2016 China League One

Season2016

PromotedTianjin Quanjian
Guizhou Hengfeng Zhicheng

China League One
Season	2016
Champions	Tianjin Quanjian
Promoted	Tianjin Quanjian Guizhou Hengfeng Zhicheng
Relegated	Qingdao Jonoon Hunan Billows
Matches	240
Goals	647 (2.7 per match)
Top goalscorer	Luís Fabiano (22 goals)
Biggest home win	Meizhou Hakka 6–0 Hunan Billows (Apr. 16th, 2016) (6 goals)
Biggest away win	Dalian Transcendence 0–4 Shanghai Shenxin (Jul. 3rd, 2016) Hunan Billows 1–5 Zhejiang Yiteng (Aug. 13th, 2016) (4 goals)
Highest scoring	Shanghai Shenxin 5–3 Meizhou Hakka (Sept. 11th, 2016) (8 goals)
Highest attendance	30,568 Guizhou Hengfeng Zhicheng 1–1 Meizhou Hakka (Mar. 13th, 2016)
Lowest attendance	0 Hunan Billows 1–1 Meizhou Hakka (Jul. 30th, 2016)
Average attendance	6,220
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The 2016 China League One (Chinese: 58同城2016中国足球协会甲级联赛)^[1] was the 13th season of the China League One, the second tier of the Chinese football league pyramid, since its establishment in 2004. The league's title sponsor is the e-commerce website 58.com.^[2]

Team changes

A total of 16 teams are contesting in the league, including 12 sides from the 2015 season, two relegated from the 2015 Chinese Super League and two promoted from the 2015 China League Two.

To League One

Teams relegated from 2015 Chinese Super League

Teams promoted from 2015 China League Two

From League One

Teams promoted to 2016 Chinese Super League

Teams relegated to 2016 China League Two

Name changes

Tianjin Songjiang F.C. changed their name to Tianjin Quanjian F.C. in December 2015.^[3]
Dalian Aerbin F.C. changed their name to Dalian Yifang F.C. in December 2015.^[4]
Qingdao Hainiu F.C. changed their name to Qingdao Huanghai F.C. in December 2015.^[5]
Guizhou Zhicheng F.C. changed their name to Guizhou Hengfeng Zhicheng F.C. in January 2016.^[6]
Meizhou Kejia F.C. changed their name to Meizhou Hakka F.C. in January 2016.
Guizhou Renhe F.C. moved to the city of Beijing and changed their name to Beijing Renhe F.C. in January 2016.^[7]
Harbin Yiteng moved to the city of Shaoxing and changed their name to Zhejiang Yiteng F.C. in January 2016.^[8]

Clubs

Stadiums and Locations

Club	Team name^[1]	Head coach	City	Stadium	Capacity	2015 season
Beijing Renhe F.C. ^R	Beijing Renhe	Wang Baoshan	Beijing	Beijing Fengtai Stadium	31,043	CSL, 15th
Shanghai Shenxin F.C. ^R	Shanghai Shenxin	Gary White	Shanghai	Jinshan Football Stadium	30,000	CSL, 16th
Dalian Yifang F.C.	Dalian Yifang	Sergio Piernas Cárdenas	Dalian	Dalian Sports Center	61,000	3rd
Beijing Enterprises Group F.C.	Beijing BG Yanjing	Aleksandar Stanojević	Beijing	Olympic Sports Centre (Beijing)	36,228	4th
Zhejiang Yiteng F.C.	Zhejiang Yiteng Textile City	Duan Xin (caretaker)	Shaoxing	Shaoxing China Textile City Sports Center	40,000	5th
Nei Mongol Zhongyou F.C.	Hohhot Zhongyou	Wang Bo	Hohhot	Hohhot City Stadium	60,000	6th
Qingdao Jonoon F.C.	Qingdao Jonoon	Yin Tiesheng	Qingdao	Qingdao Tiantai Stadium	20,525	7th
Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard F.C.	Xinjiang Sports Lottery	Li Jun	Ürümqi	Xinjiang Sports Centre	50,000	8th
Tianjin Quanjian F.C.	Tianjin Quanjian	Fabio Cannavaro	Tianjin	Haihe Educational Football Stadium	30,000	9th
Wuhan Zall F.C.	Wuhan Zall	Ciro Ferrara	Wuhan	Xinhua Road Sports Center	32,137	10th
Qingdao Huanghai F.C.	Qingdao Huanghai	Jordi Vinyals	Qingdao	Conson Stadium	45,000	11th
Shenzhen F.C.	Shenzhen Kaisa	Clarence Seedorf	Shenzhen	Shenzhen Stadium	32,500	12th
Guizhou Hengfeng Zhicheng F.C.	Guizhou Hengfeng Zhicheng	Li Bing (caretaker)	Guiyang	Guiyang Olympic Sports Center	51,636	13th
Hunan Billows F.C.	Hunan Billows Hualai	Huang Xiangdong (caretaker)	Changsha (playing in Yiyang)	Yiyang Olympic Sports Park Stadium	30,000	14th
Meizhou Hakka ^P	Meizhou Hakka	Cao Yang (caretaker)	Wuhua	Wuhua County Stadium	15,000	CL2, 1st
Dalian Transcendence F.C. ^P	Dalian Transcendence	Rusmir Cviko (caretaker)	Dalian	Jinzhou Stadium	30,776	CL2, 2nd

