2021 Chinese Women's Football League

Chinese Women's Football League
Season	2021
Dates	27 July – 24 October 2021
Champions	Shaanxi
Promoted	Shaanxi
Matches played	55
Goals scored	187 (3.4 per match)
Top goalscorer	Zhang Linyan; (9 goals)
Biggest home win	China U-17 9–0 Qingdao Huanghai; (14 October 2021)
Biggest away win	Qingdao Huanghai 0–8 Tianjin Shengde; (11 October 2021); Qingdao Huanghai 1–9 Hebei; (18 October 2021)
Highest scoring	Qingdao Huanghai 1–9 Hebei; (18 October 2021)
Longest winning run	10 matches; Shaanxi
Longest unbeaten run	10 matches; Shaanxi
Longest winless run	10 matches; Yunnan Jiashijing
Longest losing run	10 matches; Yunnan Jiashijing
	← 2020 2022 →

The 2021 Chinese Women's Football League, officially known as the 2021 China Taiping Chinese Football Association Women's Football League (Chinese: 2021中国太平中国足球协会女子甲级联赛) for sponsorship reasons, was the 7th season in its current incarnation. In this season, all matches were held at the Dalian Youth Football Training Base, Dalian, Liaoning. It began on 27 July 2021 and concluded on 24 October 2021.^[1] In this season, the number of clubs was expanded from 7 to 11.

Clubs

Club changes

To Football League

Clubs promoted from 2020 Chinese Women's League Two^[2]

Clubs relegated from 2020 Chinese Women's Super League

Hebei China Fortune

From Football League

Clubs promoted to 2021 Chinese Women's Super League

Sichuan

Name changes

Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao changed their name to Guangzhou.
Hebei China Fortune changed their name to Hebei

Stadiums and locations

Team^[1]	Head Coach	2020 season
Hebei	Jiao Yuying	1st
Shaanxi	Liu Huana	2nd
Dalian Pro	Fan Yiying	3rd
Shanghai Shenhua	Ye Zhijing	4th
Chongqing Lander	Jia Jing	5th
Guangzhou	Li Kun	6th
Yunnan Jiashijing	Gao Fulin	7th
Shanghai Qiusheng Donghua	Qiu Jingwei	League Two, 1st
Qingdao Huanghai	Nie Chao	League Two, 2nd
Tianjin Shengde	Liu Bing	League Two, 3rd
China U-17	Wang Anzhi	Invited team

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Shaanxi (C, P)	10	10	0	0	25	3	+22	30	Promotion to Super League
2	Guangzhou	10	7	1	2	29	7	+22	22	Qualification for Promotion play-offs
3	Chongqing Lander	10	6	2	2	17	5	+12	20
4	Dalian Pro	10	5	4	1	19	10	+9	19^[a]
5	Tianjin Shengde	10	6	1	3	21	9	+12	19^[a]
6	Shanghai Shenhua	10	4	2	4	16	11	+5	14
7	China U-17	10	4	1	5	19	16	+3	13
8	Shanghai Qiusheng Donghua	10	3	1	6	13	19	−6	10
9	Hebei	10	2	2	6	19	21	−2	8
10	Qingdao Huanghai	10	1	0	9	5	52	−47	3
11	Yunnan Jiashijing	10	0	0	10	4	34	−30	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Goals scored; 7) Disciplinary points (yellow card = 1 point, red card as a result of two yellow cards = 3 points, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points); 8) Drawing of lots.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Dalian Pro finished ahead of Tianjin Shengde on head-to-head points: Dalian Pro 2–0 Tianjin Shengde.

Results

Home \ Away	CHN	CQL	DLP	DHU	GZH	HEB	QDH	SHX	SHS	TJS	YNJ
China U-17		0–3	0–0			3–0	9–0				4–0
Chongqing Lander			1–1	3–0	1–0	1–0				0–2
Dalian Pro				3–1	3–3	2–2			3–1	2–0
Shanghai Qiusheng Donghua	0–2				0–4		3–0	1–3	1–0
Guangzhou	6–0						7–0	0–1	2–1		3–0
Hebei				0–0	1–3			1–3	1–4	1–4
Qingdao Huanghai		0–3	0–2			1–9				0–8	4–2
Shaanxi	2–0	2–1	1–0				5–0				2–0
Shanghai Shenhua	4–1	0–0					4–0	0–3			2–0
Tianjin Shengde	1–0			3–2	0–1			0–3	0–0
Yunnan Jiashijing		0–4	1–3	1–5		0–4				0–3

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Positions by round

To preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for round 7, but then played between rounds 8 and 9, it will be added to the standings for round 8.

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Team ╲ Round
Shaanxi	5	3	4	4	3	2	2	1	1	1	1
Guangzhou	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2
Chongqing Lander	2	2	3	3	2	3	4	3	4	4	3
Dalian Pro	4	5	5	5	7	6	6	6	5	5	4
Tianjin Shengde	8	7	6	6	5	5	3	4	3	3	5
Shanghai Shenhua	1	4	2	2	4	4	5	5	6	6	6
China U-17	7	6	9	10	10	8	7	7	7	7	7
Shanghai Qiusheng Donghua	9	10	7	7	6	7	8	8	9	9	8
Hebei	6	8	8	9	9	10	9	9	8	8	9
Qingdao Huanghai	11	11	11	8	8	9	10	10	10	10	10
Yunnan Jiashijing	10	9	10	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11

	Leader and promotion to Super League
	Qualification for Promotion play-offs

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results by match played

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Team ╲ Round
China U-17	L	D	L	L	L	W	W	W	L	N	W
Chongqing Lander	W	W	L	W	W	L	D	D	N	W	W
Dalian Pro	W	D	D	L	N	W	D	D	W	W	W
Shanghai Qiusheng Donghua	L	L	W	N	W	L	L	D	L	L	W
Guangzhou	W	W	W	W	W	W	L	D	W	L	N
Hebei	N	L	D	L	L	L	W	D	W	L	L
Qingdao Huanghai	L	L	L	W	L	N	L	L	L	L	L
Shaanxi	W	W	N	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W
Shanghai Shenhua	W	D	W	W	L	L	N	D	L	W	L
Tianjin Shengde	L	D	W	L	W	W	W	N	W	W	L
Yunnan Jiashijing	L	N	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Goalscorers

Top scorers

Top assists

References

^ ^a ^b "中国足球协会关于举办2021年女子甲级联赛的通知". Chinese Football Association (in Chinese). 5 July 2021. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
^ "2020赛季女乙第六轮战报及成绩公告". Chinese Football Association (in Chinese). 11 December 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2021.

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[table_hth_DLP0.86524437687604-3] Dalian Pro finished ahead of Tianjin Shengde on head-to-head points: Dalian Pro 2–0 Tianjin Shengde.

[notice-1] "中国足球协会关于举办2021年女子甲级联赛的通知". Chinese Football Association (in Chinese). 5 July 2021. Retrieved 5 July 2021.

[2] "2020赛季女乙第六轮战报及成绩公告". Chinese Football Association (in Chinese). 11 December 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2021.

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