Attending a Shanghai Shenhua Match: A First Time Visitor’s Guide

You’re aboard elevated metro line 3. The train climbs away from ground level at Shanghai Railway station and snakes through the...

Following Asian Cup performance, football in China faces reforms

The Chinese national team put in a surprise performance at the 2015 Asian Cup in Australia, losing 2-0 to hosts and...

Cheng: Moving matches to the Bird’s Nest would be big mistake

Beijing Guoan is considering playing some of it’s 2015 matches, perhaps including the Asian Champions League matches, at the empty, soulless...

Cheng: Zhou Liang scandal shows line always moving when it comes to regionalism in China

PPTV commentator Zhou Liang had to issue a public apology and was removed from his position after using the deragatory term...

Cheng: Was Saturday the end of the Beijing-Jiangsu special relationship?

There are many oddities involved in Chinese football, one such example is the “special relationship” that exists between Beijing Guoan and...

Why the Shanghai derby is back with a vengeance

Following an unexpectedly intense derby between Shanghai Shenhua and Shanghai East Asia, ‘s Cameron Wilson takes an in-depth look at the...

White: Vibrant Shanghai Derby taking shape

History is not something that can yet be applied to Chinese football in large doses, but there is already something of...

Into the third tier: A day out at Fujian Broncos

A few weeks ago I was offered the chance to go and watch Fujian Chaoyue (Fujian Broncos) play at home in this...

An Ode to Lang Zheng (or why there are all kinds of heroes)

Lang Zheng is the Chinese football equivalent of Gus Triandos. If you don’t know who that is, you either don’t go...

Going to Gongti: A view from the away end

Your correspondent travelled to Beijing to watch Guoan host Guangzhou R&F and here relates what fans in the away end at...