2015 China League Two

The 2015 Chinese Football Association Division Two League season was the 26th season since its establishment in 1989. It was divided into two groups, North and South. There were 16 teams participating in the league, 8 teams in North Group and 8 teams in South Group. The league was made up of two stages, the group stage and the play-off. The group stage was a double round-robin format. Each team in the group will play the other teams twice, home and away.

China League Two

Season	2015
Champions	Meizhou Kejia (1st title)
Promoted	Meizhou Kejia Dalian Transcendence
Matches played	126
Goals scored	356 (2.83 per match)
Top goalscorer	Liu Yang (12 goals)
Biggest home win	Meizhou Kejia 10-0 Fujian Broncos (Aug. 22nd, 2015) (10 goals)
Biggest away win	Fujian Broncos 0-7 Anhui Litian Huishang (Jul. 11th, 2015) (7 goals)
Highest scoring	Dalian Transcendence 10-1 Shenyang Dongjin (Jun. 13th, 2015) (11 goals)
← 2014 2016 →

Team changes

Promotion and relegation

Teams promoted to 2015 China League One

• Jiangxi Liansheng
• Taiyuan Zhongyou Jiayi
• Guizhou Zhicheng

Teams relegated from 2014 China League One

• Chengdu Tiancheng

Teams promoted from 2014 China Amateur Football League ^[1]

• Anhui Litian
• Baoding Yingli ETS
• Baotou Nanjiao
• Guangxi Longguida

Dissolved entries

• Chengdu Tiancheng^[2]
• Shandong Tengding
• Sichuan Leaders^[3]

Name changes

Pu'er Wanhao was renamed Yunnan Wanhao.

Clubs

Groups	Club	Head Coach	City	Stadium	Capacity	2014 season
North	Nanjing Qianbao	Zhao Faqing	Nanjing	Wutaishan Stadium	18,500	North, 2nd
	Dalian Transcendence	Liu Zhongchang	Dalian	Jinzhou Stadium	30,776	North, 3rd
	Yinchuan Helanshan	Zhu Bo	Yinchuan	Helan Mountain Stadium	39,872	North, 4th
	Shenyang Dongjin	Li Wei	Shenyang	Shenyang Urban Construction University Stadium	12,000	North, 5th
	Hebei Elite	Juan Carlos Añón	Qinhuangdao	Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Center Stadium	33,572	North, 6th
	Tianjin Huochetou	Su Wei	Tianjin	Tianjin Huochetou Stadium	12,000	North, 7th
	Baotou Nanjiao P	Xu Hui	Baotou	Baotou Olympic Sports Center Stadium	40,545	CAL, 10th
	Baoding Yingli ETS P	Fan Yuhong	Baoding	Baoding Foreign Language School Stadium	N/A	CAL North, 5th
South	Meizhou Kejia	Qi Wusheng	Wuhua	Wuhua County Stadium	6,800	CL2, 4th
	Lijiang Jiayunhao	Wang Zheng	Lijiang	Lijiang Sports Development Centre Stadium	20,000	South, 4th
	Meixian Hakka	Wang Hongwei	Meizhou	Meixian Tsang Hin-chi Stadium	20,221	South, 5th
	Sichuan Longfor	Jia Jin	Santai	Santai County Stadium	8,000	South, 6th
	Yunnan Wanhao	Zhang Biao	Pu'er (playing in Kunming)	Hongta Sport Center	N/A	South, 8th
	Fujian Broncos	Wei Xin	Quanzhou (playing in Jinjiang)	Jinjiang Sports Center Stadium	15,000	South, 9th
	Guangxi Longguida P	Huang Yong	Nanning (playing in Dongxing)	Dongxing Sports Center Stadium	60,000	CAL, 4th
	Anhui Litian P	Darko Nović	Hefei	Hefei Olympic Sports Center Stadium	60,000	CAL, 9th

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Date of vacancy	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Meizhou Kejia	Tan Ende	26 May 2015[4]	Zhang Jun	26 May 2015[4]
Anhui Litian	Shang Qing	28 May 2015[5]	Ding Wei (caretaker)	28 May 2015[5]
Meizhou Kejia	Zhang Jun	15 June 2015[6]	He Weiwen	15 June 2015[6]
Anhui Litian	Ding Wei (caretaker)	1 July 2015	Darko Nović	1 July 2015[7]
Meizhou Kejia	He Weiwen	5 July 2015	Qi Wusheng	5 July 2015[8]
Sichuan Longfor	Zhang Weizhe	6 July 2015[9]	Jia Jin	6 July 2015[9]

Clubs Locations

Yinchuan Helanshan

Shenyang Dongjin

Nanjing Qianbao

Dalian Transcendence

Hebei Elite

Tianjin Huochetou

Baotou Nanjiao

Baoding Yingli ETS

Lijiang Jiayunhao

Yunnan Wanhao

Sichuan Longfor

Fujian Broncos

Meixian Hakka

Meizhou Kejia

Guangxi Longguida

Anhui Litian

Location of teams in 2015 China League Two^[10]

