2014 Chinese Super League

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Hangzhou Greentown
(4 May 2014)
Average attendance18,986
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The 2014 Chinese Super League was the eleventh season since the establishment of the

Guangzhou Evergrande
won their fourth consecutive title of the league.

Promotion and relegation

Teams promoted from 2013 China League One

  • Henan Jianye
  • Harbin Yiteng

Teams relegated to 2014 China League One

  • Qingdao Jonoon
  • Wuhan Zall

Clubs

Clubs and locations

Club Head Coach City Stadium Capacity 2013 season
Guangzhou Evergrande TH
 Italy Marcello Lippi Guangzhou Tianhe Stadium 58,500 1st
Shandong Luneng Taishan
Cuca
 Jinan Jinan Olympic Sports Luneng Stadium 56,808 2nd
Beijing Guoan
 Spain Gregorio Manzano Beijing Workers' Stadium 66,161 3rd
Guizhou Renhe Moutai
 China Zhu Jiong Guiyang Guiyang Olympic Sports Center 51,636 4th
Dalian Aerbin
 Japan Yasuharu Kurata Dalian
Dalian Sports Center
 61,000 5th
Guangzhou R&F
 Sweden Sven-Göran Eriksson Guangzhou Yuexiushan Stadium 18,000 6th
Shanghai Shenxin
 China Guo Guangqi Shanghai Jinshan Football Stadium 30,000 7th
Shanghai Greenland Shenhua
 Argentina Sergio Batista Shanghai Hongkou Football Stadium 33,060 8th
Shanghai SIPG
 China Xi Zhikang Shanghai Shanghai Stadium 56,842 9th
Liaoning Whowin
 China Chen Yang Shenyang (playing in Panjin)
Panjin Stadium
 35,600 10th
Tianjin Teda
 Netherlands Arie Haan Tianjin
Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium
 54,696 11th
Hangzhou Greentown
 China Yang Ji (caretaker) Hangzhou Yellow Dragon Sports Center 52,672 12th
Jiangsu Guoxin Sainty
 China Gao Hongbo Nanjing
Nanjing Olympic Sports Center
 61,443 13th
Changchun Yatai
 Serbia Dragan Okuka Changchun Development Area Stadium 25,000 14th
Henan Jianye P
 China Jia Xiuquan Zhengzhou
Zhengzhou Hanghai Stadium
 29,860 CL1, 1st
Harbin Yiteng P
 Croatia Marijo Tot Harbin
Harbin ICE Sports Center
 50,000 CL1, 2nd
Henan Jianye
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Location of teams in 2014 Chinese Super League

Managerial changes

Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Table Incoming manager Date of appointment
Jiangsu Sainty
 Serbia Dragan Okuka Expiration of contract 5 November 2013[1] N/A China Gao Hongbo 8 November 2013[2]
Hangzhou Greentown
 Japan Takeshi Okada Resigned 5 November 2013[3] N/A China Yang Ji (caretaker) 8 November 2013[4]
Shanghai SIPG
 China Gao Hongbo Expiration of contract 8 November 2013[2] N/A China Xi Zhikang 4 December 2013[5]
Liaoning Whowin
Ma Lin
 Expiration of contract 27 November 2013[6] N/A China Gao Sheng 27 November 2013[6]
Shanghai Shenxin
 China Guo Guangqi (caretaker) – 2 December 2013[7] N/A China Cheng Yaodong 2 December 2013[7]
Dalian Aerbin
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Simo Krunić Sacked 9 December 2013[8] N/A
Ma Lin
 9 December 2013 [8]
Shandong Luneng
 Serbia Radomir Antić Sacked 21 December 2013[9] N/A
Cuca
 22 December 2013[10]
Tianjin Teda
 Costa Rica Alexandre Guimarães Expiration of contract 31 December 2013 N/A Netherlands Arie Haan 12 January 2014[11]
Beijing Guoan
 Serbia Aleksandar Stanojević Sacked 10 January 2014[12] N/A Spain Gregorio Manzano 11 February 2014[13]
Shanghai Greenland Shenhua
 China Shen Xiangfu – 29 March 2014[14] 11th Argentina Sergio Batista 29 March 2014[14]
Liaoning Whowin
 China Gao Sheng Resigned 9 April 2014[15] 10th China Chen Yang 9 April 2014[15]
Changchun Yatai
 Serbia Svetozar Šapurić Resigned 21 April 2014[16] 15th China Gao Jinggang (caretaker) 21 April 2014[16]
Guizhou Moutai
 China Gong Lei – 23 April 2014[17] 7th China Zhu Jiong 23 April 2014[17]
Changchun Yatai
 China Gao Jinggang (caretaker) – 28 April 2014[18] 12th Serbia Dragan Okuka 28 April 2014[18]
Dalian Aerbin
Ma Lin
 Resigned 28 May 2014[19] 13th Japan Yasuharu Kurata 30 May 2014[20]
Henan Jianye
 China Tang Yaodong Resigned 28 May 2014[21] 15th China Jia Xiuquan 3 June 2014[22]
Harbin Yiteng
 China Duan Xin – 19 July 2014 16th Croatia Marijo Tot 19 July 2014[23]
Shanghai Shenxin
 China Cheng Yaodong Resigned 29 September 2014[24] 14th China Guo Guangqi 29 September 2014[24]

