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

Thanks for the update Greenlionii! That's a lot of awesome info. :)

It's amazing watching the CSL grow the way it is. Quite incredible. Expanding their lower levels will see a lot of professional clubs start to rise. China has the a LOT of cities with millions of people, so it may as well.

Hopefully this will be Guoan's year.

And an Aussie broadcast would be awesome too. Maybe beIN would pick it up eventually...

Thanks mikedude,Forza Guo'an! We are not in the ACL so I believe it is a little advantage for us as GE and SIPG etc has much more busy schedule, and the club actually did well in transfer, really a promising season to me.

LeEco has snapped up the Internet rights for the league in Hong Kong, Macau, mainland China, Taiwan, India, the United States, Canada and several Southeast Asian countries for the next two seasons. it is the same company that shows A-League,K-League and J-League online in China, so I guess maybe a negotiation of CSL rights in Australia is in progress

Edited by greenlionii: 27/2/2016 09:45:22 下午

Edited by greenlionii: 27/2/2016 09:44:23 下午

IMG scores global rights to Chinese Super League

http://www.sportbusiness.com/sport-news/img-scores-global-rights-chinese-super-league

Can you copy and paste it in here? I can't view the article.

Alright

Guangzhou R&F 1-2 Hebei CFFC 9,889


Shanghai Greenland Shenhua 1-1 Yanbian Fude 23,835


Jiangsu Suning 3-0 Shandong Luneng Taishan 48,795


Henan Jianye 1-0 Shanghai SIPG 20,889

Chongqing Lifan 2-1 Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao 48,855
Shijiazhuang Everbright 0-1 Liaoning FC 22,352

Unknown superstar Fernandinho scores 2 to down the might of Evergrande. Jiangsu took only 1 ACL draw to get into full swing this last week with wins over Joenbuk and 3-0 against Shandong today.

Of 16 goals scored in CSL's 1st weekend all scored by foreigners (well 1 by a Taiwanese player) & all 5 red cards went to Chinese players

Goal against Svens Shanghai

http://tv.aftonbladet.se/abtv/articles/112804

Pitch is appalling. Defense even worse.

If we had those sort of names they have, the money they have and the population they have we'd blow the CSL out of the water.

Our crowds, considering all this are quite good.

Chinese players did quite well in Round 2 though

CSL Round 2
Shanghai SIPG 1 : 1 Shanghai Shenhua 46,537
Jiangsu Suning 2 : 1 Yanbian Fude 35,193
Shandong Luneng Taishan 3 : 2 Liaoning Whowin 12,486
Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao 3-0 Changchun Yatai 45,931
Tianjin Teda 0-1 Guangzou R&F 28,736

China League One Round 1
Dalian Yifang 2-0 Zhejiang Yiteng 15,390
Shenzhen FC 2-1 Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard 20,801
Qingdao Jonoon 1-0 Neimenggu Zhongyou 4,512
Wuhan Zall 1-1 Beijing BG 8,316

Edited by greenlionii: 13/3/2016 02:51:36 上午

Not CSL but this from Wild East Football.

China League One (2nd tier) teams spent 47 million Euro on players this window - 4th highest of any world league, says Chinese media.
10:01 PM - 10 Mar 2016


Edited by AEK Spartan: 14/3/2016 09:23:06 PM

I've seen a footage from my friend who support Shenhua, that few SIPG fan punched a Shenhua fan after the match...

CSL Round 2

Chongqing Lifan 0-1 Henan Jianye 38,120
Shijiazhuang Everbright 1-0 Hangzhou Greentown 20,489

China League one Round 1
Guizhou Zhicheng 1-1 Meizhou Kejia 30,568
Hunan Xiangtao 0-0 Beijing Renhe 15,650
Qingdao Huanghai 0-3 Tianjin Quanjian 6,581
Shanghai Shenxin 1-3 Dalian Chaoyue 5,070

Please share mon!!!

LOL here we go

http://view.inews.qq.com/a/SPO201603100605330H?from=timeline&isappinstalled=0

He he

Looks like he was getting a kicking too. The English disease.

Nedved becomes Chinese Super League ambassador

http://lucenainformacion.com/2016/03/31/nedved-becomes-chinese-super-league-ambassador/

And still no tv deal lolk

CSL 2016 Round 3
Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao 2-0 Guangzhou R&F 46,993
Hangzhou Greentown 2-0 Shandong Luneng Taishan 12,190
Yanbian Fude 1-0 Beijing Guo'an 22,251
Chongqing Lifan 1-1 Shanghai SIPG 44,160
Liaoning Whowin 1-1 Henan Jianye 48,157
Hebei China Fortune 1-1 Jiangsu Suning 24,368

April 3
Changchun Yatai VS Tianjin Teda
Shanghai Greenland Shenhua VS Shijiazhuang Ever Bright
Update to April 2
Total attendance 648,626
Average attendance 30,887

http://gbtimes.com/china/french-broadcaster-acquires-chinese-super-league-rights

French broadcaster acquires Chinese Super League rights

Finally.
That's great news.

Ooft. World domination

CSL 2016 Round 6
Hangzhou Greentown 1-1 Chongqing Lifan 7,128
Yanbian Fude 1-2 Henan Jianye 21,150
Guangzhou R&F 1-1 Jiangsu Suning 10,978
Beijing Guoan 0-0 Liaoning Whowin 39,771
Changchun Yatai 1-3 Shanghai SIPG 18,526
Tianjin Teda 0-4 Guangzhou Evergrande 20,860
Shijiazhuang Ever Bright 2-1 Shandong Luneng 22,048
Shanghai greenland Shenhua 2-0 Hebei China Fortune 23,859

Update to April 25, Total attendance 1,273,411, Average attendance 27,094

TABLE CHINESE SUPER LEAGUE 2016
1    Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao   15pts
2    Jiangsu Suning                   14
3    Shanghai SIPG                   11
4    Henan Jianye                   10
5    Shanghai Greenland Shenhua       9
6    Shijiazhuang Ever Bright         8
7    Hebei China Fortune              8
8    Hangzhou Greentown            7
9    Chongqing Lifan                  7
10    Shandong Luneng Taishan            7
11    Tianjin Teda                    6
12    Liaoning FC                    6
13    Yanbian Funde                    5
14    Guangzhou R&F                    5
15    Beijing Guoan                    5
16    Changchun Yatai                    2