South China Morning Post

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Chinese Super League 2016i

The Ping An Chinese Football Association Super League is the highest tier of domestic soccer in China. The season runs from March to October, with reigning champions Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao going for their sixth title in a row.

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Opinion | How Chinese corporations are leading the way in country’s global grab for football

Simon Chadwick
Simon Chadwick

Opinion | Exciting last day in the Chinese Super League finalises standings and allows clubs to begin planning for new season

Jonathan White
Jonathan White

Opinion | Guangzhou Evergrande winning the title is becoming as inevitable as night following day, but who can challenge their dominance?

Jonathan White
Jonathan White

Opinion | Guangzhou Evergrande put one hand on the Chinese title as Super League battle enters championship rounds

Jonathan White
Jonathan White
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Opinion | Golden goose: is Guangzhou Evergrande’s domestic dominance hurting China in the AFC Champions League?

Jonathan White
Jonathan White
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Opinion | Goals win games: with a lack of top strikers, how can China solve its goalscoring conundrum?

Jonathan White
Jonathan White
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Opinion | Chinese Super League makes an impressive UK debut, but it’s already so last season. You’ve probably never heard of the new best league

Jonathan White
Jonathan White

Opinion | It never rains but it pours: Manchester derby cancelled, but more games expected as Chinese ambitions grow

Jonathan White
Jonathan White

Opinion | Why the Shanghai derby has become one of China football’s most heated rivalries

Jonathan White
Jonathan White
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Opinion | Hulk to the rescue: could Shanghai SIPG be ready to break the bank to save Sven’s skin?

Jonathan White
Jonathan White
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Weibo vs WeChat: which do Chinese travellers prefer?

Tokyo, Paris and Los Angeles are this summer’s top destinations for Chinese travellers with key opinion leaders more often posting content on public platforms, such as Weibo, rather than the private platform WeChat. Photo: Shutterstock.com

Tokyo, Paris and Los Angeles top summer spots says ParkLu report that shows key opinion leaders’ moving from private to public platforms

China no threat to Europe, says Bayern Munich boss Ancelotti

Carlo Ancelotti, head coach of German football club Bayern Munich, gives a press conference in the Qatari capital Doha on January 10, 2017. Bayern Munich is training at the Aspire Academy in Doha, Qatar. / AFP PHOTO / KARIM JAAFAR

Belgium’s Axel Witsel signs for Tianjin Quanjian

Axel Witsel (right) has played 80 times for Belgium. Photo: Reuters
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Hero’s welcome as Oscar lands in China for record move

Brazilian Oscar receives flowers as he arrives in Shanghai. Photo: AFP

Top ref Mark Clattenburg open to move to China

Mark Clattenburg said he might enjoy a role in China some time in the future. Photo: AP

Ronaldo ‘rejected 300 million euro China deal’

The China deal would have been worth 100 million euros a year to Cristiano Ronaldo, according to his agent. Photo: AP

Carlos Tevez signs for Shanghai Shenhua

Carlos Tevez with his son Lito Jnr. Photo: AP

China to lower club quotas for foreign players

Oscar playing for Chelsea in August 2016. Photo: EPA

Tevez set to leave Boca in big-money move to Shanghai Shenhua

Carlos Tevez and his wife Vanesa Mansilla exit the church after their wedding in Buenos Aires. Photo: AP

Oscar to move from Chelsea to Shanghai SIPG for reported £60m

Oscar playing for Chelsea. Photo: AP

Messi to China latest rumour as state media warns against football bubble

Barcelona's Argentinian forward Lionel Messi is negotiating a new deal. AFP
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Carlos Tevez looks set to agree Shanghai Shenhua move

Boca Juniors' forward Carlos Tevez kisses the badge after scoring against city rivals River Plate at the weekend. Photo: AFP

Chelsea’s Oscar to Shanghai in £60m record deal

Oscar has told teammates he is leaving. EPA

Eriksson pitches up at second-tier Shenzhen FC

Former Shanghai SIPG manager Sven-Goran Eriksson has been named as the new manager of Shanghai SIPG in the second-tier of Chinese soccer. Photo: AFP

Eriksson out – Villas-Boas in on busy day for Shanghai SIPG following ‘friendly discussions’

Andre Villas-Boas takes over as the new manager of Shanghai SIPG after Eriksson’s sacking. Photo: AP

Andre Villas-Boas set to replace Sven-Goran Eriksson in Shanghai

Andre Villas-Boas of Portugal attends a press conference as newly appointed head coach of Russia's Zenit St.Petersburg soccer club on Thursday, March 20, 2014 in St. Petersburg, Russia. (AP Photo/ Elena Ignatyeva)

How little-known English coach Gary White is making his mark in China’s ‘ruthless’ football scene

Gary White attending a practice session of the Shanghai Shenxin football club in Shanghai. AFP

‘Big Phil’ Scolari signs new deal with Chinese champions Guangzhou Evergrande

Scolari signs new deal. Photo: Guangzhou Evergrande

Hong Kong footballer Jean Kilama accidentally delights independence fans on social media after flying the city’s Bauhinia flag in China

Jean Kilama flies the Bauhinia flag

It’s all change in big-spending Chinese Super League, but one thing remains the same as Guangzhou seal sixth straight title

Guangzhou celebrate the title. Xinhua

Marcello Lippi set to be handed €50m to save China’s dire national football team

Guangzhou Evergrande head coach Marcello Lippi in 2014. AFP PHOTO / TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA

Sports writer for Britain’s biggest tabloid under fire for branding people of China ‘lazy’ in article about Chinese Super League

Chinese fans wave national flags during the 2018 World Cup qualifying football match between South Korea and China in Seoul on September 1, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / JUNG YEON-JE

Top official urges Fifa to hand China their ‘dream’ of hosting World Cup

A policeman looks on as Chinese soccer fans cheer during the 2018 World Cup qualifying soccer match between China and Iran held in Shenyang in northeast China's Liaoning province, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016. (Color China Photo via AP)

WATCH: shocking scenes in Chinese football as Jiangsu fans assault helpless Shanghai rival as mob urges them on

Jiangsu fans attack a Shanghai supporter
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