Highest tier of professional association football in China
Football league
The Chinese Football Association Super League, [ 1 ] normally known as Chinese Super League [ 2 ] or CSL, presently known as the China Ping An Chinese Football Association Super League for sponsorship reasons, [ 3 ] is the highest grade of professional football in China, operating under the auspices of the Chinese Football Association ( CFA ). The taiwanese Super League was created by the rebranding of the former top division Chinese Football Association Jia-A League in 2004 ( see chinese Jia-A League, not to be confused with Chinese Football Association Jia League, which is the stream second-tier league ).

primitively contested by 12 teams in its inauguration year, the league has since expanded, with 16 teams competing in the 2020 season. A total of 32 teams have competed in the CSL since its origin, with 8 of them winning the deed : Guangzhou ( eight ), Shandong Taishan ( four ), Shenzhen, Dalian Shide, Changchun Yatai, Beijing Guoan, Shanghai Port, and Jiangsu ( all one title ). The current Super League champions are Jiangsu, who won the 2020 edition. The chinese Super League is one of the most popular professional sports leagues in China, with an average attendance of 24,107 for league matches in the 2018 season. This is the twelfth-highest of any domestic master sports league in the world and the sixth-highest of any professional affiliation football league in the universe, behind Bundesliga, Premier League, La Liga, Serie A and Liga MX. The League is now running under the authority of the Chinese Football Association, The CSL Company, which is presently the commercial branch of the League, is a corporation in which the CFA and all of the member clubs act as shareholders. It is planned that the CFA will ultimately transfer their shares of The CSL Company to the clubs and professional union which consists of CSL clubs will be established as the League ‘s management entity. [ citation needed ]

overview [edit ]

contest [edit ]

Unlike many top european leagues like Bundesliga, Premier League, La Liga, and Serie A, the chinese Super League starts in February or March and ends in November or December. In each season, each club plays each of the other cabaret doubly, once at home and another aside. With 16 clubs presently in the Super League, teams play 30 games each, for a sum of 240 games in the season. The two lowest-placed teams by the end of the season are relegated to the China League One and the lead two teams from the League One are promoted, taking their places. The League military position is determined by the highest number of points accumulated during the season. If two or more teams are level on points, tiebreakers are, in the keep up order

  1. Highest number of points accumulated in matches between the teams concerned;
  2. Highest goal difference in matches between the teams concerned;
  3. Highest number of goals scored in matches between the teams concerned;
  4. Highest points accumulated by the reserve teams in the reserve league
  5. Highest points accumulated by the U19 teams in the U19 league
  6. Highest goal difference;
  7. Highest number of goals scored;
  8. Fair-Play points (Clubs deduct 1 point for a yellow card, and 3 points for a red card);
  9. Draw by lot;

chinese Super League clubs in international contest [edit ]

When the Asian Football Confederation started the AFC Champions League in the 2002–03 season, China was given 2 slots in the rival. qualification for the AFC Champions League changed in 2009 as AFC distributed 4 slots to China. The peak three of the league, vitamin a well as the achiever of the chinese FA Cup, modify for the AFC Champions League of the following year. If the FA Cup finalists finish the league in 3rd or higher, the fourth place team in the league will take the Champions League spot. Between the 2002–03 and the 2017 season, chinese clubs won the AFC Champions League two times, behind korean K-League with five wins, and japanese J-League with three wins. The taiwanese Super League is presently beginning in the AFC Club Competitions Ranking of Asian leagues based on their performances in asian competitions over a four-year period and FIFA ranking for national teams. [ 4 ]

Development [edit ]

On 17 November 2017, the Vice-president of the CFA, Li Yuyi, disclosed the expansion plan of the top four level leagues of China. The taiwanese Super League is planning to expand to 18 clubs, followed by China League One with 20 clubs, China League Two with 32 clubs and the Chinese Football Association Member Association Champions League with 48 clubs. [ 5 ] besides, the CFA stated that “ we should build CSL the 6th best league in the world. “ [ citation needed ]

history [edit ]

Origins [edit ]

