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2013 Chinese Super League
The 2013 Chinese Super League was the tenth season since the establishment of the Chinese Super League, the 20th season of a professional football league and the 52nd top-tier league season in China. Guangzhou Evergrande won their third consecutive title with an 18-point advantage ahead of runners-up Shandong Luneng. Promotion and relegation Teams promoted from 2012 China League One * Shanghai Tellace (renamed to Shanghai Dongya) * Wuhan Zall Teams disbanded * Dalian Shide (withdrew from the league pyramid) Teams relegated to 2013 China League One * Henan Jianye Clubs Clubs and locations Managerial changes Foreign players The number of foreign players is restricted to five per CSL team, including a slot for a player from AFC countries. A team can use four foreign players on the field in each game, including at least one player from the AFC country. Players from Hong Kong, Macau and Chinese Taipei are deemed to be native players in CSL. *Players name in bold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Super League
The Chinese Football Super League (), commonly known as the Chinese Super League or the CSL (), also known as the China Resources Beverage Chinese Football Super League for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in China and the highest level of the Chinese football league system. Governed by the Chinese Football Association and operated by the Chinese Professional Football League (CFL), the league was established in 2004 by the rebranding of the former top division, Chinese Jia-A League. Initially contested by 12 teams in its inaugural year, the league has since expanded, with 16 teams competing in the 2025 season. A total of 40 teams have competed in the CSL since its inception, with 9 of them winning the title: Guangzhou (eight), Shandong Taishan (four), Shanghai Port (three), Shenzhen, Dalian Shide, Changchun Yatai, Beijing Guoan, Jiangsu, and Wuhan Three Towns (one title each). The current Super League champions are Shanghai Port, who won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professional Sports
In professional sports, as opposed to amateur sports, participants receive payment for their performance. Professionalism in sport has come to the fore through a combination of developments. Mass media and increased leisure have brought larger audiences, so that sports organizations or teams can command large incomes. As a result, more sportspeople can afford to make sport their primary career, devoting the training time necessary to increase skills, physical condition, and experience to modern levels of achievement. This proficiency has also helped boost the popularity of sports.Andy Miah Sport & the Extreme Spectacle: Technological Dependence and Human Limits' (PDF) Unpublished manuscript, 1998 In most sports played professionally there are many more amateur than professional players, though amateurs and professionals do not usually compete. History American football American football (commonly known as football in the United States) was professionalized in the 1890s as a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simo Krunić
Simo Krunić (Serbian Cyrillic: Симо Крунић; born 13 January 1967) is a Bosnian-Serbian professional football manager and former footballer. He is currently the manager of OFK Beograd. Playing career In the late 1980s, Krunić played for the two biggest clubs in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo and Željezničar, while the teams competed in the Yugoslav First League. In between the two clubs, he also played for Famos Hrasnica. He subsequently moved to OFK Beograd due to the outbreak of the Bosnian War, spending two seasons with the ''Romantičari'' (1992–1994). During his footballing career, Krunić also played professionally in Spain, South Korea (he won the 1996 Korean FA Cup with Pohang Steelers) and Greece. Managerial career Together with Risto Vidaković, Krunić served as assistant to Spaniard Javier Clemente at the helm of the Serbia national team during the UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying. He was later manager of BASK, Željezničar, OFK Beograd, Čukarič ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Development Area Stadium
The Development Area Stadium () is a multi-purpose stadium in Changchun, Jilin province, China. It is located in the Jingkai Sports Centre, which also includes tennis courts. The stadium is currently used mostly for football matches. The venue is also sometimes used for athletics. It holds 25,000 people and it was constructed in 2002. Development Area Stadium has been the home ground of local football team Changchun Yatai in several occasions. Changchun Yatai won the CSL in 2007 for the first time in their history. It has also been home for the women's team Changchun Dazhong Zhuoyue W.F.C.. The dressing rooms were renewed in 2012. See also * Sports in China Sports in China consists of a variety of competitive sports. Traditional Chinese culture regards physical fitness as an important characteristic. China has its own national quadrennial multi-sport event similar to the Olympic Games called the Na ... References Buildings and structures in Changchun Football venu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Changchun
Changchun is the capital and largest city of Jilin, Jilin Province, China, on the Songliao Plain. Changchun is administered as a , comprising seven districts, one county and three county-level cities. At the 2020 census of China, Changchun had a population of 9,066,906; its metro area, comprising five districts and one development area, had a population of 5,019,477. Shuangyang and Jiutai districts are not urbanized yet. It is one of the biggest cities in Northeast China, along with Shenyang, Dalian and Harbin. The name of the city means "long spring" in Chinese language, Chinese. Between 1932 and 1945, Changchun was renamed Xinjing ( zh, c=新京 , p=Xīnjīng, l=new capital) or Hsinking by the Kwantung Army as the capital of the Imperial Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, occupying modern Northeast China. After the Proclamation of the founding of the People's Republic of China, foundation of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Changchun was established as the provincial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svetozar Šapurić
