2020 China League Two

China League Two
Season	2020
Dates	24 October – 12 December 2020
Champions	Wuhan Three Towns
Promoted	Wuhan Three Towns; Zibo Cuju; Nanjing City; Beijing BIT
Matches played	108
Goals scored	222 (2.06 per match)
Top goalscorer	; (7 goals)
Biggest home win	Wuhan Three Towns 4–0 Shanxi Longjin; (11 November 2020)
Biggest away win	Jiangsu Yancheng Dingli 0–4 Beijing BIT; (11 November 2020); Hunan Billows 0–4 Hubei Chufeng United; (30 November 2020)
Highest scoring	Inner Mongolia Caoshangfei 3–3 Qingdao Jonoon; (11 November 2020)
Longest winning run	6 matches; Nanjing Fengfan; Zibo Cuju
Longest unbeaten run	9 matches; Nanjing Fengfan
Longest winless run	12 matches; Shanxi Longjin
Longest losing run	12 matches; Shanxi Longjin
	← 2019 2021 →

The 2020 Chinese Football Association Division Two League season was the 31st season since its establishment in 1989. The season was scheduled to begin on 14 March and end on 17 October 2020, but was postponed following the coronavirus pandemic in China.^[1] On 12 October 2020, Chinese Football Association announced that the season would be resumed on 24 October 2020. In this season, 21 teams were split into two groups.

Team changes[]

To League Two[]

Teams promoted from 2019 Chinese Champions League

Nanjing Fengfan
Shenzhen Bogang
Xi'an UKD
Shanghai Jiading Boji
Qingdao Zhongchuang Hengtai

From League Two[]

Teams promoted to 2020 China League One

Shenyang Urban
Chengdu Better City
Taizhou Yuanda
Suzhou Dongwu
Jiangxi Liansheng
Sichuan Jiuniu
Kunshan F.C.

Disqualified or dissolved entries

Heze Caozhou and gained entries to 2020 China League Two but both withdrew before the season starts.

Name changes[]

Shanxi Metropolis F.C. changed their name to Shanxi Longjin in March 2020.^[5]

Clubs[]

Stadiums and Locations[]

Team^[6]	Head Coach	City	Stadium	Capacity	2019 season
Hebei Aoli Jingying		Qinhuangdao	Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Centre Stadium	33,572	5th
Zibo Cuju		Zibo	Zibo Sports Center Stadium	45,000	7th
Wuhan Three Towns		Wuhan	Hankou Cultural Sports Centre	20,000	11th
Qingdao Jonoon	(caretaker)	Qingdao	Qingdao Tiantai Stadium	20,525	14th
Jiangsu Yancheng Dingli	(caretaker)	Yancheng		10,000	15th
Zhejiang Yiteng		Shaoxing	China Textile City Sports Center	40,000	16th
Hubei Chufeng United		Xiaogan		27,000	19th
Beijing BIT		Beijing	BIT Eastern Athletic Field	5,000	20th
Qingdao Red Lions		Qingdao		15,000	24th
Guangxi Baoyun		Nanning	Guangxi Sports Center	60,000	27th
Hunan Billows		Yiyang	Yiyang Olympic Sports Park Stadium	30,000	28th
Inner Mongolia Caoshangfei		Baotou		40,545	29th (Relegation play-offs winner)
Xi'an Daxing Chongde	(caretaker)	Xi'an	Northwestern Polytechnical University (Chang'an Campus) Stadium	N/A	30th
Nanjing Fengfan ^P		Nanjing			CMCL, 1st
Shenzhen Bogang ^P		Shenzhen			CMCL, 2nd
Xi'an UKD ^P		Xi'an			CMCL, 4th
Shanghai Jiading Boji ^P	Wang Hongliang	Shanghai		9,704	CMCL, 5th (Relegation play-offs winner)
Yunnan Kunlu	Shi Jun (caretaker)	Qujing		34,162	31st
Shanxi Longjin	(caretaker)	Taiyuan	Shanxi Sports Centre Stadium	62,000	32nd
Qingdao Zhongchuang Hengtai ^P		Qingdao	Qingdao Guoxin Stadium Outer Field		CMCL, 8th
China U19	Cheng Yaodong

Clubs Locations[]

