Chinese national soccer team
Association | Chinese Football Association | ||
confederacy | AFC | ||
Technical sponsor | Nike | ||
Head coach | Li Tie (since 2019) | ||
captain | Zheng Zhi | ||
Record scorer | Hao Haidong (41) | ||
Record player | Li Weifeng (111) | ||
Home stadium | Kunming Tuodong Sports Center | ||
FIFA code | CHN | ||
FIFA rank | 76th (1323 points) (as of July 16, 2020) |
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First international match Philippines 2-1 China ( Philippines ; February 1, 1913 )
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Biggest win China 19-0 Guam ( Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam ; Jan 26, 2000 )
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Biggest defeat Brazil 8-0 China ( Recife , Brazil ; 10 September 2012 )
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Successes in tournaments | |||
World Championship | |||
Participation in the finals | 1 ( first : 2002 ) | ||
Best results | Preliminary round 2002 | ||
Asian Championship | |||
Participation in the finals | 12 ( first : 1976 ) | ||
Best results | Second place 1984 , 2004 | ||
(As of January 24, 2019) |
The Chinese national football team is the selection team of the Chinese Football Association from the People's Republic of China .
history
The Chinese Football Association was a member of FIFA from 1931 to 1958 and again since 1979 . In between, the Chinese national team was unable to participate in FIFA tournaments and their qualifications for around 20 years.
Under coach Bora Milutinović , the team qualified for the first time in 2002 for the finals of a football World Cup . The Serb took part in a world championship for the fifth time in a row as coach of different teams. The team narrowly failed in qualifying for the 2006 World Cup in Germany to Kuwait . The team coached by Arie Haan at the time had the same number of points and goal difference as the Kuwaiti at the end of the qualification, but failed due to a less scored goal.
Participation of China in the soccer world championship
The team of the People's Republic of China first took part in the qualification for the 1958 World Cup, but failed. After leaving FIFA, there was no qualifying participation again until 1982. So far it has only been enough to qualify when the Asian association was given four starting places for the first time in 2002. But this was the only qualification. In the all-time table of the World Cup finals, China is in 73rd place and is one of the five teams without scoring.
year | Host country | Participation until ... | Last opponent | Result | Trainer | Comments and special features |
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1930 | Uruguay | not participated | not a FIFA member | |||
1934 | Italy | not participated | ||||
1938 | France | not participated | ||||
1950 | Brazil | not participated | ||||
1954 | Switzerland | not participated | ||||
1958 | Sweden | not qualified | In the qualification of Indonesia failed, but that could not qualify well. | |||
1962 | Chile | not participated | not a FIFA member | |||
1966 | England | not participated | not a FIFA member | |||
1970 | Mexico | not participated | not a FIFA member | |||
1974 | Germany | not participated | not a FIFA member | |||
1978 | Argentina | not participated | not a FIFA member | |||
1982 | Spain | not qualified | In the qualification in the final tournament of Kuwait and after playoff to New Zealand failed. | |||
1986 | Mexico | not qualified | In the qualification of Hong Kong failed, but which also could not qualify. | |||
1990 | Italy | not qualified | In the qualification in the final round of South Korea and the United Arab Emirates failed. | |||
1994 | United States | not qualified | In the qualifiers in the first round on Iraq failed, which also failed to qualify. | |||
1998 | France | not qualified | In the qualification in the second round of Saudi Arabia and Iran failed. | |||
2002 | South Korea / Japan | Preliminary round | Costa Rica , Brazil , Turkey | 31. | Bora Milutinović | After three defeats with 0: 9 goals eliminated as bottom group. |
2006 | Germany | not qualified | In the qualification in the second round because of a less reached the gate of Kuwait failed, which also could not qualify. | |||
2010 | South Africa | not qualified | In the qualifying in the third round to Australia and Qatar failed, which also could not qualify. | |||
2014 | Brazil | not qualified | In qualifying , China met Iraq , Jordan and Singapore in the third round and could not prevail against the two teams from the East. | |||
2018 | Russia | not qualified | In the qualification , China met Syria , Iran , Qatar , South Korea and Uzbekistan in the third round and finished penultimate in the table. | |||
2022 | Qatar |
Participation of China in the Asian soccer championships
- 1976 : Third place
- 1980 : preliminary round
- 1984 : Second place
- 1988 : fourth place
- 1992 : third place
- 1996 : quarter-finals
- 2000 : fourth place
- 2004 : Second place
- 2007 : preliminary round
- 2011 : preliminary round
- 2015 : quarter-finals
- 2019 : quarter-finals
- 2023 : Qualified
Participation in the Summer Olympics
1908 in London | did not take part, the association was only admitted to FIFA in 1931 |
1912 in Stockholm | |
1920 in Antwerp | |
1924 in Paris | |
1928 in Amsterdam | |
1936 in Berlin | Round of 16 (as Republic of China ) |
1948 in London | Round of 16 (as Republic of China) |
1952 to 1976 | did not take part in protest against the admission of the Republic of China / Taiwan to the Olympic Games |
1980 in Moscow | not qualified |
1984 in Los Angeles | not qualified |
1988 in Seoul | Preliminary round |
1992 to 2004 | not qualified |
2008 in Beijing | Preliminary round (as host) |
2012 in London | not qualified |
After 1988 the senior national team stopped taking part in the Olympic Games and the qualifying games. In 2008 , the Olympic team retired as hosts in the preliminary round.