For the history of chinese Professional football before the origin of the taiwanese Super league, see chinese Jia-A League The chinese National Football League was started in 1951, namely the National Football Conference, it was a round-robin tournament with 8 teams participating. In 1954, the rival was renamed as National Football League, the League was divided into two Divisions in 1956 and promotion/relegation between the two tiers started since 1957. In the 1980s, the Chinese Football Association allowed enterprise entities to sponsor and invest in football teams. The League entered Semi-pro period in 1987, sponsored by Goldlion Group, the league played its first ever home and away season, teams participating includes the top 7 clubs of 1986 Division 1 together with Liaoning, who was 1985 season champions but did not compete in 1986 league season due to participate in asian Club Championship, the tournament was named as National Football League Division 1 Group A, soon as taiwanese Jia-A League, the other 8 clubs of Division 1 and circus tent 4 clubs from Division 2 participated in chinese Jia-B League. The two groups merged in 1988 season but divided again in 1989. In 1994, as part of the sports system reform project, the chinese Jia-A League became the nation ‘s first master football league. The Jia-A league achieved success in its early years, but in the belated ’ 90s heavy criticism existed towards the League ‘s management practices like the lack of continuity in key policies, and some of its extremity clubs was criticised for a miss of sustainable development. At the lapp time, the league was affected by gambling, match-fixing and corruption. [ 6 ] the chaotic state of Jia-A causes trouble oneself investment environment with sponsors and clubhouse owners bowing out. The Chinese Football Association then decided to reform the League system, which ultimately led to the creation of the taiwanese Super League. The initial invention is to introduce rightfully commercial methods and let professional football marketplace operate more freely, drawing on the know of professional Leagues in Europe to redesign the league structure and strengthen professionalism. On January 13, 2001, Yan Shiduo, vice-president of the Chinese Football Association, discussed about setting up a newly professional league system. [ 7 ] In 2002, the CFA made a decisiveness to establish the chinese Super League, which started in 2004 .

foundation [edit ]

Compared to the Jia-A, the CSL is a set more demanding on teams. The CFA and CSL committee imposed a range of minimum criteria to ensure professional management and presidency, fiscal probity, and a youth development plan at every cabaret. The CSL published first edition of CSL club criteria in 2002 and revised it several times, club license system was introduced since 2004. Besides the regular professional league, the CSL besides has a substitute league, and Youth super league plays in U-19, U-17, U-15, U-14 and U-13 levels. The CSL and China League One ‘s goals are to promote high timbre and high-level contest, insert advanced managerial concepts to the market, enforce the delivery of minimum standards of professionalism, encourage the inflow of more higher quality extraneous coaches and players, and gradually establish the european system for actor registrations and transfers .

drumhead [edit ]

