BYD Witnesses Chinese Football Youth Chasing Dreams on the Pitch

On September 12-13, 2026, BYD-supported Chinese Football Juniors Team 2018 won the championship in the Spain Brava Cup. Top teams gathered for this event, including Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Spain, and other top youth academies, with 67 teams participating in total.

Chinese Football Juniors Team 2018 contested 9 rounds, won 4 consecutive games in the group stage, staged two comeback stories in the knockout stage, defeated the Espanyol youth team in the semi-finals, and won the final 5:4 via penalty shootout against Cornellà (a team under Messi) to claim victory, 9 matches all wins to take the championship. Among them, core player George (Han Chengjun), in the Spain Brava Cup event, scored 17 goals in 9 matches, won the tournament MVP and Golden Boot.

1. From Thailand to Italy to Spain, BYD witnesses one championship after another for the juniors

From claiming the "Asian Youth Champion Cup" in Thailand, to lifting the "Little World Cup" in Italy, to winning the Spain Brava Cup where European powerhouse youth academies gathered, BYD has witnessed Chinese Football Juniors winning one championship after another. In this Spain Cup, the juniors were not afraid of strong opponents, defeated Cornellà youth team acquired by Messi, and topped the list with a perfect record of 9 wins in 9 matches. BYD walked alongside them, providing strong support when there was no applause, firmly optimistic, witnessing the youth breaking through Asia, continuously breaking outside prejudices on the world green field, and letting the Five-Star Red Flag fly high on the world stage.

2. BYD continues to assist youth training, long-termism will eventually bring rewards

BYD's support for football youth training adheres to long-termism just like car manufacturing R&D, the two concepts are consistent. BYD has been deeply cultivating in power batteries and new energy tracks for over 20 years, cumulative R&D investment over 2700 billion yuan, which is exactly the practice of long-termism. As Li Yunfei said in the recent Fan Carnival speech: Short-term is just the hustle, long-term persistence is love.

Car manufacturing and youth training, both have no shortcuts. Since 2024 , BYD has continuously organized football youth to go to Germany, Japan, Spain, Thailand, Italy, Brazil, over 200 person-times to exchange with overseas top clubs, not to gain short-term traffic. Last year BYD supported the juniors in the Brava Cup reached the quarter-finals, this year successfully topped the list to win the championship. Juniors continuously won championships in overseas venues, also proving the value of persistence. Like BYD deeply cultivating technology, settling down to long-term cultivation for a long time, will eventually harvest their own glory.

3. BYD and Juniors will mark more championships around the world

Champions walking together, mutual commitment! BYD is deeply cultivating the global market, overseas in Europe, Southeast Asia, South America and many countries and regions, including Spain, Italy, Thailand, are all new energy sales champions, securing global market seats with hardcore product strength. Now with its own overseas championship momentum, fully escorting Chinese Football Juniors to expedition globally. In the future BYD will continue to join hands with Juniors, in more places around the world, together expand the map of championships.

4. BYD overseas partners hold hands with football powerhouses, domestically deeply cultivate youth football cause

BYD continues to layout top football IP overseas, successively cooperated with Man City, Inter Milan, PSG and other powerhouses, appeared in the European Championship, Copa America and other international events, previously "BYD Derby" Man City Inter Milan match garnered global fan attention. While linking international top resources, BYD will reverse feed domestic youth football cause with global football resources.

Early this year, BYD escorted Chinese Football Juniors to Italy to visit Inter Milan, attended the Serie A match on site, exchanged face-to-face with stars, this cup competition MVP Little George also accompanied the team. Since BYD supported Chinese Football Juniors, 3 players have successfully signed with La Liga professional youth teams: Li Haoyan joined Barcelona youth team, Liu Kaiyuan signed with Villarreal youth team, Lv Mengyang signed with La Liga professional youth team, they are becoming the new strength of Chinese football, supporting youth is supporting the future of Chinese footballAccompany the youth to share the glory of football!