, the “Future Stars” program offers targeted support for Chinese footballers aged 15 to 17, enabling ...

China's Football Association has banned 43 people for life over allegations of match-fixing and other forms of corruption in the latest effort to weed out deceit in the country's notoriously ...

A year before the ardent football fan Xi Jinping became China’s president, he had already made it clear that decades of underachievement in the sport by the world’s most populous country had to end.