Shanghai Shenxin

Beijing Enterprises Group
Beijing Renhe

Zhejiang Yiteng

Nei Mongol Zhongyou

Qingdao Jonoon
Qingdao Huanghai

Shenzhen F.C.

Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard

Dalian Yifang
Dalian Transcendence

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Location of teams in 2016 China League One^[9]

Managerial changes

Club	Outgoing manager	Date of vacancy	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Tianjin Quanjian	Goran Tomić	1 November 2015	Vanderlei Luxemburgo	1 November 2015 ^[10]
Hunan Billows	Žikica Tasevski (caretaker)	1 November 2015	Tomaž Kavčič	30 November 2015 ^[11]
Shanghai Shenxin	Liu Junwei	4 December 2015	Kim Sang-ho	4 December 2015 ^[12]
Beijing Renhe	Gong Lei	8 December 2015	Wang Baoshan	8 December 2015 ^[13]
Shenzhen F.C.	Li Haiqiang (caretaker)	9 December 2015	Tang Yaodong	9 December 2015 ^[14]
Qingdao Jonoon	Dragan Stančić (caretaker)	15 December 2015	Su Maozhen	15 December 2015 ^[15]
Qingdao Huanghai	Sun Xinbo (caretaker)	28 December 2015	Jordi Vinyals	28 December 2015 ^[16]
Meizhou Hakka	Qi Wusheng	31 December 2015	Luc Nijholt	1 January 2016 ^[17]
Zhejiang Yiteng	Duan Xin	31 December 2015	Goran Tomić	1 January 2016 ^[18]
Zhejiang Yiteng	Goran Tomić	22 March 2016 ^[19]	Duan Xin (caretaker)	22 March 2016 ^[20]
Guizhou Zhicheng	Chen Mao	7 April 2016	Li Bing (caretaker)	7 April 2016 ^[21]
Dalian Transcendence	Liu Zhongchang	13 April 2016 ^[22]	Sun Feng (caretaker)	15 April 2016 ^[23]
Dalian Transcendence	Sun Feng (caretaker)	21 April 2016	Ermin Šiljak	21 April 2016 ^[24]
Hunan Billows	Tomaž Kavčič	28 May 2016	Huang Xiangdong (caretaker)	28 May 2016 ^[25]
Shanghai Shenxin	Kim Sang-ho	30 May 2016 ^[26]	Gary White	30 May 2016 ^[27]
Tianjin Quanjian	Vanderlei Luxemburgo	5 June 2016	Fabio Cannavaro	9 June 2016 ^[28]
Wuhan Zall	Zheng Xiong	26 June 2016 ^[29]	Ciro Ferrara	5 July 2016 ^[30]
Dalian Yifang	Mikael Stahre	5 July 2016	Milinko Pantić	5 July 2016 ^[31]
Shenzhen F.C.	Tang Yaodong	7 July 2016	Clarence Seedorf	7 July 2016 ^[32]
Meizhou Hakka	Luc Nijholt	19 July 2016	Cao Yang (caretaker)	19 July 2016 ^[33]
Dalian Transcendence	Ermin Šiljak	10 August 2016	Rusmir Cviko (caretaker)	10 August 2016 ^[34]
Dalian Yifang	Milinko Pantić	31 August 2016	Sergio Piernas Cárdenas	31 August 2016 ^[35]
Qingdao Jonoon	Su Maozhen	6 September 2016	Yin Tiesheng	6 September 2016 ^[36]

Foreign players

The number of foreign players is limited to three per CL1 team. Teams can use three foreign players on the field each game.

