Today, China's soccer academies run the gamut of business models, including agreements between clubs and local clubs, soccer academies, and sports development groups. Other academies are simple ...

Chinese investors buying soccer clubs and sports media (2015-2016) Notes: CMC and CITIC Capital bought 13 percent of City Football Group's stake, the owner of Manchester City; $650-million value ...

Son was detained by public security authorities in China’s northeast Liaoning province ... Son is a midfielder for Shandong Taishan, a soccer club in the Chinese Super League (CSL) which won ...

Guangzhou FC, China's most successful football team and former Asian champions, have been thrown out of the country's professional leagues because of "heavy historical debt", the club say.

One harbinger of Japanese soccer coaches in China is Takeshi Okada, who managed a club in the professional Chinese Super League in 2012 and 2013. Okada, 68, had twice led the Japanese national ...