Group stage standings

North Group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Dalian Transcendence (P, Q)	14	10	4	0	38	11	+27	34	CL2 Play-offs
2	Nanjing Qianbao (Q)	14	6	6	2	32	16	+16	24
3	Hebei Elite (Q)	14	6	4	4	20	12	+8	22
4	Tianjin Huochetou (Q)	14	6	4	4	23	16	+7	22
5	Baoding Yingli ETS	14	5	5	4	26	17	+9	20
6	Baotou Nanjiao	14	5	5	4	21	13	+8	20
7	Yinchuan Helanshan	14	3	2	9	14	25	−11	11
8	Shenyang Dongjin	14	0	0	14	3	67	−64	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(P) Promoted to 2016 China League One; (Q) Qualified for Play-off

South Group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Meizhou Kejia (C, P, Q)	14	9	3	2	39	13	+26	30	CL2 Play-offs
2	Sichuan Longfor (Q)	14	7	5	2	24	14	+10	26
3	Meixian Hakka (Q)	14	6	6	2	14	8	+6	24
4	Lijiang Jiayunhao (Q)	14	7	3	4	19	15	+4	24
5	Anhui Litian	14	5	5	4	23	15	+8	20
6	Yunnan Wanhao	14	3	5	6	9	19	−10	14
7	Guangxi Longguida	14	2	2	10	10	24	−14	8
8	Fujian Broncos	14	2	1	11	11	41	−30	7

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted to 2016 China League One; (Q) Qualified for Play-off

Group stage results

North Group

Home \ Away	NJQ	DLT	YCH	SYD	HBE	TJH	BTN	BDY
Nanjing Qianbao		1–1	4–0	6–0	3–1	2–2	3–3	0–0
Dalian Transcendence	1–1		1–0	10–1	1–0	2–0	2–0	5–1
Yinchuan Helanshan	1–3	3–4		4–0	0–0	1–2	0–3	0–1
Shenyang Dongjin	0–3	0–4	1–2		0–5	0–4	0–2	0–6
Hebei Elite	2–1	1–1	2–1	4–0		2–0	1–1	2–1
Tianjin Huochetou	3–1	1–1	1–2	4–0	2–0		1–0	0–0
Baotou Nanjiao	1–1	1–3	0–0	6–0	1–0	2–0		0–1
Baoding Yingli ETS	1–3	1–2	3–0	7–1	0–0	3–3	1–1

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

South Group

Home \ Away	MZK	LJJ	MXH	SCL	YNW	FJB	GXL	AHL
Meizhou Kejia		5–3	2–0	4–0	3–0	10–0	1–0	3–1
Lijiang Jiayunhao	0–0		1–0	0–2	2–2	2–1	2–1	2–1
Meixian Hakka	0–0	1–0		1–1	1–0	4–0	2–1	2–1
Sichuan Longfor	2–2	1–3	0–0		0–0	2–0	3–0	2–1
Yunnan Wanhao	2–1	0–0	0–0	0–5		3–2	1–0	0–0
Fujian Broncos	1–3	0–3	1–2	1–2	2–1		3–0	0–7
Guangxi Longguida	2–4	0–1	0–0	0–2	2–0	2–0		2–2
Anhui Litian	2–1	1–0	1–1	2–2	1–0	0–0	3–0

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Play-offs

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Lijiang Jiayunhao	0 - 3	Dalian Transcendence	0 - 1	0 - 2
Hebei Elite	1 - 1	Sichuan Longfor	1 - 1	0 - 0
Tianjin Huochetou	2 - 6	Meizhou Kejia	1 - 2	1 - 4
Meixian Hakka	1 - 1 (5–6 p)	Nanjing Qianbao	1 - 0	0 - 1

First leg

Sept. 5th, 2015

15:00 UTC+8

Lijiang Jiayunhao	0 - 1	Dalian Transcendence
	Report	13' Su Di

Lijiang Sports Center Stadium, Lijiang

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Sept. 5th, 2015

15:00 UTC+8

Hebei Elite	1 - 1	Sichuan Longfor
Ge Hailun 78'	Report	85' Wang Xinzheng

Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Center Stadium, Qinhuangdao

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Sept. 5th, 2015

15:00 UTC+8

Tianjin Huochetou	1 - 2	Meizhou Kejia
Liu Yang 20' (pen.)	Report	68' Cao Tianbao 84' Pan Jia

Tianjin Locomotive Stadium, Tianjin

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Sept. 5th, 2015

15:00 UTC+8

Meixian Hakka	1 - 0	Nanjing Qianbao
Wang Kai 45+'	Report

Meixian Tsang Hin-chi Stadium, Meizhou

Second leg

Sept. 12th, 2015

15:00 UTC+8

Dalian Transcendence	2 - 0	Lijiang Jiayunhao
Liu Yuchen 10' Du Wenxiang 85'	Report