Participation of China in the East Asian Championships
- 2003 - third
- 2005 - East Asian Champion
- 2008 - third
- 2010 - East Asian Champion
- 2013 - second
- 2015 - second
- 2017 - third
- 2019 - third
The Dynasty Cup is an unofficial forerunner tournament :
- 1990 - second
- 1992 - fourth
- 1995 - fourth
- 1998 - second
Trainer
- Adolf Remy (1984–1985)
- Klaus Schlappner (1992–1995)
- Qi Wusheng (1995–1997)
- Bob Houghton (1997-1999)
- Bora Milutinović (2000-2002)
- Arie Haan (2002-2004)
- Zhu Guanghu (2005-2007)
- Vladimir Petrović (2007-2008)
- Gao Hongbo (2009-2011)
- José Antonio Camacho (2011-2013)
- Alain Perrin (2014-2016)
- Gao Hongbo (2016)
- Marcello Lippi (2016-2019)
- Fabio Cannavaro (2019)
- Marcello Lippi (2019)
- Li Tie (2019–)
player
Record player
(As of December 18, 2019)
Record player | |||
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Games | player | Period | Gates |
112 | Li Weifeng | 1998-2011 | 14th |
109 | Gao Lin | 2005-2019 | 22nd |
108 | Zheng Zhi | 2002-2019 | 15th |
106 | Fan Zhiyi | 1992-2002 | 17th |
106 | Hao Haidong | 1992-2004 | 41 |
Record goal scorers | |||
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Gates | player | Period | Games |
41 | Hao Haidong | 1992-2004 | 106 |
29 | Yang Xu | 2010-2019 | 55 |
27 | Su Maozhen | 1994-2002 | 53 |
24 | Li Jinyu | 1997-2008 | 70 |
22nd | Gao Lin | 2005-2019 | 109 |
21st | Ma Lin | 1985-1990 | 41 |
20th | Li Bing | 1992-2001 | 65 |
20th | Liu Haiguang | 1983-1990 | 57 |
Other famous players:
- Dong Fangzhuo - player for Manchester United
- Gu Guangming - former player at SV Darmstadt 98
- Li Tie - Everton FC player
- Li Xiaopeng - ex-national player, participated in the World Cup
- Shao Jiayi - player at MSV Duisburg
- Shi Jun - player at BSC Young Boys
- Sun Jihai - player for Manchester City
- Sun Xiang - player at Shanghai Shenhua
- Xie Hui - Ex-player at Alemannia Aachen and SpVgg Greuther Fürth
- Yang Chen - ex-player at Eintracht Frankfurt and FC St. Pauli
- Zhang Xizhe - player at VfL Wolfsburg
International matches against German-speaking national soccer teams
date | place | Home team | result | Visiting team |
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October 12, 2005 | Hamburg | Germany | 1-0 | China |
June 3, 2006 | Zurich | Switzerland | 4: 1 | China |
May 29, 2009 | Shanghai | China | 1: 1 | Germany |
So far there has been no international match against Austria, Liechtenstein, Belgium and Luxembourg.
See also
- Chinese National Football Team (U-17 Juniors)
- Chinese national soccer team (U-20 men)
- List of national football teams (men)
Individual evidence
- ↑ In previous lists Hao Haidong was listed with 115 games, as of June 10, 2011 FIFA only counts 109 A-international matches
- ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 .
- ↑ The placements from 5th place onwards were determined by FIFA without any placement games. See: All-time FIFA World Cup Ranking 1930-2010 (PDF; 200 kB)
- ↑ a b rsssf.com: China - Record International Players