Now after long time of wait we can open the C-league 2005 thread Now, Let's Put the former C-league thread into History! 2005 Chinese Club Football Calendar Includs A3,ACL,CSL,CFL,FA Cup,League Cup,and Charity Matchs, Super Cup,The Division2 and Division3 hasn't been schedualed,CFL club Shenzhen Kejian be come insolvent and quit 2005 CFL, So the CFL will involve 14 teams CSL matches in red. CFL matches in blue. FA cup matches in magenta League Cup matches in green. AFC Champions League matches in orange. A3 Champions Cup matches in purple. Charity matches in cyan. -------------------------------------------------- February 13th: Shenzhen v Suwon (A3 Champions Cup, Jeju) 16th: Yokohama v Shenzhen (A3 Champions Cup, Jeju) 19th: Pohang v Shenzhen (A3 Champions Cup, Jeju) 26th: Charity matches for virescence March 5th & 6th: CSL Round 1 6th: CFL Round 1 9th: Shenzhen v Iwata (AFC Champions League, Shenzhen) 9th: Shandong v Yokohama (AFC Champions League, Yokohama) 12nd & 13th: CSL Round 2 12nd: CFL Round 2 16th: Suwon v Shenzhen (AFC Champions League, Suwon) 16th: Shandong v BEC (AFC Champions League, Jinan) 19th & 20th: CSL Round 3 19th: CFL Round 3 26th & 27th Chinese FA cup Round 1 April 2nd & 3rd: CSL Round 4 2nd: CFL Round 4 6th: Shenzhen v Hoang Anh (AFC Champions League, Shenzhen) 6th: PSM v Shandong (AFC Champions League, Indonesia) 9th & 10th: CSL Round 5 9th: CFL Round 5 13th: CSL Round 6 16th & 17th: CSL Round 7 16th: CFL Round 6 20th: Hoang Anh v Shenzhen (AFC Champions League, Vietnam) 20th: Shandong v PSM (AFC Champions League, Jinan) 23rd & 24th: CSL Round 8 23rd: CFL Round 7 30th: CSL Round 9 30th: CFL Round 8 May 1st: CSL Round 9 4th & 5th: CSL Round 10 7th & 8th: CSL Round 11 11st: Iwata v Shenzhen (AFC Champions League, Iwata) 11st: Shandong v Yokohama (AFC Champions League, Jinan) 14th & 15th: CSL Round 12 14th: CFL Round 9 18th: League Cup Round 1 Leg 1 21st & 22th: CSL Round 13 21th: CFL Round 10 25th: Shenzhen Jianlibo v Suwon (AFC Champions League, Shenzhen) 25th: BEC v Shandong (AFC Champions League, Tailand) 28th: CFL Round 11 29th: League Cup Round 1 Leg 2 June 4th: CFL Round 12 5th: League Cup Round 2 Leg 1 11st: CFL Round 13 12th: League Cup Round 2 Leg 2 18th & 19th: Chinese FA Cup Round 2 Leg 1 25th & 26th: Chinese FA Cup Round 2 Leg 1 July 2nd & 3rd: CSL Round 14 2nd: CFL Round 14 9th & 10th: CSL Round 15 9th: CFL Round 15 16th & 17th: CSL Round 16 16th: CFL Round 16 20th & 21th: CSL Round 17 August 9th & 10th:Chinese Fa Cup Round 3 Leg 1 13th & 14th: CSL Round 18 13th: CFL Round 17 20th & 21st: CSL Round 19 20th: CFL Round 18 24th & 25th:Chinese FA Cup Round 3 Leg 2 27th & 28th: CSL Round 20 27th: CFL Round 19 September 3rd & 4th: CSL Round 21 3rd: CFL Round 20 10th & 11th: CSL Round 22 10th: CFL Round 21 (14th: AFC Champions League Quarter Final First Leg) 17th & 18th: CSL Round 23 17th: CFL Round 22 (21st: AFC Champions League Quarter Final Second Leg) 24th & 25th: CSL Round 24 3rd: CFL Round 23 (28th: AFC Champions League Semi Final First Leg) October 2nd: Chinese FA Cup Round 4 Leg 1 5th: Chinese Fa Cup Round 4 Leg 2 8th: CFL Round 24 9th: League Cup Round 3 Leg 1 (12th: AFC Champions League Semi Final Second Leg) 15th: CFL Round 25 16th: League Cup Round 3 Leg 2 22th: CFL Round 26 23th: CSl Round 25 (26th: AFC Champions League Final First Leg) 30th: CSL Round 26 November (2nd: AFC Champions League Final Second Leg) 6th: League Cup Final 12th Chinese FA Cup Final
