| Club: | Jiangsu Suning |
| Stadium: | Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre |
| League: | Super League |
| League Result: | 5th |
| Cup1: | FA Cup |
| Cup1 Result: | Quarter-finals |
| Manager: |  Fabio Capello(until 28 March) Cosmin Olăroiu (from 28 March) |
| League Topscorer: | Alex Teixeira (13) |
| Season Topscorer: | Alex Teixeira (15) |
| Highest Attendance: | 48,973 vs Shanghai Greenland Shenhua (22 April 2018) |
| Lowest Attendance: | 27,469 vs Chongqing Dangdai Lifan (15 August 2018) |
| Prevseason: | 2017 |
| Nextseason: | 2019 |
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The 2018 Jiangsu Suning season was Jiangsu Suning's 10th season in the Chinese Super League and 21st overall in the Chinese top flight. They also competed in the Chinese FA Cup.
After finishing 12th in the 2017 Chinese Super League, Jiangsu Suning started their 10th consecutive season in the Chinese top flight, also competing in the Chinese FA Cup and starting the competition from the fourth round. On 25 July 2018, after a 2–3 loss on aggregate to Guangzhou R&F, they were eliminated from the cup. They finished in 5th place in the league, failing to achieve an Asian Champions League qualification spot.
See also: List of Chinese football transfers winter 2018 and List of Chinese football transfers summer 2018.
| Player | Moving from | Type | Source | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter | |||||||
| MF | Transfer | ||||||
| MF | Transfer | ||||||
| MF | Transfer | [1] | |||||
| DF | Sign as free agent | ||||||
| FW | Transfer | ||||||
| Summer | |||||||
| FW | Transfer | ||||||
| GK | Transfer | ||||||
| Player | Moving to | Type | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter | |||||
| DF | Loan | ||||
| MF | Loan | [2] | |||
| MF | Transfer | ||||
| DF | Loan | [3] | |||
| MF | Loan | ||||
| GK | Transfer | ||||
| FW | Loan return | ||||
| FW | Loan | ||||
| DF | Loan | ||||
| DF | Transfer | ||||
| Summer | |||||
| MF | Transfer | [4] | |||
| MF |  Zhong Yi | Transfer | |||
| FW | Transfer | ||||
See main article: 2018 Chinese Super League.
See main article: 2018 Chinese FA Cup.
| width=60 | Rank | width=60 | Position | width=60 | Nation | width=60 | Number | width=150 | Player | width=60 | League | width=60 | Cup | width=60 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MF |  | 10 | Alex Teixeira | 8 | 2 | 10 | ||||||||
| 2 | FW | | 32 | Huang Zichang | 5 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||
| 3 | FW | | 9 | Éder | 3 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||
| MF | | 24 | Ji Xiang | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
| FW |  | 38 | Richmond Boakye | 3 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 5 | DF | | 2 | Li Ang | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||
| MF | | 11 | Xie Pengfei | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| MF | | 22 | Wu Xi | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 7 | DF | | 12 | Zhang Xiaobin | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
| Own goal | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 28 | 5 | 33 | ||||||||||||
| No. | Nation | Position | Player | Super League | FA Cup | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | GK | Gu Chao | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| 2 | | DF | Li Ang | 4 | 1 | 5 | |||||||
| 3 | | MF | Tian Yinong | 6 | 6 | ||||||||
| 5 | | DF | Zhou Yun | 4 | 4 | ||||||||
| 6 | | DF | Yang Boyu | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| 8 | | MF | Liu Jianye | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| 9 | | FW | Éder | 3 | 3 | ||||||||
| 10 | | FW | Alex Teixeira | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| 12 | | MF | Zhang Xiaobin | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| 16 | | MF | Gao Tianyi | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| 18 | | MF | Zhang Lingfeng | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| 24 | | MF | Ji Xiang | 5 | 1 | 6 | |||||||
| 28 | | DF | Yang Xiaotian | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| 29 | | DF | Gabriel Paletta | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| 32 | | FW | Huang Zichang | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| 33 | | MF | Wang Song | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| 38 | | FW | Richmond Boakye | 3 | 3 | ||||||||
| Total | 39 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 41 | 0 | 1 | ||||