2021 China League One

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Season2021
Dates24 April – 22 December
ChampionsWuhan Three Towns
PromotedWuhan Three Towns
Meizhou Hakka
Zhejiang
Chengdu Rongcheng
China League One
Season2021
Dates24 April – 22 December
ChampionsWuhan Three Towns
PromotedWuhan Three Towns
Meizhou Hakka
Zhejiang
Chengdu Rongcheng
Matches306
Goals830 (2.71 per match)
Top goalscorerNyasha Mushekwi
(23 goals)
Biggest home winKunshan 6–0 Jiangxi Beidamen
(15 May 2021)
Chengdu Rongcheng 6–0 Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard
(11 August 2021)
Biggest away winXinjiang Tianshan Leopard 0–7 Chengdu Rongcheng
(23 July 2021)
Guizhou 2–9 Chengdu Rongcheng
(21 December 2021)
Highest scoringGuizhou 2–9 Chengdu Rongcheng
(21 December 2021)
Longest winning run14 matches
Wuhan Three Towns
Longest unbeaten run18 matches
Wuhan Three Towns
Longest winless run32 matches
Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard
Longest losing run8 matches
Jiangxi Beidamen
Suzhou Dongwu
← 2020
2022 →

The 2021 China League One (Chinese: 2021中国足球协会甲级联赛) is the 18th season of the China League One, the second tier of the Chinese football league pyramid, since its establishment in 2004.

Groups

The 2021 China League One season was scheduled to start on 17 March 2021, but later was postponed.[1]

On 1 April, the Chinese Football Association announced that the season would start on 24 April 2021 and the format of the season.[2][3] The season was divided into 4 stages (10, 8, 8 and 8 rounds respectively). In the first stage, 18 teams were divided into 3 groups based on the hosts and last season's rankings. In the second, third and fourth stage, the teams in 3 groups will be switched to ensure that each team can play against each other 2 times.

The draw for the stages took place on 1 April 2021.[4]

Team Draw order No. Group
First S. Second S. Third S. Fourth S.
Meizhou Hakka Host — A1 A D G J
Zhejiang 2nd, 2020 season 1 A2 A D G J
Shaanxi Chang'an Athletic 10th, 2020 season 6 A3 A E H K
Sichuan Jiuniu 11th, 2020 season 7 A4 A E H K
Zibo Cuju 2nd, CL2, 2020 season 12 A5 A F I L
Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard 18th, 2020 season 13 A6 A F I L
Chengdu Rongcheng Host — B1 B F H J
Kunshan 3rd, 2020 season 2 B2 B F H J
Beijing BSU 9th, 2020 season 5 B3 B D I K
Nantong Zhiyun 12th, 2020 season 8 B4 B D I K
Jiangxi Beidamen 16th, 2020 season 11 B5 B E G L
Nanjing City 3rd, CL2, 2020 season 14 B6 B E G L
Wuhan Three Towns Host — C1 C E I J
Guizhou 7th, 2020 season 3 C2 C E I J
Suzhou Dongwu 8th, 2020 season 4 C3 C F G K
Liaoning Shenyang Urban 14th, 2020 season 9 C4 C F G K
Heilongjiang Ice City 15th, 2020 season 10 C5 C D H L
Beijing BIT 4th, CL2, 2020 season 15 C6 C D H L

Centralised venues

Dates

  • First stage (Round 1–10): 24 April – 10 June
  • Second stage (Round 11–18): 11 July – 17 August
  • Third stage (Round 19–26): 3 September – 5 October
  • Fourth Stage (Round 27–34): 20 November – 22 December

Teams

Team changes

Name changes

Ahead of the 2021 season, the Chinese Football Association ordered all clubs to eliminate any corporate references in their names.[7]

Clubs

Foreign players

The number of foreign players clubs can register over the course of the season is limited to four and the number of foreign players allowed on each team at any given time is limited to three. A maximum of three foreign players can be registered for each match with a maximum of two can be fielded at any time during the match. In addition, 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.

