China host Palestine in an international friendly. Both sides have had a mixed spell over the last couple of years, without ever putting together a long run of wins.
This one comes just over a week after each side featured in their own midweek friendlies, with China beating Maldives 3-0 and Palestine drawing 2-2 with New Zealand. Neither result tells us a huge amount about what's coming next.
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Recent form: contrasting patterns
China's last 20 matches read 7 wins, 4 draws and 9 losses, with 23 goals scored and 30 conceded. That's a team capable of big scores either way, they've put seven past Japan in the past but also shipped defeats to sides like Cameroon and Bahrain more recently.
China: 20 completed matches; Palestine: 20 completed matches.
China
- Win
- 35% 7 / 20
- Draw
- 20% 4 / 20
- Loss
- 45% 9 / 20
- Scored
- 23
- Conceded
- 30
- Difference
- -7
Palestine
- Win
- 20% 4 / 20
- Draw
- 45% 9 / 20
- Loss
- 35% 7 / 20
- Scored
- 19
- Conceded
- 23
- Difference
- -4
| League | Home | Away | Date | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friendlies | China | Maldives | 24.09.2026 | 3-0 |
| Friendlies | China | Thailand | 09.06.2026 | 0-0 |
| Friendlies | Singapore | China | 05.06.2026 | 1-2 |
| FIFA Series | China | Cameroon | 31.03.2026 | 0-2 |
| FIFA Series | China | Curaçao | 27.03.2026 | 2-0 |
| Friendlies | Uzbekistan | China | 26.01.2026 | 2-2 |
| World Cup - Qualification Asia | China | Bahrain | 10.06.2025 | 1-0 |
| World Cup - Qualification Asia | Indonesia | China | 05.06.2025 | 1-0 |
| World Cup - Qualification Asia | China | Australia | 25.03.2025 | 0-2 |
| World Cup - Qualification Asia | Saudi Arabia | China | 20.03.2025 | 1-0 |
| League | Home | Away | Date | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friendlies | Palestine | New Zealand | 24.09.2026 | 2-2 |
| Friendlies | Kyrgyzstan | Palestine | 09.06.2026 | 0-0 |
| Friendlies | Kyrgyzstan | Palestine | 06.06.2026 | 0-0 |
| Arab Cup | Palestine | Saudi Arabia | 11.12.2025 | 1-2 |
| World Cup - Qualification Asia | Palestine | Oman | 10.06.2025 | 1-1 |
| World Cup - Qualification Asia | Kuwait | Palestine | 05.06.2025 | 0-2 |
| World Cup - Qualification Asia | Palestine | Iraq | 25.03.2025 | 2-1 |
| World Cup - Qualification Asia | Jordan | Palestine | 20.03.2025 | 3-1 |
| World Cup - Qualification Asia | Palestine | South Korea | 19.11.2024 | 1-1 |
| World Cup - Qualification Asia | Oman | Palestine | 14.11.2024 | 1-0 |
Palestine's record over the same sample size is 4 wins, 9 draws and 7 losses, scoring 19 and conceding 23. Draws crop up constantly for them, nine in twenty games, and their most recent matches have followed that pattern too, with back-to-back 0-0s against Kyrgyzstan before a 2-2 with New Zealand.
Palestine's habit of drawing more often than winning or losing stands out more than any actual run of form.
Comparative Team Statistics: China vs Palestine

Head-to-head: China's had the recent upper hand
There are only two meetings between these two on record, both played in China. The most recent was a 2-0 China win back in 2023, and before that a 1-1 draw in 2018.
| League | Home | Away | Date | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friendlies | China | Palestine | 20.06.2023 | 2-0 |
| Friendlies | China | Palestine | 20.11.2018 | 1-1 |
It's a small sample and neither game is recent enough to say much about current form, but China have avoided defeat in both.
Not enough head-to-head games here to lean on history with any real confidence.

