2015 China League One

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China League One
Season2015
Champions
Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard 2−2 Qingdao Hainiu
(Sep. 14th, 2015)
Average attendance8,859
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The 2015 China League One[1] is the 12th season of the China League One, the second tier of the Chinese football league pyramid, since its establishment in 2004. The league title sponsor is 58.com.[2]

Teams

A total of 16 teams will contest the league, including 11 sides from the 2014 season, two relegated from the 2014 Chinese Super League and three promoted from the 2014 China League Two.

Team changes

Name changes

Clubs

Stadiums and Locations

Club name Team name Head Coach City Stadium Capacity 2014 season
Dalian Aerbin R
 Dalian Aerbin Sweden Mikael Stahre Dalian
Dalian Sports Center
 61,000 CSL, 15th
Harbin Yiteng R
 Harbin Yiteng China Duan Xin Harbin
Harbin ICE Sports Center
 50,000 CSL, 16th
Wuhan Zall
 Wuhan Zall China Zheng Xiong Wuhan Xinhua Road Sports Center 32,137 3rd
Beijing Enterprises Group
 Beijing BG Yanjing Serbia Aleksandar Stanojević Beijing
Olympic Sports Centre (Beijing)
 36,228 4th
Qingdao Jonoon
 Qingdao Jonoon Serbia Dragan Stančić (caretaker) Qingdao Qingdao Tiantai Stadium 20,525 5th
Hunan Billows
 Hunan Billows North Macedonia Žikica Tasevski Changsha (playing in Yiyang) Yiyang Olympic Sports Park Stadium 30,000 6th
Tianjin Songjiang
 Tianjin Songjiang Croatia Goran Tomić Tianjin Tianjin Tuanbo Football Stadium 30,320 7th
Shenzhen F.C. Shenzhen Sky Forever Hong Kong Li Haiqiang (caretaker) Shenzhen Bao'an Stadium 40,000 8th
Beijing BIT Beijing Xinyuan China Yuan Wei Beijing
BIT Eastern Athletic Field
 5,000 9th
Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard
 Xinjiang Dabancheng Nahuan China Li Jun Ürümqi Xinjiang Sports Centre 50,000 10th
Qingdao Hainiu Qingdao Huanghai Hainiu China Sun Xinbo (caretaker) Qingdao Conson Stadium 45,000 12th
Hebei Zhongji
 Hebei China Fortune China Li Tie Qinhuangdao Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Center Stadium 33,572 14th
Yanbian Changbaishan
 Yanbian Changbaishan South Korea Park Tae-ha Yanji
Yanji Nationwide Fitness Centre Stadium
 30,000 16th
Jiangxi Liansheng P
 Jiangxi Liansheng China Sun Wei Nanchang Jiangxi Olympic Sports Center 50,000 CL2, 1st
Nei Mongol Zhongyou P
 Hohhot Zhongyou
Wang Bo
 Hohhot Hohhot City Stadium 60,000 CL2, 2nd
Guizhou Zhicheng P
 Guizhou Zhicheng China Chen Mao Guiyang Guizhou Provincial Stadium 18,000 CL2, 3rd
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Location of teams in 2015 China League One[7]

Managerial changes

Club Outgoing manager Date of vacancy Incoming manager Date of appointment
Tianjin Songjiang
 Portugal Manuel Cajuda 6 November 2014[8] Croatia Dražen Besek 15 December 2014 [9]
Hunan Billows
 China Huang Cheng 27 November 2014
Aleksandar Stankov
 27 November 2014 [10]
Yanbian Changbaishan
 China Gao Zhongxun 5 December 2014 South Korea Park Tae-ha 5 December 2014 [11]
Dalian Aerbin
 Japan Yasuharu Kurata 31 December 2014 [12] Sweden Mikael Stahre 5 January 2015 [13]
Hebei Zhongji
 Uruguay Alejandro Larrea 31 December 2014 Serbia Radomir Antić 27 January 2015 [14]
Guizhou Zhicheng
 China Zhang Jun 31 December 2014 [15] China Chen Mao 29 January 2015 [16]
Harbin Yiteng
 Croatia Marijo Tot 31 December 2014 China Duan Xin (caretaker) 31 December 2014
Beijing Enterprises Group
 Croatia Goran Tomić 12 January 2015 Serbia Aleksandar Stanojević 12 January 2015 [17]
Jiangxi Liansheng
 China Li Xiao 26 February 2015 [18] China Huang Yan 9 March 2015 [19]
Shenzhen F.C. China Li Yi 12 April 2015 [20] South Korea Lee Lim-saeng 12 April 2015 [20]
Hunan Billows
Aleksandar Stankov
 2 May 2015 [21] China Zhang Xu (caretaker) 2 May 2015 [21]
Tianjin Songjiang
 Croatia Dražen Besek 6 May 2015 [22] China Sun Jianjun (caretaker) 6 May 2015 [22]
Tianjin Songjiang
 China Sun Jianjun (caretaker) 12 May 2015 Croatia Goran Tomić 12 May 2015 [23]
Harbin Yiteng
 China Duan Xin (caretaker) 5 June 2015 [24] China Gai Zengjun (caretaker) 5 June 2015 [24]
Harbin Yiteng
 China Gai Zengjun (caretaker) 17 June 2015 [25] China Duan Xin 17 June 2015 [25]
Jiangxi Liansheng
 China Huang Yan 8 July 2015 [26] China Sun Wei 8 July 2015 [26]
Wuhan Zall
 China Zheng Bin 15 July 2015 [27] China Zheng Xiong 15 July 2015 [27]
Qingdao Hainiu China Su Maozhen 28 July 2015 [28] China Sun Xinbo (caretaker) 28 July 2015 [28]
Hunan Billows
 China Zhang Xu (caretaker) 6 August 2015 North Macedonia Žikica Tasevski 6 August 2015 [29]
Hebei Zhongji
 Serbia Radomir Antić 18 August 2015 [30] China Li Tie 18 August 2015 [30]
Shenzhen F.C. South Korea Lee Lim-saeng 28 August 2015 [31] Hong Kong Li Haiqiang (caretaker) 28 August 2015 [31]
Qingdao Jonoon
 Slovenia Tomaž Kavčič 5 October 2015 [32] Serbia Dragan Stančić (caretaker) 5 October 2015