  • Players name in bold indicates the player is registered during the mid-season transfer window.
Team Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 Hong Kong/Macau/
Taiwan Players1		 Naturalized Players Former Players
Beijing BIT
Beijing BSU Chinese Taipei Wen Chih-hao
Chengdu Rongcheng Brazil Felipe Brazil Naldinho Brazil Rômulo Brazil Johnathan
Guizhou Albania Jahmir Hyka Serbia Stefan Mihajlović Brazil Sérgio Mota
Heilongjiang Ice City Cameroon Donovan Ewolo Ghana Rashid Abubakar Ghana Evans Etti Republic of the Congo Thievy Bifouma
Jiangxi Beidamen Albania Vasil Shkurti Brazil Éder Hong Kong Andy Russell Brazil Magno Cruz
Kunshan Brazil Bruno Pires Cape Verde Hildeberto Pereira Peru→China Xiao Taotao
Liaoning Shenyang Urban
Meizhou Hakka Brazil Igor Sartori Nigeria Chisom Egbuchulam Hong Kong Vas Nuñez Guinea Lonsana Doumbouya
Nanjing City Albania Albi Alla Cameroon Raphaël Messi Bouli Latvia Ritus Krjauklis
Nantong Zhiyun Brazil Mychell Chagas Burkina Faso Abdou Razack Traoré Guinea-Bissau Zé Turbo Hong Kong Li Ngai Hoi Spain→China David Wang
Switzerland→China Ming-yang Yang
Shaanxi Chang'an Athletic Cameroon Raoul Loé Cameroon Robert Tambe Nigeria Kingsley Onuegbu Chinese Taipei Wang Chien-ming
Sichuan Jiuniu Australia Pierce Waring Guinea Mohamed Yattara Serbia Nemanja Vidić Japan→China Xia Dalong
Suzhou Dongwu Democratic Republic of the Congo Junior Kabananga
Wuhan Three Towns Brazil Ademilson Brazil Marcão Nigeria Moses Ogbu Chinese Taipei Yaki Yen Brazil Jadson
Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard Serbia Nemanja Spasojević Serbia Uroš Tomović
Zhejiang Brazil Matheus Croatia Franko Andrijašević Zimbabwe Nyasha Mushekwi Hong Kong Leung Nok Hang Serbia Nikola Đurđić
Zibo Cuju Albania Albi Alla
Portugal João Silva
  • ^1 For Hong Kong, Macau, or Taiwanese players, if they are non-naturalized and were registered as professional footballers in Hong Kong's, Macau's, or Chinese Taipei's football association for the first time, they are recognized as native players. Otherwise they are recognized as foreign players.

