New CSL season starts in March 2, 2018

some new rules applied

club could register 27 players, includes 4 foreigner slots

each club can register a Hong Kong, Macau, or Taiwan player of Chinese descent (excluding goalkeepers), provided that he registered as a professional footballer in one of those three association for the first time, as a native player.

clubs could have three foreigners starting per match,clubs who fields foreign players must have the equivalent number of Chinese under-23 players on the pitch at the same time.

the CFA (Chinese Football Association) had expand the third tier professional league, China League two to 28 clubs this season, and 32 clubs next season, games plays in two conference, Northern and Southern.

the CFA also announces based on the current Chinese FA Ameturish League, the forth level of the professional system officially starts from 2018, with the name Chinese Football Association Member Association Champions League (CMCL).

In November 17, 2017, CFA Vice-President Li Yuyi had explained the expansion plan of Chinese professional league system, according to the project, the top Level CSL will have 18 clubs, with China League one expand to 20 clubs, follows by China League two, 32 clubs, and the forth level, now reband as CMCL, with 48 clubs at most

Meanwhile the 2018 Chinese FA Cup is opened to 92 clubs, with 72 clubs entering competition proper, the 2017 edition involves 76 clubs, with 64 clubs in competition proper, 668,674 spectators in 70 matches, average attendance reaches 9,552

Last season The CSL has a average attendance of 23,766, for lower league, CL1 averages 7,739, CL2 averages 2,534

In Comparasion, the stats of english football in 16/17 is 35,821 for EPL, 20,125 for EFL Championship, 7,576 for EFL League one and 4,751 for EFL League two

Top 50 players in market Value of Chinese Super League 2018

This will be the first CSL season in a long time to not feature any Aussie players.

indeed, and actually there are only 4 AFC players

Oh wow - only 4 AFC players in the whole comp is crazy!

Shanghai Greenland Shenhua1:1Changchun Yatai
Attendance: 21,098
Óscar Romero       Xiaodong Fan

Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao4:5Guangzhou R&F
Attendance 47,839
Alan x3                 Eran Zahavi x3
Ricardo Goulart      Júnior Urso
                             Zhi Xiao

Henan Jianye0:4Tianjin Quanjian
Attendance 17,855
Axel Witsel
 Anthony Modeste x2
Ke Sun

Chongqing Dangdai Lifan1:0Beijing Renhe
Attendance 31,667
Alan Kardec

Shanghai SIPG8:0Dalian Yifang
Attendance 21,813
Oscar x3
Hulk
Lei Wu x3
Wenjun Lü

Tianjin Teda1:1Hebei China Fortune
Attendance 23,781
Jiakang Hui    Chengdong Zhang

Guizhou Hengfeng1:3Jiangsu Suning
Attendance 28,573
Steve       Alex Teixeira x2
               Zichang Huang

Shandong Luneng Taishan3:0Beijing Sinobo Guoan
Attendance 32.517
Diego Tardelli x2
Xinghan Wu

That Zahavi of R&F is a goal scoring machine! On another note, it's interesting to see there are a handful of Korean players but no Japanese players in CSL? I thought being one of the regions powerful nations, Japanese players may be in demand for the Chinese clubs. I guess not?

yes currentlly there is not any Japanese players in CSL and very few in history too, basically playing in CSL demands players to be physically strong rather than technical ability， compareing with J-League CSL plays in much faster tempo and A lot of the teams are very physical and make you fight for everything. I think that's why teams prefer korea, Australia and Uzbekistan players.

but since CSL removed the AFC quote there is actually 4 Asian players in the whole League, we don't know if it a correct move or not, but there had been many succesful AFC players in CSL history, like Ahn Jung-Hwan, Roda Antar, Griffiths Brothers etc, hopes as time flews we could see more and more Asian players in China again

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201805/03/WS5aea610ba3105cdcf651bb33.html
In a meeting convened by the Chinese Football Association last week, executives from CSL and second-tier League One clubs discussed possible wage-control measures, including setting a spending ceiling of 75 percent of a club's annual income, sina.com reported on Wednesday.

The List of players is very good.. 

The CSL has finally joined us in the 21st century and opened a twitter account.

Nice video in their first post.

