Abstract: As a breakthrough in the reform of school sports in China and one of the important carriers for the development of youth sports, campus football is a tower base for revitalizing Chinese football and building a strong football nation. It is of great significance for accelerating the construction of a strong sports nation in China. The Parson’s AGIL model was used to analyze “quaternity” of campus football in China environmental adaptation, goal positioning, resource integration and model maintenance. The analysis reveals that the development environment is hindered, the orientation positioning is blurred, the resource protection is insufficient, and the cultural construction is blurred, which is the dilemma that affects the development of campus football in China. Campus football needs to be based on national strategies to achieve adaptive functions, to be guided correcting values, to achieve the goal-achieving function; to supplement social forces to achieve integrated functions, and to use football culture as a medium to meet the four major functional requirements of the system. The revitalization of Chinese football can be accomplished by realizing the way of dimension function to promote the healthy and sustainable development of campus football to provide inexhaustible impetus for the development of campus football.

Key words: campus football, AGIL model, school sports