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Shanghai Shenhua bid farewell to Hongkou Stadium until the 2008 season with a hard-fought 1-1 draw against their old foes, Dalian Shide, yesterday afternoon. Normally this game is a title decider between China’s two preeminent domestic footballing powers…. Read More
Inter Xian held Shenhua to a 1-1 draw at Hongkou stadium last night in a tempestous and rowdy which was marked by several crowd disturbances. With the game being a derby in some senses, with Xian being known… Read More
China’s biggest football bad boys, Xian, come to town tonight to take on Shanghai Shenhua in a CSL clash with more complex plot twists than a tornado ripping across your granddad’s allotment. The Terracotta Army City, famed in… Read More
Manchester City become the latest big European club to swing by China, as more fat cat chairmen attempt to stuff a slice of the lucrative East Asian football market pie in their already obese and money-obsessed faces. The… Read More
Derby fever strikes the city once again tonight when Shanghai Shenhua cross the Huangpu to take on Pudong’s Shanghai United in the CSL, with both teams looking to get one over their local rivals to make up for… Read More
Carsten Jancker is expected to make his CSL debut for Shanghai Shenhua tonight against Dongbei side Liaoning FC. The charismatic 1.94cm tall former Germany international striker signed a one-year deal with Shenhua last week, but due to some… Read More
Shanghai Shenhua’s stuttering season in China’s top-level professional football league, the CSL, has taken a major twist after the club announced it signed former Bayern Munich, FC Cologne, Hansa Rostock, Udinese and Rapid Vienna forward, Carsten Jancker. The… Read More
Shanghai Shenhua finally won their first home game of the CSL 2006 season at the fourth time of asking, prompting scenes of celebration both inside and outside Hongkou Stadium. Opponents Wuhan Guanggu were swept aside 3-1 as last… Read More
hanghai’s first football derby of the season has added spice tonight thanks to the rip-roaring start to the season by the city’s second club, Shanghai Liancheng Zobon. The team, called Shanghai Zobon last season before a merger, shocked… Read More
Shanghai Shenhua is among the favourites to lift this year’s CSL Championship and begin their 2006 CSL campaign against newly-promoted Changchun Yatai at Hongkou Stadium tomorrow. After Chinese football hit an all time low last season (and that… Read More
