The 2021 season was the 71st season of competitive association football in China.
National teams
China national football team
Results and fixtures
2022 FIFA World Cup qualification
Second round
Third round
Friendlies
China women's national football team
Results and fixtures
Olympic qualifying tournament
Summer Olympics
AFC competitions
AFC Champions League
AFC Champions League qualifying play-offs round
Play-off round
Group stage
Group I
Group J
Men's football LeaguePromoted to leagueRelegated from leagueExpelled or DissolvedRe-electedSuper LeagueChangchun YataiNone JiangsuNoneLeague One Wuhan Three Towns Zibo Cuju Nanjing City Beijing BITNone Beijing Renhe Inner Mongolia Zhongyou Taizhou YuandaNoneLeague Two Dongguan United Xiamen Egret Island Sichuan Minzu Yichun Grand Tiger Hebei Kungfu Wuxi Wugou Quanzhou Yassin Yanbian Longding Dandong TengyueNone Jiangsu Yancheng Dingli Shenzhen BogangNone
Super League
Regular season
Group A
Group B
Championship stage
Relegation stage
League One
League Two
First stage
Group A
Group B
Group C
Ranking of third-placed teams
Second stage
Group D
Group E
Group F
Women's football
Super League
Regular season
Championship stage
Relegation stage
Football League
League Two
Managerial changes This is a list of changes of managers within Chinese professional league football:
Chinese Super League TeamOutgoing managerManner of departureDate of vacancyPosition in tableIncoming managerDate of appointment Guangzhou City Giovanni van Bronckhorst Mutual consent 3 December 2020 Pre-season Jean-Paul van Gastel 22 February 2021 Wuhan Pang Li (caretaker) End of caretaker spell 27 December 2020 Li Xiaopeng 27 December 2020 Shanghai Port Vítor Pereira Mutual consent 31 December 2020 Ivan Leko 1 January 2021 Beijing Guoan Bruno Génésio Mutual consent 6 January 2021 Slaven Bilić 6 January 2021 Dalian Pro Rafael Benítez Mutual consent 23 January 2021 José González 18 April 2021 Hebei Xie Feng Mutual consent 28 March 2021 Kim Jong-boo 28 March 2021 Tianjin Jinmen Tiger Wang Baoshan Mutual consent 31 March 2021 Yu Genwei 31 March 2021 Shenzhen Jordi Cruyff Signed by Barcelona 3 June 2021 7th José Carlos Granero 3 June 2021 Shanghai Shenhua Choi Kang-hee Resigned 7 August 2021 9th Mao Yijun (caretaker) 7 August 2021 Cangzhou Mighty Lions Afshin Ghotbi Mutual consent 6 September 2021 13th Liu Yan (caretaker) 6 September 2021 Guangzhou Fabio Cannavaro Mutual consent 28 September 2021 2nd Zheng Zhi (player/manager) 7 December 2021 Henan Songshan Longmen Javier Pereira Mutual consent 7 October 2021 10th Antonio Gómez-Carreño Escalona (caretaker) 7 October 2021 Cangzhou Mighty Lions Liu Yan (caretaker) End of caretaker spell 5 November 2021 13th Svetozar Šapurić 5 November 2021 Wuhan Li Xiaopeng Signed by China 3 December 2021 11th Li Jinyu 4 December 2021 Qingdao Wu Jingui Resigned 13 December 2021 16th Yang Weijian (caretaker) 13 December 2021
China League One TeamOutgoing managerManner of departureDate of vacancyPosition in tableIncoming managerDate of appointment Shaanxi Chang'an Athletic Kim Bong-gil Mutual consent 29 November 2020 Pre-season Óscar Céspedes 23 January 2021 Chengdu Rongcheng José Carlos Granero Mutual consent 7 December 2020 Seo Jung-won 12 December 2020 Zhejiang Zheng Xiong Mutual consent 31 December 2020 Jordi Vinyals 1 January 2021 Meizhou Hakka Marcelo Rospide Mutual consent 6 February 2021 Milan Ristić 6 February 2021 Zibo Cuju Hou Zhiqiang Mutual consent 19 February 2021 Park Chul 19 February 2021 Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard Polat Kutulk (caretaker) End of caretaker spell 30 March 2021 Pei Encai 30 March 2021 Nanjing City Tang Bo Mutual consent 18 April 2021 Fulvio Pea 18 April 2021 Beijing BSU Su Maozhen Mutual consent Zhang Xu Zibo Cuju Park Chul Mutual consent Huang Hongyi Wuhan Three Towns Albert Garcia Xicota Sacked 25 July 2021 5th Pedro Morilla 25 July 2021 Nantong Zhiyun Xie Hui Resigned 22 August 2021 7th Cao Rui 26 August 2021 Kunshan Gao Yao Sacked 16 September 2021 9th Sergio Zarco Díaz 16 September 2021 Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard Pei Encai Mutual consent 2 October 2021 17th Qeriazdan Ashar 2 October 2021 Shaanxi Chang'an Athletic Óscar Céspedes Sacked October 2021 7th Feng Feng (caretaker) October 2021 Guizhou Chen Mao Sacked 27 November 2021 9th Yuan Yi 27 November 2021
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