Du Zhaocai

{{Short description|Chinese football administrator}}

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Du Zhaocai ({{lang-zh|杜兆才}}; born 1 March 1960) is a Chinese football administrator who served as the Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of the Chinese Football Association,{{Cite web |date=2024-08-28 |title=Report outlines Xi's push for fair competition, more 'just' global sports order |url=https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3276287/report-outlines-xis-push-fair-competition-and-more-just-global-sports-order |access-date=2024-08-28 |website=South China Morning Post |language=en |archive-date=2024-08-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240828113445/https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3276287/report-outlines-xis-push-fair-competition-and-more-just-global-sports-order |url-status=live }} and a member of the FIFA Council since his election on 7 April 2019.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fifa.com/who-we-are/fifa-council/people/411139/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200325200452/https://www.fifa.com/who-we-are/fifa-council/people/411139/|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 25, 2020|title=FIFA Council Members – FIFA.com|last=FIFA.com|website=www.fifa.com|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-03-25}}

He previously served as vice president of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and as deputy minister at General Administration of Sport of China since October 2018. He had also served as the vice president of the Chinese Olympic Committee, as a council member of the International Association of Athletics Federations, and has over 30 years of experience as a sports administrator.

In April 2022, Du was elected as the president of the East Asian Football Federation for a four-year term.{{cite news|author= |date= 1 April 2022|title= China's Du Zhaocai elected as EAFF President|url= https://english.news.cn/20220401/a77bc342fd44402db98d68d07811a4a9/c.html|work= |location= |access-date= 25 November 2022|archive-date= 26 November 2022|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20221126073728/https://english.news.cn/20220401/a77bc342fd44402db98d68d07811a4a9/c.html|url-status= live}}

On April 1, 2023, Du was named in a Chinese football anti-corruption probe "suspected of violations of discipline and law".{{cite news|author= |date= 1 April 2022|title= Prominent Sports Official Named In Xi Jinping's Chinese Football Corruption Investigation|url= https://boxscorenews.com/prominent-sports-official-named-in-xi-jinpings-chinese-football-corruption-p168330-296.htm|work= |location= |access-date= 1 April 2023|archive-date= 2 April 2023|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230402043540/https://boxscorenews.com/prominent-sports-official-named-in-xi-jinpings-chinese-football-corruption-p168330-296.htm|url-status= live}} In August 2024, he pleaded guilty to accepting more than US$6.1 in bribes.