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Season Opener: Ice Breaker Match Stays Cool in Hangzhou On a cool and hazy afternoon Hangzhou Greentown opened its 2012 Chinese Super League campaign with a cagey 0-0 tie against Qingdao Jonoon. The match, which marked the return to… Read More
Are this Year’s “Green Samurais” the 2012 Chinese Super League Dark Horse? Shaking off 2011 The 2011 year became an unnerving saga for Hangzhou Greentown fans, most notably because home matches were bizarrely alternated between Jiaxing and Yiwu… Read More
With the season about to start, we decided to give you a special, slightly out of the ordinary, pub talk. We convened supporters of five of the country’s top clubs and asked some of the questions that are… Read More
A lot has been made of the ever larger amounts of money being spent by Chinese Super League teams, but the country’s second division, the China League, has also seen a growing influx of big spenders as ambitious… Read More
The most eagerly anticipated Chinese Super League season ever will open with a bang on March 10 with an local derby between Shanghai Shenhua and Nanjing-based Jiangsu Sainty. Games involving the Yangzte Delta-based clubs, Shenhua, Sainty and Hangzhou… Read More
We here at are loving the attention the Chinese league is getting due to Shanghai Shenhua’s signing of Nicolas Anelka, but now there’s finally a chance to take a break from being all Anelka, all the time. Beijing… Read More
When even Chinese media starts referring to the “Cultural Revolution” and “Red Guards”, you know you aren’t going down the right path. Such is the situation in Hangzhou these days, manager Wu Jingui has been removed from the… Read More
An outbreak of violence between Shenhua Shenhua and Hangzhou Greentown fans which erupted a few blocks away from Hongkou stadium last Wednesday was in retalitation for an incident at last year’s Hu-Hang derby in Hangzhou which left several… Read More
Season 2011 will surely go down as Shenhua’s most bizarre season ever. In contention for the Chinese Super League title up until the half way point of the season, the team then crashed spectacularly, taking just 7 points… Read More
Beijing Guoan headed to Jiaxing last night to take on Hangzhou Greentown in an important CFA Cup and came away with what may have been the most impressive win over Pacheco’s short coaching career with the capital side…. Read More
