News, stories, interviews and more from East Asia.
AFC U20 Asian Cup Qualifiers: 45 teams vie for China 2025 spots. Defending champs Uzbekistan face tough competition. Kicks off Sept 21.
AFC Champions League Two 2024/25 begins with 32 teams from 23 nations. New format features home-and-away group matches from Sept to Dec.
AFC Champions League Elite 2024/25: 24 top Asian clubs compete with an enhanced prize pool, new technology and a new format.
AFC Asian Cup 2023: Heung Min-son is leading South Korea to break a 64-year curse and win the Asian title—the player who became the face of a nation, a region and a generation.
The 2023 AFC Asian Cup in Qatar round 16 is a wrap. Along with some surprises, the quarterfinals are set and ready.
Zion Suzuki has been one of the rising names in Asian football in the past few years. Asian Cup 2023 was supposed to be his first full journey with Japan, but things went out of hand. Now it’s his time to prove the critics wrong, on and off the field.
Asian Cup 2023: The knockout stage kicked off in Qatar, setting the stage for drama on and off the pitch. From Australia to Tajikistan, two Arab derbies are ready to take place, with Qatar and Palestine the main event.
2023 AFC Asian Cup pocket guide. From Qatar, to the rest of the 24 teams competing.
AFC Champions League and AFC Cup will take place in centralised venues. The AFC has released a series of decisions regarding the international and club competitions in 2021, among them U16, U19 AFC Championships, and the continent’s most important club competitions.
South Korea is facing what is seen as a second wave of coronavirus. Although K League returned to have 25% of stadiums capacity, is now back to play behind closed doors, with a severe risk to be suspended.
Chinese Super League returns with Marouane Fellaini, Ulsan and Jeonbuk continue their run in the K League. At the same time, in Vietnam, the fully packed stadiums have started to charge their price: football suspension.
The East Asian region was full of action this week in K League, K League 2, J League as well as in other parts in the region such as the Taiwan Premier Football League and the Mongolian League. Jinseong Kim got you covered.
K League reached the middle of the season, and Junior Negrão and Ulsan took over the pole position yet again. In Japan, Kashima Antlers are lost in translation while in Vietnam fans are filling the terraces like there isn’t such thing as coronavirus. Jinseong Kim’s weekly is here.
The Korean Super Match between Suwon Bluewings and FC Seoul has exploded in a 6-goal thriller, J League kicked off, and Mongolia and Cambodia returned to action. A busy weekend in East Asia.
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors beat rivals Ulsan and expand its gap in the top of the K League’s table. Japan returns slowly to the football routine, while Vietnam’s giants take positions.
K League 1, K League 2, V League and Taiwan Football Premier League. All the action from a rich weekend of football in East Asia.
East Asian football’s train can’t stop. K League experience raining goals and scoring celebrations gestures, while in Vietnam, people are filling the stadiums and Taiwan is back after a short COVID-19 free break.
South Korea’s K League has showcased two of the big rivalry matches it has to offer, as Lee Dong-gook grabbed the headlines again. In Vietnam, the local V League finally returned to action.
A busy weekend of football in South Korea, Vietnam and Taiwan produced some upsets and unexpected results. We have all the action and goals from East Asia.
A unique K League 2 rivalry between two former giants, Bucheon FC and Jeju United, creates flames in South Korea’ second division.
An Byong-jun just might be the biggest North Korean threat to South Korean defenses at this point. Today he netted two more in match-day three of K League 2.
Vietnamese football has resumed today with fans in attendance, a sight everyone around the world is happy to see. In the K League, an afternoon of football was shadowed by a serious injury scare.
As matchday 3 of the South Korean K-League started today, we got a chance to see FC Seoul snatch an impressive away win in Pohang.
Ulsan Hyundai produced another great footballing display, but what turned viral on Sunday’s K League action was actually FC Seoul’s mannequin supporters.
K League’s second matchday produced great football by Sangju Sangmu, Daegu, Pohang and Busan - while champions Jeonbuk hasn't impressed but somehow remained perfect.
The first matchday of the South Korean K League already produced a candidate for goal of the season - an outrageous back-heel by Cho Jae-wan from Gangwon FC. Check it out!
All three K League 1 and two K League 2 matches were broadcasted live, strictly following the new guidelines that allow playing while preventing the spread of COVID-19.
K League's opening match between reigning champions Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors and FA Cup winners Suwon Samsung Bluewings took place this Friday.
Under strict sterile conditions due to COVID-19, without noodles and fried chicken cups, nor passionate fans who commit the famous 버막 Beo-mak protests, the Korean K League is back to action. BabaGol’s East Asia Editor, Jinseong Kim, has your guide to the league the world will fall in love with.
North Korea clinches record-equalling 3rd FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup title, defeating Japan 1-0 in an all-Asian final in Bogota, Colombia.