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Chinese Super League
The Chinese Football Association Super League (中国足球协会超级联赛 or 超级联赛 or 中超) or Chinese Super League or China Super League, known as the CSL, is the premier league of Chinese football (soccer), under the auspices of the Chinese Football Association.
There is also a first-division league (at a lower level than the premier league CSL), which does not seem to have a standard English name but may be called the Chinese Football Association Jia League.
The CSL was founded in 2004 as a replacement for the previous Division I (Jia A, or 甲A) league, with 12 teams in the league. The inaugural season was plagued with great controversy, causing Siemens to not renew its multi-million dollar sponsorship of the league. The start of the second season in 2005 had to be delayed a month in order to find new sponsors.
For the 2005 season, the league expanded to 14 teams as Wuhan Huanghelou and Zhuhai Zhongbang won promotion from the Jia League. The Zhuhai team, formerly Zhuhai Anping, had been bought by the Shanghai Zhongbang real estate company and relocated to Shanghai for the 2005 season.
Teams
- Dalian Shide (大连实德)
- Shandong Luneng (山东鲁能) formerly Shandong Luneng Taishan (山东鲁能泰山)
- Shanghai Shenhua (上海申花)
- Tianjin Teda (or Tianjin Taida) (天津泰达) formerly Tianjin Kangshifu (天津康师傅)
- Beijing Hyundai (or Beijing Xiandai) (北京现代)
- Qingdao Zhongneng (青岛中能)
- Wuhan Huanghelou (武汉黄鹤楼) formerly Wuhan Tianlong Huanghelou (武汉天龙黄鹤楼)
- Shenzhen Jianlibao (深圳健力宝)
- Sichuan Guancheng (四川冠城)
- Liaoning FC (辽宁队) formerly Liaoning Zhongyu (辽宁中誉)
- Shanghai Zobon (or Shanghai Zhongbang) (上海中邦)
- Chongqing Qiche (重庆奇伡) formerly Chongqing Lifan (重庆力帆)
- Inter Shanghai (or Shanghai Guoji) (上海国际)
- Shenyang Ginde (or Shenyang Jinde) (沈阳金德)
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