Is the CSL preventing the national team’s progress?
China isn’t known for lacking goals off the field, but it’s becoming an increasing issue on it. Following the conclusion of another Chinese Super League (CSL) season, WEF focuses on an area the men’s...
View ArticleYuexiushan: The cradle of Cantonese football, part two
Guangzhou’s Yuexiushan Stadium has a long and storied history. As the birthplace of Cantonese football, and a venue for large-scale public events outside of sport, it has existed through some of the...
View ArticleChina vs Qatar WC Qualifying Preview: Debuting Lippi won’t have it easy in...
Marcello Lippi’s China host Qatar in Kunming on Tuesday night needing a win to have any hope of reviving a seriously wounded World Cup qualifying campaign. There are reasons to be optimistic about the...
View ArticleChina 0-0 Qatar: Disappointing result overshadows greatly improved...
A disappointing result has overshadowed what was otherwise a very bright beginning to the Marcello Lippi era, as China failed to make their superiority pay in Kunming. Roared on by a boisterous crowd,...
View ArticleNorth Terrace News: A schizophrenic season in numbers – Shanghai Shenhua 2016...
It was the worst of times, it was the best of times, and then it was the worst of times again. 4th place, preliminary AFC Champions League qualification and a decent cup run see the club hit their...
View ArticleLeague One Team of the Season – 2016: Choosing the Best XI Players from...
Yet another compelling and unpredictable League One season is over and it’s time to pick through the remnants in an attempt to make sense of it all. In the first in a series of post-season articles, we...
View ArticleHong Kong and China set to clash in Asian Champions League for first time
Eastern have finally reached the promised land of the Asian Champions league and Hong Kong will see the highest level of continental club football grace it’s shores for the first time in it’s history....
View ArticleLeague One 2016 Review- Part 1: 2017 CSL sides Guizhou and Quanjian in focus,...
The 2016 Chinese domestic season may be gone, but it is far from forgotten as WEF’s comprehensive review of the League One season shows. Part One features the top four sides, including Tianjin Quanjian...
View ArticleCFA one step closer to cutting foreign player quota for Chinese Super League...
Following changes first mooted earlier this year, the Chinese FA has today issued a specific proposal to a cut the number of foreign players Chinese Super League clubs can name in their match day...
View ArticleLeague One 2016 Review – Part 2: Yifang and BG fall short but Wuhan and...
WEF continues its review of the 2016 League One season with a closer look at the sides who finished between fifth and eighth this year. While Dalian Yifang and Beijing BG will be disappointed to have...
View ArticleLeague One 2016 Review – Part 3: Shenzhen take a dose of Sven to recover from...
2017 is now upon us, but we all know that 2016 is a year we won’t quickly forget. Of course, by now we’re all tired of reading about sizable geopolitical shifts and a slew of beloved celebrities...
View ArticleLeague One 2016 Review – Part 4: Hunan & Jonoon down after awful seasons;...
Five days in to the new year and it’s finally time to leave 2016 well and truly behind us with the final part of our League One season review. The old adage is that you should save the best til last,...
View ArticleChina Cup Preview: Development more important than results as Chile, Croatia...
Tuesday sees the kick-off of the first ever China Cup when the Chinese national team hosts Iceland in Guangxi. Despite speculation to the contrary, the four team tournament, also featuring Croatia and...
View ArticleRamires, Choi Yong-soo and disappearing Jo – Jiangsu Suning look forward to...
The 2016 season arrived with a new name, a quintet of shiny foreign players, and a topped-up bundle of expectations. The club is certainly far cry from the relegation tickling that went on 2013-2015...
View ArticleWorker’s Stadium Revue: It could have been worse – Beijing Guoan 2016 ratings
After the discombobulated start to the 2016 season and fears about how bad it would get, Beijing Guoan ended up finishing fifth and only five points away from a spot in Asia. All things considered, it...
View ArticleChinese FA over-ruled by goverment as foreign player limit abruptly cut to three
In a shocking and abrupt development, Chinese Super League (CSL) clubs will now only be able to field three foreign players after a new rule was imposed on the Chinese Football Association "from above"...
View ArticleCFA independence, transfer and salary caps – are they possible?
Every transfer window, the Chinese Super League becomes the object of attention from football-watchers all over the world, primed for news of another record-breaking transfer or a big pay day for a...
View ArticleChina Cup Review: Shootout win over Croatia ends tournament on a high, but...
The inaugural China Cup came to an end on Sunday when Chile defeated Iceland 1-0 in the final. However, the trophy will mean little to a nation that has just won consecutive Copa Americas and the main...
View ArticleCheng: Don’t fight crazy with crazy, rethink these new rules
When my three-year-old is bad sometimes I have to go to the radical step of taking away all his toys. That seems to be the thinking of the General Administration of Sports and the CFA with their new......
View ArticleRoss: Playing football in China isn’t as easy as some think
The opening of the transfer window has seen the Western media go into overdrive about players moving to the CSL, commonly describing this either as a ‘threat’ to the English Premier league or a ‘joke’....
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