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China Football World Ranking

In June 2022, China’s football world ranking was 78th.

The Chinese national men’s football team was founded in 1924 and joined FIFA in 1931. The Chinese team’s highest ranking in FIFA was 37th in the world in December 1998. The national football team has participated in the Asian Cup football matches 12 times, and won the runner-up twice in 1984 and 2004; it has participated in the Olympic football finals four times in 1936, 1948, 1988 and 2008.

Performance:

In the top 12 of the Asian region of the 2022 Qatar World Cup qualifiers, the Chinese team was in the same group as Japan, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Vietnam. This is the 12th time the Chinese team has entered the World Cup and the 6th time it has entered the final stages of the World Cup Asian qualifying rounds (top 4, top 6, top 10, top 12).

On January 27, 2022, in the seventh round of the top 12 of the World Preliminaries, the Chinese team lost 0-2 away to the Japanese team. On February 1, 2022, the Chinese team lost 1-3 to Vietnam and was eliminated by Vietnam two rounds in advance and missed the Qatar World Cup.