Editing China national football team (section)

==== South Korea ====
{{Main|China–South Korea football rivalry}}
Another rivalry is with neighbour [[South Korea national football team|South Korea]] who China played 27 matches against between 1978 and 2010, without winning a single match. The media coined the term "[[Konghanzheng|Koreaphobia]]" to describe this phenomenon, but China finally registered its first win against South Korea on 10 February 2010, winning 3–0 during the [[2010 East Asian Football Championship]] and eventually going on to win the tournament. Traced further, China met South Korea (then known as Korea) for the first time in 1949 in a friendly in [[British Hong Kong]], where China clinched the first and only win over Korea in 61 years.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.11v11.com/matches/china-pr-v-korea-republic-02-january-1949-225641/ | title=China PR v Korea Republic, 02 January 1949 }}</ref> There is also another political dimension behind the fuelling of this rivalry, mostly because of the long [[Sino-Korean War (disambiguation)|history of wars]] between the two states.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.scmp.com/sport/soccer/article/2081092/amid-rising-tensions-china-ready-war-south-korea-football-pitch-least | title=China ready for 'football war' with South Korea amid rising tensions | date=22 March 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.risingpowersinitiative.org/publication/the-history-war-between-china-and-south-korea/ | title=The History War between China and South Korea | date=13 August 2021 }}</ref>