2016 Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao F.C. season

Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao 2016

Chairman	Ke Peng (to 1 February 2016) Liu Yongzhuo (5 February 2016 to 13 April 2016) Li Yimeng (from 13 April 2016)[1]
Manager	Luiz Felipe Scolari
Stadium	Tianhe Stadium
Super League	1st
FA Cup	Third round
FA Super Cup	Champions
AFC Champions League	Group stage
Top goalscorer	League: Gao Lin (5 goals) All: Ricardo Goulart (9 goals)
Highest home attendance	48,816 vs Urawa Red Diamonds 16 March 2016 (Champions League)
Lowest home attendance	571 vs Pohang Steelers 24 February 2016 (Champions League)
Average home league attendance	league: 46,965 all: 38,681
← 2015

The 2016 Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao season is the 63rd year in Guangzhou Evergrande's existence and is its 49th season in the Chinese football league, also its 27th season in the top flight.

Transfers

In

Winter

Squad number	Position	Player	Age	Moving from	Type	Transfer fee	Date	Source
4	MF	Xu Xin	21	Atlético Madrid B	Transfer	€4.3 million	25 December 2015	[2]
18	MF	Li Yuanyi	22	Leixões	Loan returned	-	25 December 2015	[2]
	MF	Peng Xinli	24	Chongqing Lifan	Loan returned	-	31 December 2015
	FW	Yang Chaosheng	22	Liaoning Whowin	Loan returned	-	31 December 2015
	DF	Yi Teng	25	Hangzhou Greentown	Loan returned	-	31 December 2015
	MF	Feng Renliang	27	Beijing Renhe	Loan returned	-	31 December 2015
	DF	Hu Bowen	21	Qingdao Hainiu	Loan returned	-	31 December 2015
	DF	Zhang Hongnan	24	Shenzhen FC	Loan returned	-	31 December 2015
	FW	Shewket Yalqun	22	Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard	Loan returned	-	31 December 2015
	MF	Alessandro Diamanti	32	Watford	Loan returned	-	13 January 2016	[3]
23	DF	Han Pengfei	22	Mafra	Transfer	Undisclosed	18 January 2016	[4]
9	FW	Jackson Martínez	29	Atlético Madrid	Transfer	€42 million	3 February 2016	[5][6]
32	GK	Liu Dianzuo	25	Guangzhou R&F	Transfer	Undisclosed	12 February 2016	[7]

Out

Winter

Squad number	Position	Player	Age	Moving to	Type	Transfer fee	Date	Source
56	FW	Robinho	31	-	End of contract	-	31 December 2015
	MF	Feng Renliang	27	Beijing Renhe	Transfer	Undisclosed	1 January 2016	[8]
	DF	Zhang Hongnan	24	Shenzhen FC	Transfer	Free	1 January 2016
	FW	Shewket Yalqun	22	Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard	Loan	Undisclosed	1 January 2016
	MF	Alessandro Diamanti	32	Atalanta	Loan	Undisclosed	13 January 2016	[9]
34	MF	Wang Junhui	20	Shijiazhuang Ever Bright	Loan	Free	16 January 2016	[10]
22	GK	Li Shuai	33	Shanghai Greenland Shenhua	Transfer	Undisclosed	19 January 2016	[11]
	DF	Yi Teng	25	Beijing Renhe	Loan	Undisclosed	20 January 2016	[12]
21	MF	Zhao Xuri	30	Tianjin Quanjian	Transfer	Undisclosed	21 January 2016	[13]
9	FW	Elkeson	26	Shanghai SIPG	Transfer	¥132 million (€18.5 million)	21 January 2016	[14]
	MF	Peng Xinli	24	Chongqing Lifan	Loan	Undisclosed	19 February 2016	[15]
18	FW	Dong Xuesheng	26	Hebei China Fortune	Transfer	Undisclosed	25 February 2016	[16]
14	GK	Liu Weiguo	23	Liaoning Whowin	Loan	Free	26 February 2016	[17]
	FW	Yang Chaosheng	22	Wuhan Zall	Loan	Undisclosed	26 February 2016	[18]
49	MF	Wang Rui	22	Wuhan Zall	Loan	Undisclosed	26 February 2016	[18]
8	MF	Renê Júnior	26	-	Released	-	March 2016	[19]
41	DF	Gong Liangxuan	22	Sichuan Longfor	Loan	Undisclosed	March 2016

Pre-season and friendlies

Training matches

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result	Scorers
2016-02-06	South China	H	1–1	Zheng Long
2016-02-11	Al Shabab	A	4–1	Jackson Martínez, Alan (3)
2016-02-14	F.C. Copenhagen	N	1–3	Zheng Long

Competitions

      Win       Draw       Loss

Chinese FA Super Cup

Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao v Jiangsu Suningyi Purchase

27 February 2016	Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao	2 - 0	Jiangsu Suningyi Purchase	Chongqing
19:35 UTC+8	Goulart  14' Li Xuepeng  38' Goulart  39' Huang Bowen  74'		Ren Hang  27' Teixeira  90'	Stadium: Chongqing Olympic Sports Center Attendance: 50,380 Referee: Tan Hai Assistant referees: Huo Weiming, Cao Yi Fourth official: Fan Qi

