Futsal is Back!

Hey Guys, With the Christmas break behind us, Futsal is back!!! Tomorrow night (Tuesday) is your chance to have some fun, get a touch on the ball, and, perhaps more importantly, shed those winter pounds. Bring your trainers and your samba moves from 8-10pm at the Canadian International School (Map attached via link ... More

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Dear Citizens all over the world, Forbidden City FC is sending you warm Christmas greetings and our best wishes for a wonderful New Year of health, happiness and fun. 2011 was a fantastic year for Forbidden City and without a doubt we are ruling Beijing’s amateur football scene on and off the pitch. In the summer both ... More

Why China fails at football

Little red card The telling reasons why, at least in football, China is unlikely to rule the world in the near future Dec 17th 2011 | from the print edition The Buddha tells the people he can fulfil only one of their wishes. Someone asks: “Could you lower the price of property in China so that people can afford ... More

Match report for Summer Palace vs Barbarians B

Match report for Summer Palace vs Barbarians B, 11th December 2011, Lido This was Palace’s last league game to play before the winter break and on that Sunday afternoon it was a relief that the weather was not as cold as one could have feared. Palace was looking for another win so that Dong Ren would not run away with ... More

Summer Palace Season So Far

Palace, Excellent win yesterday afternoon against a tough opposition from the Barbarians B team. Match report to follow soon, when Lee Russell will have written it up (thanks again!). In summary, We played 13 games during this first part of the season: 10 in the league, 2 in the cup and 1 friendly game. We won 10 of ... More

Training Tonight

Hello everyone, It's our last training session tonight and a particularly important one for Palace given that we play what is probably the 3rd best team in the league after Dong Ren and ourselves! The session tonight will include lot's of match-like games (5-aside etc.) to get a bit of sharpness back having not played ... More

G9: Summer Palace vs Barbarians B

  Palace, I hope you've by now recovered from the FCFC Xmas party! We have 2 remaining events before the winter break: - Wednesday 7th: last training session, 8-10pm at the Lido as usual. Try your best to make it, especially if you want to be = included in our last league game this calendar year to be played ... More

Training Tomorrow 8pm Lido

  Train Tomorrow as usual. Stay fit and committed! 8pm Lido pitch Cheers, Philippe More

Match report for Summer Palace vs French LE B

Match report for Summer Palace vs French LE B, 26th November 2011, Lido The weather keeps getting colder, but Palace came to the game with a red hot string of results. Joining them on the sidelines, however, were perennial contenders and longtime rivals French LE B. It was the game of the week according to many ... More

Summer Palace – remaining dates before the winter break

Palace, Well done to all involved in our game yesterday against French LE B. Match report from Lee Russell to follow later. Meanwhile, please see below the schedule for the period between now and the winter break: - Wednesday 30th November, 8-10 pm at Lido, training session - Saturday the 3rd December, starting at 8pm, ... More