Foreign players

The number of foreign players is restricted to five per CSL team, including a slot for a player from AFC countries. A team can use four foreign players on the field in each game, including at least one player from the AFC country. Players from Hong Kong, Macau and Chinese Taipei are deemed to be native players in CSL.[25]

  • Players name in bold indicates the player is registered during the mid-season transfer window.
Club Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 Player 4 AFC player Former players1
Beijing Guoan
 Argentina Pablo Batalla Croatia Darko Matić Montenegro Dejan Damjanović Sweden Erton Fejzullahu South Korea Ha Dae-sung Ecuador Joffre Guerrón[26]
Nigeria Peter Utaka
Changchun Yatai
 Argentina Matías Iglesias Brazil Eninho Hungary Szabolcs Huszti Montenegro Fatos Bećiraj Uzbekistan Anzur Ismailov Brazil Rafael Coelho[27]
Dalian Aerbin
 Argentina Esteban Solari Brazil Bruno Meneghel Sweden Niklas Backman Croatia Leon Benko
Iraq Nashat Akram
Guangzhou Evergrande
 Brazil Elkeson Brazil Renê Júnior Italy Alessandro Diamanti Italy Alberto Gilardino South Korea Kim Young-gwon Brazil Muriqui[28] 　
Guangzhou R&F
 Brazil Davi Morocco Abderrazak Hamdallah Nigeria Aaron Samuel Olanare South Korea Park Jong-woo South Korea Jang Hyun-soo Denmark Ken Ilsø[29]
Guizhou Renhe
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Zvjezdan Misimović Brazil Hyuri Germany Mike Hanke
Krzysztof Maczynski
 Australia Jonas Salley Bosnia and Herzegovina Zlatan Muslimović
Hangzhou Greentown
 Brazil Gilberto Macena Brazil Anselmo Ramon Ivory Coast Davy Claude Angan Slovenia Luka Žinko South Korea Son Dae-ho
Harbin Yiteng
Adam Hughes
 Brazil Dori Brazil Rodrigo Paulista Colombia Ricardo Steer South Korea Choi Hyun-yeon South Korea Noh Hyung-goo[30]
Henan Jianye
 Angola Nando Rafael Brazil Rafael Marques
Ryan Johnson
 Sierra Leone Gibril Sankoh South Korea Lee Ji-nam
Jiangsu Sainty
 Brazil Eleílson Brazil Elias Colombia Edison Toloza Lebanon Roda Antar
Yoon Sin-young
 Montenegro Dejan Damjanović
Liaoning Whowin
 Australia Josh Mitchell Nigeria Derick Ogbu Serbia Aleksandar Jevtić Zambia James Chamanga Australia Billy Celeski[31]
Belgium Kevin Oris
Uzbekistan Artyom Filiposyan[31]
Shandong Luneng
 Argentina Walter Montillo Brazil Aloísio Brazil Vágner Love
Junior Urso
 Australia Ryan McGowan
Shanghai Greenland Shenhua
 Argentina Lucas Viatri Brazil Paulo André
Paulo Henrique
 Colombia Giovanni Moreno South Korea Cho Byung-kuk Colombia Luis Ruiz
Syria Firas Al-Khatib[32]
Shanghai Shenxin
 Brazil Everton Brazil Johnny Brazil Jaílton Paraíba Nigeria Peter Utaka South Korea Lim You-hwan Brazil Kieza[33]
Montenegro Radomir Đalović[34]
Shanghai SIPG
 Ghana Ransford Addo Spain Ibán Cuadrado Sweden Tobias Hysén Sweden Imad Khalili Australia Daniel McBreen
Tianjin Teda
 Brazil Andrezinho Brazil Baré Brazil Éder Lima Colombia Carmelo Valencia Lebanon Mak Lind
  • ^1 Foreign players who left their clubs after first half of the season.

Hong Kong/Macau/Taiwan players (doesn't count on the foreign player slot)

Club Player 1 Player 2
Guizhou Renhe
 Chinese Taipei Xavier Chen
Harbin Yiteng
 Hong Kong Wisdom Fofo Agbo
Shanghai Shenhua
 Chinese Taipei Chen Po-liang Hong Kong Brian Fok

