Football records and statistics in China

These are the Records for the Chinese Football League since its inception in 1994.

All-time top scorers
The following is a cumulative record of all time goals scored by single players in Chinese Top Level Professional League, since its inception in 1994 as the Chinese Jia-A League. Players with at least 50 goals are listed.

All-time top appearances
The following table lists players who have played the most games within the top tier of Chinese football. Zou Yougen is the first player to make 300 or more appearances within the Jia-A or CSL League.

Top Appearance foreigner players
This section listed the foreign players who had most appearances in Chinese Top Level professional football leagues

League winning manager
this table listed manager of Chinese top level professional league Champions

All-time League Table
The All-Time League Table is a cumulative record of all match results, points and goals of every team that has played in the League since its inception in 1994. The table that follows is accurate as of the end of the Chinese Super League 2009 season. Teams in bold are part of the Chinese Super League 2010. Numbers in bold are the record (highest) numbers in each column.

League attendance
The attendance figures are announced by the league department of CFA. 1994–2001 Jia-A figures was corrected by Titan Sports., also on Blog.Sina.Com, the figures after 2002 was calculated from the record of the Official CFA site

Awards
China used to have three main award series, they are:

Mr. China Football Award, started from 1994, voted by fans all over the country, to award the player of the year.

Three Golden Awards, organized by China Sports Daily, started from 1983, to award the best performance players in all kinds of tournament, not only in the leagues, the awards includes:

Player of the year – Golden Ball awards

Best Scorer of the year – Golden Boot awards

Referee of the year – Golden Whistle awards

Official CFA League awards, Is the Official League awards, Awarded by CFA, includes:

Most Valuable players of the league awards (MVP) 

League Top Scorer awards

Manager of the year awards

Referee of the year awards

in 1999 season, three other items added as regular awards

Youth Player of the year awards (MYP)

Club of the year awards

Fair play club of the year awards

The league oscar also involve some occasional awards

In the year 2002, the three series above was merged into the Official CFA Annual Awards. It now includes:

Mr. Football League Golden Ball awards, also called MVP awards or Mr. China Football awards by some media

Best Scorer Golden Boot awards

Ref'e'ree of the year Golden Whistle awards

Manager of the year awards

Youth player of the year awards

Most Valuable Player of the League
Most Valuable players of the league awards; from the 2002 edition onwards, named Mr. Football League Golden Ball awards

Mr. China Football
First awarded in the year 1994. It merged with the "Most Valuable Player of the League" award of the Official CFA Annual awards in 2002.

Golden Ball Awards
It first awarded in the year 1983, and in the year 2002, merged with the "Most Valuable Player of the League" award of the Official CFA Annual awards

Top Scorer of the League
It first awarded in the year 1980

Manager of the year
The award does not necessarily go to the manager of the champions.

Team of the year
The Team of the Year is awarded by the Chinese Football Association, It first awarded in 1995, no award in 1998 & 2000, Voted by fans all-over China.

Other Records
As of October 20, 2012

Individual Player
for top scorers, see statistics above
 * Most goals is a single season: 29 goals
 * 🇮🇱 Eran Zahavi for Guangzhou R&F (2019)


 * Most goals in a game : 4 goals
 * 🇨🇳 Hu Zhijun for Guangzhou Apollo vs Shanghai Shenhua (14 August 1994)
 * 🇨🇳 Hao Haidong for Dalian Wanda vs Guangdong Hongyuan (10 December 1997)
 * 🇨🇳 Zou Jie for Dalian Shide vs August 1 (8 July 2001)
 * 🇨🇳 Li Bing for Sichuan Dahe vs Liaoning Bird (14 April 2002)
 * 🇬🇭 Kwame Ayew for Shaanxi Baorong vs Dalian Shide (21 October 2004)
 * 🇨🇳 Li Jinyu for Shandong Luneng vs Liaoning FC (21 May 2006)
 * 🇭🇳 Elvis Scott for Changchun Yatai vs Shanghai Shenhua (27 May 2007)
 * 🇧🇷 Éber Luís Cucchi for Tianjin Teda vs Dalian Shide (30 November 2008)
 * 🇳🇬 Peter Utaka for Dalian Aerbin vs Hangzhou Greentown (30 June 2013)
 * 🇮🇱 Eran Zahavi for Guangzhou R&F vs Yanbian Funde (23 July 2017)


 * Most career hat-tricks : 6 times
 * 🇨🇳 Hao Haidong


 * Fastest hat-trick : 10 minutes
 * 🇨🇳 Li Jinyu for Shandong Luneng vs Liaoning FC (21 May 2006)


 * Youngest player : 15 years 9 months and 26 days
 * 🇨🇳 Ma Yiming for Shanghai Zobon vs Sichuan FC (22 May 2005)


 * Youngest goalscorer : 16 years 9 months and 26 days
 * 🇨🇳 Huang Bowen for Beijing Guoan vs Shenyang Ginde (26 May 2004)