Beijing BIT

Hebei Aoli Jingying

Inner Mongolia Caoshangfei

Jiangsu Yancheng Dingli

Qingdao Jonoon
Qingdao Red Lions
Qingdao Zhongchuang Hengtai

Shanxi Longjin

Xi'an Daxing Chongde
Xi'an UKD

Zibo Cuju

Guangxi Baoyun

Hubei Chufeng United
Wuhan Three Towns

Hunan Billows

Nanjing Fengfan

Shanghai Jiading Boji

Shenzhen Bogang

Yunnan Kunlu

Zhejiang Yiteng

Location of teams in 2020 China League Two

Managerial changes[]

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Guangxi Baoyun	Yang Lin	Mutual consent	19 December 2019	Zhang Enhua	19 December 2019
Qingdao Jonoon		End of tenure as a caretaker	23 December 2019	Zhu Jiong	23 December 2019
Shenzhen Bogang	Li Haiqiang	Mutual consent	23 April 2020		23 April 2020
Xi'an Daxing Chongde	Bojan Pavlović	Signed by Shanxi Longjin	13 May 2020		13 May 2020
Shanxi Longjin	Vom Ca-nhum	Signed by Chinese Taipei national football team	13 May 2020	Bojan Pavlović	13 May 2020
Hunan Billows	Tang Jing	Signed by Jiangsu Yancheng Dingli	2 June 2020		2 June 2020
Jiangsu Yancheng Dingli		Signed by	2 June 2020	Tang Jing	2 June 2020
Yunnan Kunlu		End of tenure as a caretaker	9 June 2020		9 June 2020
Hebei Aoli Jingying		Mutual consent	9 July 2020		9 July 2020
Xi'an Daxing Chongde		Resigned	16 July 2020		16 July 2020
Guangxi Baoyun	Zhang Enhua	Resigned	7 August 2020		7 August 2020
Qingdao Jonoon	Zhu Jiong	Sacked	3 November 2020		3 November 2020
Guangxi Baoyun		Sacked	18 November 2020		18 November 2020

Group A[]

League table[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Nanjing Fengfan (P)	9	8	1	0	16	4	+12	25	Qualification to promotion play-offs
2	Beijing BIT (P)	9	5	3	1	15	6	+9	18	Qualification to promotion play-offs
3	Qingdao Jonoon	9	4	4	1	14	7	+7	16
4	Qingdao Zhongchuang Hengtai	9	4	2	3	11	9	+2	14
5	Shenzhen Bogang	9	2	4	3	11	15	−4	10
6	Xi'an Daxing Chongde	9	2	4	3	8	10	−2	10
7	Qingdao Red Lions	9	1	5	3	4	7	−3	8
8	Hebei Aoli Jingying	9	1	3	5	5	9	−4	6
9	Inner Mongolia Caoshangfei	9	0	5	4	6	13	−7	5
10	Jiangsu Yancheng Dingli (O)	9	0	5	4	4	14	−10	5	Qualification to relegation play-offs

Source:^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification:

During season: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored.
After season: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Scores of the weight ratio of the reserve league and youth leagues.
(O) Play-off winner; (P) Promoted

Results[]

Home \ Away	BIT	HBE	IMC	JYD	NJF	QDJ	QDR	QDZ	SZB	XAD
Beijing BIT		2–1	0–0				2–0	2–0	2–1
Hebei Aoli Jingying				1–0	0–1	0–1				0–1
Inner Mongolia Caoshangfei		0–0			0–2	3–3		0–2	1–3
Jiangsu Yancheng Dingli	0–4		1–1			0–2			1–1	2–2
Nanjing Fengfan	1–0			3–0		2–1				2–0
Qingdao Jonoon	1–1						0–0	2–0	4–1	0–0
Qingdao Red Lions		1–1	1–1	0–0	1–2
Qingdao Zhongchuang Hengtai		2–1		0–0	1–2		1–0			1–1
Shenzhen Bogang		1–1			1–1		0–0	1–4
Xi'an Daxing Chongde	2–2		1–0				0–1		1–2

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
Team ╲ Round
Nanjing Fengfan	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1
Beijing BIT	2	2	2	2	1	2	3	2	2
Qingdao Jonoon	7	4	4	3	3	3	2	3	3
Qingdao Zhongchuang Hengtai	4	8	5	6	4	5	4	4	4
Shenzhen Bogang	5	3	3	4	5	6	7	5	5
Xi'an Daxing Chongde	6	6	6	5	6	4	5	6	6
Qingdao Red Lions	8	5	7	7	7	7	6	7	7
Hebei Aoli Jingying	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	8	8
Inner Mongolia Caoshangfei	10	7	8	9	8	8	8	9	9
Jiangsu Yancheng Dingli	3	9	9	8	9	9	9	10	10

