So much for a warm welcome. Just hours after the Daily Mail reported that Didier Drogba was set to leave Chelsea and finally sign a £250,000-a-week (RMB 2.5 million-a-week!) contract with Shanghai Shenhua, Nicolas Anelka — Drogba's former teammate/entire reason for coming to Shanghai — threatened to quit the team all together. more ›

Didier Drogba could still be coming to Shanghai after all. The Oriental Morning Post reported this morning that the Chelsea striker flew to Singapore today to meet with Shanghai Shenhua owner Zhu Jun, as well as two French agents and a Chinese deputy, to discuss a contract with the team. This comes just a few days after Shenhua player-coach and former Chelsea teammate Nicolas Anelka hinted to reporters that Drogba would probably stay in London. more ›

After weeks of speculation, Shanghai Shenhua finally confirmed this morning that head coach Jean Tigana was indeed dimissed from the team. more ›

A female reporter with the Xinmin Evening News in Shanghai, who was reportedly beaten up by Dalian Football Association secretary-general Guo Jun in Liaoning Province last weekend, is refusing to accept the club's official apology for the incident. more ›

The drama between Shanghai Shenhua and Jean Tigana escalated yesterday after the team's former head coach threatened to get FIFA involved. more ›

The Shanghai Shenhua coaching drama took another turn yesterday, as former(?) head coach Jean Tigana denied media reports that he had resigned from the organization over the weekend. more ›

In yet another setback for Shanghai Shenhua, the team lost to Tianjin Teda 0-1 Friday night. Following the loss Jean Tigana formally resigned as the team's head coach Sunday night, putting the organization in a coaching meltdown. more ›

Shanghai Shenhua announced today that Nicolas Anelka will help coach the team in addition to playing. Anelka's new role as player-coach will certainly be needed as the team just fired three assistant coaches this morning. But management denied reports that it had also fired French head coach Jean Tigana. more ›

Anelka's football career in Shanghai got off to a flying start as he scored within the first minute of his debut yesterday. Lunging in to meet teammate Wu Xi's cross, Shanghai's star signing headed home to score the first goal in Shenhua's 3-1 friendly victory over 2nd division team Hunan Billows. more ›

A number of former football referees and officials, including a FIFA World Cup referee, were convicted of corruption charges in Northeast China yesterday. Nine defendants were given sentences of up to seven years in prison, and other cases are still pending. more ›

Nicolas Anelka, arguably the highest-profile foreign footballer ever to sign for the Chinese league, arrived at Pudong airport yesterday before being whisked through security to a special VIP backdoor exit. more ›

The rumors were true! According to Mirror Football, Shanghai Shenhua have offered Chelsea star Didier Drogba upwards of £300,000 (almost $465,000) per week to come play in China. That's half again the enormous contract signed with Nicolas Anelka just last month. more ›

As expected, French national and former Fulham manager Jean Tigana has signed a one-year contract to coach Shanghai Shenhua in the upcoming season. He joins fellow Frenchman and former Chelsea striker Nicolas Anelka. But while Anelka will make a reported $300,000 per week for his two-year contract, Tigana claims the move isn't for money, but rather a "sport and life decision." more ›

With Nicolas Anelka signed up for the upcoming Chinese Super League season, Shanghai Shenhua owner Zhu Jun is already considering poaching none other than the 34-year-old Chelsea mainstay Didier Drogba. more ›

As predicted by Wild East Football‘s sources last week, Nicolas Anelka has agreed to a two-year contract with Shanghai Shenhua, the club announced on its official website today. The 32-year-old former France international heads East after being frozen out at Chelsea, and becomes the biggest signing ever in the history of Chinese domestic football. more ›

The rumors could be true! Chelsea striker Nicolas Anelka will sign for Shenhua within the next week, a source close to the club told Wild East Football yesterday. The final details of what is said to be a three-year deal worth six million UK pounds per annum ($9.3 million USD) are yet to be worked out, but the source says Anelka will soon become a Shenhua player barring any last-minute hitches. more ›

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 apparently have set their sights on signing none other than Chelsea's mercurial forward Nicolas Anelka during next January's transfer window. 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 ›

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 ›

Outside of Hongkou Football Stadium last night, a good-old fashioned football hooligan fight involving hundreds of Shanghai Shenhua (上海申花) and Hangzhou Greentown (杭州绿城) supporters went down, and had to be dispersed with a massive turn out of police force. Argentinian Luis Salmerón of Shenhua scored a stoppage-time goal to clinch the game 3-2 for the home side, sending the crowd into a frenzy. However, the evening would end with dozens of rival football supporters on both sides receiving injuries and drawing blood. more ›

>All the things you'd want to do this Monday through Thursday. On the schedule this week: Enrich your tea tasting knowledge with ChamiLiving, Dada screens a 70s blaxploitation film, Windows Too turns six, and Cirque du Soleil extends their Shanghai show dates! Read on (or check out our calendar) for more! more ›

Happy rainy weekend Shanghai! Obviously you should all be signed up and ready to head out of town tomorrow on the Shanghaiist Party Bus to Ocean MiDi Festival! But just in case you're stuck here all weekend, there should be at least a few things happening to keep you occupied (check out music over at our Midweek Music Preview.) We've got Chinese Valentine's Day stuff, Dwayne Wade's doing stuff, and the North Korean Art Troupe is in town! Read on for details, or check out our calendar for more. more ›

At around 11.30pm, Wu Zhaoming, nicknamed Xiao Ji, was crossing Dalian West Road near Dongtiyuhui Road in Hongkou District, not far from Shenhua’s home stadium, when he was hit by a vehicle which did not stop afterwards. A passer-by called for an ambulance, and he was taken to hospital, where he now lies in a coma with serious head injuries. 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 ›

Bad news for Shanghai Shenhua from the club's owner himself! Apparently Zhu Jun, the major investor in our town's football league, went to see Paul the Psychic Octopus in Germany this week and got a bad prediction for the team. They will not win the Chinese Super League Championship this year. more ›

So the big event this weekend is no doubt the music festival happening in nearby Suzhou - The Suzhou Holisland Music Festival, but in case you can't make it out, or you don't like live music, there's still a whole bunch of things to do here in the city. 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 ›