China national football team: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Team colours
Home 　 Away??
Association
Asian Football Confederation
Current coach
Arie Haan, Netherlands
Most capped player
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Highest goalscorer
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First International
?? # - # China (City, Country; Date, Year)
Largest win
China 10 - 0 Maldives (City, Country; Date, Year)
Largest defeat
?? # - # China (City, Country; Date, Year)
?? 5 - 0 China (City, Country; Date, Year)
World Cup
Finals appearances: # (First: 2002 ) Best result: Round 1 2002,
Asian Cup
Finals appearances: 7 (First: 1980) Best result: Runners-up, 1984 & 2004.

The China national football team finished second at Asian Cup 2004. Thus far the team has been to one World Cup competition in Korea/Japan 2002, in which it failed to score a goal. The team's current FIFA ranking is 68th.

As football is widely followed in Mainland China, any triumph by China's football team is considered to be a source of national pride. Around 300 million people tuned in to see the World Cup 2002 games that China was in, and possibly even more viewers for the Asian Cup 2004 finals.

International record

World Cup record

• 2002: Eliminated after group matches.

Asian Cup record

• 1984: first runner-up
• 2004: first runner-up.

Goalkeepers

1 Liu Yunfei 23 Li Jian

Defenders

3 Sun Xiang 4 Zhang Yaokun 5 Zheng Zhi 8 Zheng Bin 12 Wei Xin 13 Xu Yunlong 14 Li Weifeng 16 Ji Mingyi 19 Zhang Shuo 21 Li Ming 27 Zhou Ting

Midfielders

6 Shao Jiayi 7 Sun Jihai 15 Zhao Junzhe 18 Li Xiaopeng 22 Yan Song 25 Zhou Haibin

Strikers

9 Hao Haidong 11 Li Yi 29 Li Jinyu