Season 2011 is now well and truly over with the CSL concluded, the CFA cup won by Tianjin, and the national team out of the World Cup qualifers, now is the time to assesess how the year went for Shanghai Shenhua. more ›

Shanghai Shenhua's coach was so enraged by the play-acting of his own midfielder that he stormed angrily onto the pitch and dragged the offending injury-faker to his feet. more ›

CCTV5, China's national sports channel, decided to cease coverage of the country's best-supported pro sports league towards the end the 2008 in response to a disorderly occurence which took place during a Beijing Guoan - Wuhan FC match. CCTV bigwigs, and presumably all those tuning in at home, were left spluttering into their teacups in disgust when a fracas broke out between Wuhan's big money signing Li Weifeng and Beijing's Lu Jiang. The on-field rumpus which ensued led to the Hubei province-based team pulling out of the CSL in protest at the CFA's decision to ban Li Weifeng for eight matches as punishment for his misdemeanours. more ›

Midfielders Yu Tao and Jiang Jiajun were both red carded in very questionable incidents which upset the balance of what was a fairly dull game which only came alive in the final 25 minutes with two late Tianjin goals. more ›

The sorry state of Chinese football is getting an instant injection of cash to lift the game's future prospects. Dalian Wanda, a real estate company that was also the former sponsor of the local Dalian Shide football team, has announced an agreement with the Chinese Football Association to provide 500 million RMB over the next three years to develop the youth game in China. more ›

The chairman of China League side Shanghai East Asia FC has raised eyebrows by saying he hopes his club can merge with city rivals Shanghai Shenhua. more ›

Longtime Shanghaiist contributor Cammy Wilson caught an interview with Shanghai Shenhua coach Miroslav Blažević, in which he lambasted critics for complaining about the team's recently mediocre record. Uploaded onto Shenhua's website and official news channel, the video sees Blažević defending Shenhua's performance while raging against detractors. more ›

Shanghai Shenhua and Beijing Guoan conjured up a absolutely fantastic game of football on Saturday night, stirring Hongkou stadium into frenzied cauldron of passion, which spilled out into the streets at the final whistle. more ›

China's biggest grudge match is even spicier than usual today. For the first time ever, Beijing Guoan come to Shanghai as defending CSL champions in the most eagerly-awaited fixture on the Chinese football calendar - the Jing-Hu Dazhan (京沪大战) more ›

There are few sporting spectacles which rouse passions as much as a football match between two great rivals, and Saturday night's grudge game between Shanghai Shenhua and Beijing Guoan, in the Jing-Hu Dazhan (京沪大战) , was no exception. more ›

Saving face will be the goal of China's much-maligned international football team as it hosts Germany in a friendly international football tomorrow evening at Shanghai Stadium. more ›

Tension will fill the air this evening at Hongkou Football Stadium when China meets Japan in a major continental club football competition. Shanghai Shenhua play host to J-League Champions Kashima Antlers in the Asian Champions League in an all-or-nothing encounter which will decide who qualifies for the knockout rounds. more ›

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Shanghai Shenhua will field several of their latest signings as they start their warm-up for the 2009 Chinese Super League (CSL) season today against Australian A-League side Sydney FC in a friendly match at Hongkou Stadium at 2pm. more ›

The fallout from Shanghai Shenhua's final day championship debacle continued today when news emerged that two of its players were involved in a late-night drunken brawl following their fateful match with local rivals Zhejiang Lvchang on Sunday. more ›

Cross the Shanghai derby from your local sporting calendar this year — the chief participants, Shenhua FC and Shanghai United FC, are to “merge”, according to an official statement from the former team’s website. more ›

Wild scenes of celebration, drunken tomfoolery, and a stampede of autograph hunters scrambling over tables and chairs were highlights of the evening as major stars from the world of Chinese football attended a fans event in the city on Saturday night. more ›

Former Germany international Carsten Jancker has confirmed what many suspected and is to leave Shanghai Shenhua FC imminently and return to Europe. more ›

Normally this game is a title decider between China's two preeminent domestic footballing powers. But on a hot October afternoon both teams were just playing for pride after Shandong Luneng steamrollered their way to their second-ever CSL title at the end of August. more ›

With the game being a derby in some senses, with Xian being known as Inter Shanghai until moving last year, Xian were cheered on by a group of around 100 Inter fans, who couldn't resist turning to oppose their bitter rivals Shenhua. more ›

Shenhua FC brought the curtain down on their 2005 season at Hong Kou Stadium with a 1-1 draw against Wuhan Huanghelou to clinch the runners-up spot in the China Super League (CSL), Shanghaiist observed Saturday afternoon. more ›

Du Wei, the former Shanghai Shenhua footballer, could be about to make his first-team debut for his new club, Scotland's Celtic FC, which he joined at the beginning of September. Manager Gordon Strachan was quoted as saying by the Shanghai Daily, that his new Chinese charge was acclimatising well to the physical demands of the fast and furious Scottish game: more ›