The 2016 CFA Super cup will be held on February 27, Jiangsu Suning VS Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao, Two of the most valuable club in Asia,opens the New season of China Professional football.
the CSL season starts from March 4, the schedule for the first round:
March 4
Guangzhou R&F VS Hebei China Fortune
March 5
Hangzhou Greentwon VS Changchun Yatai
Henan Jianye VS Shanghai SIPG
Jiangsu Suning VS Shandong Luneng Taishan
Shanghai Greenland Shenhua VS Yanbian Fude
March 6
Shijiazhuang Ever Bright VS Liaoning Whowin
Chongqing Lifan VS Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao
March 16
Tianjin Teda VS Beijing Guo'an, the match is postponded to march 16 as home stadium of Tianjin is still under maintanance
the 2015 season scores a lot of new record in CSL history, the League had sign a record high broadcast deal, the total attendance reaches 5,326,304, the highest in the Leagues history, the CSL 2015 average attendance reach 22,193, the avg number for china league 1 is 9,007, and 2,577 for China League 2.
CSL average attendance changes:
this year, the League will starts expansion, the CL2 will be expand to 20 clubs in 2016, and the expansion plan is like this:
CSL: 17 clubs in 2021, 18 clubs in 2022
CL1: 17 clubs in 2017, and in the following 4 years there will be 1 more club added to the League every year, CL1 will have 20 clubs in 2020
CL2: expand starts from 2016, 2016 CL2 will have 20 clubs, until 2027, the CL2 will keep a scale of 48 clubs!
4th Level will be added and there will be promotion/relegation between 4th level and CL2.
Independent research institute Weining Sports had published financial report for CSL 2015, and in 2015 season, the League as a whole has a total income of 3.2 billion RMB (440.64 million EUR),
The League's management company, The CSL Company has a total income of 96.39 million EUR, 20.66 million EUR from title sponsor,73.81 million EUR from other sponsorship and adervitising, includes 10.1981 million EUR from broadcasting rights.the CSL company has a revenue of 53.75 million EUR
Main Income of the CSL company in 2015
Official Title sponsor :
Ping An insurance 20.925 million EUR
Official partener
Nike:15.345 million EUR
Ledman Optoelectronic: 6.2775 m EUR
Ford:5.301 m EUR
JD.COM: 4.185 m EUR
DHL: 4.185m EUR
Carlsberg: 2.79m EUR
Blueflame Media: 2.79m EUR
Official supplier:
Shell:2.79m EUR
Braodcasting Rights: 10.1981 m EUR
the 16 CSL clubs has a total income of 2.5 billion RMB (344.25 million EUR), includes the share bonus from CSL company, each club gots 2.15 million EUR.
the League (CSL Company + 16 clubs) has a total expenditure of 4 billion RMB (570.86 million EUR), CSL Loses 130.22 million EUR last season, the highest losses in CSL history.
Expendture of CSL clubs in genaral
Under the new broadcast deal (1.1 billion EUR for five years and 137.7 million for next season), the CSL officers estimated the total incomes of CSL 2016 will exceed 4 billion RMB (570.86 million EUR), ant least 6 clubs will reach profitablity.the CSL company is expecting to have total income of 192.9 million EUR in 2016 season, and a revenue of 165.4 million EUR, each club is expecting to recoeve a share bonus of at least 9.26 million EUR.
Guangzhou is still the best, Is not because they have better attacking line but they have the best defensive collection in CSL.
CSL is not like a walk in the garden to Guangzhou Evergrande in recent seasons, the top 2 or 3 clubs all have European class forwards so some times the results is decided by who lost fewer.
But this year Shanghai SIPG has better chances to win the Vulcan Cup (CSL Trophy) than previous season, Shandong and Beijing are also potentiallly contenders, Jiangsu is also hopeful although they ********ed themself off in Vietnam, but I think it is a expectable results as the team actually only played together for 5 or 6 days, Hebei CFFC still need further observision as newly promoted team while Shanghai Greenland Shenhua, they are wankers
the most interesting part is most of these above clubs had annouced or indicated they want to win the ACL in five years or some simmilar plan etc, so it made the CSL looks like a ambitious League to people outside China, I still believe the big spending tendency is bacause these clubs have no chioce but to do so in order to catch up teams like GE or SIPG and to make fans and sponsors happy so that the clubs could keep their face as "powerhouse" etc.
Edited by greenlionii: 27/2/2016 07:10:32 下午