Chinese FA Cup

The Chinese FA Cup (Chinese: 中国足协杯, abbreviated as CFA Cup) is the national knockout cup competition in China organized by the Chinese Football Association. The current holders are Shanghai Port, having beaten Shandong Taishan in 2024 for their first title.

Chinese FA Cup

Founded	1956; 69 years ago (1956) (as Chinese National Football Championship) 1995; 30 years ago (1995) (current format)
Region	China
Domestic cup(s)	Chinese FA Super Cup
International cup(s)	AFC Champions League Elite
Current champions	Shanghai Port (1st title)
Most successful club(s)	Shandong Taishan (8 titles)
Website	cfacup.com
2025 Chinese FA Cup

History

The competition started as the Chinese National Football Championship (Chinese: 全国足球锦标赛) in 1956.^[1] It was reorganized after the Cultural Revolution and used the name Chinese FA Cup for the first time in 1984. It was scrapped for the 6th National Games of China in 1987, and was reorganized again as the Chinese National Cup Winners' Cup (Chinese: 全国足球优胜者杯赛) between 1990 and 1992 as the qualifiers for the Asian Cup Winners' Cup.

The current format of the FA Cup began in the 1995 season following the establishment of the professional football league in China. The cup was temporary scrapped in 2007 due to the Chinese Football Association's strategy for the 2008 Summer Olympics,^[2] and returned in 2011.

Cup results

Non-professional club period

Season	Winners	Score	Runners-up
1956	Shanghai	3–0	Tianjin
1960	Tianjin	1–0	Guangdong
1984	Liaoning	5–0	Guangdong
1985	Beijing	4–1	Guangdong
1986	Liaoning	1–0	Beijing
1990	Bayi	1–1 (3–0 p)	Dalian
1991	Shanghai	1–0	Guangzhou Baiyun
1992	Dalian	1–1 (4–2 p)	Guangdong

