2008 Chinese Super League

The 2008 Chinese Super League (known as the Kingway 2008 Chinese Super League for sponsorship reasons) was the 5th season since the establishment of the Chinese Super League and the 15th season of the professional football league in China. Super League was expanded to 16 clubs. Shandong Luneng Taishan won their 3rd title at the end of this season.

Promotion and Relegation

At the end of the 2007 season, Guangzhou GPC and Chengdu Blades were promoted to Super League.
At the end of the 2007 season, Xiamen were relegated.
Wuhan Guanggu withdrew from the league and folded.^[1]
At the end of the season, Liaoning Whowin were relegated.

Final league table

Updated to match(es) played on November 30, 2008. Source: CSL
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) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ a b Qingdao: 6 pts, 4–1; Zhejiang: 0 pts, 1–4
^ Wuhan Guanggu withdrew from the league and folded; all of their matches were scratched and counted as 3–0 wins to their opponents.

Foreign players

Results table

Source: CSL
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

Stadia and Attendance

Managers

References

^ 足协维持李玮峰处罚武汉宣布罢赛正式退出中超 at sports.sohu.com 2008-10-01 Retrieved 18 June 2012

External links

Official site of the Chinese Super League Archived 2008-05-09 at the Wayback Machine (in Chinese)
Live scores, Fixtures and Results, League table on FIFA
Results and table on RSSSF