CSL 2005 Fixture Round 1/14 Shenzhen Wuhan Chongqing Zhongbang Shenhua Qingdao Shandong Inter Shenyang Beijing Tianjin Liaoning Dalian Sichuan Round 2/15 Chongqing Shenzhen Qingdao Wuhan Zhongbang Shandong Beijing Shenhua Inter Tianjin Sichuan Shenyang Liaoning Dalian Round 3/16 Shenzhen Qingdao Shandong Chongqing Wuhan Beijing Tianjin Zhongbang Shenhua Sichuan Dalian Inter Shenyang Liaoning Round 4/17 Shandong Shenzhen Beijing Qingdao Chongqing Tianjin Sichuan Wuhan Zhongbang Dalian Liaoning Shenhua Inter Shenyang Round 5/18 Shenzhen Beijing Tianjin Shandong Qingdao Sichuan Dalian Chongqing Wuhan Liaoning Shenyang Zhongbang Shenhua Inter Round 6/19 Tianjin Shenzhen Sichuan Beijing Shandong Dalian Liaoning Qingdao Chongqing Shenyang Inter Wuhan Zhongbang Shenhua Round 7/20 Shenzhen Sichuan Dalian Tianjin Beijing Liaoning Shenyang Shandong Qingdao Inter Shenhua Chongqing Wuhan Zhongbang Round 8/21 Dalian Shenzhen Liaoning Sichuan Tianjin Shenyang Inter Beijing Shandong Shenhua Zhongbang Qingdao Chongqing Wuhan Round 9/22 Shenzhen Liaoning Shenyang Dalian Sichuan Inter Shenhua Tianjin Beijing Zhongbang Wuhan Shandong Qingdao Chongqing Round 10/23 Shenyang Shenzhen Inter Liaoning Dalian Shenhua Zhongbang Sichuan Tianjin Wuhan Chongqing Beijing Shandong Qingdao Round 11/24 Shenzhen Inter Shenhua Shenyang Liaoning Zhongbang Wuhan Dalian Sichuan Chongqing Qingdao Tianjin Beijing Shandong Round 12/25 Shenhua Shenzhen Zhongbang Inter Shenyang Wuhan Chongqing Liaoning Dalian Qingdao Shandong Sichuan Tianjin Beijing Round 13/26 Shenzhen Zhongbang Wuhan Shenhua Inter Chongqing Qingdao Shenyang Liaoning Shandong Beijing Dalian Sichuan Tianjin
CSL 2005 Kickoff times Round 1-13 & Round 21-24 Matchs in the afternoon: 15:30 Matchs at night: 19:** (TBD) Round 6 & Round 14-20 Matchs in the afternoon: 17:30 Matchs inat night: 20:00 Round 25 & 26 All Matchs Started in 14:30
FA Cup First Round Changchun(CFL) VS Guangzhou(CFL) Inter(CSL) VS Chengdu(CFL) Hunan(CFL) VS Shenyang(CSL) Hubei(CSL) VS Ninth City(CFL) Nanjing(CFL) VS Beijing(CSL) Chongqing(CSL) VS Zhejiang(CFL) Henan(CFL) VS Zhongbang(CSL) Tianjin(CSL) VS Hailifeng(CFL) Yanbian(CFL) VS Dalian(CSL) Qingdao(CSL) VS Changbo(CFL) Shanxi(CFL) VS Liaoning(CSL) Xiamen(CFL) VS Jiangsu(CFL) Shandong;Sichuan;Shenzhen;Shenhua Automatic enter the Roound 2 League cup first Round Beijing VS Inter Qingdao VS Dalian Wuhan VS Tianjin Zhongbang VS Shenhua Chongqing VS Sichuan Shenyang VS Liaoning Shenzhen & Shandong Automatic enter the Roound 2 Interesting affairs happens in the first round hehee
I may predict Guo'an's Main squads for 2005 season now GK Yang Shizhuo FB Yang Pu; Zhang Shuai; Qiu Zhonghui MF Yang Hao;Tao Wei; Sui Dongliang;Lu Jiang FW Gao Leilei; Ilic; Xu Yunlong Shen Xiangfu Changed the formation to 3-4-3, Glad to see Yunlong as a Forward,But we still need more better Attacking players, this squads with 2 Nt player, 2 former NT player and 2u-23 Nt player is not bad, But still need some big change if we want to achieve higher position. I am wondering where is Chengbo2 these days?
