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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.

Shanghai's first football derby of the season has added spice tonight thanks to the rip-roaring start to the season by the city's second club, Shanghai Liancheng Zobon.

Shanghai Shenhua is among the favourites to lift this year's CSL Championship and begin their 2006 CSL campaign against newly-promoted Changchun Yatai at Hongkou Stadium tomorrow.

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.

Inter Shanghai took the honours in the final Shanghai derby of the China Super League season yesterday, whooping Pudong-based Shanghai Zobon 3-0.

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:

He’s off! The long running Du Wei saga is finally over as Chinese football’s man of the moment has sealed a move to Scottish Premier League club Glasgow Celtic. The former European Cup winners completed the signature of the 23-year-old Shanghai Shenhua defender just in time to beat a transfer deadline.

Derby fever sweeps the city Saturday night as the city's two biggest football clubs go head-to-head in the China Super League at Shanghai Stadium.

Shanghai Shenhua must drop their £800,000 (11.7 million RMB) price tag for defender Du Wei if he is to join Celtic, says boss Gordon Strachan.