BYD and Football Youths: Dongrun Cup Finals, Tsinghua Affiliated High School Takes 2-0 Championship

On October 24, the 2026 Dongrun Cup National Youth Football Finals, sponsored by BYD, concluded at the Beijing Workers' Stadium, with Tsinghua University Affiliated High School defeating Shijiazhuang No. 2 Middle School Experimental School 2-0 to claim the championship.

As the top strategic partner of the event, BYD witnessed Chinese youths showcasing pure football prowess on the field! From the home grounds of professional giants to the campus football finals, BYD is using corporate strength to build a more solid stage for Chinese youth football.

This edition of the Dongrun Cup spans over 20 provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions, covering 352 schools and benefiting approximately 5,000 players and coaches. In the finals phase, 22 campus teams that stood out from across the country gathered in Beijing to start the single-elimination tournament. After multiple rounds of intense matches, Tsinghua Affiliated High School and Shijiazhuang No. 2 Middle School Experimental School met in the finals.

At the Workers' Stadium that evening, the rhythm of attack and defense was tight, with both teams going all out, staging a high-quality campus football showdown. When the final whistle blew, Tsinghua Affiliated High School won 2-0 and took the championship of this year's Dongrun Cup.

Fig: Tsinghua Affiliated High School scoring the first goal (free kick)

During the awards ceremony, Best Goalkeeper, Top Scorer, Best Player, as well as trophies and prize checks for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place were presented in order. Kong Dongmei, Founder and Chairman of the Dongrun Charity Foundation, and Li Yunfei, General Manager of BYD Brand and PR Department, attended the awards ceremony, witnessing the glory moment of the youths together.

It is worth noting that this is not the stage for professional players, but the finals for ordinary middle school students. The lights, turf, and stands of the Workers' Stadium lit up completely for the campus football youths for the first time. This signal that "top-tier venues are not exclusively for a few" means far more than a match itself to the millions of children playing football.

BYD's investment in youth football is not a single-point effort. Since 2024, BYD has continuously organized football youths to travel to Germany, Japan, Spain, Thailand, Italy, Brazil, Mexico, and other places, with over 200 exchanges with top overseas clubs, and taking children to top venues like the Euro Cup and World Cup to broaden their horizons.

At the same time, BYD also sinks resources to the grassroots: organizing football youths from Ili, Xinjiang to Japan for international exchange events, matching donations of football equipment; coordinating with owner volunteers to enter Guizhou Baoyuan Women's Football Team, opening charity classes and donating supplies.

This partnership with the Dongrun Charity Foundation is another implementation by BYD in the field of campus football. The two parties cooperate, focusing on ordinary high school campus teams, making up for the shortcomings of grassroots football resources — not only supporting a few talented players, but balancing elite improvement and campus popularization, allowing more ordinary children to play football nearby and have high-quality matches.

The shortcoming of Chinese football has never been at the top, but at the grassroots. What campus football lacks is not enthusiasm, but venues, tournaments, teachers, and sustained attention.

On one hand, BYD creates opportunities for promising children to go abroad and exchange with strong overseas teams; on the other hand, it builds venues into county-level campus schools, expanding the participation base, and gradually building a solid soil for domestic youth football.

From establishing a charity foundation in 2010 to setting up a 3 billion yuan education charity fund at the 30th anniversary, BYD's investment in the public welfare field follows a long-term logic — looking forward to more football youths continuing to grow on the football pitch and heading to farther football stadiums.