 * Fastest goal : 7 seconds
 * 🇨🇳 Ji Xiang for Jiangsu Sainty vs Guangzhou Evergrande (20 October 2012)


 * Most consecutive clean-sheets: 675 minutes
 * 🇨🇳 Sun Gang for Shenzhen Ping'an (started on June 17, 2001, 0–2 v Liaoning Hongyun, 77' of the match; ended on October 28, 2001, 0–3 v Dalian Shide, 31' of the match)

Club

 * Most League championships : 8 times
 * Dalian Shide (1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005)
 * Longest uninterrupted spell in Top Division: 15 years (1993–present)
 * Beijing Guoan
 * Shandong Luneng
 * Shanghai Shenhua
 * Most goals scored in a season : 78 goals
 * Guangzhou Evergrande (2013)
 * Fewest goals scored in a season : 10 goals
 * Guangzhou Songri (1996)
 * Most goals conceded in a season : 69 goals
 * Changsha Ginde (2001)
 * Fewest goals conceded in a season : 13 goals
 * Shandong Luneng (1999)
 * Biggest goal difference in a season : 60 goals
 * Guangzhou Evergrande (2013)
 * Most points in a season : 77 points
 * Guangzhou Evergrande (2013)
 * Fewest points in a season : 7 points
 * Shenyang Ginde (2001)
 * Longest unbeaten streak : 55 matches
 * Dalian Shide (1995–1997) (started on September 03 1995, 1–0 v Guangzhou Apollo; ended on December 21, 1998, 2–4 v Shanghai Shenhua)


 * Most wins in a season : 24 wins
 * Guangzhou Evergrande (2013)


 * Fewest wins in a season : 1 wins
 * Changsha Ginde (1994)
 * Jiangsu Shuntian (1994)
 * Most draws in a season : 14 draws
 * Shaanxi Baorong (2007)
 * Most losses in a season : 23 losses
 * Changsha Ginde (2001)
 * Fewest losses in a season : 0 losses
 * Dalian Shide (1996)
 * Most goals in a game : 10 goals
 * Beijing Guoan 9–1 Shanghai Shenhua (20 July 1997)
 * Record win : 9–1, 8–0
 * Beijing Guoan 9–1 Shanghai Shenhua (20 July 1997)
 * Dalian Shide 8–0 Bayi Football Team (8 July 2001)
 * Shanghai SIPG 8–0 Dalian Yifang (3 March 2018)
 * Highest scoring draw: 4–4
 * Sichuan FC 4–4 Shandong Luneng (26 November 2003)
 * Liaoning Hongyun 4–4 Shanghai Shenhua (12 November 2008)

All-time top appearances
The following table lists players who have played the most games within the top tier of Chinese football. Zou Yougen is the first player to make 300 or more appearances within the Jia-A or CSL League.

Top Appearance foreigner players
This section listed the foreign players who had most appearances in Chinese Top Level professional football leagues

League winning manager
this table listed manager of Chinese top level professional league Champions

All-time League Table
The All-Time League Table is a cumulative record of all match results, points and goals of every team that has played in the League since its inception in 1994. The table that follows is accurate as of the end of the Chinese Super League 2009 season. Teams in bold are part of the Chinese Super League 2010. Numbers in bold are the record (highest) numbers in each column.

League attendance
The attendance figures are announced by the league department of CFA. 1994–2001 Jia-A figures was corrected by Titan Sports., also on Blog.Sina.Com, the figures after 2002 was calculated from the record of the Official CFA site

Awards
China used to have three main award series, they are:

Mr. China Football Award, started from 1994, voted by fans all over the country, to award the player of the year.

Three Golden Awards, organized by China Sports Daily, started from 1983, award the best performance players in all kinds of tournament, not only in the leagues, the awards includes:

Player of the year – Golden Ball awards

Best Scorer of the year – Golden Boot awards

Referee of the year – Golden Whistle awards

Official CFA League awards, Is the Official League awards, Awarded by CFA, includes:

Most Valuable players of the league awards (MVP) 

League Top Scorer awards

Manager of the year awards

Referee of the year awards

in 1999 season, three other items added as regular awards

Youth Player of the year awards (MYP)

Club of the year awards

Fair play club of the year awards

The league oscar also involve some occasional awards

In the year 2002, the three series above was merged into the Official CFA Annual Awards. It now includes:

Mr. Football League Golden Ball awards, also called MVP awards or Mr. China Football awards by some media

Best Scorer Golden Boot awards

Ref'e'ree of the year Golden Whistle awards

Manager of the year awards

Youth player of the year awards

Most Valuable Player of the League
Most Valuable players of the league awards; from the 2002 edition onwards, named Mr. Football League Golden Ball awards

Mr. China Football
First awarded in the year 1994. It merged with the "Most Valuable Player of the League" award of the Official CFA Annual awards in 2002.

