| Club: | Shanghai Shenhua 2012 |
| League: | Super League |
| League Result: | 9th |
| Cup1: | FA Cup |
| Cup1 Result: | Fourth round |
| Chairman: | Zhu Jun |
| Manager: | Jean Tigana (until 15 April) Florent Ibengé (Interim) (26 April – 29 May) Sergio Batista (from 30 May) |
| League Topscorer: | Didier Drogba (8) |
| Season Topscorer: | Didier Drogba (8) |
| Highest Attendance: | 24,635 vs Beijing Guoan 14 July 2012 |
| Lowest Attendance: | 9,326 vs Guizhou Renhe 27 May 2012 |
| Average Attendance: | 15,227 |
| Prevseason: | 2011 |
| Nextseason: | 2013 |
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The 2012 Shanghai Shenhua season was Shanghai Shenhua's 9th season in the Chinese Super League and 50th overall in the Chinese top flight. They also competed in the Chinese FA Cup that year, getting knocked out of that competition.
As of 28 October 2012[1]
See main article: List of Chinese football transfers winter 2012. In:[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] Out: [9] [10] [11] [11] [12] [13] [14] [11]
See main article: List of Chinese football transfers summer 2012. In[15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] Out: [21] [22]
See main article: 2012 Chinese Super League.
See main article: 2012 Chinese FA Cup.
|-|colspan="14"|Players who appeared for Shanghai Shenhua no longer at the club:|}
| width=60 | Place | width=60 | Position | width=60 | Nation | width=60 | Number | width=150 | Name | width=80 | Super League | width=80 | FA Cup | width=80 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FW |  | 11 | 9 | 0 | 9 | |||||||||
| 2 | FW |  | 29 | 6 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
| 3 | MF |  | 28 | 5 | 0 | 5 | |||||||||
| 4 | MF | | 7 | 4 | 0 | 4 | |||||||||
| 5 | FW |  | 39 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |||||||||
| MF | | 8 | 3 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||||
| 6 | DF |  | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||
| MF |  | 37 | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 7 | DF | | 23 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| FW | | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| DF | | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| DF | | 19 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| DF | | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| TOTALS | 36 | 0 | 36 | ||||||||||||
| Number | Nation | Position | Name | Super League | FA Cup | Total | ||||
| 1 | | GK | Wang Dalei | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| 3 | | DF | Moisés | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| 4 | | DF | Wang Lin | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 5 | | DF | Dai Lin | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 1 | |
| 6 | | MF | Yu Tao | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
| 7 | | MF | Feng Renliang | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 8 | | MF | Song Boxuan | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | |
| 10 | | MF | Jiang Kun | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | |
| 11 | | MF | Didier Drogba | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| 12 | | DF | Bai Jiajun | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| 16 | | MF | Wang Fei | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| 17 | | MF | Fan Lingjiang | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 19 | | DF | Zheng Kaimu | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| 20 | | DF | Wu Xi | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
| 21 | | MF | Wang Guanyi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 23 | | DF | Qiu Tianyi | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| 25 |  | MF | Mario Božić | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |
| 28 | | MF | Cao Yunding | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| 29 | | FW | Joel Griffiths | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| 36 | | MF | Wang Shouting | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| 37 | | MF | Giovanni Moreno | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| 39 | | FW | Nicolas Anelka | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
| 46 | | FW | Xu Qi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| TOTALS | 62 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 65 | 3 | ||||
| Games played | 31 (29 Chinese Super League, 2 Chinese FA Cup) |
| Games won | 7 (7 Chinese Super League) |
| Games drawn | 16 (14 Chinese Super League, 2 Chinese FA Cup) |
| Games lost | 8 (8 Chinese Super League) |
| Goals scored | 35 (35 Chinese Super League) |
| Goals conceded | 34 (34 Chinese Super League) |
| Goal difference | +1 (+1 Chinese Super League, 0 Chinese FA Cup) |
| Clean sheets | 10 (8 Chinese Super League, 2 Chinese FA Cup) |
| Yellow cards | 65 (62 Chinese Super League, 3 Chinese FA Cup) |
| Red cards | 3 (3 Chinese Super League) |
| Worst discipline | Dai Lin (11, 1) |
| Best result | W 5 – 1 (H) v Hangzhou Greentown – Chinese Super League – 4 August 2012 |
| Worst result | L 0 – 2 (A) v Changchun Yatai – Chinese Super League – 16 June 2012 |
| Most appearances | Wang Dalei (30 appearances) |
| Top goalscorer | Didier Drogba (9 goals) |