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1
Guangzhou Evergrande
(C) 		30 22 4 4 76 28 +48 70 Qualification to Champions League group stage
2 Beijing Guoan 30 21 4 5 50 25 +25 67 Qualification to Champions League play-off round
3
Guangzhou R&F
 30 17 6 7 67 39 +28 57 Qualification to Champions League preliminary round 2
4
Shandong Luneng Taishan[a]
 30 12 12 6 41 29 +12 48[b] Qualification to Champions League group stage
5
Shanghai East Asia
 30 12 12 6 47 39 +8 48[b]
6
Guizhou Moutai
 30 11 8 11 33 35 −2 41
7
Tianjin TEDA
 30 10 9 11 41 44 −3 39
8
Jiangsu Sainty
 30 9 10 11 37 45 −8 37
9
Shanghai Greenland Shenhua
 30 8 11 11 33 45 −12 35
10
Liaoning Whowin
 30 8 9 13 33 48 −15 33[c]
11 Shanghai Shenxin 30 9 6 15 26 42 −16 33[c]
12
Hangzhou Greentown
 30 8 8 14 43 60 −17 32[d]
13 Changchun Yatai 30 8 8 14 33 40 −7 32[d]
14
Henan Jianye
 30 6 12 12 32 39 −7 30
15
Dalian Aerbin
(R) 		30 6 11 13 32 45 −13 29 Relegation to League One
16
Harbin Yiteng
(R) 		30 5 6 19 35 56 −21 21
Source: Chinese Super League (in Chinese)
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th head-to-head goals scored; 5th reserve league points; 6th goal difference; 7th goals scored; 8th disciplinary points (1 point for each yellow card, 3 points for each red card).
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ Shandong Luneng Taishan qualified for the 2015 AFC Champions League Group Stage from winning the 2014 Chinese FA Cup.
  2. ^
    Shandong
  3. ^
    Liaoning 3–0 Shanghai S.
  4. ^
    Hangzhou 1–1 Changchun

Results

Home \ Away
GZ
SD
 BJ
GZM
DL
GZF
 SHS
SGS
SHE
LN
TJ
HZ
JS
 CC
HN
HEB
Guangzhou Evergrande
 0–0 0–1 1–1 4–2 0–1 2–1 2–1 5–0 6–0 2–1 4–0 3–0 1–3 3–0 4–1
Shandong Luneng Taishan
 1–1 2–2 0–0 1–2 3–3 4–0 2–0 3–3 1–0 2–2 2–0 2–2 1–0 2–1 1–0
Beijing Guoan 1–1 0–3 2–1 4–1 2–0 2–1 2–0 2–0 1–0 2–1 4–0 1–0 1–0 0–0 2–0
Guizhou Moutai
 1–2 0–0 1–2 0–2 2–1 0–1 3–0 1–1 1–0 2–0 2–1 1–1 0–1 3–1 3–2
Dalian Aerbin
 1–2 1–3 0–1 1–1 0–0 2–1 0–1 1–1 1–2 2–3 1–1 2–2 2–1 1–1 3–1
Guangzhou R&F
 3–4 1–3 3–1 1–0 3–0 0–1 4–0 2–2 0–0 2–3 6–2 3–2 3–1 4–0 5–1
Shanghai Shenxin 0–1 0–1 2–1 0–1 1–1 1–3 0–2 1–3 0–0 0–1 1–1 1–1 0–2 2–1 1–0
Shanghai Greenland Shenhua
 1–2 1–0 0–3 1–0 2–0 0–0 2–0 1–1 3–2 2–5 1–3 1–1 2–3 0–0 2–1
Shanghai East Asia
 0–3 0–0 1–0 5–2 2–0 1–2 5–1 1–1 3–3 1–1 2–1 3–0 1–0 1–0 1–0
Liaoning Whowin
 0–4 0–0 1–3 1–2 0–0 1–5 3–0 1–1 1–1 0–2 2–1 0–2 3–1 1–0 3–0
Tianjin TEDA
 2–5 1–1 0–1 1–2 2–1 1–1 0–0 1–0 3–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–1 1–1 3–0
Hangzhou Greentown
 1–4 4–1 1–2 2–1 1–1 1–3 2–2 0–0 1–2 3–4 2–0 3–1 1–1 1–1 2–1
Jiangsu Sainty
 0–2 1–0 2–3 0–0 1–0 1–3 0–3 1–1 1–0 1–1 4–0 2–2 0–2 3–4 2–1
Changchun Yatai 2–1 1–0 2–2 0–0 1–1 2–3 0–2 2–2 1–2 2–0 1–1 2–3 0–1 0–0 0–2
Henan Jianye
 0–1 1–2 2–1 1–2 2–2 4–0 1–2 2–2 1–0 1–0 0–1 3–0 1–1 0–0 1–1
Harbin Yiteng
 3–6 2–0 0–1 4–0 0–1 0–2 0–1 3–3 1–1 2–2 0–0 3–1 1–2 3–1 2–2
Updated to match(es) played on 2 Nov. 2014. Source: Results on the official website of the Chinese Super League (in Chinese)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Positions by round

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Harbin Yiteng
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Leader and qualification to AFC Champions League Group stage
Qualification to AFC Champions League Play-off round
Qualification to AFC Champions League Preliminary round 2
Relegation to League One
Source: Table by round
(in Chinese)