Foreign players

Restricting the number of foreign players strictly to three per CL1 team. A team could use three foreign players on the field each game. Outfield players came from Hong Kong, Macau and Chinese Taipei were deemed as native players (doesn't count on the foreign player slot) in CL1.

Club Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 Former Players1
Beijing Enterprises Group
 Colombia Carmelo Valencia Montenegro Nikola Vujadinović Serbia Danko Lazović Brazil Éder Lima
Beijing BIT Uruguay Maureen Franco
Andrés Márquez
 Uruguay Abel Nazario Uruguay Julio Gutiérrez
Dalian Aerbin
 Brazil Bruno Meneghel Sweden Niklas Backman Sweden Mathias Ranégie
Guizhou Zhicheng
Rodrigo
 Cameroon Yves Ekwalla Herman Spain Ibán Cuadrado
Harbin Yiteng
Adam Hughes
 Colombia Juan Gilberto Núñez Colombia Ricardo Steer Colombia Jair Reinoso
Hebei Zhongji
Edu
Abdurahim Laajab
Nenad Milijas
 Serbia Miroslav Radović
Hunan Billows
 Colombia Luis Carlos Cabezas Montenegro Igor Burzanović Serbia Stevan Bates
Jiangxi Liansheng
Demerson
 Brazil Léo Itaperuna Brazil Adi Rocha Brazil Jajá
Nei Mongol Zhongyou
 Australia Jonas Salley
Dori
 Brazil William Paulista
Qingdao Hainiu Serbia Đorđe Rakić South Korea Kim Seung-yong Uruguay Julio Gutiérrez Serbia Goran Gogić
Qingdao Jonoon
 Brazil Deivdy Reis Brazil Rogerinho Ivory Coast Ismaël Béko Fofana Honduras Jorge Claros
Shenzhen F.C. Senegal Babacar Gueye Senegal André Senghor South Korea Kim Young-hoo Italy Giuseppe Aquaro
Tianjin Songjiang
Mário Lúcio
Juan Andrés Bolaños
 England Frank Nouble
Nei
Wuhan Zall
 Ghana Ransford Addo Guadeloupe Brice Jovial Spain Rafa Jordà
Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard
Rafael
Vicente
 Romania Cristian Dănălache Brazil Felipe Félix
Yanbian Changbaishan
Jailton Paraiba
 The Gambia Bubacarr Trawally South Korea Ha Tae-goon
  • ^1 Foreign players who left their clubs after first half of the season.

Hong Kong/Macau/Taiwan outfield players:

Club Player 1 Player 2 Player 3
Beijing Enterprises Group
 Chinese Taipei Chen Hao-wei Chinese Taipei Wen Chih-hao Hong Kong Godfred Karikari
Harbin Yiteng
 Hong Kong Liu Quankun
Hunan Billows
 Chinese Taipei Chen Chao-an
Tianjin Songjiang
 Hong Kong Ng Wai Chiu