The beginning CSL season began in 2004, with 12 teams in the league. The inaugural address season was plagued with controversy, which continued from the former league, Jia-A, and where, since 1999, scandals such as match repair and gamble had been uncovered. [ 8 ] This resulted in loss of sake in the domestic game, low attendances and capital fiscal losses. [ citation needed ] The master design was to have one relegated team and two promote teams for the 2004 season and 2005 season, thus increasing the number of teams in 2006 to 14. But the CFA ‘s decisions caused the relegations to be cancelled for these 2 years. For the 2005 season, the league expanded to 14 teams after Wuhan Huanghelou and Zhuhai Zobon won promotion from China League One. The Zhuhai team, once named Zhuhai Anping, had been bought by the Shanghai Zobon veridical estate company and relocated to Shanghai for the 2005 season, and subsequently renamed to Shanghai Zobon. In 2006, the league was planned to expand to 16 teams with the newly promoted Xiamen Blue Lions and Changchun Yatai. however, Sichuan First City withdraw before the get down of the temper, leaving only 15 teams when the season started on March 11. Shanghai Zobon, after another change of possession, was renamed Shanghai United. In 2007, the league was again planned to be expanded to 16 teams, but once again it found itself one team short. Shanghai United ‘s owner, Zhu Jun, bought a major partake in local rival Shanghai Shenhua and merged the two teams. As a solution, Shanghai Shenhua retained its appoint as it already had a hard fanbase in the city, while Shanghai United pulled out of the league. In 2008, the season started with 16 clubs participating for the foremost time, however Wuhan protested against punishments made by the CFA after a match against Beijing Guoan, and announced its immediate withdrawal from the league, which left the temper to finish with 15 clubs. Since 2009, the league has run with 16 stable clubs participating in each class. Two are relegated to China League One, and two promoted from China League One each season. In 2010, the CSL was beset by a scandal going right to the top of the CFA. The taiwanese government took nationally action against football gamble, match-fixing and putrescence, and former CFA frailty presidents Xie Yalong, Nan Yong and Yang Yimin were arrested. [ 9 ] On February 22, 2010, CFA relegate Guangzhou Yiyao for match-fixing in 2006 China League One Season, adenine well as Chengdu Blades for match-fixing in 2007 China League One season. [ 10 ] In 2011, the anti-corruption campaign had visibly improved the effigy of the CSL, with increases to attendance. Clubs such as Guangzhou Evergrande and Shanghai Shenhua began investing heavily in foreign stars. After early Fluminense midfielder Darío Conca transferred in 2011, some celebrated signings during the 2012 seasons included former Chelsea advancing Didier Drogba and Nicolas Anelka, former Barcelona midfielder Seydou Keita and Fábio Rochemback, former Sevilla forth Frédéric Kanouté, erstwhile Blackburn Rovers forward Yakubu and early Borussia Dortmund fore Lucas Barrios. Former japanese national team coach Takeshi Okada took up the reins as the modern coach of Hangzhou Greentown, former Argentina home team coach Sergio Batista replaced Jean Tigana as Shanghai Shenhua ‘s head coach, and former Italy national team and Juventus coach Marcello Lippi replaced Lee Jang-Soo as Guangzhou Evergrande ‘s head coach. In 2012, Guangzhou Evergrande became the first chinese team to defend their CSL title, and to win consecutive titles. however, eight-time champions of Professional League, Dalian Shide, had seriously fiscal problems during the entire season, specially after the apprehension of club owner Xu Ming. They had planned to merge with dalian Aerbin, the other CSL club of the city, but the Chinese Football Association blocked the fusion at the end, as dalian Shide failed to cancel their registration as a CSL club before the amalgamation. So Aerbin effectively purchased and swallowed up Shide, including the club ‘s famed academy and educate facilities. dalian Shide was officially dissolved on 31 January 2013. The country ‘s most successful club had ceased to exist. In 2013, David Beckham became beginning ball-shaped ambassador for CSL. Guangzhou Evergrande won AFC Champions League for first time. In February 2013, Shanghai Shenhua was stripped of its 2003 chinese Ji-A league entitle as region of a wide match-fixing crackdown. In sum, 12 clubs were handed punishments, while 33 people, including early CFA vice-president Xie Yalong and Nan Yong, received biography bans. besides in 2013, Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao won the asian Champions League title, the first time a chinese Super League team has won that award. In 2014, Guangzhou Evergrande became the first chinese club to win four straight professional league titles. In 2015, ex-Tottenham midfielder Paulinho moved to Guangzhou Evergrande at the long time of 27, Guangzhou Evergrande become AFC champions League champions for second clock. In 2016, taiwanese extremely league became a rising might in the global transfer market. Brazil international Ramires, Colombia international Jackson Martinez and Fredy Guarin were among the celebrated signings, while Pavel Nedvěd was appointed as second ball-shaped ambassador for CSL. 2017 saw the chinese Super League ( CSL ) catapulted to global attention. Players such as Oscar, Carlos Tevez, Ricardo Carvalho, Alexandre Pato and Mikel John Obi all moved east during the class. Guangzhou Evergrande won their seventh back-to-back league style. 2018, in the 28th attack of the 2018 Chinese Super League, the two style favourites Shanghai SIPG and Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao clashed neck and neck, with Shanghai SIPG coming off with 5 – 4 hard gain over Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao to open up the points opening with Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao. At last, Shanghai SIPG won the 2018 Chinese Super League Champion, therefore breaking Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao ‘s 7-year monopoly of the chinese Super League. At the 2019 CSL Mobilization Meeting, the CFA Referees Committee officially announced that a master referee system will be introduced in the CSL in 2019, with two foreign referees including Mark Clattenburg, Milorad Mažić, and three local referees to be officially hired as the first professional referees in the history of taiwanese football. The two extraneous professional referees will be chiefly responsible for enforcing the taiwanese Super League, but will besides provide coach and education for local anesthetic referees. Affected by COVID-19, the 2020 Chinese Super League has been postponed to July 25. The 16 teams will be divided into two groups to play in Suzhou and Dalian. This class ‘s league was temporarily changed to a “ Group stage + Knockout ” format and adopted a tournament organization. In July 2021, the nigerian Chinese adolescent Su Yuliang, besides called chinese Mbappe ’ was set for chinese Super League introduction for Guangzhou City. Su Yulia was born in Guangzhou, and is predicted to become become youngest scorekeeper in China ’ s top league [ 11 ]