Chinese Super League standings after round 10:
1 Shandong Luneng Taishan 10 6 2 2 16 8 +8 20
2 Shanghai SIPG 10 6 2 2 25 10 +15 20
3 Beijing Guoan 10 5 4 1 23 16 +7 19
4 Jiangsu Suning 10 6 1 3 18 11 +7 19        
5 Guangzhou Evergrande 10 5 3 2 19 14 +5 18
6 Shanghai Shenhua 10 5 2 3 16 17 -1 17
7 Guangzhou R&F 10 5 1 4 21 22 -1 16
8 Tianjin Teda 10 4 3 3 15 11 +4 15
9 Hebei Fortune 10 3 3 4 14 15 -1 12
10 Beijing Renhe 10 3 3 4 6 11 -5 12
11 Tianjin Quanjian 10 3 3 4 12 12 +0 12
12 Changchun Yatai 10 3 2 5 14 17 -3 11
13 Chongqing Lifan 10 3 2 5 14 14 +0 11
14 Henan Jianye 10 3 1 6 6 15 -9 10
15 Dalian Yifang 10 1 3 6 7 21 -14 6
16 Guizhou Hengfeng 10 1 1 8 13 25 -12 4

Round 11:
Tianjin Teda v Shandong Luneng Taishan
Changchun Yatai v Beijing Guoan
Guangzhou R&F v Henan Jianye
Hebei Fortune v Chongqing Lifan
Beijing Renhe v Guangzhou Evergrande
Tianjin Quanijan v Shanghai Shenhua
Dalian Yifang v Guizhou Hengfeng
Shanghai SIPG v Jiangsu Suning

Chinese FA Cup quarter finals:
Jiangsu Suning v Guangzhou R&F
Beijing Guoan v Shanghai SIPG
Guizhou Hengfeng v Shandong Luneng Taishan
Dalian Yifang v Sichuan Jiuniu

Chinese Super League have a FIFA World Cup break for two months from May 20th to July 18th.

looks like china will be engulfed by AFL fever this weekend

expect rivers of gold and 100000 at the stadium marquee

Chinese Super League standings after round 16:
1 Beijing Guoan 16 9 6 1 39 25 +14 33
2 Shandong Luneng Taishan 16 9 5 2 26 14 +12 32
3 Shanghai SIPG 15 9 3 3 37 14 +23 30
4 Guangzhou Evergrande15 9 3 3 35 18 +17 30
5 Jiangsu Suning 16 8 4 4 23 15 +8 28        
6 Shanghai Shenhua 16 6 5 5 24  27 -3 23
7 Guangzhou R&F 16 6 4 6 32 33 -1 22
8 Tianjin Teda 16 6 3 7 22 22 +0 21
9 Tianjin Quanjian 16 6 3 7 22 23 -1 21
10 Beijing Renhe 16 5 5 6 14 22 -8 20
11 Hebei Fortune 16 4 6 6 22 26 -4 18
12 Changchun Yatai 16 5 3 8 21 25 -4 18
13 Henan Jianye 16 5 3 8 14 23 -9 18
14 Chongqing Lifan 16 4 3 9 22 29 -7 15
15 Dalian Yifang 16 3 4 9 13 31 -18 13       
16 Guizhou Zhicheng 16 2 2 12 21 40 -19 8

Friday August 10th:
21:35     Beijing Guoan    -              Jiangsu Suning  
21:35     Dalian Yifang      -              Guangzhou R&F              
21:35     Tianjin Teda        -              Henan Construction       

Saturday August 11th:
20:00     Changchun YaTai              -              Guangzhou Evergrande               
22:00     Chongqing Lifan                -              Shandong Luneng           
22:00     Hebei CFFC         -              Guizhou Zhicheng           
22:00     Shanghai SIPG   -              Shanghai Shenhua          
22:00     Beijing Renhe    -              Tianjin Quanjian              

Chinese FA Cup semi final 1st leg,
Beijing Guoan v Guangzhou R&F
Dalian Yifang v Shandong Luneng Taishan

1st leg to be played between Tuesday August 21-Wednesday August 22nd

Chinese FA Cup semi final 2nd leg,
Guangzhou R&F v Beijing Guoan
Shandong Luneng Taishan v Dalian Yifang