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1
Yanbian Changbaishan
(C, P) 		30 17 10 3 59 24 +35 61 Promotion to 2016 CSL
2
Hebei Zhongji
(P) 		30 18 6 6 53 30 +23 60
3
Dalian Aerbin
 30 17 7 6 46 22 +24 58
4
Beijing Enterprises Group
 30 17 5 8 48 29 +19 56
5
Harbin Yiteng
 30 11 14 5 43 31 +12 47
6
Nei Mongol Zhongyou
 30 12 7 11 38 32 +6 43
7
Qingdao Jonoon
 30 11 8 11 30 39 −9 41
8 Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard 30 10 9 11 43 51 −8 39
9
Tianjin Songjiang
 30 9 9 12 28 33 −5 36[a]
10
Wuhan Zall
 30 8 12 10 31 30 +1 36[a]
11 Qingdao Hainiu 30 7 12 11 26 39 −13 33
12 Shenzhen F.C. 30 6 13 11 37 48 −11 31
13
Guizhou Zhicheng
 30 8 6 16 39 55 −16 30
14 Hunan Billows 30 8 5 17 32 48 −16 29[b]
15 Beijing BIT (R) 30 8 5 17 40 64 −24 29[b] Relegation to 2016 CL2
16
Jiangxi Liansheng
(R) 		30 5 8 17 32 50 −18 23
Updated to match(es) played on 1 November 2015. Source: sports.sina.com (in Chinese)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) goals scored; 7) disciplinary points (1 point for each yellow card, 3 points for each red card). Head-to-Head: Only used at the end of the season when two or more teams need the head-to-head rules to break a tie.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^
    Tianjin
  2. ^ a b Hunan 2-0 BIT; BIT 0-1 Hunan

Results

Home \ Away
QD
WH
DLA
HEB
 SZ
JX
BG
NMZ
 BJT
TJS
YB
 HUN XJT
GZZ
 QDH
HBZ
Qingdao Jonoon
 1–0 0–0 1–4 1–1 2–0 0–3 0–0 3–1 0–2 1–0 3–2 2–1 1–5 1–0 0–1
Wuhan Zall
 1–1 1–1 2–2 6–0 1–1 1–0 1–0 1–1 0–1 0–0 3–2 1–1 1–0 0–0 1–2
Dalian Aerbin
 2–0 0–0 2–2 1–0 2–0 1–0 1–0 4–1 2–0 1–1 2–0 4–0 3–3 3–0 1–0
Harbin Yiteng
 1–1 1–0 2–2 2–1 2–1 0–1 2–2 2–1 1–1 3–0 1–0 3–0 0–0 2–1 1–1
Shenzhen 1–2 2–1 1–3 1–1 2–2 3–0 3–2 1–1 0–0 2–2 3–1 1–2 1–1 1–1 1–1
Jiangxi Liansheng
 1–0 0–0 0–2 1–2 3–3 3–3 1–2 1–2 2–1 0–1 1–1 1–1 4–2 1–2 1–4
Beijing Enterprises Group
 1–2 0–0 1–0 2–0 2–0 2–1 3–0 4–1 2–0 0–1 2–0 2–0 4–0 2–3 2–1
Nei Mongol Zhongyou
 1–1 1–0 0–1 0–0 2–1 2–0 0–2 3–0 0–1 2–3 2–1 0–0 4–1 0–2 4–1
Beijing BIT 3–1 2–1 0–3 1–3 1–2 1–0 2–3 0–2 3–3 2–4 0–1 2–2 2–0 3–1 3–4
Tianjin Songjiang
 1–1 3–1 2–1 1–0 0–1 0–1 1–1 0–0 0–1 1–1 1–2 1–1 2–0 0–0 2–3
Yanbian Changbaishan
 0–0 2–0 2–0 1–1 1–1 2–1 5–0 3–1 4–0 0–1 4–0 6–1 4–2 2–0 3–0
Hunan Billows 0–1 1–2 0–1 2–1 1–1 3–1 1–1 0–3 2–0 2–0 0–2 4–2 1–2 0–0 1–2
Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard 1–0 2–1 3–1 1–1 3–1 3–0 2–3 2–2 3–1 2–1 1–1 2–1 4–2 2–2 0–2
Guizhou Zhicheng
 3–1 0–1 0–1 1–1 2–1 1–4 1–0 1–2 4–2 3–1 0–1 1–2 2–1 1–1 0–2
Qingdao Hainiu 0–2 1–1 0–2 1–0 1–1 0–0 0–2 1–0 2–2 0–1 1–1 1–1 1–0 3–1 0–1
Hebei Zhongji
 3–1 2–3 2–0 2–2 2–0 1–0 0–0 1–0 0–1 2–0 2–2 3–0 2–0 0–0 6–1
Updated to match(es) played on 1 November 2015. Source: Results on sina.com
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Positions by round

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Jiangxi Liansheng
111616161515151414141516161516161616161616161616161616161616
Winner; promote to Chinese Super League
Runner-up; promote to Chinese Super League
Relegate to China League Two
Source: Table by round
(in Chinese)