League table

Results

Home \ Away BIT BSU CDR GZH HLJ JXB KSH LSU MZH NJC NTZ SCA SCJ SZD WTT XJT ZHJ ZBC
Beijing BIT — 2–3 0–2 2–0 0–4 1–2 0–0 1–2 1–6 0–3 0–1 1–1 0–1 2–2 1–3 2–2 0–5 0–2
Beijing BSU 0–1 — 0–2 1–1 1–1 0–1 1–2 2–1 1–3 0–1 1–2 0–2 1–2 2–3 0–1 2–2 1–0 3–0
Chengdu Rongcheng 5–0 4–1 — 5–0 0–2 0–2 3–3 2–0 0–0 2–0 1–0 3–1 2–1 3–2 1–0 6–0 1–2 0–0
Guizhou 3–1 0–0 2–9 — 0–1 0–0 0–4 0–2 0–5 1–2 0–2 3–1 0–0 1–0 1–1 1–0 0–0 1–2
Heilongjiang Ice City 3–0 1–1 2–1 0–0 — 4–0 2–5 1–0 3–2 1–0 0–0 1–1 1–1 1–0 0–4 1–0 1–1 1–2
Jiangxi Beidamen 2–2 1–1 2–4 0–1 2–2 — 1–1 1–2 0–4 0–1 1–3 0–5 2–2 0–1 0–4 1–0 1–1 1–5
Kunshan 4–0 2–2 1–1 1–0 0–1 6–0 — 1–0 0–1 1–1 1–1 1–1 1–1 4–1 1–2 1–0 1–2 0–1
Liaoning Shenyang Urban 3–2 0–2 0–6 0–1 1–2 0–1 2–1 — 2–4 3–3 0–3 1–4 1–2 1–1 1–3 1–0 2–2 0–1
Meizhou Hakka 5–0 2–1 1–2 4–2 2–3 4–1 1–1 2–0 — 4–2 2–1 3–2 1–0 3–1 0–2 2–1 0–1 4–0
Nanjing City 1–0 0–0 0–0 0–1 2–2 1–0 1–2 2–1 1–2 — 1–1 0–2 1–1 2–1 2–1 5–0 1–4 2–0
Nantong Zhiyun 3–0 2–1 1–2 0–1 4–3 3–2 1–0 4–0 0–1 3–1 — 1–2 2–0 3–1 1–2 3–0 1–1 4–2
Shaanxi Chang'an Athletic 2–0 2–0 0–0 4–1 0–0 3–2 0–2 1–0 0–1 2–0 1–1 — 1–0 3–0 1–1 4–1 2–2 2–0
Sichuan Jiuniu 1–0 1–1 1–1 1–0 1–0 3–0 1–1 1–0 0–0 2–0 0–2 0–1 — 0–0 0–1 2–1 1–0 0–0
Suzhou Dongwu 2–1 2–2 1–2 1–1 3–1 1–2 1–1 1–0 1–3 0–0 0–1 0–0 1–2 — 0–4 1–1 0–1 1–1
Wuhan Three Towns 3–1 4–0 2–1 0–1 3–1 1–0 2–0 2–3 1–0 2–2 2–0 3–1 5–1 1–1 — 3–0 2–1 3–1
Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard 1–3 0–5 0–7 1–1 0–3 0–1 1–3 0–0 0–2 0–2 0–3 0–1 0–5 0–3 0–1 — 0–2 3–2
Zhejiang 3–0 3–0 1–3 6–1 3–1 2–0 2–1 1–0 5–4 1–0 1–0 1–1 0–0 3–0 2–1 4–1 — 2–1
Zibo Cuju 2–0 2–1 0–0 0–1 0–0 0–0 1–3 2–1 0–1 2–1 0–5 1–1 0–0 1–3 0–3 1–1 0–4 —
Source: [citation needed]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Positions by round

To preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for round 7, but then played between rounds 8 and 9, it will be added to the standings for round 8.

Team ╲ Round12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334
Wuhan Three Towns3153432254345444443332222222112111
Meizhou Hakka5385211111122223222111111111221222
Zhejiang1527323342533332334444444333344433
Chengdu Rongcheng2231144633211111111223333444433344
Nantong Zhiyun10642665425454567677676556555555555
Shaanxi Chang'an Athletic61068556567676655555555677776666666
Heilongjiang Ice City1618119878776767788888987888888877777
Sichuan Jiuniu1314151112141213111091091010910101010101010109999999898
Kunshan81214101087888888876766799765667788989
Nanjing City1015912111113101213131112121212131212121212121111111111111110101010
Zibo Cuju18171717181818161715151415141414141414141415141414141413121312121211
Guizhou641691010111391091099109998689910101010101011111112
Suzhou Dongwu37747999912121211111111111111111111111212121212131213131313
Jiangxi Beidamen15111215161314141414141614161616161616161616161516161616151516141414
Beijing BSU8121616171717181818161516151515151515151514151615151515161614151515
Liaoning Shenyang Urban1391013131211121011111313131313121313131313131313131314141415161616
Beijing BIT16161818151516171516171818181817171717171717171818171717171717171717
Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard1281314141515151617181717171718181818181818181717181818181818181818
Leader and promotion to Super League
Runner-up and promotion to Super League
Qualification for Promotion play-offs
Qualification for Relegation play-offs
Source: [citation needed]

