The 2017 Gree China Cup International Football Championship () was the inaugural edition of the
China Cup
The China Cup International Football Championship () is an annual association football tournament organized in China by Wanda Sports Holdings. The Championship was inaugurated in 2017 as a single-elimination tournament
A single-elimination ...
, an international
football tournament. It was held from 10 to 15 January 2017 in
Nanning,
Guangxi,
China.
The tournament was hosted by the
Chinese Football Association
The Chinese Football Association (CFA) is the governing body for association football, beach soccer and futsal in People's Republic of China (Mainland China). The CFA organizes the men's and women's national teams and administers the country ...
,
Wanda Sports Holdings,
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
Guangxi (; ; alternately romanized as Kwanghsi; ; za, Gvangjsih, italics=yes), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, located in South China and bordering Vietnam ( ...
Sports Bureau and the Nanning Municipal Government,
and sponsored by
Gree Electric
Gree Electric Appliances Inc. of Zhuhai is a Chinese major appliance manufacturer headquartered in Zhuhai, Guangdong province. It is the world's largest residential air-conditioner manufacturer.Businessweek.com." ''Guangdong Visions: Forging Ch ...
.
Participants
In November 2016, the participants were announced.
Venue
Match officials
The following referees were chosen for the 2017 China Cup.
;Referees
*
Fu Ming
Fu Ming (born 5 January 1983) is a Chinese Association football, football referee (association football), referee. He has been a full international referee for FIFA since 2014. He is a teacher of Jincheng College of Nanjing University of Aeron ...
*
Ma Ning
*
Kim Jong-hyeok
*
Ko Hyung-jin
;Assistant referees
* Cao Yi
* Ma Ji
* Kim Young-ha
* Yoon Kwang-yeol
Squads
''Age, caps and goals as of the start of the tournament, 10 January 2017.''
Matches
The official draw was announced on 7 December 2016.
All times are local,
CST (
UTC+8
UTC+08:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +08:00.
With an estimated population of 1.708 billion living within the time zone, roughly 24% of the world population, it is the most populous time zone in the world, as well as a ...
).
Bracket
Semi-finals
Third-place playoff
Final
Goalscorers
;1 goal
*
Wang Jingbin
*
César Pinares
César Ignacio Pinares Tamayo (; born 23 May 1991) is a Chilean footballer who plays for Primera División club Universidad Católica and the Chile national team as a midfielder.
Biography
Born in Santiago de Chile, Pinares started his care ...
*
Ángelo Sagal
Ángelo Nicolás Sagal Tapia (; born 18 April 1993) is a Chileans, Chilean association football, footballer who plays as a Forward (association football), forward for Cypriot First Division side Apollon Limassol FC, Apollon Limassol.
Career Fere ...
*
Franko Andrijašević
Franko Andrijašević (; born 22 June 1991) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Zhejiang in the Chinese Super League.
Club career
A product of the Hajduk Split academy, Andrijašević made his professional debut ...
*
Luka Ivanušec
Luka Ivanušec (; born 26 November 1998) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Prva HNL club Dinamo Zagreb and the Croatia national team.
Club career
Born in Varaždin, Ivanušec made his professional ...
*
Aron Sigurðarson
*
Kjartan Finnbogason
References
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