Chinese Super League Quiz Questions & Answers
29 Chinese Super League football trivia questions, each with the verified answer and explanation. Tap any question for the full breakdown, or play the live quiz.
In what year was the Chinese Super League established as China's top professional football division?
Answer: 2004
Which club won the AFC Champions League in both 2013 and 2015, becoming Chinese football's most successful continental side?
Answer: Guangzhou Evergrande
Which Italian World Cup-winning coach led Guangzhou Evergrande to their first AFC Champions League title in 2013?
Answer: Marcello Lippi
Which Chinese international forward played for Shanghai SIPG before moving to Spanish club Espanyol?
Answer: Wu Lei
Which two Brazilian internationals formed a high-profile attacking partnership at Shanghai SIPG in the mid-to-late 2010s?
Answer: Oscar and Hulk
What is the traditional home stadium of Beijing Guoan, one of China's most historic football clubs?
Answer: Workers' Stadium
Shanghai SIPG officially changed its name to which club in 2021?
Answer: Shanghai Port
Guangzhou Evergrande (now Guangzhou FC) dominated the Chinese Super League for most of the 2010s, winning the title how many times between 2011 and 2019?
Answer: 8 times
Unlike most major European leagues, the Chinese Super League season typically runs on which schedule?
Answer: A single calendar year, roughly March/February to November
Beijing Guoan won their first and only Chinese Super League/Jia-A League title in which year?
Answer: 1997
The Chinese Super League replaced an earlier top-flight competition called the Jia-A League. In which year was the Jia-A League itself first established as China's national top flight?
Answer: 1994
Which club won the first-ever Chinese Super League title in the 2004 season, the league's inaugural year under its new name?
Answer: Shenzhen Jianlibao
Which club dominated the early years of Chinese top-flight football in the 1990s and early 2000s, winning multiple Jia-A League titles before the CSL rebrand?
Answer: Dalian Shide (formerly Dalian Wanda)
Which club, backed by a major Chinese property conglomerate, dominated the Chinese Super League through the 2010s, winning eight titles between 2011 and 2019?
Answer: Guangzhou Evergrande (now known as Guangzhou FC)
Which Brazilian World Cup-winning manager took charge of Guangzhou Evergrande in 2015, later leading them to further CSL and AFC Champions League success?
Answer: Luiz Felipe Scolari
Guangzhou Evergrande won the AFC Champions League (Asia's top club competition) in which two years, becoming the first Chinese club to win the modern-era tournament?
Answer: 2013 and 2015
Which Italian World Cup-winning manager led Guangzhou Evergrande to their first AFC Champions League title in 2013?
Answer: Marcello Lippi
Which Brazilian forward, one of the CSL's marquee foreign signings in the mid-2010s, played for Shanghai SIPG before later returning to Chelsea?
Answer: Oscar
Which club won the 2018 Chinese Super League title, ending Guangzhou Evergrande's run of consecutive championships, with Brazilian forward Hulk among their key players?
Answer: Shanghai SIPG
Which club won the 2020 Chinese Super League title, their only top-flight championship, shortly before the club was dissolved in 2021 amid financial difficulties?
Answer: Jiangsu Suning
Which Brazilian former Tottenham and Barcelona midfielder played for Jiangsu Suning and helped them win the 2020 Chinese Super League title?
Answer: Paulinho
Which major Chinese property conglomerate's severe debt crisis led its sponsored football club to be renamed Guangzhou FC in 2021, dropping the conglomerate's name?
Answer: Evergrande Group
Which club won the Chinese Super League in both 2022 and 2023, becoming the league's dominant force after Guangzhou's decline?
Answer: Shanghai Port (formerly Shanghai SIPG)
Which club won the Chinese Super League title in its very first season in the top flight, in 2022, a rare achievement in Chinese football?
Answer: Wuhan Three Towns
Beijing Guoan, one of Chinese football's most well-supported clubs, won their only Chinese Super League title to date in which year?
Answer: 2009
Guangzhou Evergrande's 2013 title made them the first Chinese club to win which modern-era Asian club competition?
Answer: The AFC Champions League
The Chinese Football Association introduced a salary cap and stricter foreign-player rules starting around which year, aimed at curbing the league's high spending?
Answer: 2020
Which Colombian midfielder, formerly of Inter Milan, joined Shanghai Shenhua in 2016, part of the wave of high-profile South American players joining the CSL during its spending boom?
Answer: Fredy Guarin
Which Brazilian forward moved from Zenit Saint Petersburg to Shanghai SIPG in 2016 for what was then a Chinese transfer record fee?
Answer: Hulk