Planning cooperation structure [edit ]

The preparatory committee of the chinese Professional Football League was established on May 27, 2016, [ 12 ] with members from 5 CSL clubs, 3 CL1 clubs and 2 CL2 clubs, includes two CFA representatives. The blueprint is to have all of the three professional charge leagues of China, the chinese Super League, China Football League one and China Football League two separated from the League structure of the CFA. The PFL will be a secret company wholly owned by its Member Clubs who make up the League at any one meter. Each clubhouse is a stockholder, with one vote each on issues such as rule changes and contracts. The newly formed PFL would have commercial independence from The CFA, giving the PFL license to negotiate its own circulate and sponsorship agreements. The CFA will nobelium longer hold any shares of the League, but as home govern soundbox for football in China the CFA is creditworthy for sanctioning competition Rule Books, and regulating on-field matters. It besides organises The CFA Cup rival, in which PFL Member Clubs compete and the lower division leagues ranked after CL2, under particular agreement between CFA and PFL. The CFA besides has the ability to exercise a vote on certain specific issues, but has no role in the daily run of the CSL, CL1 and CL2. On January 3, 2017, the CFA announced that chinese Professional Football League, formed as a limited company, will be established in March 2017, the CSL and CL1 clubs will be found members of the PFL starts from 2017, with CL2 planning to join the system by 2019. The PFL preparatory committee will discuss and establish the regulations and the structures of the PFL, holding the elections of the PFL president of the united states in January and February 2017. however, after a series of meetings includes CFA officers and baseball club owners, the plan had been put on delay .

Clubs [edit ]

chinese Super League seasons and champions [edit ]

Performances in chinese Super League [edit ]

current clubs [edit ]

erstwhile clubs [edit ]

all-time CSL table [edit ]

The All-time CSL table is an overall criminal record of all match results, points, and goals of every team that has played in CSL since its origin in 2004. The table is accurate as of the end of the 2019 season .

Rivalries [edit ]

There are several key rivalries and local derbies that have formed in the taiwanese Super League, including : “Shanghai Derbies”

  • 2004: Shanghai Shenhua v Inter Shanghai
  • 2005: Shanghai Shenhua v Inter Shanghai v Shanghai United
  • 2006: Shanghai Shenhua v Shanghai United
  • 2012: Shanghai Shenhua v Shanghai Shenxin
  • 2013–2015: Shanghai Shenhua v Shanghai Shenxin v Shanghai Port
  • 2016–present: Shanghai Shenhua v Shanghai Port

“Guangzhou Derbies”
“Dalian Derbies”
“Tianjin Derbies”
“Beijing Derbies”

“Wuhan Derbies”

Players [edit ]

Player salaries and transfers [edit ]

professional footballers in China receive relatively high salaries when compared to other chinese sports leagues and football leagues in other countries. The average wage for CSL players is $ 1,016,579 in 2017, [ 13 ] it is ranked at eleventh rate among all of the professional sports leagues and the sixth-highest of any professional affiliation football league in the populace. CSL has two transfer windows—the primary pre-season remove window lasts two months from January to February, and the secondary mid season transfer window runs one calendar month from mid June to mid July. As of the 2018 season, the CSL introduced newfangled rules mandating that each club must register a maximal 31-man squad, with 27 taiwanese Players, including a actor from Hong Kong, Macau and Chinese Taipei, and 4 foreign players. In the transfer windowpane clubs could sign 5 chinese players at any age, plus 3 under 21 taiwanese players ; clubs could register 4 extraneous players in the winter transmit, and replace two of them in the summer transfer. [ 14 ] The commemorate transmit fee for a CSL player has risen quickly since the investing promote started in 2015. The six most expensive transfers with players coming to CSL have exceeded €30 million, with Chelsea selling Oscar to Shanghai SIPG in December 2016 for a fee of €60 million, [ 15 ] Zenit Saint Petersburg selling Hulk to Shanghai SIPG for €55.8 million in July 2016, Shakhtar Donetsk selling Alex Teixeira to Jiangsu Suning for €50 million in February 2016, Atlético Madrid selling Jackson Martínez to Guangzhou Evergrande for €42 million in February 2016, Villarreal selling Cédric Bakambu to Beijing Guoan for €40 million in February 2018, Atlético Madrid selling Yannick Carrasco to Dalian Yifang for €30 million in February 2018. Guangzhou Evergrande ‘s sale of Paulinho to Barcelona for €40 million in 2017 broke the commemorate for a CSL musician transfer to other leagues. Transfer fees for domestic players besides increased dramatically. Beijing Guoan sold chinese International Zhang Chengdong to Hebei China Fortune for ¥150 million in January 2017, breaking the domestic transportation record for taiwanese players. The Chinese Football Association introduced a new remove tax to restrict transfer spend. On June 20, 2017, CFA announced that any club that pays more than ¥45 million for a extraneous player transfer or ¥20 million for a chinese player transfer must pay the lapp come to a CFA young person development fund. [ 16 ] In December 2020, the CFA imposed a wage cap on the Super League. Starting with the 2021 season, total actor wages are capped at ¥600 million, with a divide limit of €10 million for alien players. Individual player salaries are besides capped, at ¥5 million before tax for taiwanese players and €3 million for foreign players. [ 17 ]

