A website about Chinese football, in English
While China was focused on Guangzhou Evergrande’s loss to Bayern Munich overnight, that quickly changed as a story broke on Sina Weibo that Beijing Guoan were parting ways with manager Aleksandar Stanojevic. Considering Stanojevic met the goals set… Read More
Who the greatest Italian manager of all time? Very few would disagree with Marcello Lippi. Winner of five Serie A titles, the UEFA Champions League and the 2006 World Cup, the 65 year old manager of Guangzhou Evergrande… Read More
It’s that time of year again as your Shenhua correspondents Steve Crooks and Cameron Wilson take a look back at how the squad performed during 2013, a year in which expectations were exceeded. Comparing and contrasting this review… Read More
Guangzhou Evergrande 2-0 Al-Ahly FIFA Club World Cup Quarter-final Elkeson 49′, Conca 67′ In their first appearance in the FIFA Club World Cup, Guangzhou Evergrande defeated Egyptian giants Al Ahly 2-0 to set up a semi-final encounter against… Read More
After the second leg of the CFA final last Saturday, which saw Guizhou Renhe deny Guangzhou Evergrande the treble, four Evergrande supporters and sometime contributers to (Damian, Piers, Fee, and GZBiffo) gathered to discuss which players had been… Read More
Guangzhou Evergrande 2-1 (2-3 agg.) Guizhou Renhe CFA Cup Final, second leg Feng Junyan 59′, Conca 61′; Yu Hai 27′ After a 2-0 victory in the home leg last weekend, Guizhou Renhe went to Tianhe Stadium knowing that… Read More
Guizhou Renhe 2-0 Guangzhou Evergrande CFA Cup Final, Leg 1 Yu Hai 51′, 67‘ Guangzhou Evergrande’s slogan is having “never won enough”, but that may have come to its conclusion after Guizhou Renhe’s Yu Hai knocked in a… Read More
CFA Cup Semi-final, both legs Beijing Guoan 0-1 Guangzhou Evergrande Muriqui 80′ Guangzhou Evergrande 6-3 Beijing Guoan Elkeson 33′, Conca 43′, 89′, Zhang Linpeng 58′, Huang Bowen 78′, Muriqui 80′; Utaka 55′, 67′, 69′ Guangzhou Evergrande will face… Read More
Former EPL star Yakubu Aiyegbeni is enjoying some of the form of his career at Guangzhou R&F after being reunited with his old Leicester boss, ex-England manager Sven Goran-Eriksson, with the “Yak” scoring 15 goals in 29 games… Read More
Guangzhou R&F recorded their best ever China Super League finish, sixth, but it still felt like a disappointing year because either side of a run of fantastic mid-season form were two patches of terrible results which meant the… Read More