Players name in bold indicates the player is registered during the mid-season transfer window.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Former Players ¹
Beijing Enterprises Group	Rubin Okotie	Nikola Vujadinović	Leke James	Carmelo Valencia
Beijing Renhe	Zvjezdan Misimović	Nikica Jelavić	Guillermo Molins	Sejad Salihović
Dalian Yifang	Sekou Oliseh	Mohamed Bangura	Nyasha Mushekwi	Constantin Budescu
Dalian Transcendence	Jaílton Paraíba	William Paulista	David Fällman	Erton Fejzullahu
Guizhou Zhicheng	Mazola	Yves Ekwalla Herman	Ibán Cuadrado
Hunan Billows	Luis Carlos Cabezas	Toto Tamuz	Rok Elsner	Jhon Valoy
Meizhou Hakka	Japa	Merlin Tandjigora	Gibril Sankoh
Nei Mongol Zhongyou	Dori	André Senghor	Nenad Milijas	Jonas Salley
Qingdao Huanghai	Yuri	Đorđe Rakić	Martí Crespí
Qingdao Jonoon	Johnny	Chigozie Udoji	Eddie Hernández
Shanghai Shenxin	Biro-Biro	Davi	Daniel Chima	Nikola Mitrović
Shenzhen F.C.	Aboubakar Oumarou	Helton	Deshorn Brown	Babacar Gueye
Tianjin Quanjian	Luís Fabiano	Geuvânio	Jadson
Wuhan Zall	Michael Barrantes	Sölvi Ottesen	Sam Johnson	Guto
Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard	Nusmir Fajić	Rudnei	Vicente
Zhejiang Yiteng	Adam Hughes	Rodrigo	Ricardo Steer

^1 Foreign players who left their clubs or were sent to reverse team after the first half of the season.

Hong Kong/Macau/Taiwan outfield players (Contracts signed before 1 January 2016 do not count for the foreign player slot):^[37]

Club	Player 1	Player 2
Beijing Enterprises Group	Chen Hao-wei	Wen Chih-hao
Guizhou Zhicheng	Au Yeung Yiu Chung	Festus Baise
Hunan Billows	Chen Chao-an
Meizhou Hakka	Onur Dogan	Lee Chi Ho
Qingdao Huanghai	Godfred Karikari
Shenzhen F.C.	Paulinho
Tianjin Quanjian	Jean-Jacques Kilama	Ng Wai Chiu
Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard	Itaparica

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Tianjin Quanjian (C, P)	30	18	5	7	61	27	+34	59^[a]	Promotion to Super League
2	Guizhou Hengfeng Zhicheng (P)	30	18	5	7	48	27	+21	59^[a]
3	Qingdao Huanghai	30	19	2	9	52	42	+10	59^[a]
4	Beijing Renhe	30	15	4	11	49	35	+14	49
5	Dalian Yifang	30	14	3	13	43	44	−1	45
6	Wuhan Zall	30	12	7	11	31	33	−2	43
7	Nei Mongol Zhongyou	30	12	5	13	37	35	+2	41^[b]
8	Beijing Enterprises Group	30	11	8	11	40	38	+2	41^[b]
9	Shenzhen F.C.	30	11	7	12	36	43	−7	40^[c]
10	Shanghai Shenxin	30	12	4	14	54	48	+6	40^[c]
11	Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard	30	11	6	13	31	36	−5	39^[d]
12	Meizhou Hakka	30	11	6	13	48	50	−2	39^[d]
13	Zhejiang Yiteng	30	11	5	14	39	49	−10	38^[e]
14	Dalian Transcendence	30	10	8	12	32	36	−4	38^[e]
15	Qingdao Jonoon (R)	30	8	9	13	30	43	−13	33	Relegation to League Two
16	Hunan Billows (R)	30	2	6	22	16	61	−45	12