	Qualification to promotion play-offs
	Qualification to relegation play-offs

Source:^{[citation needed]}

Results by match played[]

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Team ╲ Round
Beijing BIT	W	W	D	W	W	D	L	W	D
Hebei Aoli Jingying	L	L	D	L	L	L	D	W	D
Inner Mongolia Caoshangfei	L	D	D	L	D	D	L	L	D
Jiangsu Yancheng Dingli	D	L	D	D	L	D	L	L	D
Nanjing Fengfan	W	W	D	W	W	W	W	W	W
Qingdao Jonoon	D	W	D	W	D	W	W	D	L
Qingdao Red Lions	D	D	L	D	D	L	W	L	D
Qingdao Zhongchuang Hengtai	D	L	W	L	W	D	W	L	W
Shenzhen Bogang	D	W	D	L	D	L	D	W	L
Xi'an Daxing Chongde	D	L	D	W	L	W	L	D	D

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

Group B[]

League table[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Wuhan Three Towns (P)	10	8	0	2	18	5	+13	24	Qualification to promotion play-offs
2	Zibo Cuju (P)	10	7	1	2	14	8	+6	22	Qualification to promotion play-offs
3	Hubei Chufeng United	10	6	0	4	11	9	+2	18
4	Shanghai Jiading Boji	10	5	2	3	10	5	+5	17
5	Yunnan Kunlu	10	4	3	3	8	6	+2	15
6	Zhejiang Yiteng	10	3	5	2	9	9	0	14
7	China U-19	10	4	1	5	12	10	+2	13
8	Xi'an UKD	10	3	4	3	10	11	−1	13
9	Hunan Billows	10	4	0	6	10	17	−7	12
10	Guangxi Baoyun	10	2	2	6	8	13	−5	8
11	Shanxi Longjin (O)	10	0	0	10	4	21	−17	0	Qualification to relegation play-offs

Source:^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification:

During season: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored.
After season: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Scores of the weight ratio of the reserve league and youth leagues.
(O) Play-off winner; (P) Promoted

Results[]

Home \ Away	CHN	GXB	HBC	HNB	SJB	SXL	WHT	UKD	YNK	ZJY	ZBC
China U-19		2–0	0–1	1–2	0–1				0–1
Guangxi Baoyun							0–1	2–2	0–1	0–0
Hubei Chufeng United		3–2			0–3			0–1		0–1	1–0
Hunan Billows		2–3	0–4		1–0	2–1					0–1
Shanghai Jiading Boji		1–0				2–1	0–1	0–0	0–0
Shanxi Longjin	0–2	0–1	0–1					0–2	1–2	0–3
Wuhan Three Towns	1–2		2–0	3–0		4–0			1–0
Xi'an UKD	0–3			2–1			1–2				1–2
Yunnan Kunlu			0–1	0–1				1–1		1–1	2–0
Zhejiang Yiteng	1–1			2–1	0–2		0–3	0–0			1–1
Zibo Cuju	3–1	1–0			2–1	2–1	2–0

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
Wuhan Three Towns	5	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1
Zibo Cuju	10	4	5	3	5	6	4	2	2	2	2
Hubei Chufeng United	4	7	7	9	9	10	8	4	3	3	3
Shanghai Jiading Boji	1	2	2	2	1	3	3	6	8	4	4
Yunnan Kunlu	3	3	6	6	3	2	2	5	7	6	5
Zhejiang Yiteng	11	9	8	8	8	5	5	8	9	5	6
China U-19	7	11	11	10	10	9	6	3	4	7	7
Xi'an UKD	6	8	9	7	4	8	9	7	6	8	8
Hunan Billows	2	5	3	5	7	4	7	9	5	9	9
Guangxi Baoyun	9	6	4	4	6	7	10	10	10	10	10
Shanxi Longjin	8	10	10	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11