Golden Ball Awards
It first awarded in the year 1983, and in the year 2002, merged with the "Most Valuable Player of the League" award of the Official CFA Annual awards

Top Scorer of the League
It first awarded in the year 1980

Manager of the year
The award does not necessarily go to the manager of the champions.

Team of the year
The Team of the Year is awarded by the Chinese Football Association, It first awarded in 1995, no award in 1998 & 2000, Voted by fans all-over China.

Other records
As of October 20, 2012

Individual Player
for top scorers, see statistics above
 * Most goals in a game : 4 goals
 * 🇨🇳 Hu Zhijun for Guangzhou Apollo vs Shanghai Shenhua (14 August 1994)
 * 🇨🇳 Hao Haidong for Dalian Wanda vs Guangdong Hongyuan (10 December 1997)
 * 🇨🇳 Zou Jie for Dalian Shide vs August 1 (8 July 2001)
 * 🇨🇳 Li Bing for Sichuan Dahe vs Liaoning Bird (14 April 2002)
 * 🇬🇭 Kwame Ayew for Shaanxi Baorong vs Dalian Shide (21 October 2004)
 * 🇨🇳 Li Jinyu for Shandong Luneng vs Liaoning FC (21 May 2006)
 * 🇭🇳 Elvis Scott for Changchun Yatai vs Shanghai Shenhua (27 May 2007)
 * 🇧🇷 Éber Luís Cucchi for Tianjin Teda vs Dalian Shide (30 November 2008)
 * 🇳🇬 Peter Utaka for Dalian Aerbin vs Hangzhou Greentown (30 June 2013)
 * 🇮🇱 Eran Zahavi for Guangzhou R&F vs Yanbian Funde (23 July 2017)


 * Most career hat-tricks : 6 times
 * 🇨🇳 Hao Haidong


 * Fastest hat-trick : 10 minutes
 * 🇨🇳 Li Jinyu for Shandong Luneng vs Liaoning FC (21 May 2006)


 * Youngest player : 15 years 9 months and 26 days
 * 🇨🇳 Ma Yiming for Shanghai Zobon vs Sichuan FC (22 May 2005)


 * Youngest goalscorer : 16 years 9 months and 26 days
 * 🇨🇳 Huang Bowen for Beijing Guoan vs Shenyang Ginde (26 May 2004)


 * Fastest goal : 7 seconds
 * 🇨🇳 Ji Xiang for Jiangsu Sainty vs Guangzhou Evergrande (20 October 2012)


 * Most consecutive clean-sheets: 675 minutes
 * 🇨🇳 Sun Gang for Shenzhen Ping'an (started on June 17, 2001, 0–2 v Liaoning Hongyun, 77' of the match; ended on October 28, 2001, 0–3 v Dalian Shide, 31' of the match)

Club

 * Most League championships : 8 times
 * Dalian Shide (1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005)
 * Longest uninterrupted spell in Top Division: 15 years (1993–present)
 * Beijing Guoan
 * Shandong Luneng
 * Shanghai Shenhua
 * Most goals scored in a season : 78 goals
 * Guangzhou Evergrande (2013)
 * Fewest goals scored in a season : 10 goals
 * Guangzhou Songri (1996)
 * Most goals conceded in a season : 69 goals
 * Changsha Ginde (2001)
 * Fewest goals conceded in a season : 13 goals
 * Shandong Luneng (1999)
 * Biggest goal difference in a season : 60 goals
 * Guangzhou Evergrande (2013)
 * Most points in a season : 77 points
 * Guangzhou Evergrande (2013)
 * Fewest points in a season : 7 points
 * Shenyang Ginde (2001)
 * Longest unbeaten streak : 55 matches
 * Dalian Shide (1995–1997) (started on September 03 1995, 1–0 v Guangzhou Apollo; ended on December 21, 1998, 2–4 v Shanghai Shenhua)


 * Most wins in a season : 24 wins
 * Guangzhou Evergrande (2013)


 * Fewest wins in a season : 1 win
 * Changsha Ginde (1994)
 * Jiangsu Shuntian (1994)
 * Most draws in a season : 14 draws
 * Shaanxi Baorong (2007)
 * Most losses in a season : 23 losses
 * Changsha Ginde (2001)
 * Fewest losses in a season : 0 losses
 * Dalian Shide (1996)
 * Most goals in a game : 10 goals
 * Beijing Guoan 9–1 Shanghai Shenhua (20 July 1997)
 * Record win : 9–1, 8–0
 * Beijing Guoan 9–1 Shanghai Shenhua (20 July 1997)
 * Dalian Shide 8–0 Bayi Football Team (8 July 2001)
 * Shanghai SIPG 8–0 Dalian Yifang (3 March 2018)
 * Highest scoring draw: 4–4
 * Sichuan FC 4–4 Shandong Luneng (26 November 2003)
 * Liaoning Hongyun 4–4 Shanghai Shenhua (12 November 2008)