Social Media Ideas for China Football Culture

Plenty of players but no grassroots: can China ever grow into a footballing giant?

Some of its amateur matches pull in bigger crowds than European leagues but are more of a spectacle than a pathway to the professional game, say expertsMichael Owen, a man who once...

Feature: Ancient Silk Road legacy lives on in Xinjiang sports culture

URUMQI, May 18 (Xinhua) -- As music echoed through the stadium in Urumqi, capital of China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, thousands of fans filled the stands for the opening c...

Two Chinas at North America’s World Cup

North America’s World Cup summer has begun, and China is once again outside the tournament rather than inside it. That fact is familiar. But it should not be flattened into the usu...

China Desperately Pursues World Cup Glory... Without a Soccer Team

Chinese soccer fans – with the backing of state-run propaganda outlets – are cheering on their referees and tchotchke-making factories at the FIFA World Cup in the absence of a com...

With no team in World Cup, China fans root for Ronaldo, Messi … and a referee

On a sunny day in Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighbourhood, punters piled into the fifth floor of Time Out Market to Portugal House – part food court, part bar, full-blown World Cup party. T...

Grassroots soccer fever grips northeast China as Northeast Super League debuts

HARBIN, May 24 (Xinhua) -- In China's far northeast, where winter temperatures can plunge to minus 30 degrees Celsius and the rustbelt economy has struggled for years, the region's...

China’s ‘Ethnic Unity’ Cup: Football and Assimilation in the Uyghur Region

A football tournament is China’s latest propaganda campaign to whitewash its abuses of Uyghur people – and deconstruct Uyghur identity in favor of Chinese “unity.”

Net result? How a Hong Kong dim sum restaurant went big on the World Cup

At a century-old teahouse in Hong Kong, a crowd of about 30 people huddled around tables packed with dim sum on a Thursday morning as they watched South Africa score against South...

(SP)CHINA-ZUNYI-FOOTBALL-INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

(260606) -- ZUNYI, June 6, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Jin Yonghao (L) of China vies with Olimzoda Fathullo of Tajikistan during CFA Team China International Competition Zunyi 2026 between Ch...

China fans adopt 'Card Master' referee

They turned to referee Ma Ning in the upcoming FIFA World Cup

People in China are watching the World Cup differently this time

People in China are watching the World Cup differently this time

How to watch the Chinese Super League live in Beijing

Since Covid China has increasingly become a closed ecosystem where it is very hard to do anything as a foreigner. This includes paying for stuff, seeing tourist attractions and as...

It’s Familiar to Fun and Foreignness

Football is a competitive lovely sport that stirs, thrills, and unites, that inspires fun, focus and grit. An art that has the depth and deftness to impart discipline. Do the fans...

From the Pitch to the Street to Community, Nike Defines the Future of Football Culture

What to Know How is Nike dominating the culture of football? - - As football fans around the world turn their eyes to the biggest stage this summer, Nike is dominating the g...

Why the World Cup Keeps Eluding China

Xi has spent billions of dollars trying to turn Beijing into a soccer powerhouse.

Japan soccer fans in China put politics aside

Fans make football shine

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Fans in China put politics aside to cheer Japan at World Cup

Chinese supporters of the Samurai Blue say their fandom has nothing to do with politics, reflecting instead a long admiration for Japanese soccer and what it represents for Asia.

More Than a Game

Shane Yan Wen Yu has learned that football is more than just a game, it’s a source of identity, purpose, and growth.

What football shows us about ourselves

There is something fascinating about World Cup season. Living rooms turn into stadiums, families and friends gather around screens, emotions run high as people shout, celebrate, ar...

Commentary: The debate over World Cup chants and what makes a great one

Sports chants are cultural passports that teach people how to belong and whose version of football is “legitimate”, say these writers.

Our global family at play

Football became so deeply rooted in British working-class communities because there were chapels,...

Football offers a slice of life - in and off the field

It is football season and while tempo is building up in the World Cup, the lessons emerging from it reflect the world as we know it today. In fact, football reflects the changing c...

Soccer fans in China are rooting for Norway's Erling Haaland, their ‘Ha Bao'

There may not be any Chinese players at this year’s World Cup, but China has found its own soccer hero: Norwegian striker Erling Haaland. The 6-foot-4 Manchester City star is a...