Men's football (soccer) was a Chinese National Games sport since the first edition. Women's football competition began in 1987. Since 1997, the age limit for men's teams is under-20. Two youth divisions, men's under-16 and women's under-18, were launched since the 11th National Games.
| Team | style=background:gold | Gold | style=background:silver | Silver | style=background:#cc9966 | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liaoning | 3 (1975*, 1993, 2001) | 1 (1987) | 1 (2005) | 5 | |||
| Shandong | 3 (1979, 1997, 2005) | 0 | 2 (2001, 2009) | 5 | |||
| Guangdong | 2 (1975*, 1987) | 3 (1983, 1997, 2009) | 2 (1979, 1993) | 7 | |||
| Shanghai | 2 (1983, 2009) | 3 (1965, 2001, 2005) | 1 (1997) | 6 | |||
| Hebei | 1 (1965) | 1 (1959) | 0 | 2 | |||
| Army | 1 (1959) | 0 | 3 (1965, 1975, 1987) | 4 | |||
| Beijing | 0 | 2 (1979, 1993) | 1 (1959) | 3 | |||
| Tianjin | 0 | 0 | 1 (1983) | 1 |
* = shared
| Team | style=background:gold | Gold | style=background:silver | Silver | style=background:#cc9966 | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shandong | 1 (2009) | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Shaanxi | 0 | 1 (2009) | 0 | 1 | |||
| Liaoning | 0 | 0 | 1 (2009) | 1 |
| Team | style=background:gold | Gold | style=background:silver | Silver | style=background:#cc9966 | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beijing | 2 (1987, 2005) | 2 (1997, 2001) | 0 | 4 | |||
| Shanghai | 2 (1997, 2001) | 0 | 2 (2005, 2009) | 4 | |||
| Liaoning | 1 (2009) | 2 (1987, 2005) | 1 (1993) | 4 | |||
| Henan | 1 (1993) | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Guangdong | 0 | 1 (1993) | 2 (1987, 1997) | 3 | |||
| Jiangsu | 0 | 1 (2009) | 0 | 1 | |||
| Sichuan | 0 | 0 | 1 (2001) | 1 |
| Team | style=background:gold | Gold | style=background:silver | Silver | style=background:#cc9966 | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jiangsu | 1 (2009) | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Shanghai | 0 | 1 (2009) | 0 | 1 | |||
| Tianjin | 0 | 0 | 1 (2009) | 1 |
| Team | style=background:gold | Gold | style=background:silver | Silver | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East China | 2 (1914, 1924) | 1 (1910) | 3 | ||
| South China | 1 (1910) | 0 | 1 | ||
| North China | 0 | 1 (1914) | 1 | ||
| Central China | 0 | 1 (1924) | 1 |
| Team | style=background:gold | Gold | style=background:silver | Silver | style=background:#cc9966 | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shanghai | 2 (1930, 1933) | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||
| Hong Kong | 1 (1935) | 0 | 1 (1933*) | 2 | |||
| Guangdong | 0 | 1 (1933) | 2 (1930*, 1935) | 3 | |||
| Nanjing | 0 | 1 (1930) | 0 | 1 | |||
| Malaysian Chinese | 0 | 1 (1935) | 0 | 1 | |||
| Liaoning | 0 | 0 | 1 (1930*) | 1 | |||
| Hebei | 0 | 0 | 1 (1933*) | 1 |
* = shared
| Team | style=background:gold | Gold | style=background:silver | Silver | style=background:#cc9966 | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shanghai | 6 | 4 | 3 | 13 | |||
| Liaoning | 4 | 3 | 4 | 11 | |||
| Shandong | 4 | 0 | 2 | 6 | |||
| Guangdong | 2 | 5 | 6 | 13 | |||
| Beijing | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 | |||
| East China | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |||
| Hebei | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Jiangsu | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |||
| Army | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | |||
| Hong Kong | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Henan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
| South China | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Shaanxi | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
| North China | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Central China | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Nanjing | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Malaysian Chinese | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Tianjin | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Sichuan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |