2008_Chinese_Super_League

Chinese Super League
Season	2008
Champions	Shandong Luneng Taishan
Relegated	Liaoning Whowin
AFC Champions League	Shandong Luneng Taishan; Shanghai Shenhua; Beijing Guoan; Tianjin Teda;
Top goalscorer	Éber Luís (Tianjin Teda), 14 goals
Biggest home win	Changchun 6–0 Guangzhou (Oct 11)
Biggest away win	Changsha 1–5 Qingdao (Oct 11)
Highest scoring	Liaoning 4–4 Shanghai (Nov 12); Tianjin 5–3 Dalian (Nov 30);
Average attendance	13,444
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2008 Chinese Super League

Football league season

The 2008 Chinese Super League (known as the Kingway 2008 Chinese Super League for sponsorship reasons) was the 5th season since the establishment of the Chinese Super League and the 15th season of the professional football league in China. Super League was expanded to 16 clubs. Shandong Luneng Taishan won their 3rd title at the end of this season.

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Shandong Luneng Taishan (C)	30	18	9	3	54	25	+29	63	2009 AFC Champions League Group stage
2	Shanghai Shenhua	30	17	10	3	58	29	+29	61
3	Beijing Guoan	30	16	10	4	44	27	+17	58
4	Tianjin Master Kong	30	16	9	5	54	29	+25	57
5	Shaanxi Neo-China Chanba	30	15	7	8	41	29	+12	52
6	Changchun Yatai	30	12	9	9	53	45	+8	45
7	Guangzhou GPC Zhongyi	30	10	10	10	41	42	−1	40
8	Qingdao Shengwen Jonoon	30	10	9	11	39	36	+3	39^{[lower-alpha 1]}
9	Zhejiang Greentown	30	9	12	9	38	32	+6	39^{[lower-alpha 1]}
10	Henan Siwulaojiao	30	9	9	12	30	31	−1	36
11	Changsha Ginde	30	7	13	10	28	36	−8	34
12	Shenzhen Xiangxue Shangqingyin	30	8	9	13	35	34	+1	33
13	Chengdu Blades	30	7	11	12	30	37	−7	32
14	Dalian Haichang	30	6	12	12	30	40	−10	30
15	Liaoning Whowin (R)	30	6	9	15	34	47	−13	27	Relegation to China League One
16	Wuhan South Asia Optics Valley	30	0	0	30	0	90	−90	0^{[lower-alpha 2]}	Withdrew from the league and folded

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Former Player(s)
Beijing Guoan	Tiago	Elvis Scott	Walter Martinez	Ovidiu Burcă	Stojan Ignatov
Changchun Yatai	Samuel Caballero	Gabriel Melkam	Guillaume Dah Zadi	Dumitru Mitu
Changsha Ginde	Sandro	Tales	Aboubakar Oumarou	Nevil Dede	Milan Nikolić
Chengdu Blades	Auricélio Neres	Kim Yong-jun	Demar Stewart		Igor Tkalčević Sékou Tidiane Souaré
Dalian Haichang	Georgi Chilikov	Dragan Vukmir	James Chamanga		Kaloyan Karadzhinov Vedran Celiščak
Guangzhou GPC Zhongyi	Diego Barcelos	José Duarte	Luis Ramirez	Ismael Alvarado
Henan Siwulaojiao	Douglas	Obi Moneke	Emmanuel Olisadebe	Hichem ben Khaled	Olivier Fauconnier
Liaoning Whowin	Ryan Griffiths	Roman Kirenkin	Jefferson Feijão	Zé Roberto
Qingdao Jonoon	Jean-Paul Ndeki	Mitchel Brown	Dragan Stančić	Lee Jae-won	Luis Santamaría
Shaanxi Chanba	Ronny	Vicente
Shandong Luneng Taishan	Luciano Ratinho	Aleksandar Živković	Miljan Mrdaković	Alejandro Cichero
Shanghai Shenhua	Hámilton Ricard	Erick Scott	Emil Martínez	Justo Meza	Matías Marchesini
Shenzhen Xiangxue Shangqingyin	Johnson Macaba	Felipe Menegon	Michael Valenzuela	Marek Zając
Tianjin MasterKong	Éber	Darko Matić	Mariko Daouda	Marius Radu
Wuhan Optics Valley					César La Paglia Gustavo Papa Danilo Pablo Munhoz
Zhejiang Greentown	Karim Benounes	Valdo	Yordan Varbanov	Mohsen Abo Gresha	Slavčo Georgievski

Home \ Away	BJ	CC	CS	CD	DL	GZ	HN	LN	QD	PD	SD	SH	SZ	TJ	WH	ZJ
Beijing Guoan		2–1	1–0	2–0	2–1	3–2	2–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–2	1–0	2–2	3–0	1–0
Changchun Yatai	1–1		0–0	2–1	2–0	6–0	0–0	0–0	3–1	1–0	2–2	2–2	4–2	0–2	3–0	2–2
Changsha Ginde	1–1	2–2		1–1	0–0	4–2	0–0	1–0	1–5	1–1	0–1	1–1	2–1	1–3	3–0	1–1
Chengdu Blades	1–1	1–2	0–1		2–1	1–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	2–4	2–1	3–1	0–2	3–0	2–2
Dalian Haichang	3–1	2–3	1–1	1–2		1–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	2–1	1–1	3–0	0–0
Guangzhou GPC Zhongyi	1–1	3–2	0–0	1–1	3–0		4–2	1–2	3–2	0–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	4–3	3–0	1–3
Henan Siwulaojiao	1–2	2–0	0–1	0–0	3–0	2–0		3–3	2–0	1–0	0–2	0–2	2–1	1–1	3–0	1–0
Liaoning Whowin	1–2	3–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	0–2	0–0		3–2	1–2	2–4	4–4	1–2	1–2	3–0	0–1
Qingdao Shengwen Jonoon	1–2	2–2	1–1	1–0	2–1	0–0	0–0	2–1		1–3	1–1	0–0	1–0	0–1	3–0	2–1
Shaanxi Neo-China Chanba	2–1	4–3	2–1	3–0	2–0	1–1	2–1	3–0	0–2		0–2	1–4	1–0	1–0	3–0	2–2
Shandong Luneng Taishan	2–0	3–1	4–1	2–1	2–0	0–0	1–0	3–1	2–1	0–0		2–1	2–1	1–1	3–0	2–1
Shanghai Shenhua Liansheng	1–1	3–2	2–0	2–0	3–1	3–2	2–0	1–1	4–1	2–0	3–2		2–0	2–1	3–0	2–2
Shenzhen Xiangxue Shangqingyin	0–0	1–2	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	3–1	4–0	1–1	0–0	3–2	2–0		1–1	3–0	0–1
Tianjin MasterKong	1–3	1–2	2–0	3–1	5–3	2–0	2–1	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–1		3–0	4–0
Wuhan South Asia Optics Valley	0–3	0–3	0–3	0–3	0–3	0–3	0–3	0–3	0–3	0–3	0–3	0–3	0–3	0–3		0–3
Zhejiang Greentown	1–1	3–0	3–0	0–1	1–1	0–0	2–0	1–1	0–2	2–1	0–0	1–1	2–3	0–1	3–0

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Éber Luís	Tianjin Teda	14
2	Johnson Macaba	Shenzhen Xiangxue	13
3	Luis Ramírez	Guangzhou GPC	12
3	Emmanuel Olisadebe	Henan Construction	12
5	Du Zhenyu	Changchun Yatai	10
5	Valdo	Zhengjiang Greentown	10
7	Cao Tianbao	Changchun Yatai	9
	Guillaume Dah Zadi	Changchun Yatai
	Hámilton Ricard	Shanghai Shenhua
10	Han Peng	Shandong Luneng	8
	Miljan Mrdaković	Shandong Luneng
	Gao Lin	Shanghai Shenhua
	Emil Martínez	Shanghai Shenhua
	Vicente	Shaanxi Chan-Ba

Team	Stadium	Capacity	Average attendance
Beijing Guoan	Beijing Fengtai Stadium	31,000	14,641
Changchun Yatai	Changchun Stadium	41,638	5,797
Changsha Ginde	Helong Stadium	55,000	6,645
Chengdu Blades	Chengdu Sports Center	42,000	12,378
Dalian Haichang	Jinzhou Stadium	30,000	7,900
Guangzhou GPC	Yuexiushan Stadium	22,000	19,624
Henan Construction	Zhengzhou Hanghai Stadium	30,000	16,267
Liaoning Whowin	Tiexi New District Sports Center	26,800	11,733
Qingdao Jonoon	Qingdao Tiantai Stadium	30,000	6,600
Shaanxi Chanba	Shaanxi Coca-Cola Stadium	57,000	24,625
Shandong Luneng Taishan	Shandong Provincial Stadium	43,700	26,501
Shanghai Shenhua	Hongkou Stadium	35,000	11,510
Shenzhen Xiangxue	Shenzhen Stadium	32,500	6,400
Tianjin Teda	TEDA Football Stadium	37,500	14,007
Wuhan Guanggu	Xinhua Road Sports Center	36,000	12,556
Zhejiang Greentown	Yellow Dragon Sports Center	51,000	12,188
Total			13,444

2008_Chinese_Super_League

2008 Chinese Super League

Promotion and Relegation

Final league table

Foreign Players

Results table

Top scorers

Stadia and Attendance

Managers

See also

References

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Team	Manager	2nd Manager	3rd Manager
Beijing Guoan	Lee Jang-soo
Chengdu Blades	Li Bing
Guangzhou GPC	Shen Xiangfu
Qingdao Jonoon	Guo Kanfeng
Shaanxi Chanba	Cheng Yaodong
Shandong Luneng Taishan	Ljubiša Tumbaković
Shanghai Shenhua	Wu Jingui (Sacked after round 14)	Jia Xiuquan
Liaoning Whowin	Werner Lorant (Sacked after round 10)	Ma Lin
Changsha Ginde	Slobodan Santrač (Sacked after round 9)	Zhu Bo
Dalian Haichang	Ratko Dostanić (Sacked after round 8)	Milorad Kosanović
Tianjin Teda	Jozef Jarabinský (Sacked after round 7)	Zuo Shusheng
Zhejiang Greentown	Sun Wei (Sacked after round 4)	Zhou Suian
Wuhan Guanggu	Chen Fangping (Sacked after round 4)	Zhu Guanghu
Changchun Yatai	Gao Hongbo (Sacked after round 10)	Ernst Middendorp (Resigned after round 24)	Li Shubin
Henan Construction	Jia Xiuquan (Resigned after round 8)	Acácio Casimiro (Sacked after round 16)	Tang Yaodong
Shenzhen Xiangxue	Mai Chao (Resigned after round 1)	Zhang Zengqun (Sacked after round 13)	Wang Baoshan