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As the penultimate match of a thoroughly satisfying season drew to a close on Sunday afternoon, a palpable sense of a genuine watershed moment loomed over Shanghai Stadium. A changing of the guard This year, Shanghai East Asia have… Read More
Hong Kong correspondent Christopher KL Lau brings a regular round-up of latest news and developments and other footballing points of interest from the SAR.… It maybe early on in the season but dark horses Sun Pegasus are definitely… Read More
Guangzhou R&F sealed their place in next season’s Asian Champions League by beating Harbin 5 – 1 in their final game at Yuexiushan this year. The blue and whites fell behind before crowd favourites Lu Lin and Abderazzak… Read More
Only four games featured teams with anything to play for, but there was plenty of emotion on show in League One’s penultimate round of the season. Chengdu Tiancheng 0-0 Shijiazhuang Yongchang Ten man Chengdu were relegated despite valiantly holding promotion-chasing Shijiazhuang… Read More
All eyes in the Asian football world are on China this weekend as the CSL prepares for its biggest fixture in years – the league’s top two face off in the penultimate game in a match Beijing Guoan… Read More
Fresh from their cup elimination, Shanghai Shenhua face their final home fixture of 2014, with Tianjin Teda coming to town. Can Shenhua end a forgettable year with a performance to remember for their home crowd? A Gulf in… Read More
Last season was on to forget for Changchun Yatai and the first quarter of the season was beginning to spell trouble for the Dongbei side who now fin themselves sitting miraculously in tenth place in the CSL with… Read More
As Shanghai East Asia’s second year in the CSL draws to a close, the club can look back upon eight months of steady, sustained progress, tinged by more than a faint sense of disappointment over what could have been…. Read More
3-0 down away to Shandong with twelve minutes left, Guangzhou R&F pulled off their greatest comeback of the season to earn a draw and ensure that a win against Harbin on Sunday will be enough to clinch third… Read More
Wuhan claimed four points from their last two games to maintain faint hopes of promotion as rival Shijiazhuang stutter in Xinjiang. Zheng Bin’s team continues to under perform while a Brazilian understudy gets his fifteen minutes of fame. The Games… Read More