Foreign Player policy [edit ]

In early years numerous players from Eastern Europe, Africa and Latin America regions were signed as the extraneous players in the chinese league. steadily, a lot of players transferred to China from major european and south american english Leagues. The league has rules, at give, restricting the number of foreign players strictly to four per team. A team could use a maximal of three foreign players on the field each game. This is to promote native player improvement and to conform to rules regarding external club competitions in the AFC. Between 2009 and 2017, there was an extra slot for a player from AFC countries. During the middle of the 2012 season, it was decided that teams that were competing in the AFC Champions League were allowed to have two extra foreign players, which can bring the act of foreigners on a team ‘s seven ; however, the policy was removed in the 2013 season .

Season Squad Match On-field Note
1994–2000 3 3 3
2001–2003 4 4 3 From 2001, foreign goalkeepers were restricted to play in matches.
2004–2006 3 3 2
2007–2008 4 4 3
2009–2016 4+1 4+1 3+1 “+1” refers to the AFC quota. Teams may add a player from another country within the AFC; examples include Bhutan, Maldives, and Nepal.
2017 4+1 3 3 Teams can use three foreign players at most in a match.[18]
2018–2019.7 4 3 3 Teams can use three foreign players at most in a match. The number of foreign players on-field in one match must be no more than the number of U-23 domestic players.[19]
2019.7–2019.12 4 4 3
2020– 5 5 4

Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwanese players [edit ]

policy for Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwanese players has changed continually. Players from Hong Kong Football Association were considered foreigners at the begin of 2009, but the league held back the change until the summer transfer windowpane. After the 2010 temper, players from Macau Football Association and Chinese Taipei Football Association ( except goalkeepers ) were not considered foreigners in CSL matches, but will be regarded as foreigners in AFC competitions. In the 2015 season, players who had not played for the Hong Kong national football team, Macau national football team or the chinese Taipei national football team were nobelium long deemed native players. [ 20 ] In the 2016 and 2017 season, players from the three associations whose contract was signed after 1 January 2016 were no longer deemed native players. [ 21 ] From the 2018 temper, a club could register one non-naturalized player from the three associations as a native actor. [ 22 ] According to the taiwanese FA, a non-naturalized player refers to person who was first registered as a professional football player in the three football associations. furthermore, Hong Kong or Macau players must be of chinese descent of Hong Kong or Macau permanent nonmigratory, and min players must be citizens of Taiwan. [ 23 ]

Most goals and appearances [edit ]

As of 28 August 2019

promontory coaches [edit ]

In early years taiwanese and serbian coaches achieved achiever in the taiwanese Super League. Just like the Jia-A period, the majority of extraneous coaches were from countries like Serbia, Croatia and South Korea. Nowadays most CSL clubs appoint coaches from Western Europe and South America. Guangzhou Evergrande were the first side to spend big to bring in european and south american english coaches. World Cup winning managers Marcello Lippi and Luiz Felipe Scolari had successful experiences at Guangzhou Evergrande. celebrated coaches who have coached in China include Fabio Capello, Felix Magath, Manuel Pellegrini, Dan Petrescu, André Villas-Boas, Cuca, Sven-Göran Eriksson, Sergio Batista, Radomir Antić .

attendance [edit ]

The chinese Super League has the highest average attendance of any football league in Asia. however, stadiums have capability restrictions .