2nd leg to be played between Tuesday September 25-Wednesday September 26

Chinese Super League standings after round 23:
1 Shanghai SIPG 23 16 4 3 58 23 +35 52
2 Guangzhou Evergrande 23 15 3 5 58 27 +31 48
3 Beijing Guoan 23 13 6 4 56 37 +19 45
4 Shandong Luneng Taishan 23 13 5 5 42 28 +14 44
5 Jiangsu Suning 23 9 8 6 31 24 +7 35
6 Hebei Fortune 23 8 8 7 35 33 +2 32
7 Guangzhou R&F 23 8 5 10 42 46 -4 29
8 Changchun Yatai 23 8 5 10 36 39 -3 29
9 Beijing Renhe 23 7 8 8 27 34 -7 29
10 Dalian Yifang 23 8 5 10 28 42 -14 29
11 Tianjin Quanjian 23 7 6 10 27 35 -8 27
12 Tianjin Teda 23 7 6 10 31 37 -6 27
13 Shanghai Shenhua 23 7 6 10 32 42 -10 27
14 Chongqing Lifan 23 5 6 12 28 38 -10 21
15 Henan Jianye 23 5 4 14 18 38 -20 19
16 Guizhou Zhicheng 23 4 3 16 29 52 -23 15

Round 24 schedule:
Changchun Yatai v Jiangsu Suning – Saturday September 29th   
Beijing Guoan v Shanghai SIPG – Saturday September 29th
Guangzhou Evergrande v Dalian Yifang – Saturday September 29th
Henan Jianye v Hebei Fortune – Saturday September 29th
Guizhou Zhicheng v Tianjin Teda – Sunday September 30th
Shandong Luneng Taishan v Beijing Renhe – Sunday September 30th
Shanghai Shenhua v Guangzhou R&F – Sunday September 30th               
Tianjin Quanjian v Chongqing Lifan – Sunday September 30th

Chinese FA Cup semi final 2nd leg,

Tuesday September 25th 9.35pm AEST Shandong Luneng Taishan v Dalian Yifang
(Shandong Luneng Taishan lead 1-0 on aggregate)

Wednesday September 26th 9.35pm AEST Guangzhou R&F v Beijing Guoan
(Beijing Guoan lead 5-1 on aggregate)

Shanghai SIPG will qualify for the 2019 AFC Champions League with a win away at Beijing Guoan combined with Jiangsu Suning fail to beat Changchun Yatai in Changchun.

Chinese Super League standings after round 25:
1 Shanghai SIPG 25 18 4 3 64 23 +41 58 – Qualified (AFC Champions League 2019)
2 Guangzhou Evergrande 25 17 3 5 64 27 +37 54 – Qualified (AFC Champions League 2019)
3 Shandong Luneng Taishan 25 14 6 5 46 31 +15 48
4 Beijing Guoan 25 14 6 5 59 38 +21 48
5 Jiangsu Suning 25 10 8 7 37 29 +8 38
6 Beijing Renhe 25 8 9 8 29 35 -6 33
7 Shanghai Shenhua 25 9 6 10 36 43 -7 33
8 Hebei Fortune 25 8 8 9 35 38 -3 32
9 Dalian Yifang 25 9 5 11 31 46 -15 32
10 Changchun Yatai 25 8 6 11 39 45 -6 30
11 Guangzhou R&F 25 8 5 12 43 52 -9 29
12 Tianjin Teda 25 7 7 11 34 41 -7 28
13 Tianjin Quanjian 25 7 6 12 29 41 -12 27
14 Chongqing Lifan 25 6 6 13 31 39 -8 24
15 Henan Jianye 25 6 4 15 20 39 -19 22
16 Guizhou Zhicheng 25 5 3 17 30 57 -27 18

Round 26 schedule:
Guangzhou Evergrande v Beijing Renhe – Saturday October 20th
Guizhou Zhicheng v Dalian Yifang – Saturday October 20th
Chongqing Lifan v Hebei Fortune – Saturday October 20th
Shanghai Shenhua v Tianjin Quanjian – Saturday October 20th 
Shandong Luneng Taishan v Tianjin Teda – Saturday October 20th 
Beijing Guoan v Changchun Yatai – Sunday October 21st 
Henan Jianye v Guangzhou R&F – Sunday October 21st 
Jiangsu Suning v Shanghai SIPG – Sunday October 21st

ACL QUALIFICATION ALERT – China (Round 26):
Shandong Luneng Taishan will officially confirm its spot in the 2019 AFC Champions League with a home win against Tianjin Teda on Saturday October 20th kickoff is at 10.35pm AEDT at Jinan Olympic Sports Centre in Jinan and combined Jiangsu Suning fail to beat Shanghai SIPG on Sunday October 21st kickoff is at 10.35pm AEDT at Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre in Nanjing.

Beijing Guoan will officially confirm its spot in the 2019 AFC Champions League with a home win against Changchun Yatai on Sunday October 21st kickoff is at 6.30pm AEDT at Workers Stadium in Beijing and combined Jiangsu Suning fail to beat Shanghai SIPG on Sunday October 21st kickoff is at 10.35pm AEDT at Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre in Nanjing.