Svetozar Šapurić (; 28 August 1960 – 27 December 2024) was a Serbian football manager and player. Career Šapurić started out at his hometown club Vrbas, spending eight seasons in the senior squad (1977–1985), before securing a move to Vojvodina. He was a member of the team that won the Yugoslav First League in 1989. Subsequently, Šapurić moved abroad to Cyprus and signed with APOEL. He later switched to Anorthosis (1993–1995), before returning to APOEL for his final season. After finishing his playing career, Šapurić was briefly manager of APOEL in 1996. He later served as sporting director A sporting director, or director of sport, is an executive management position in a sports club. The role is well known as a manager role for European football clubs, which are sometime also "sports clubs", offering many types of sports. The ... for his former club Vojvodina from September 1996 to October 1999. Afterwards, Šapurić returned to Cyprus for his second b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Changchun Yatai F
Changchun is the capital and largest city of Jilin Province, China, on the Songliao Plain. Changchun is administered as a , comprising seven districts, one county and three county-level cities. At the 2020 census of China, Changchun had a population of 9,066,906; its metro area, comprising five districts and one development area, had a population of 5,019,477. Shuangyang and Jiutai districts are not urbanized yet. It is one of the biggest cities in Northeast China, along with Shenyang, Dalian and Harbin. The name of the city means "long spring" in Chinese. Between 1932 and 1945, Changchun was renamed Xinjing ( zh, c=新京 , p=Xīnjīng, l=new capital) or Hsinking by the Kwantung Army as the capital of the Imperial Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, occupying modern Northeast China. After the foundation of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Changchun was established as the provincial capital of Jilin in 1954. Known locally as China's "City of Automobiles", Changchun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Workers' Stadium (1959)
The original Workers' Stadium (; often abbreviated as Gongti or ) was a multi-purpose stadium in Chaoyang, Beijing, Chaoyang, Beijing, China. The stadium was built in 1959, and was renovated in 2004 (the concrete structure strengthened, a new rotating display screen and energy-saving devices installed). The stadium was demolished in 2020 and reopened under the same name on 15 April 2023 as a Workers' Stadium (2023), new stadium built on the original site. It had a capacity of 65,094 and covered a land area of . It was one of the Ten Great Buildings constructed in 1959 for the tenth anniversary of the China, People's Republic of China. History The stadium was the main venue for the 1990 Asian Games, where the opening and closing ceremonies were held. Some high attendance matches of the Beijing Guo'an football club are held at the stadium. In 1993, the stadium was host to a slew of world records set by the world-leading group of Chinese distance runners at the seventh edition of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beijing
Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's List of national capitals by population, most populous national capital city as well as China's List of cities in China by population, second largest city by urban area after Shanghai. It is located in North China, Northern China, and is governed as a Direct-administered municipalities of China, municipality under the direct administration of the Government of the People's Republic of China, State Council with List of administrative divisions of Beijing, 16 urban, suburban, and rural districts.Figures based on 2006 statistics published in 2007 National Statistical Yearbook of China and available online at archive. Retrieved 21 April 2009. Beijing is mostly surrounded by Hebei Province and neighbors Tianjin to the southeast; together, the three divisions form the Jing-Jin-Ji, Jing-Jin-Ji cluster. Beijing is a global city and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandar Stanojević
Aleksandar Stanojević ( sr-Cyrl, Александар Станојевић, ; born 28 October 1973) is a Serbian football manager and player. Playing career Stanojević started his playing career in Partizan youth squad. From 1992 until 1997 he spent four seasons in Obilić and one season in Spanish Segunda División playing for Mallorca. In 1997, he joined OFK Beograd for two seasons. He rejoined Partizan in 1999, and was part of the squad that won 2001 national cup. After returning to OFK Beograd for a season, he moved to Hungarian National Championship club Videoton, where in 2003 he ended his professional career at the age of 29. Managerial career Early career Stanojević began his coaching career as a youth coach at OFK Beograd. His first job as a head coach was in Serbian First League club Srem. For almost two years he was the assistant coach for Miroslav Đukić in Partizan and later Serbia national team. On 3 September 2008, he was appointed the head coach of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henan F
Henan; alternatively Honan is a province in Central China. Henan is home to many heritage sites, including Yinxu, the ruins of the final capital of the Shang dynasty () and the Shaolin Temple. Four of the historical capitals of China, Luoyang, Anyang, Kaifeng and Zhengzhou, are in Henan. While the province's name means 'south of the river', approximately a quarter of the province lies north of the Yellow River. With an area of , Henan covers a large part of the fertile and densely populated North China Plain. Its neighboring provinces are Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, Anhui, and Hubei. Henan is China's third-most populous province and the most populous among inland provinces, with a population of over 99 million as of 2020. It is also the world's seventh-most populous administrative division; if it were a country by itself, Henan would be the 17th-most populous in the world, behind Egypt and Vietnam. People from Henan often suffer from regional discrimination. Hena ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 China League One
The 2013 China League One is the tenth season of the China League One, the second tier of the Chinese football league pyramid, since its establishment. Teams Team Changes To League One Teams relegated from 2012 Chinese Super League * Henan Jianye Teams promoted from 2012 China League Two * Guizhou Zhicheng * Hubei China-Kyle From League One Teams promoted to 2013 Chinese Super League * Shanghai East Asia * Wuhan Zall Teams relegated to 2013 China League Two * Hohhot Dongjin Name changes Fujian Smart Hero moved to the city of Shijiazhuang and changed their name to Shijiazhuang Yongchang Junhao in December 2012. Harbin Songbei Yiteng changed their name to Harbin Yiteng. Clubs Stadiums and Locations Managerial changes Note1:Executive manager was Wei Xin. Foreign players Restricting the number of foreign players strictly to three per CL1 team. A team could use three foreign players on the field each game. Players came from Hong Kong, Mac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