Results

Home \ Away	BJR	SHS	DLY	BG	ZJY	NMZ	QD	XJT	TJQ	WH	QDH	SZ	GZZ	HUN	MZH	DLT
Beijing Renhe		3–1	2–0	2–1	4–1	1–0	2–0	2–1	1–3	1–0	5–0	2–0	1–2	3–0	3–3	3–1
Shanghai Shenxin	2–1		2–3	4–1	1–2	2–0	5–0	1–2	3–2	0–0	3–0	1–1	0–3	3–1	5–3	1–3
Dalian Yifang	1–3	4–3		1–1	2–0	2–0	0–1	1–0	2–1	4–0	1–3	2–0	2–0	0–2	2–0	1–2
Beijing Enterprises Group	1–0	2–2	3–0		2–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	4–2	1–2	0–3	0–2	1–0	4–2	2–0
Zhejiang Yiteng	1–0	1–0	2–3	0–1		2–2	2–3	0–1	2–5	1–2	2–0	2–2	1–4	2–0	2–2	1–0
Nei Mongol Zhongyou	1–2	2–1	1–0	1–0	0–1		1–1	4–1	0–0	2–1	0–3	3–0	4–2	2–0	3–2	4–0
Qingdao Jonoon	0–0	0–1	1–1	3–3	0–1	1–0		1–0	3–2	2–1	0–1	0–1	1–3	1–0	4–1	0–0
Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard	2–1	2–0	2–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	2–2		0–3	3–1	1–2	1–0	1–2	2–0	1–0	0–0
Tianjin Quanjian	0–0	1–2	2–1	1–2	4–0	2–0	1–1	1–0		1–0	5–1	0–1	2–1	1–1	3–0	2–0
Wuhan Zall	1–2	1–3	4–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–1	1–1		1–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	1–1	1–0
Qingdao Huanghai	4–1	2–1	5–2	2–1	2–1	1–0	3–2	3–2	0–3	0–0		2–0	3–1	3–1	1–1	2–0
Shenzhen F.C.	2–1	4–2	0–1	1–1	2–2	1–3	2–1	2–1	2–5	2–1	2–1		1–2	2–1	2–0	0–0
Guizhou Hengfeng Zhicheng	2–1	2–0	0–0	1–1	1–2	1–0	3–0	0–1	2–1	2–0	2–0	3–1		0–0	1–1	1–1
Hunan Billows	0–0	0–0	0–2	0–3	1–5	0–1	2–0	2–2	0–3	0–1	1–4	1–1	0–2		0–2	1–4
Meizhou Hakka	2–1	2–1	4–2	2–1	2–0	4–2	2–0	1–1	1–3	0–1	1–0	2–1	0–1	6–0		1–2
Dalian Transcendence	3–1	0–4	0–2	2–0	2–2	2–0	0–0	3–0	0–2	0–0	1–2	0–0	1–2	3–1	2–0

Updated to match(es) played on 22 October 2016. Source: sports.sina.com
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Positions by round

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Team ╲ Round
Tianjin Quanjian	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	4	6	8	8	8	7	7	5	4	3	2	3	2	2	1	1	3	3	2	1	1	1	1
Guizhou Hengfeng Zhicheng	6	14	15	12	11	9	6	5	4	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	1	3	2	2	2	2
Qingdao Huanghai	16	9	12	8	6	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	4	4	2	3	3	3	3	2	2	1	3	3	3	3
Beijing Renhe	10	13	8	4	3	4	3	2	3	3	3	4	6	4	6	5	5	5	6	7	5	6	6	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Dalian Yifang	3	7	11	3	2	2	4	3	2	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	2	3	5	6	4	4	5	6	6	5	5	5	5	5
Wuhan Zall	6	11	7	9	7	8	7	9	12	12	12	12	13	12	11	12	10	10	10	11	11	14	15	12	13	13	13	10	7	6
Nei Mongol Zhongyou	13	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	15	15	15	15	15	14	11	14	12	13	12	12	14	14	14	14	14	12	7
Beijing Enterprises Group	6	5	5	9	9	7	11	8	5	9	5	7	9	9	8	6	7	7	4	5	8	8	8	8	7	7	6	6	6	8
Shenzhen F.C.	4	2	2	2	4	5	5	6	7	6	6	5	4	5	7	8	6	6	7	4	7	7	7	7	8	8	8	8	8	9
Shanghai Shenxin	14	6	9	5	8	10	12	12	11	13	13	14	14	14	14	13	13	15	13	15	12	11	11	11	11	11	9	11	13	10
Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard	12	12	14	15	13	14	14	14	13	11	11	10	10	10	9	9	8	8	8	8	6	5	4	5	5	6	7	7	9	11
Meizhou Hakka	6	10	5	6	5	6	10	11	10	10	10	9	8	8	10	10	11	12	11	10	9	10	9	10	9	9	11	13	10	12
Zhejiang Yiteng	15	16	13	14	15	12	9	10	9	7	7	6	5	6	4	7	9	9	9	9	10	9	10	9	10	10	12	9	11	13
Dalian Transcendence	2	3	9	13	14	15	13	13	14	14	14	13	12	13	13	14	15	14	12	14	14	13	13	13	12	12	10	12	14	14
Qingdao Jonoon	5	7	3	7	10	11	8	7	8	5	9	11	11	11	12	11	12	13	15	13	15	15	14	15	15	15	15	15	15	15
Hunan Billows	10	4	4	9	12	13	15	15	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16