What kind of game to expect
Friendlies like this tend to get shaped by squad rotation and experimentation rather than a settled game plan, so goals at both ends are plausible given China's habit of leaking chances and Palestine's tendency to grind out low-scoring draws.
With both sides showing streaky form rather than any real consistency, this one looks harder than usual to call with confidence.
Key player statistics: China vs Palestine
Squad lists and player details
Squad and player details
| Name | Country | Age | Position | Height | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheng Jin | China PR | 31 | Midfielder | 172 | 60 |
| Tan Long | China PR | 38 | Attacker | 185 | 80 |
| Li Lei | China PR | 34 | Midfielder | 183 | 77 |
| Ba Dun | China PR | 31 | Midfielder | 181 | 72 |
| Hou Yongyong | China PR | 28 | Midfielder | 183 | 74 |
| Li Ke | China PR | 33 | Midfielder | 171 | 70 |
| Wang Ziming | China PR | 30 | Attacker | 187 | 81 |
| Zhang Yuning | China PR | 29 | Attacker | 186 | 85 |
| Yan Junling | China PR | 35 | Goalkeeper | 191 | 83 |
| Wei Zhen | China PR | 29 | Defender | 188 | 78 |
| Ai Kesen | China PR | 37 | Attacker | 181 | 83 |
| Liu Dianzuo | China PR | 36 | Goalkeeper | 188 | 86 |
| Jiang Guangtai | China PR | 32 | Defender | 188 | 76 |
| Deng Hanwen | China PR | 31 | Defender | 180 | 73 |
| Gao Zhunyi | China PR | 31 | Defender | 186 | 80 |
| Zhang Linpeng | China PR | 37 | Defender | 185 | 80 |
| Xu Xin | China PR | 32 | Midfielder | 179 | 71 |
| Zhong Yihao | China PR | 30 | Midfielder | 178 | 75 |
| Wei Shihao | China PR | 31 | Forward | 178 | 65 |
| Wang Dalei | China PR | 37 | Goalkeeper | 185 | 75 |
| Name | Country | Age | Position | Height | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. Manzur | Argentina | 26 | Midfielder | 169 cm | 71 kg |
| C. Saldaña | Chile | 27 | Defender | 173 | 70 |
| W. Abou Ali | Denmark | 27 | Attacker | 186 | 78 |
| Mohammed Saleh | Palestine | 33 | Defender | 185 | 84 |
| Mahmoud Wadi | Palestine | 31 | Attacker | 187 | 75 |
| Hamed Mohamed Mahmoud Hamdan | Palestine | 26 | Midfielder | n/a | n/a |
| Tamer Seyam | Palestine | 33 | Attacker | 185 | 80 |
| M. Zeidan | Sweden | 28 | Midfielder | 169 | 74 |
| Mahmoud Eid | Palestine | 33 | Attacker | 183 | 85 |
| Saleh Chihadeh | Palestine | 32 | Attacker | 180 cm | 78 kg |
| Tawfiq Ali | Palestine | 35 | Goalkeeper | 199 | 85 |
| Rami Hamadeh | Palestine | 32 | Goalkeeper | 183 | 70 |
| Amr Kaddoura | Palestine | 32 | Goalkeeper | 185 | 80 |
| Oday Dabbagh | Palestine | 27 | Forward | 183 | 80 |
| Mohammed Rashid | Palestine | 31 | Midfielder | 181 | 77 |
| Mus'ab Al Battat | Palestine | 32 | Defender | 175 | 70 |
| Jonathan Cantillana | Palestine | 34 | Midfielder | 175 | 70 |
| Muhamad Darwish | Palestine | 35 | Midfielder | 185 | 82 |
| Michel Termanini | Palestine | 28 | Defender | 185 | 80 |
| A. Mahajna | Israel | 29 | Midfielder | 187 | 80 |
There's no market attached to this fixture for us to assess, so there's no pick to make here. The evidence available shows two teams with patchy recent form and a head-to-head record too small to lean on.
Best treated as one to watch rather than back, especially with friendly squads liable to change before kickoff.
