| Club: | Tianjin Teda |
| Season: | 2012 |
| Manager: | Josip Kuže (till 27 May 2012); Alexandre Guimarães (from 1 June 2012) |
| Mgrtitle: | Manager |
| Chairman: | Li Guangyi |
| Chrtitle: | Chairman |
| Stadium: | Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium |
| League: | Super League |
| League Result: | 8th |
| Cup1: | FA Cup |
| Cup1 Result: | Fourth round vs Shandong Luneng Taishan |
| Cup2: | Super Cup |
| Cup2 Result: | Runners-up |
| Cup3: | AFC Champions League |
| Cup3 Result: | Group stage |
| League Topscorer: | Sjoerd Ars (13) |
| Season Topscorer: | Sjoerd Ars (13) |
| Prevseason: | 2011 |
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The 2012 Tianjin Teda F.C. season was the club's 9th season in the Chinese Super League, and 44th season in China's top flight. They started the season with Josip Kuže as manager, before replacing him with Alexandre Guimarães halfway through the season. Domestically they finished the season in 8th place, reached the Fourth Round of the FA Cup and were runners-up in the Super Cup. Tianjin Teda also participated in the AFC Champions League, where they were placed in a group with Seongnam, Nagoya Grampus and Central Coast Mariners, they finished bottom of the group with 3 points.
See main article: List of Chinese football transfers winter 2012. In[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [5] [7] [8] Out: [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [16] [16] [17] [16] [18] [19] [20] [21] [16] [16]
See main article: List of Chinese football transfers summer 2012. In[22] [23] Out: [24] [25]
See main article: 2012 Chinese FA Super Cup.
See main article: 2012 Chinese Super League.
See main article: 2012 Chinese FA Cup.
|-|colspan="14"|Players who left Tianjin Teda during the season:|}
| width=60 | Place | width=60 | Position | width=60 | Nation | width=60 | Number | width=150 | Name | width=150 | Super League | width=150 | FA Cup | width=150 | SuperCup | width=150 | Champions League | width=80 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FW |  | 28 | Sjoerd Ars | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | ||||||||||
| 2 | MF |  | 10 | Wang Xinxin | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | ||||||||||
| 3 | FW |  | 31 | Vladimir Jovančić | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||||
| DF | 6 | Lucian Goian | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | FW | | 20 | Mao Biao | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
| MF | | 35 | Du Zhenyu | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||||
| 7 | FW | 16 | Akpo Sodje | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||
| DF |  | 4 | Milan Susak | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||
| DF | | 26 | Cao Yang | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Own goal | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| FW | | 20 | Mao Biao | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||
| DF | | 15 | Liao Bochao | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| TOTALS | 29 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 33 | ||||||||||||||
| Number | Nation | Position | Name | Super League | FA Cup | Super Cup | Champions League | Total | |||||||||||
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | | DF | He Yang | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||||
| 3 | | DF | Li Hongyang | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||||
| 4 | | DF | Milan Susak | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||||
| 5 | | DF | Li Weifeng | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||||
| 6 | DF | Lucian Goian | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||
| 9 | | FW | Zhou Liao | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||||
| 18 | | MF | Zheng Jin | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| 21 | | MF | Chen Tao | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| 24 | | DF | Bai Yuefeng | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| 26 | | DF | Cao Yang | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||||
| 28 | | FW | Sjoerd Ars | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| 29 |  | MF | Veliče Šumulikoski | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||||
| TOTALS | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 22 | 0 | |||||||||