This is a list of China national football team's all kinds of competitive records.
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Players in bold are still active with China.
| width=30 | Rank | width=150 | Name | width=50 | Caps | width=50 | Goals | width=100 | Career |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 112 | 14 | 1998–2011 | ||||||
| 2 | Gao Lin | 109 | 22 | 2005–2019 | |||||
| 3 | Zheng Zhi | 108 | 15 | 2002–2019 | |||||
| 4 | 106 | 41 | 1992–2004 | ||||||
| 106 | 17 | 1992–2002 | |||||||
| 6 | 92 | 6 | 1997–2010 | ||||||
| 7 | Zhao Xuri | 87 | 2 | 2003–present | |||||
| 8 | 86 | 12 | 1996–2002 | ||||||
| 86 | 8 | 1992–2004 | |||||||
| 10 | Hao Junmin | 88 | 13 | 2005–present |
| width=30 | Rank | width=150 | Name | width=50 | Goals | width=50 | Caps | width=50 | Ratio | width=100 | Career |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 41 | 106 | 1992–2004 | ||||||||
| 2 | 29 | 55 | 2009–2023 | ||||||||
| 3 | 27 | 53 | 1994–2002 | ||||||||
| 4 | 24 | 70 | 1997–2008 | ||||||||
| 5 | Wu Lei | 36 | 98 | 2010–present | |||||||
| 6 | 22 | 109 | 2005–2019 | ||||||||
| 7 | 21 | 45 | 1985–1990 | ||||||||
| 8 | 20 | 57 | 1983–1990 | ||||||||
| 20 | 65 | 1992–2001 | |||||||||
| 10 | 19 | 29 | 1982–1986 | ||||||||
| Yu Dabao | 19 | 67 | 2010–present |
Gao Fengwen: 56See main article: China at the FIFA World Cup. China has only appeared at the one World Cup with the appearance being in the 2002 FIFA World Cup where they finished bottom of the group which included a 4–0 loss to Brazil.[2]
See also: China at the AFC Asian Cup.
| Year | width=1% rowspan=9 | Result | Pos | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 1900 to 1928 | Did not enter | |||||||||
| 1936 | First round | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | ||
| 1948 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | |||
 1952 to  1956 | Withdrew after qualifying | |||||||||
 1960 to  1976 | Not an IOC member | |||||||||
1980 to  1984 | Did not qualify | |||||||||
 1988 | First round | 14 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | ||
| Total | 3/25 | - | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 11 | ||
For 1992 to 2016, see China national under-23 football team
| Year | width=1% rowspan=15 | Result | Rank | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 1951 | Did not enter | |||||||||
| 1954 | Did not enter | |||||||||
 1958 | Did not enter | |||||||||
| 1962 | Did not enter | |||||||||
| 1966 | Did not enter | |||||||||
| 1970 | Did not enter | |||||||||
 1974 | First round | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 4 | ||
 1978 | Third place | 3 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 5 | ||
| 1982 | Quarter-finals | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | ||
| 1986 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 7 | |||
| 1990 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 4 | |||
| 1994 | Runners-up | 2 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 8 | ||
| 1998 | Third place | 3 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 24 | 7 | ||
| Total* | 7/13 | - | 37 | 23 | 3 | 11 | 85 | 38 | ||
For 2002 to 2018, see China national under-23 football team
| Year | width=1% rowspan=10 | Result | Pos | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Third place | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||
| 2005 | Champions | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | ||
| 2008 | Third place | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | ||
| 2010 | Champions | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
| 2013 | Runners-up | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 6 | ||
| 2015 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | |||
| 2017 | Third place | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 2019 | Third place | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Total | - | 24 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 35 | 29 |
The China national football team has played over 500 matches with the teams of other nations from around the world, and has won approximately half of them., Counted for the FIFA A-level match only.