Professional club period

Year	Winners	Score	Runners-up	Venue	Attendance
1995	Jinan Taishan	2–0	Shanghai Shenhua	Wutaishan Stadium, Nanjing	20,000
1996	Beijing Guoan	4–1	Jinan Taishan Jiangjun	Workers Stadium, Beijing	60,000
1997	Beijing Guoan	2–1	Shanghai Shenhua	Workers Stadium, Beijing	60,000
1998	Shanghai Shenhua	2–1	Liaoning	Jinzhou Stadium, Dalian
	Shanghai Shenhua	2–1	Liaoning	Shanghai Stadium, Shanghai
	Shanghai Shenhua won 4–2 on aggregate.
1999	Shandong Luneng Taishan	1–1	Dalian Wanda Shide	Jinzhou Stadium, Dalian
	Shandong Luneng Taishan	3–2	Dalian Wanda Shide	Shandong Provincial Stadium, Jinan
	Shandong Luneng Taishan won 4–3 on aggregate.
2000	Chongqing Longxin	0–1	Beijing Guoan	Workers Stadium, Beijing
	Chongqing Longxin	4–1	Beijing Guoan	Datianwan Stadium, Chongqing
	Chongqing Longxin won 4–2 on aggregate.
2001	Dalian Shide	1–0	Beijing Guoan	Workers Stadium, Beijing	8,000
	Dalian Shide	2–1	Beijing Guoan	Dalian People's Stadium, Dalian	25,000
	Dalian Shide won 3–1 on aggregate.
2002	Qingdao Hademen	1–3	Liaoning	Wulihe Stadium, Shenyang	31,000
	Qingdao Hademen	2–0	Liaoning	Yizhong Stadium, Qingdao	30,000
	Qingdao Hademen won 3–3 on away goals.
2003	Beijing Guoan	3–0	Dalian Shide	Wulihe Stadium, Shenyang
2004	Shandong Luneng Taishan	2–1	Sichuan First City	Helong Stadium, Changsha	20,000
2005	Dalian Shide	1–0	Shandong Luneng Taishan	TEDA Football Stadium, Tianjin
2006	Shandong Luneng Taishan	2–0	Dalian Shide	Helong Stadium, Changsha
2011	Tianjin TEDA	2–1	Shandong Luneng Taishan	Hefei Olympic Sports Center, Hefei	19,813
2012	Guangzhou Evergrande	1–1	Guizhou Renhe	Guiyang Olympic Sports Center, Guiyang	45,210
	Guangzhou Evergrande	4–2	Guizhou Renhe	Tianhe Stadium, Guangzhou	39,989
	Guangzhou Evergrande won 5–3 on aggregate.
2013	Guizhou Renhe	2–0	Guangzhou Evergrande	Guiyang Olympic Sports Center, Guiyang	47,893
	Guizhou Renhe	1–2	Guangzhou Evergrande	Tianhe Stadium, Guangzhou	46,898
	Guizhou Renhe won 3–2 on aggregate.
2014	Shandong Luneng Taishan	4–2	Jiangsu Guoxin Sainty	Luneng Stadium, Jinan	31,427
	Shandong Luneng Taishan	1–2	Jiangsu Guoxin Sainty	Nanjing Olympic Sports Center, Nanjing	51,262
	Shandong Luneng Taishan won 5–4 on aggregate.
2015	Jiangsu Guoxin Sainty	0–0	Shanghai Greenland Shenhua	Nanjing Olympic Sports Center, Nanjing	53,166
	Jiangsu Guoxin Sainty	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Shanghai Greenland Shenhua	Hongkou Football Stadium, Shanghai	25,332
	Jiangsu Guoxin Sainty won 1–0 on aggregate.
2016	Guangzhou Evergrande	1–1	Jiangsu Suning	Tianhe Stadium, Guangzhou	48,562
	Guangzhou Evergrande	2–2	Jiangsu Suning	Nanjing Olympic Sports Center, Nanjing	58,331
	Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao won 3–3 on away goals.
2017	Shanghai Greenland Shenhua	1–0	Shanghai SIPG	Hongkou Football Stadium, Shanghai	24,319
	Shanghai Greenland Shenhua	2–3	Shanghai SIPG	Shanghai Stadium, Shanghai	39,552
	Shanghai Greenland Shenhua won 3–3 on away goals.
2018	Beijing Sinobo Guoan	1–1	Shandong Luneng Taishan	Workers Stadium, Beijing	48,856
	Beijing Sinobo Guoan	2–2	Shandong Luneng Taishan	Luneng Stadium, Jinan	45,666
	Beijing Sinobo Guoan won 3–3 on away goals.
2019	Shandong Luneng Taishan	1–0	Shanghai Greenland Shenhua	Jinan Olympic Sports Center Stadium, Jinan	44,177
	Shanghai Greenland Shenhua	3–0	Shandong Luneng Taishan	Hongkou Football Stadium, Shanghai
	Shanghai Greenland Shenhua won 3–1 on aggregate.
2020	Shandong Luneng Taishan	2–0	Jiangsu Suning	Suzhou Olympic Sports Centre, Suzhou	7,829
2021	Shandong Taishan	1–0	Shanghai Port	Fenghuangshan Football Stadium, Chengdu	0
2022	Shandong Taishan	2–1	Zhejiang	Suzhou Olympic Sports Centre, Suzhou	21,079
2023	Shanghai Shenhua	1–0	Shandong Taishan	Suzhou Olympic Sports Centre, Suzhou	31,467
2024	Shanghai Port	3–1	Shandong Taishan	Wenzhou Olympic Sports Center Stadium, Wenzhou
2025		–		Suzhou Olympic Sports Centre, Suzhou

Results by team

Italics indicates years in the non-professional period.

Rank	Club	Winners	Runners-up
1	Shandong Taishan	8 (1995, 1999, 2004, 2006, 2014, 2020, 2021, 2022)	7 (1996, 2005, 2011, 2018, 2019, 2023, 2024)
2	Shanghai Shenhua	6 (1956, 1991, 1998, 2017, 2019, 2023)	3 (1995, 1997, 2015)
3	Beijing Guoan	5 (1985, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2018)	3 (1986, 2000, 2001)
4	Dalian Shide	3 (1992, 2001, 2005)	4 (1990, 1999, 2003, 2006)
5	Liaoning	2 (1984, 1986)	2 (1998, 2002)
	Guangzhou	2 (2012, 2016)	2 (1991, 2013)
7	Tianjin Jinmen Tiger	2 (1960, 2011)	1 (1956)
8	Jiangsu	1 (2015)	3 (2014, 2016, 2020)
9	Shanghai Port	1 (2024)	2 (2017, 2021)
10	Beijing Renhe	1 (2013)	1 (2012)
11	Bayi	1 (1990)	0
	Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic	1 (2000)	0
	Qingdao Hainiu	1 (2002)	0
14	Guangdong	0	4 (1960, 1984, 1985, 1992)
15	Sichuan First City	0	1 (2004)
	Zhejiang	0	1 (2022)

Awards

Top goalscorer(s)