	Winner; promote to Super League
	Runner-up; promote to Super League
	Relegate to League Two

Source: Table by round (in Chinese)

Goalscorers

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Total
1	Luís Fabiano	Tianjin Quanjian	22
2	Nyasha Mushekwi	Dalian Yifang	20
3	Biro-Biro	Shanghai Shenxin	18
4	Japa	Meizhou Hakka	17
5	Jaílton Paraíba	Dalian Transcendence	12
5	Nikica Jelavić	Beijing Renhe	12
7	Mazola	Guizhou Zhicheng	11
	Rodrigo	Zhejiang Yiteng	11
	Aboubakar Oumarou	Shenzhen F.C.	11
	Leke James	Beijing Enterprises Group	11
11	Ricardo Steer	Zhejiang Yiteng	10
11	Đorđe Rakić	Qingdao Huanghai	10

Last updated: 22 October 2016
Source: sina.com.cn

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref
Luís Fabiano	Tianjin Quanjian	Zhejiang Yiteng	5–2	19 March 2016	^[38]
Đorđe Rakić	Qingdao Huanghai	Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard	3–2	10 April 2016	^[39]
Leke James	Beijing Enterprises Group	Meizhou Hakka	4–2	24 April 2016	^[40]
Deshorn Brown	Shenzhen F.C.	Shanghai Shenxin	4–2	16 July 2016	^[41]
Nyasha Mushekwi	Dalian Yifang	Shanghai Shenxin	4–3	21 August 2016	^[42]
Biro-Biro	Shanghai Shenxin	Meizhou Hakka	5–3	11 September 2016	^[43]
André Senghor	Nei Mongol Zhongyou	Dalian Transcendence	4–0	24 September 2016	^[44]
Nikica Jelavić	Beijing Renhe	Zhejiang Yiteng	4–1	22 October 2016	^[45]

Awards

The awards of 2016 China League One were announced on 9 November 2016.^[46]

China League One Most valuable player: Luís Fabiano (Tianjin Quanjian)
China League One Top scorer: Luís Fabiano (Tianjin Quanjian)
China League One Best goalkeeper: Zhang Lu (Tianjin Quanjian)
China League One Young Player of the Year: Ming Tian (Wuhan Zall)
China League One Best coach: Li Bing (Guizhou Hengfeng Zhicheng)

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Tianjin Quanjian	182,475	20,688	6,887	12,165	+65.1%^†
2	Guizhou Hengfeng Zhicheng	166,340	30,568	5,123	11,089	+492.7%^†
3	Dalian Yifang	162,088	20,392	2,532	10,806	−29.0%^†
4	Shenzhen F.C.	152,273	20,801	5,081	10,152	−12.2%^†
5	Nei Mongol Zhongyou	142,018	17,833	4,328	9,468	−48.1%^†
6	Qingdao Huanghai	104,881	18,697	1,916	6,992	+33.5%^†
7	Meizhou Hakka^‡	96,757	9,900	3,832	6,450	−2.7%^†
8	Wuhan Zall	71,795	8,316	2,653	4,786	−9.7%^†
9	Beijing Renhe^†	68,123	8,358	2,601	4,542	−70.0%^†
10	Dalian Transcendence^‡	65,252	17,721	1,821	4,350	+384.4%^†
11	Shanghai Shenxin^†	57,245	8,690	1,038	3,816	−45.7%^†
12	Hunan Billows	56,712	15,650	0	3,781	−21.1%^†
13	Beijing Enterprises Group	51,939	6,948	1,985	3,463	−36.3%^†
14	Qingdao Jonoon	40,526	10,912	1,022	2,702	−50.3%^†
15	Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard	39,226	5,531	1,352	2,615	−36.4%^†
16	Zhejiang Yiteng	35,269	8,541	303	2,351	−88.5%^†
	League total	1,492,919	30,568	0	6,220	−30.9%^†