Competition: | Chinese Super League |
Pixels: | 150px |
Season: | 2014 |
Matches: | 240 |
Total Goals: | 659 |
Winners: | Guangzhou Evergrande 4th title |
Relegated: | Dalian Aerbin Harbin Yiteng |
Continentalcup1: | Champions League |
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | Guangzhou Evergrande Beijing Guoan Guangzhou R&F |
League Topscorer: | Elkeson (28 goals) Record in Chinese Football History |
Biggest Home Win: | Guangzhou Evergrande 6–0 Liaoning Whowin (31 Aug. 2014) (6 goals) |
Biggest Away Win: | Liaoning Whowin 0–4 Guangzhou Evergrande (26 Apr. 2014) Liaoning Whowin 1–5 Guangzhou R&F (31 Jul. 2014) (4 goals) |
Highest Scoring: | Harbin Yiteng 3–6 Guangzhou Evergrande (30 Jul. 2014) (9 goals) |
Longest Wins: | Guangzhou Evergrande (9 matches) |
Longest Unbeaten: | Guangzhou Evergrande (9 matches) |
Longest Winless: | Harbin Yiteng Liaoning Whowin (9 matches) |
Longest Losses: | Harbin Yiteng (8 matches) |
Highest Attendance: | 52,301 Beijing Guoan 1–1 Guangzhou Evergrande (26 May 2014) |
Lowest Attendance: | 2,053 Liaoning Whowin 2–1 Hangzhou Greentown (4 May 2014) |
Average Attendance: | 18,986 |
Prevseason: | 2013 |
Nextseason: | 2015 |
The 2014 Chinese Super League was the eleventh season since the establishment of the Chinese Super League, the 21st season of a professional Association football league and the 53rd top-tier league season in China. Guangzhou Evergrande won their fourth consecutive title of the league.
Teams promoted from 2013 China League One
Teams relegated to 2014 China League One
Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment | |
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Jiangsu Sainty | Dragan Okuka | Expiration of contract | 5 November 2013[1] | N/A | 8 November 2013 | ||
Hangzhou Greentown | Takeshi Okada | Resigned | 5 November 2013[2] | N/A | Yang Ji (caretaker) | 8 November 2013[3] | |
Shanghai SIPG | Gao Hongbo | Expiration of contract | 8 November 2013[4] | N/A | Xi Zhikang | 4 December 2013[5] | |
Liaoning Whowin | Ma Lin | Expiration of contract | 27 November 2013[6] | N/A | Gao Sheng | 27 November 2013 | |
Shanghai Shenxin | Guo Guangqi (caretaker) | – | 2 December 2013[7] | N/A | Cheng Yaodong | 2 December 2013 | |
Dalian Aerbin | Sacked | 9 December 2013 | N/A | Ma Lin | 9 December 2013 [8] | ||
Shandong Luneng | Sacked | 21 December 2013[9] | N/A | 22 December 2013[10] | |||
Tianjin Teda | Alexandre Guimarães | Expiration of contract | 31 December 2013 | N/A | 12 January 2014[11] | ||
Beijing Guoan | Aleksandar Stanojević | Sacked | 10 January 2014[12] | N/A | Gregorio Manzano | 11 February 2014[13] | |
Shanghai Greenland Shenhua | Shen Xiangfu | – | 29 March 2014[14] | 11th | Sergio Batista | 29 March 2014 | |
Liaoning Whowin | Gao Sheng | Resigned | 9 April 2014[15] | 10th | Chen Yang | 9 April 2014 | |
Changchun Yatai | Svetozar Šapurić | Resigned | 21 April 2014[16] | 15th | Gao Jinggang (caretaker) | 21 April 2014 | |
Guizhou Moutai | Gong Lei | – | 23 April 2014[17] | 7th | Zhu Jiong | 23 April 2014 | |
Changchun Yatai | Gao Jinggang (caretaker) | – | 28 April 2014[18] | 12th | Dragan Okuka | 28 April 2014 | |
Dalian Aerbin | Ma Lin | Resigned | 28 May 2014[19] | 13th | Yasuharu Kurata | 30 May 2014[20] | |
Henan Jianye | Tang Yaodong | Resigned | 28 May 2014[21] | 15th | Jia Xiuquan | 3 June 2014[22] | |
Harbin Yiteng | Duan Xin | – | 19 July 2014 | 16th | Marijo Tot | 19 July 2014[23] | |
Shanghai Shenxin | Cheng Yaodong | Resigned | 29 September 2014[24] | 14th | 29 September 2014 |
The number of foreign players is restricted to five per CSL team, including a slot for a player from AFC countries. A team can use four foreign players on the field in each game, including at least one player from the AFC country. Players from Hong Kong, Macau and Chinese Taipei are deemed to be native players in CSL.[25]
Hong Kong/Macau/Taiwan players (doesn't count on the foreign player slot)
Club | Player 1 | Player 2 |
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Guizhou Renhe | Xavier Chen | |
Harbin Yiteng | Wisdom Fofo Agbo | |
Shanghai Shenhua | Chen Po-liang | Brian Fok |