Results by match played

Team ╲ Round12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334
Beijing BITLLLLWLLLDLLLLLLWLLLDLLLLLDLLDDLLWL
Beijing BSUDLLLLLDLLDWWLDLLLDWLDDLLWDDLDWLLLW
Chengdu RongchengWWDWWLDDWWWWWDWWWDWDWLWWDLLDWWWWLW
GuizhouWWWLLLDDDWLWDWDLWLWWWDLDLDLDLLLLLL
Heilongjiang Ice CityLLWWWWLWDWLWLDDWDDDDWWLDLWDDWWWLDW
Jiangxi BeidamenLWLLLWDLLDLDDLLLLLLLLWWDLLDWDDLWLW
KunshanDLDWWWDDDDWLWDWWLWDDLDWWWDLLWLLLWD
Liaoning Shenyang UrbanLWLLLWWDWLLLLWLLWDDLLLLLDWLLLLLLLL
Meizhou HakkaWWLWWWWLWDWLWWWLWWWWWWWWWWWDLWWLLD
Nanjing CityDLWLWLDWDDLWLLLDDWLDWLLWDLWWLWWWDL
Nantong ZhiyunDWWWLWDWWLWLWLDDWLLWLWWWLWWWWLWWWD
Shaanxi Chang'an AthleticWLWDWWLWDDWLDWWWLWDDLWLDDDWWWWDWWD
Sichuan JiuniuLDDWLLWDWDWDWLDWDLDDWDWLWDDWLDWWLW
Suzhou DongwuWLWWDLDDDLLDWDLWDLWDLLLLLLLLDDDLWL
Wuhan Three TownsWWLWDWWDLWWLDWWDWWWWWWWWWWWWWWLWWL
Xinjiang Tianshan LeopardLWLLLLDLLLLDLLLLLDLLDLLDLLLLDLLLLL
ZhejiangWDWDWWLWDWLWWWWDDWDWWWWDWWWDLLWWWW
Zibo CujuLLDLLLDDLDWWLDWLDDLLLLWLWLWDDLWWWW
Source: [citation needed]
W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Promotion play-offs

Zhejiang and Chengdu Rongcheng will play the bottom two teams in the 2021 Chinese Super League (7th and 8th in the Relegation stage) in two-legged playoffs.

Relegation play-offs

Overview

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Qingdao Youth Island 2–2 (5–4 p) Beijing BIT 0–0 2–2 (a.e.t.)
Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard 0–1 Guangxi Pingguo Haliao 0–1 0–0

Matches

Qingdao Youth Island0–0Beijing BIT
Hengbei Football Town Field 9, Meizhou
Attendance: 0[note 1]
Referee: Ma Yunkun
Beijing BIT2–2 (a.e.t.)Qingdao Youth Island
Penalties
 4–5
Hengbei Football Town Field 9, Meizhou
Attendance: 0[note 1]
Referee: Gao Peng

2–2 on aggregate. Qingdao Youth Island won 5–4 on penalties.

Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard0–1Guangxi Pingguo Haliao
Attendance: 0[note 1]
Referee: Ren Tong
Guangxi Pingguo Haliao0–0Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard
Attendance: 0[note 1]
Referee: Liang Songshang

Guangxi Pingguo Haliao won 1–0 on aggregate.

Statistics

Top scorers

As of 12 January 2022[31]
Rank Player Club Goals
1 Zimbabwe Nyasha Mushekwi Zhejiang
24
2 Nigeria Chisom Egbuchulam Meizhou Hakka
20
Nigeria Kingsley Onuegbu Shaanxi Chang'an Athletic
20
4 Nigeria Moses Ogbu Wuhan Three Towns
18
5 Cameroon Raphaël Messi Bouli Nanjing City
15
6 China Liang Xueming Meizhou Hakka
14
Brazil Naldinho Chengdu Rongcheng
14
Cameroon Donovan Ewolo Heilongjiang Ice City
14
Cameroon Robert Tambe Shaanxi Chang'an Athletic
14
Guinea-Bissau Zé Turbo Nantong Zhiyun
14

Hat-tricks

Player For Against Result Date
Guinea Lonsana Doumbouya Meizhou Hakka Shaanxi Chang'an Athletic 3–2 (H) 24 May 2021
Nigeria Moses Ogbu Wuhan Three Towns Suzhou Dongwu 4–0 (A) 10 June 2021
China Xiang Baixu Chengdu Rongcheng Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard 7–0 (A) 23 July 2021
Zimbabwe Nyasha Mushekwi Zhejiang Beijing BIT 3–0 (H) 15 August 2021
Cameroon Raphaël Messi Bouli Nanjing City Liaoning Shenyang Urban 3–3 (A) 30 September 2021
Brazil Felipe Chengdu Rongcheng Guizhou 9–2 (A) 21 December 2021
China Meng Junjie Chengdu Rongcheng Guizhou 9–2 (A) 21 December 2021


Notes

References

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