Season	Top scorer	Club	Goals
1995	Tang Xiaocheng	Jinan Taishan	6
1996	Hu Yunfeng	Bayi	5
	Li Bing	Guangdong Winnerway
	Song Yuming	Jinan Taishan
1997	Andrés Olivas	Beijing Guoan	4
	Casiano Delvalle
	Nan Fang
	Riffi Haddaoui	Guangzhou Apollo
1998	Wang Tao	Dalian Wanda	7
	Zhang Yuning	Liaoning F.C.
1999	Mark Williams	Chongqing Huandao	6
2000	Milen Georgiev	Chongqing Longxin	7
2001	Orlando	Dalian Shide	7
2002	John Jairo Tréllez	Zhejiang Greentown	4
	Li Jinyu	Liaoning F.C.
	Marcos	Shenzhen Ping'an
2003	Serhiy Nahornyak	Shandong Luneng Taishan	5
2004	Daniel Nannskog	Sichuan Guancheng	9
2005	Zou Jie	Dalian Shide	7
2006	Han Peng	Shandong Luneng Taishan	5
2011	Muriqui	Guangzhou Evergrande	4
2012	Rafa Jordà	Guizhou Renhe	6
2013	Peter Utaka	Beijing Guoan	4[3]
2014	Xiao Zhi	Henan Jianye	5[4]
2015	Demba Ba	Shanghai Greenland Shenhua	6
2016	Obafemi Martins	Shanghai Greenland Shenhua	6
	Eran Zahavi	Guangzhou R&F
	Alex Teixeira	Jiangsu Suning
2017	Obafemi Martins	Shanghai Greenland Shenhua	6[5]
2018	Jonathan Viera	Beijing Sinobo Guoan	5[6]

Most Valuable Player

Season	Player	Club
1995	Fan Zhiyi	Shanghai Shenhua
1996	Su Maozhen	Jinan Taishan
1997	Shen Si	Shanghai Shenhua
1998	Hao Haidong	Dalian Wanda
1999	Su Maozhen	Shandong Luneng Taishan
2000	Wang Tao	Beijing Guoan
2011	Yu Dabao[7]	Tianjin Teda
2012	Lucas Barrios[8]	Guangzhou Evergrande
2013	Darío Conca[9]	Guangzhou Evergrande
2014	Ryan McGowan[10]	Shandong Luneng Taishan
2015	Demba Ba[11]	Shanghai Greenland Shenhua
2016	Roger Martínez[12]	Jiangsu Suning
2017	Cao Yunding[5]	Shanghai Greenland Shenhua
2018	Zhang Xizhe[6]	Beijing Sinobo Guoan

Best Coach

Season	Coach	Club
2012	Marcello Lippi[8]	Guangzhou Evergrande
2013	Gong Lei[9]	Guizhou Renhe
2014	Gao Hongbo[10]	Jiangsu Sainty
2015	Dan Petrescu[11]	Jiangsu Guoxin-Sainty
2016	Luiz Felipe Scolari[12]	Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao
2017	No award
2018

Fair Play Award

Season	Club
2011	Shandong Luneng Taishan[7]
2012	Shandong Luneng Taishan[8]
2013	Guizhou Renhe[9]
2014	Qingdao Hainiu[10]
2015	Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard[11]
2016	Guangzhou R&F[12]
2017	Shanghai Shenxin[5]
2018	Sichuan Jiuniu[6]

Dark Horse Award

Season	Club
1995	Guangzhou Matsunichi[13]
1996	Shanghai Pudong[13]
1997	Shanghai Yuyuan[13]
1998	Liaoning FC[13]
1999	Yunnan Hongta[14]
2000	Wuhan Hongtao K[15]
2014	Wuhan Hongxing[10]
2015	Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard[11]
2016	Tianjin Quanjian[12]
2017	Shanghai Shenxin[5]
2018	Shenyang Urban[6]

Sponsors

Sponsorships

Season	Sponsor	Annual value	Official name
1995–2000	Philips		Philips China FA Cup
2001	Mexin Doors	¥10 million	Mexin Doors China FA Cup
2002	Fujifilm	¥7 million	Fujifilm China FA Cup
2003	Blue Ribbon Beer	¥8 million	Blue Ribbon Beer China FA Cup
2004		¥4.5 million	Blue Ribbon Beer China FA Cup
2005–2006	No sponsor
2011–2013	Toshiba	¥10 million	Toshiba CFA Cup
2014–2022	Yanjing Beer	¥20 million	Yanjing Beer CFA Cup

See also

• Football in China
• List of Chinese football champions