| Club: | Shanghai Shenhua |
| Stadium: | Hongkou Football Stadium |
| League: | Super League |
| League Result: | 4th |
| Cup1: | FA Cup |
| Cup1 Result: | Semi-final (vs. Jiangsu Suning) |
| Chairman: | Wu Xiaohui |
| Manager: | Gregorio Manzano |
| League Topscorer: | Demba Ba (14 goals) |
| Season Topscorer: | Demba Ba (17 goals) |
| Average Attendance: | league: 22,665 all: 21,760 |
| Prevseason: | 2015 |
| Nextseason: | 2017 |
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The 2016 season was Shanghai Greenland Shenhua's 13th season in the Chinese Super League and 54th overall in the Chinese top flight. They also competed in the Chinese FA Cup.
See main article: article and List of Chinese football transfers winter 2016. In:[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [7] [8] [7] [9] Out: [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [17] [17] [17]
See main article: article and 2016 Chinese Super League.
See main article: article and 2016 Chinese FA Cup.
|-|colspan="14"|Players who away from the club on loan:|-|colspan="14"|Players who appeared for Shanghai Greenland Shenhua who left during the season:|}
| width=60 | Place | width=60 | Position | width=60 | Nation | width=60 | Number | width=150 | Name | width=100 | Super League | width=80 | FA Cup | width=80 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FW |  | 9 | Demba Ba | 14 | 3 | 17 | ||||||||
| 2 | FW | 17 | Obafemi Martins | 8 | 6 | 14 | |||||||||
| 3 | MF |  | 10 | Giovanni Moreno | 8 | 1 | 9 | ||||||||
| 4 | MF |  | 28 | Cao Yunding | 4 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||
| 5 | MF | | 13 | Fredy Guarín | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||
| 6 | FW | | 11 | Lü Zheng | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||
| DF | | 3 | Li Jianbin | 2 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||
| Own goal | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 9 | MF |  | 4 | Kim Kee-hee | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
| FW | | 18 | Gao Di | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| TOTALS | 44 | 13 | 57 | ||||||||||||
| Number | Nation | Position | Name | Super League | FA Cup | Total | ||||
| 2 | | DF | Xiong Fei | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
| 3 | | DF | Li Jianbin | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | |
| 4 | | DF | Kim Kee-hee | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
| 8 | | MF | Zhang Lu | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 9 | | FW | Demba Ba | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| 10 | | MF | Giovanni Moreno | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | |
| 11 | | FW | Lü Zheng | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | |
| 13 | | MF | Fredy Guarín | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | |
| 16 | | DF | Li Yunqiu | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| 18 | | FW | Gao Di | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 20 | | MF | Wang Yun | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| 23 | | DF | Bai Jiajun | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | |
| 25 | | FW | Wang Lin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 26 | | MF | Qin Sheng | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | |
| 27 | | GK | Li Shuai | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 28 | | MF | Cao Yunding | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| 33 | | DF | Bi Jinhao | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| TOTALS | 63 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 63 | 5 | ||||