CFA has stripped Shanghai Shenhua of the 2003 league title and banned two former national soccer chiefs and 31 other people for life, rounding off a three-year-long drive to clean up Chinese soccer.
Nan Yong, the former Chinese soccer chief credited with leading China into their only World Cup finals has been charged with 17 counts of taking bribes worth 1.48 million yuan.
Three more referees were added to the Chinese soccer corruption list as their under-trial colleague Zhou Weixin confessed on Wednesday that they had taken bribes and fixed six matches.
The long-awaited trial into soccer corruption will finally kick off next week as a line-up of officials will take the stand, the Yangtze Evening Post reports.