G3: Summer Palace vs Lao Hu

Palace, We are currently top of the league table with 2 wins in 2 games, let's try to make it 3 out of 3. This coming Saturday we are playing the high school team Lao Hu, which promises to be a tough game especially as we knocked them out of the cup earlier this season (2-2 draw, Palace won on penalties) and they will be ... More

Match Report: Summer Palace 6:1 Chaoyang Park Rangers

Match Report: Summer Palace 6-1 Chaoyang Park Rangers Saturday 15 September 2012 saw Summer Palace resume hostilities with long-term fatigable foes Chaoyang Park Rangers. While many of Beijing's residents were protesting over the sovereignty of some rocks in the East China Sea, the only prize on Palace's agenda was 3 ... More

Match Report: Summer Palace vs Barbarians

 Match report for Summer Palace vs Barbarians B, Sunday 9th September 2012, Chaoyang Stadium As quite a few guys came late (as usual) and the ones who had played for City just before our game needed a rest our starting 11 was probably not the strongest and we fell behind after 10-15 minutes. Fortunately the guys who came ... More

SQUAD: G2 Summer Palace vs CYPR

Palace, Below is the list of players available for our 2nd league game to be played tomorrow, Saturday 15th at the LIDO (in Chinese = Side Gong yuan, that's the same place where we train every Wednesday).  Time of kick off is 12 noon, meet at the pitch at 11:30 AM. Please be on time so that we can warm-up properly ... More

G2: Summer Palace vs Chaoyang Park Rangers

Palace, Well done to all involved in the emphatic win last Sunday against Barbarians B, with the final score 4-2 (by the way: any volunteer to write-up a match report?). Goals by new signing Jason Kaye, Mike and the return of Elliot who scored a deuce. It was a very good start to the league season and we should aim to ... More

Palace Cup Match Reports

Much like one of Edu’s weekend Sanlitun forays, our cup run began with a bit of nervousness and trepidation, rapidly ascended into breathtaking displays of skill, daring and vigour, before finally meekly succumbing to the realization that we were overmatched by a taller, fitter, and more elegantly named opponent. But ... More

Squad: G1 Barbarians B vs Summer Palace

Palace, Below is the squad list for our first league game of the season vs Barbarians B on SUNDAY. The game is at Chaoyang Stadium and kick off is at 4 pm. Be at the pitch at 3:30pm at the latest. [removed] WARNING!! A few in this list have not yet send their JPEG files (passport + ID photo).  These players will not be ... More

G1: Summer Palace vs Barbarians B

Good afternoon gentlemen, Forget that the Premiership, La Liga, Serie A and Bundesliga have all already kicked-off the 2012/13 season - the big one is here, Division 1's curtain-raiser: Summer Palace vs Barbarians B, this Sunday 3:30pm, Chaoyang Sports Centre. Are you available? Reply yes or no to this email as soon as ... More

Cup Match: Summer Palace vs Vikings

Gentlemen, After Sunday's epic sudden death penalty shoot-out victory over Lao Hu (match report to follow), the draw for the second round took place on Monday night. Following last season's 2nd round win over Kozo, we have the chance to claim another premier league scalp- this time: the Vikings. The match is at 2pm this ... More

SQUAD: Cup Match Summer Palace vs Lao Hu

Summer Palace! Competitive football is back! The squad for Sunday is below, meet at 13:15 at LIDO (the pitch we train on). SQUAD [removed] That's a maximum squad number of 18. We've had excellent numbers in training and over 20 players available to play so if you cannot make it for any reason, text/call me so someone ... More