Season averages [edit ]

attendance by clubs [edit ]

This postpone lists average attendances of clubs annual, but only for seasons when that club played in the top division. Clubs are listed with their current names .

individual game highest attendance records [edit ]

Rank Home team Score Away team Attendance Stadium Date
1 Jiangsu Sainty 1–1 Guangzhou Evergrande 65,769 Nanjing Olympic Stadium October 20, 2012
2 Jiangsu Sainty 1–2 Guangzhou Evergrande 58,792 Nanjing Olympic Stadium July 14, 2013
3 Beijing Sinobo Guoan 1–1 Shandong Luneng Taishan 56,544 Worker’s Stadium August 5, 2018
4 Guangzhou Evergrande 1–0 Guangzhou R&F 56,300 Tianhe Stadium August 25, 2013
5 Beijing Sinobo Guoan 2–2 Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao 56,211 Worker’s Stadium April 22, 2018
6 Beijing Guoan 4–0 Hangzhou Greentown 54,116 Worker’s Stadium October 31, 2009
7 Beijing Sinobo Guoan 2–0 Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao 54,018 Worker’s Stadium July 10, 2017
8 Beijing Sinobo Guoan 2–2 Shandong Luneng Taishan 53,906 Worker’s Stadium August 5, 2017
9 Beijing Sinobo Guoan 4–0 Beijing Renhe 53,887 Worker’s Stadium March 31, 2018
10 Beijing Guoan 0–2 Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao 53,526 Worker’s Stadium October 31, 2015

Awards [edit ]

The official taiwanese Super league annual awards are given to clubs, players, managers and referees based on their performance during the temper .

trophy [edit ]

The Fire-god trophy is the official trophy award to CSL champions. The trophy was created by the Sculpture Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and donated by the official partner of the taiwanese Super League, Hengyuanxiang Group, in 2004. It consists of a pure gold trophy and a nephrite pedestal establish. The lower function of the trophy is the model of a Great Wall beacon tower ; on the upper depart, on top of the rising radio beacon, is a football wrapped by the worldly concern, while the base has the engraved years and names of each chinese Super League achiever since 2004. The trophy weighs 5.548 kilograms ( 12.23 pound ). The trophy and pedestal are 52 cm ( 20 in ) tall. The trophy is not awarded to the winning club permanently. After the award ceremony they are awarded a replica, and they are allowed to retain the genuine trophy for one year .

player of the year [edit ]

It is besides named the “ Most valuable player ” .

Golden Boot Award [edit ]

This prize is awarded to the acme goalscorer of the league that class .
There is besides an prize that is awarded to the top Chinese goalscorer of that season, which was first introduced in 2011 .

Manager of the class [edit ]

Youth Player of the class [edit ]

There is besides an award that is awarded to the U-23 player of the year, which was first introduced in 2017 .

Year Footballer Club
2017 Huang Zhengyu Guangzhou R&F

Goalkeeper of the year [edit ]

The current official claim presenter of the taiwanese Super League is Ping’an Insurance, under the second patronize conduct between CSL and Ping’an from 2018 through 2022 .

Sponsorships
Season Sponsor Annual value Official league name
2004 Siemens Mobile €8 million Siemens Mobile Chinese Super League
2005 No sponsor Chinese Football Association Super League
2006 IPhox €6 million Iphox Chinese Super League
2007 Kingway Beer ¥36 million[25] Kingway Beer Chinese Super League
2008 ¥38 million Kingway Beer Chinese Super League
2009 Pirelli €5 million[26] Pirelli Chinese Super League
2010 €5 million Pirelli Chinese Super League
2011 Wanda Plaza ¥65 million[27] Wanda Plaza Chinese Super League
2012 ¥65 million Wanda Plaza Chinese Super League
2013 ¥65 million Wanda Plaza Chinese Super League
2014 Ping An Insurance ¥150 million[28] China Ping’an Chinese Super League
2015 ¥165 million China Ping’an Chinese Super League
2016 ¥181.5 million China Ping’an Chinese Super League
2017 ¥199.65 million China Ping’an Chinese Super League
2018 ¥200 million China Ping’an Chinese Super League

Partners and suppliers [edit ]

vitamin a well as sponsorship for the league itself, the chinese Super League has a number of official partners and suppliers. The official equipment supplier for the league is Nike who have had the shrink since the 2005 season. According to data published by Imedia Culture Communication Co., Ltd, the patronize respect from official partners and suppliers of chinese Super League reaches 600 million yuan in 2017 season. [ 29 ] The following table shows the partners and suppliers of the taiwanese Super League. Bold denotes current sponsor .