	Qualification to promotion play-offs
	Qualification to relegation 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-19	L	L	L	W	L	W	W	W	D	L	N
Guangxi Baoyun	L	W	W	D	L	L	L	L	D	N	L
Hubei Chufeng United	W	L	N	L	W	L	W	W	W	L	W
Hunan Billows	W	L	W	N	L	W	L	L	W	L	L
Shanghai Jiading Boji	W	D	W	D	W	L	L	L	N	W	W
Shanxi Longjin	L	N	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L
Wuhan Three Towns	W	W	W	L	N	W	W	W	L	W	W
Xi'an UKD	N	D	L	W	W	L	D	W	D	L	D
Yunnan Kunlu	W	D	L	D	W	W	N	L	L	W	D
Zhejiang Yiteng	L	D	D	D	W	W	D	N	D	W	L
Zibo Cuju	L	W	D	W	L	N	W	W	W	W	W

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

Promotion play-offs[]

Overview[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Zibo Cuju	2–0	Nanjing Fengfan	2–0	0–0
Beijing BIT	1–2	Wuhan Three Towns	1–2	0–0

First leg[]

5 December 2020

15:00 UTC+8

Zibo Cuju	2–0	Nanjing Fengfan
10' Zhang Fengyu 64'

Haigeng Football Training Base Field 16, Kunming

Attendance: 0

Referee: Ma Li

5 December 2020

15:00 UTC+8

Beijing BIT	1–2	Wuhan Three Towns
27'		Deng Zhuoxiang 26' Nie Aoshuang 49'

Haigeng Football Training Base Field 5, Kunming

Attendance: 0

Referee: Liu Wei

Second leg[]

9 December 2020

15:00 UTC+8

Nanjing Fengfan	0–0	Zibo Cuju

Haigeng Football Training Base Field 16, Kunming

Attendance: 0

Referee: Zhang Xiaochen

Zibo Cuju won 2–0 on aggregate.

9 December 2020

15:00 UTC+8

Wuhan Three Towns	0–0	Beijing BIT

Haigeng Football Training Base Field 5, Kunming

Attendance: 0

Referee: Li Zheng

Wuhan Three Towns won 2–1 on aggregate.

3rd–4th place playoff[]

Overview[]

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Nanjing Fengfan	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Beijing BIT

Match[]

12 December 2020

14:00 UTC+8

Nanjing Fengfan	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Beijing BIT
44' 109' (pen.)		23'

Haigeng Football Training Base Field 5, Kunming

Attendance: 0

Referee: Liu Wei

Final[]

Overview[]

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Zibo Cuju	1–1 (4–5 p)	Wuhan Three Towns

Match[]

12 December 2020

15:00 UTC+8

Zibo Cuju	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Wuhan Three Towns
68'	Match report	Qu Cheng 75'
Penalties
Men Yang	4–5	Deng Zhuoxiang Nie Aoshuang Xiong Fei Zhou Liao

Haigeng Football Training Base Field 12, Kunming

Attendance: 0

Referee: Ma Li

Relegation play-offs[]

Overview[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Shanxi Longjin	1–3	Jiangsu Yancheng Dingli	0–1	1–2

First leg[]

6 December 2020

15:00 UTC+8

Shanxi Longjin	0–1	Jiangsu Yancheng Dingli
		89' (pen.)

Haigeng Football Training Base Field 2, Kunming

Attendance: 0

Referee: Liu Zhao

Second leg[]

10 December 2020

15:00 UTC+8

Jiangsu Yancheng Dingli	2–1	Shanxi Longjin
54' 62'		59'

Haigeng Football Training Base Field 2, Kunming

Attendance: 0

Referee: Kou Jianxun

Jiangsu Yancheng Dingli won 3–1 on aggregate.

Top scorers[]

As of 12 December 2020

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1		Nanjing Fengfan	7
2	Shi Jun	Yunnan Kunlu	5
3		Hunan Billows	4
		Beijing BIT	4
	Li Kai	Qingdao Zhongchuang Hengtai	4
		Shanghai Jiading Boji	4
	Sang Yifei	Wuhan Three Towns	4
8	Duan Dezhi	China U19	3
	Wu Dingmao	Xi'an UKD	3
		Xi'an UKD	3
		Beijing BIT	3
		Qingdao Zhongchuang Hengtai	3
	Chen Jiaqi	Qingdao Jonoon	3
		Shenzhen Bogang	3
		Shanghai Jiading Boji	3
		Qingdao Red Lions	3
	Zhang Fengyu	Zibo Cuju	3
		Beijing BIT	3
	Qu Cheng	Wuhan Three Towns	3
20	30 players		2

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