Du Zhaocai

In this Chinese name, the family name is Du.
Du Zhaocai
杜兆才
Born (1960-03-01) 1 March 1960 (age 64)[1]
China
NationalityChinese
OccupationSports administrator
Political partyChinese Communist Party
Member of the FIFA Council
Incumbent
Assumed office
2019
President, East Asian Football Federation
Incumbent
Assumed office
2022
Preceded byChung Mong-gyu
First Vice President Chinese Football Association
Incumbent
Assumed office
2019

Du Zhaocai (Chinese: 杜兆才; born 1 March 1960) is a Chinese football administrator who served as the Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of the Chinese Football Association,[2] and a member of the FIFA Council since his election on 7 April 2019.[3]

He previously served as vice president of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and as deputy minister at General Administration of Sport of China since October 2018. He had also served as the vice president of the Chinese Olympic Committee, as a council member of the International Association of Athletics Federations, and has over 30 years of experience as a sports administrator.

In April 2022, Du was elected as the president of the East Asian Football Federation for a four-year term.[4]

On April 1, 2023, Du was named in a Chinese football anti-corruption probe "suspected of violations of discipline and law".[5] In August 2024, he pleaded guilty to accepting more than US$6.1 in bribes.[2]

  1. ^ FIFA.com. "FIFA Council Members – FIFA.com". www.fifa.com. Archived from the original on March 25, 2020. Retrieved 2020-03-25.
  2. ^ a b "Report outlines Xi's push for fair competition, more 'just' global sports order". South China Morning Post. 2024-08-28. Archived from the original on 2024-08-28. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
  3. ^ FIFA.com. "FIFA Council Members – FIFA.com". www.fifa.com. Archived from the original on March 25, 2020. Retrieved 2020-03-25.
  4. ^ "China's Du Zhaocai elected as EAFF President". 1 April 2022. Archived from the original on 26 November 2022. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  5. ^ "Prominent Sports Official Named In Xi Jinping's Chinese Football Corruption Investigation". 1 April 2022. Archived from the original on 2 April 2023. Retrieved 1 April 2023.