Media coverage [edit ]

China [edit ]

The first broadcast rights holders of the rebranded Chinese Super League was the Shanghai Media Group ( SMG ), in September 2003 they signed the contract for 2004 to 2006 season. [ 30 ] The second SMG contract was signed in February 2007 for the five-year period from 2007 to 2011. [ 31 ] CCTV acquired the CSL Television rights in 2012, and they held the rights until 2015 under annual condense, [ 32 ] CSL was broadcast in CCTV ‘s populace cable television receiver duct CCTV5 and CCTV5+. however, the Sateliite television rights was sold to Cloud Media from 2014 to 2017. Starting from the 2016 Season The chinese Super League sold its television rights on a collective basis. however, it benefits CSL clubs about equally according to CSL commercial contracts. The money is divided into three parts : 10 % reserved for the Chinese football association and CSL company, which is paid out as facilities fees and management expenses, as to the remaining 90 %, 81 % of them is divided evenly between the clubs ; and 9 % is awarded on a merit basis based on final league situation. [ 33 ] The current media rights holder is the China Sports Media Co., Ltd. ( CSM, simplified taiwanese : 体奥动力,pinyin : tǐ ào dòng lì ), CSM bought the rights for five seasons ( 2016–2020 ) for 8 billion yuan in October 2015. On January 24, 2018, The CSL and CSM reached an agreement to extend the master five-year contract to a 10-year one ( 2016–2025 ) and to raise the price to 11 billion yuan, approximately 1.73 billion dollars according to the exchange rate then prevailing. [ 34 ] [ 35 ]

Worldwide [edit ]

Outside of China, presently IMG holds the global media rights to the chinese Super League. The first contract was signed in 2016 for two seasons, [ 36 ] and in 2018 IMG and CSM has sealed a three-year extension. [ 37 ] The CSL is nowadays broadcasting in 96 countries across the world. [ 38 ]
^DACH – early matches besides available on Sportdigital

Reserve league and Elite league [edit ]

In early years the modesty league was open to all of the reserve teams from the chinese Super League, China League One, and China League Two clubs. In 2011, the lower leagues started their own modesty league. The CSL reserve league strictly allows CSL clubs to compete, it is played at the adjacent day of the regular league, besides in home and away format, since 2018, the military reserve league is held in the lapp venue of the regular league. From 2014 to 2017, an elect league was held under the reserve league, restricted to players between 17 and 19 years old .

Youth development and Youth super league [edit ]

Since the origin of the CSL, the CFA has required all of its clubs to operate youth exploitation, yet it was not a stern standard until 2018. In the CSL club criteria created in 2017, clubs who could not meet the youth development program criteria will be relegated to lower leagues. According to the CSL baseball club criteria, the young teams of CSL clubs must have their own train center, coaching staff, and medical group, and a minimum of 15 % of golf club budgets must be invested into young programmes. CSL clubs are required to have 5 youth flat teams at ages U19, U17, U15, U14 and U13. Clubs must have youth academies and introduce grassroots football plans to cooperate with local football associations, school and social corporations. In 2017 the Youth League system was officially rebranded as Youth Super League. YSL is loose to all the young teams of all master clubs, selected football academies and local FA educate teams in China. Since 2018 the U19 Youth Super league is played with two groups of 18, a sum of 36 clubs. Clubs plays home and away season with promotion and relegation introduced. The U17 and U15 Youth Super Leagues act in six regional leagues with 76 and 77 teams respectively. The U14 and U13 Youth Super leagues play in five regional leagues with 40 and 45 teams respectively. [ 39 ] Besides the Youth Super League, there are besides other tournaments for youth teams across China, including Youth Championship plays in pre-season, Youth FA cup runs during the Youth Super League regular, and Youth Champions Cup plays in off-season .

See besides [edit ]

Notes [edit ]

  1. ^ 1852 games ended up with a draw, resulting up with 3,704 points

References [edit ]