| Nations | width=40 | First Played | width=30 | P | width=30 | W | width=30 | D | width=30 | L | width=35 | GF | width=35 | GA | width=35 | GD | Confederation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | +6 | AFC | |||||||||
| 1973 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | UEFA | |||||||||
| 2004 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | +1 | CAF | |||||||||
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | UEFA | |||||||||
| 1984 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | +1 | CONMEBOL | |||||||||
| 1983 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 17 | -6 | AFC | |||||||||
| 1986 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 14 | 8 | +6 | AFC | |||||||||
| 1980 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | +15 | AFC | |||||||||
| 1997 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | +3 | UEFA | |||||||||
| 2009 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | +3 | CAF | |||||||||
| 2002 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 12 | -12 | CONMEBOL | |||||||||
| 1975 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 1 | +21 | AFC | |||||||||
| 2015 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 | +18 | AFC | |||||||||
| 1963 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 3 | +21 | AFC | |||||||||
| 1984 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 7 | +1 | CONCACAF | |||||||||
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | CONMEBOL | |||||||||
| 1995 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | −3 | CONMEBOL | |||||||||
| 1977 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | +1 | CAF | |||||||||
| 2002 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | -2 | CONCACAF | |||||||||
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | UEFA | |||||||||
| 1971 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | +1 | CONCACAF | |||||||||
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -3 | UEFA | |||||||||
| 1963 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | CAF | |||||||||
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | CONCACAF | |||||||||
| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -3 | UEFA | |||||||||
| 2003 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | +4 | UEFA | |||||||||
| 1975 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | +3 | OFC | |||||||||
| 1952 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 7 | -1 | UEFA | |||||||||
| 2006 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | UEFA | |||||||||
| 2005 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | UEFA | |||||||||
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | CAF | |||||||||
| 2000 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 0 | +33 | AFC | |||||||||
| 1965 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | +5 | CAF | |||||||||
| 2003 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | -1 | CONCACAF | |||||||||
| 2006 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | +2 | CONCACAF | |||||||||
| 1975 | 22 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 36 | 8 | +28 | AFC | |||||||||
| 2004 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | +1 | UEFA | |||||||||
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | UEFA | |||||||||
| 1956 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 17 | 5 | +12 | AFC | |||||||||
| 1957 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 32 | 8 | +24 | AFC | |||||||||
| 1976 | 23 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 18 | 39 | -21 | AFC | |||||||||
| 1976 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 17 | 18 | -1 | AFC | |||||||||
| 1986 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | UEFA | |||||||||
| 1977 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | +5 | CONCACAF | |||||||||
| 1975 | 27 | 6 | 8 | 13 | 26 | 35 | -9 | AFC | |||||||||
| 1984 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 24 | 8 | +16 | AFC | |||||||||
| 1997 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | +3 | UEFA | |||||||||
| 1984 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | CAF | |||||||||
| 1959 | 21 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 29 | 17 | +12 | AFC | |||||||||
| 1978 | 35 | 2 | 11 | 22 | 23 | 50 | -27 | AFC | |||||||||
| 1975 | 18 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 23 | 16 | +7 | AFC | |||||||||
| 2009 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | +4 | AFC | |||||||||
| 2011 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 3 | +10 | AFC | |||||||||
| 2010 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | +1 | UEFA | |||||||||
| 1998 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 1 | +12 | AFC | |||||||||
| 1978 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 2 | +20 | AFC | |||||||||
| 2004 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | +4 | UEFA | |||||||||
| 1976 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 35 | 7 | +28 | AFC | |||||||||
| 2001 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 1 | +27 | AFC | |||||||||
| 1966 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | +2 | CAF | |||||||||
| 1987 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | -5 | CONCACAF | |||||||||
| 1977 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 5 | +1 | CAF | |||||||||
| 1957 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 32 | 4 | +28 | AFC | |||||||||
| 1972 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | +4 | AFC | |||||||||
| 1996 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | -4 | UEFA | |||||||||
| 1975 | 16 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 14 | 17 | -3 | OFC | |||||||||
| 1992 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | +1 | UEFA | |||||||||
| 1998 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 7 | +4 | AFC | |||||||||
| 1963 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 8 | +15 | AFC | |||||||||
| 2006 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 2 | +8 | AFC | |||||||||
| 1985 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | +3 | OFC | |||||||||
| 1996 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -1 | CONMEBOL | |||||||||
| 1978 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | +1 | CONMEBOL | |||||||||
| 1978 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 33 | 1 | +32 | AFC | |||||||||
| 1984 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | -2 | UEFA | |||||||||
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | UEFA | |||||||||
| 1978 | 20 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 23 | 17 | +6 | AFC | |||||||||
| 1984 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | -2 | UEFA | |||||||||
| 1984 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -3 | UEFA | |||||||||
| 1978 | 20 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 24 | 26 | -2 | AFC | |||||||||
| 1972 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | +3 | CAF | |||||||||
| 2000 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 | -7 | UEFA | |||||||||
| 1974 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | +3 | CAF | |||||||||
| 1984 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 36 | 9 | +27 | AFC | |||||||||
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | UEFA | |||||||||
| 1972 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 5 | +5 | CAF | |||||||||
| 1959 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | UEFA | |||||||||
| 2005 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | -4 | UEFA | |||||||||
| 1972 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | +2 | AFC | |||||||||
| 1957 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | +3 | CAF | |||||||||
| 2001 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -4 | UEFA | |||||||||
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -3 | UEFA | |||||||||
| 1966 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 29 | 14 | +15 | AFC | |||||||||
| 1997 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 1 | +8 | AFC | |||||||||
| 1966 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 8 | +7 | CAF | |||||||||
| 1975 | 24 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 57 | 21 | +36 | AFC | |||||||||
| 2001 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | +5 | CONCACAF | |||||||||
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | CAF | |||||||||
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -3 | UEFA | |||||||||
| 1994 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 3 | +7 | AFC | |||||||||
| 1984 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 16 | 8 | +8 | AFC | |||||||||
| 1977 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 17 | -10 | CONCACAF | |||||||||
| 1982 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | -7 | CONMEBOL | |||||||||
| 1994 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 15 | 21 | -6 | AFC | |||||||||
| 1978 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | +1 | CONMEBOL | |||||||||
| 1997 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 26 | 8 | +18 | AFC | |||||||||
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | -6 | UEFA | |||||||||
| 1988 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | +4 | AFC | |||||||||
| 1972 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | CAF | |||||||||
| 1997 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | +2 | CAF | |||||||||
| Total | 599 | 286 | 130 | 183 | 1,067 | 610 | +456 | All |