On May 22, the Men’s Final of 2019 Shanghai Student Football League (SSFL) between Tongji University and USST was hosted by Tongji University. After 90 minutes of fierce competition, the USST football team beat the Tongji football team by a narrow margin and won SSFL Championship ever since the USST football team was set up.
President Ding Xiaodong, Vice President Zhang Hua and football team members
In addition, during the period of 2018-2019 the Adidas China University Football Association (CUFA), the USST football team successively beat football teams from such universities as Xi’an University of Finance and Economics (XAUFE) and Tongji University, and then reached the top 6 in China. It was the best achievement for the USST football team in a national competition. On May 31, there was also a competition between USST and Renmin University of China (RUC) for the 5th place in China.
USST attaches much importance to campus sports and students’ fitness, which contributes to the rapid development of the USST football team. In recent years, USST has been deepening its reform in sports teaching. Guided by the principle of putting health first, USST makes full use of competition in curriculum and takes campus sports as an important carrier of moral education to promote the cultivation of all-round and healthy talents. USST provides the USST football team with a platform where the coach and players maintain fine traditions and make unremitting efforts to produce gratifying results.