Jinzhou Stadium, Dalian

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Sept. 12th, 2015

15:00 UTC+8

Sichuan Longfor	0 - 0	Hebei Elite
	Report

Santai County Stadium, Santai

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Sept. 12th, 2015

15:00 UTC+8

Meizhou Kejia	4 - 1	Tianjin Huochetou
Cao Tianbao 7', 53' (pen.) Gao Zhilin 20', 75'	Report	60' Li Wenxin

Wuhua County Stadium, Wuhua

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Sept. 12th, 2015

15:00 UTC+8

Nanjing Qianbao	1 - 0	Meixian Hakka
Tian Junjie 25' (o.g.)	Report
Penalties
Tan Si Gan Rui Wei Renjie Wang Qing Bai Fan Zhu Chao Ban Yong Huang Chao	6 – 5	Liang Rifu Pan Jiajun Tian Junjie Yu Xin Zhang Xingbo Li Wenwei Li Weixin Wang Xingqiang

Wutaishan Stadium, Nanjing

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sichuan Longfor	2 - 5	Dalian Transcendence	0 - 0	2 - 5
Nanjing Qianbao	1 - 6	Meizhou Kejia	1 - 5	0 - 1

First leg

Sept. 19th, 2015

15:00 UTC+8

Sichuan Longfor	0 - 0	Dalian Transcendence
	Report

Santai County Stadium, Santai

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Sept. 19th, 2015

15:00 UTC+8

Nanjing Qianbao	1 - 5	Meizhou Kejia
Zi Long 74'	Report	2' Ba Dun 35' Yu Jianfeng 49' Chen Jianlong 76', 88' Gao Zhilin

Wutaishan Stadium, Nanjing

Second leg

Sept. 26th, 2015

15:00 UTC+8

Dalian Transcendence	5 - 2	Sichuan Longfor
Han Jiabao 20' Hu Zhaojun 43' (pen.) Nan Yunqi 52', 65' Wang Guanghao 90+'	Report	61' Wang Xinzheng 82' Zhang Qi

Jinzhou Stadium, Dalian

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Sept. 26th, 2015

15:00 UTC+8

Meizhou Kejia	1 - 0	Nanjing Qianbao
Cao Tianbao 32' (pen.)	Report

Wuhua County Stadium, Wuhua

Third-Place Match

Oct. 10th, 2015

15:00 UTC+8

Sichuan Longfor	1 - 0	Nanjing Qianbao
Lu Cheng 39'	Report

Santai County Stadium, Santai

Final Match

Oct. 10th, 2015

15:00 UTC+8

Dalian Transcendence	0 - 0	Meizhou Kejia
	Report
Penalties
Liu Tao Liu Huan Han Jiabao Hu Zhaojun Du Wenxiang Liu Yuchen Zhao Yibo Su Di Guo Wei	7 – 8	Cao Tianbao Pan Jia Gao Zhilin Li Zhilang Yu Jianfeng Tang Dechao Chen Jianlong Zhang Zhiquan Li Siyuan

Jinzhou Stadium, Dalian

Attendance

Club	Total	Average
Lijiang Jiayunhao	47,494	6,785
Meixian Hakka	46,392	6,627
Baotou Nanjiao	42,548	6,078
Meizhou Kejia	31,901	4,557
Sichuan Longfor	26,745	3,821
Yinchuan Helanshan	17,470	2,496
Anhui Litian	17,039	2,434
Baoding Yingli ETS	16,788	2,398
Guangxi Longguida	11,248	1,607
Nanjing Qianbao	10,797	1,542
Dalian Transcendence	6,287	898
Yunnan Wanhao	4,972	710
Fujian Broncos	4,100	586
Hebei Elite	1,939	277
Shenyang Dongjin	1,508	215
Tianjin Huochetou	1,445	206
Total	288,673	2,577

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Total
1	Liu Yang	Tianjin Huochetou	12
2	Han Jiabao	Dalian Transcendence	11
3	Ji Jun	Meizhou Kejia	9
	Tan Si	Nanjing Qianbao	9
5	Gao Zhilin	Meizhou Kejia	8
6	Nan Yunqi	Dalian Transcendence	7
	Quan Heng	Dalian Transcendence	7
	Wang Yunlong	Anhui Litian	7
	Zhang Xiang	Lijiang Jiayunhao	7
10	Cao Tianbao	Meizhou Kejia	6
	Chen Shaoqin	Sichuan Longfor	6
	Wang Xinzheng	Sichuan Longfor	6
	Zhang Hongbin	Baoding Yingli ETS	6
	Zhang Shuang	Baotou Nanjiao	6
	Zhang Zhiquan	Meizhou Kejia	6
	Zi Long	Nanjing Qianbao	6

Awards

The awards of 2015 China League Two were announced on 18 November 2015.^[11]

• Most valuable player: Hu Zhaojun (Dalian Transcendence)
• Top scorer: Liu Yang (Tianjin Huochetou)
• Best coach: Qi Wusheng (Meizhou Kejia)