China sends two more football managers to prison for corruption

August 20 – China's crackdown on corrupt football officials has been stepped up, with more prison sentences imposed.

Twenty-four hours after Li Yuyi, former vice president of the Chinese Football Association, was sentenced to 11 years in prison and fined one million yuan (US$139,579.03) along with Fu Xiang, former vice president and general secretary of the Wuhan Football Association, two other officials suffered a similar fate.

Former director of the Chinese Football Association's competition department, Huang Song (pictured), was sentenced to seven years in prison and a fine of 600,000 yuan ($84,000) for accepting bribes.

In another court ruling, Gu Jianming, a former member of the Executive Committee of the Chinese Football Association and former chairman and general secretary of the Chengdu Football Association, was sentenced to six years in prison.

Huang was investigated in March 2023 and his trial took place in public in March.

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