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Tibetan Football Team Quits

June 8, 2020;

Tibet’s Lhasa Chengtou Football Clubhas reportedly quit the Chinese football league following a dispute over where the team’s home games are played. According to Global Times the club, founded in 2017, has only played in Tibet five times after the Chinese Football Association “rejected the club’s application to set its home field in Tibet”, leading to the team playing its home games 2,400km away in Deyan, Sichuan Province.

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