Sinasports Put Dalian, Shandong & Shenzhen as the top 3 team of 2005 season http://sports.sina.com.cn/j/2005-01-29/12111378137.shtml
Shandong sighs Romania International Forward Danciulescu name IONEL DANCIULESCU nationality Romania former club Bucharest Dinamo Stature 1.80M Weight 78KG He is the top scorer of the 2003/2004 Romarian Division A, Had played 305 League matchs in professional career and scored 134 goals, player 27 International club matchs and scored 11 goals, 6 matchs for Romania NT and scord 2 goals,that was in a warm-up match last year when Romania beat germany 5-1. DANCIULESCU sighs a one year contract with Shandong,The salary will be 350,000 USD.here is the news from Dinamo's site in Jan 27th Danciulescu left to China 28th of January 2005 The forward from Dinamo, Ionel Danciulescu, left tonight to Beijing (China) to discuss a temporarily transfer to Shenzen Jianlibao(Should Be Shandong Luneng Taishan) for the next ten months. The impresario Victor Becali accompanied Danciulescu, who has a contract with FC Dinamo until 30th of June 2008.
Is the CSL better than those Eastern European leagues, since the good players are all in Western European leagues? Or are these players coming for the money?
Ofcouse Money is the biggest reason that they come to the eastern Asia leagues, I haven't seen any eastern european leagues so I can't tell which is better, But CSL is obviuosly richer than most of the Eastern Etropean leagues
CSL seems to be attracting better and better foreign talent though. Dalian, last year, had Ermin Siljak and Zoran Jankovic, both were national team players. Shenhua has Saul Martinez, a Honduras national team player. It's good to see that CSL is at least not a retirement home for all its foreigners.
CFA made a decision some years before, that the foreigner player in CSL must needs to be a Nt player of their country, or once was a NT player, this rule sounds stupid because if one player only played one match for his country, he is considering as a NT Class player too, But on the other hand, It do have something to do with the quality of the foreigner players
ESPN to show CSL again? http://news.sports.cn/china/chinaa/outfield/2005-01-30/474369.html They are also considering to show CBA, in the year 1997-2001 Starsports bought the broadcast right of C-league for the foreign area, they showed C-league for 5 seasons with the broadcast fee 50,000 USD/game, about 1.3 million USD a year at that time C-league was showing in Taiwan. Hongkong, Southeast asia and South asia. but Starsports stoped showing it from 2002.
Shandong In training: Zhang Zhi Predrag Pazhin Bulgaria international player, partecipated in Euro 2004, played for Beijing Guo'an in 2002 and now in Shandong Luneng IONEL DANCIULESCU
Siemens pulls out of China Super League www.chinaview.cn 2005-01-31 15:30:47 BEIJING, Jan. 31 -- German electronics giant Siemens will not continue to sponsor the Chinese Super League following a troubled maiden season. According to the report from the Titan Sports, Siemens decided to pull out of its major sponsorship of the league in the coming season. However, the company said that it would extend its cooperation with the national football team. Siemens only paid the contractual minimum of some 4.0 million euro as the Chinese Super League suffered a bumpy debut with several match boycotts and drug scandals. (Source: CRIENGLISH.com)
Well, I mean countries like Bulgaria and Romania is fairly poor. I don't think they can afford to keep all of their players in their clubs. I don't think we're getting Rooney anytime soon ha ha ha maybe we can get that 9 year old kid
Sinosoc's New version http://www.sinosoc.com/ What do you think of the site? The biggest problem makes me sick of is it's Shenhua Background! But as it is the only English site for CSL I can found so I have to bear it
CFA announces new promotion and relegation system for Division One and Two 2 February 2005 China - The China Football Association (CFA) has announced a new format for the Division One and Division Two teams promotion and relegation system which will take effect by the end of the year. Under the new rules, the first and second placed team in Division Two will be automatically promoted to Division One while the third and fourth place team in Division Two will also play-off with the bottom two teams in Division One to decide the remaining two places. This will make the Division One into a 16-team league next season in 2006. Also, it would be in line with the country’s premier league, the China Super League which would also have 16 teams next season.
i don't think the shenhua background is going to effect anything. I mean, I just looked at the improvement. This is awsome. This is now a reasonable site, much more organized and a clean look. finally, a good job for once from CSL.
What i mean is, It is hard for a Guo'an fans to read Shenhua Shenhua everytime when he opened that site, even it is a English site it has too many Shenhua news that may confused the foreigners, sounds like Shenhua is the most famous Chinese club But it is not true, Shenhua is not that welcomed in CHinese football fans, it is not because they are from Shanghai, the reason is their poor performance in asian affairs like Last years' A3, they've never made into ACL top 8 and people belive Shenhua is a team with no strength and courage. in Chinese fans forums despite those Shenhua fans, I'd say 70% fans hates Shenhua very much I've registed the forums there hope it'll be a busy forum
i am looking at the latest news on that site, only one news on a shenhua player and the rest is across CSL, come on man, it's not that biased
ha ha ha ha ha what he meant is that the website is designed by Shenhua so therefore it will be heavily weighted on Shenhua news instead of overall CSL. I was looking around and I don't think that's the case