Chinese Super League

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao	7	6	0	1	17	4	+13	18	Qualification to Champions League group stage
2	Jiangsu Suning	7	5	2	0	12	3	+9	17	Qualification to Champions League play-off round
3	Shanghai SIPG	7	4	2	1	13	4	+9	14	Qualification to Champions League preliminary round 2
4	Hebei China Fortune	7	4	2	1	11	8	+3	14
5	Henan Jianye	8	4	1	3	10	9	+1	13
6	Guangzhou R&F	8	3	2	3	8	8	0	11
7	Shanghai Greenland Shenhua	8	2	4	2	8	7	+1	10
8	Tianjin Teda	7	2	3	2	9	11	−2	9
9	Chongqing Lifan	8	1	5	2	7	9	−2	8
10	Shijiazhuang Ever Bright	7	2	2	3	6	9	−3	8
11	Hangzhou Greentown	7	2	1	4	5	8	−3	7
12	Shandong Luneng Taishan	7	2	1	4	9	13	−4	7
13	Liaoning Whowin	8	1	4	3	6	12	−6	7
14	Beijing Guoan	6	1	3	2	4	5	−1	6
15	Yanbian Funde	7	1	2	4	5	11	−6	5	Relegation to League One
16	Changchun Yatai	7	0	2	5	7	16	−9	2

Updated to match(es) played on 7 May 2016. Source: sports.sina.com
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Reserve league points; 6) Goal difference; 7) Goals scored; 8) Disciplinary points (1 point for each yellow card, 3 points for each red card)

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
7	6	0	1	17	4	+13	18	4	0	0	9	2	+7	2	0	1	8	2	+6

Last updated: 30 April 2016.
Source: Competitive Matches

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Ground	A	H	H	A	H	A	H
Result	L	W	W	W	W	W	W
Position	11	3	3	2	2	1	1

Last updated: 30 April 2016.
Source: Chinese Super League Table (Chinese)
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Matches

Chongqing Lifan v Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao

6 March 2016 1	Chongqing Lifan	2 - 1	Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao	Chongqing
15:30 UTC+8	Fernandinho  32' Deng Xiaofei  49' Fernandinho  74' Liu Yu  88' Liu Yu  90'		Feng Xiaoting  28' Huang Bowen  36' Martínez  52' Zhang Linpeng  66'	Stadium: Chongqing Olympic Sports Center Attendance: 48,855 Referee: Wang Di Assistant referees: Zhou Fei, Deng Bo Fourth official: Chen Gang

Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao v Changchun Yatai

12 March 2016 2	Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao	3 - 0	Changchun Yatai	Guangzhou
19:35 UTC+8	Martínez  7' Goulart  13' Zheng Zhi  18' Gao Lin  51' Huang Bowen  67'	Summary	He Chao  42'	Stadium: Tianhe Stadium Attendance: 45,931 Referee: He Xiaohu Assistant referees: Huo Weiming, Song Xiangyun Fourth official: Zhang Lei

Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao v Guangzhou R&F

1 April 2016 3	Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao	2 - 0	Guangzhou R&F	Guangzhou
19:35 UTC+8	Paulinho  30' Xu Xin  74' Martínez  80' Rong Hao  85'		Giannou  90'	Stadium: Tianhe Stadium Attendance: 46,993 Referee: Tan Hai Assistant referees: Tong Yong, Lou Fangping Fourth official: Huang Yejun

Beijing Guoan LeTV v Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao

9 April 2016 4	Beijing Guoan LeTV	0 - 3	Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao	Beijing
19:35 UTC+8	Krimets  30'		Huang Bowen  15' Gao Lin  26' Zheng Zhi  36' Zhang Linpeng  39' Goulart  44' Goulart  81'	Stadium: Workers Stadium Attendance: 53,080 Referee: Wang Di Assistant referees: Zhou Fei, Zhang Qiangjing Fourth official: Lin Jun

Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao v Henan Jianye

15 April 2016 5	Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao	2 - 1	Henan Jianye	Guangzhou
19:35 UTC+8	Kim Young-gwon  41' Goulart  58' (pen.) Gao Lin  67' Gao Lin  67' Feng Xiaoting  74' Paulinho  90'		McGowan  18' Gomes  58' Sow  73' Gu Cao  90+4'	Stadium: Tianhe Stadium Attendance: 46,537 Referee: Ma Ning Assistant referees: Zhou Guangya, Deng Bo Fourth official: Fu Ming

Tianjin Teda Elion v Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao

24 April 2016 6	Tianjin Teda Elion	0 - 4	Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao	Tianjin
19:35 UTC+8	Li Benjian  23' Bai Yuefeng  24'		Yu Hanchao  7' Gao Lin  30' Gao Lin  66' Alan  73'	Stadium: Tianjin Olympic Centre Stadium Attendance: 20,860 Referee: Fan Qi Assistant referees: Xu Xianghui, Zhang Hongwei Fourth official: Xing Qi

Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao v Shanghai Greenland Shenhua

30 April 2016 7	Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao	2 - 1	Shanghai Greenland Shenhua	Guangzhou
19:35 UTC+8	Zheng Zhi  14' Alan  40' Huang Bowen  45+3' Goulart  54' (pen.) Alan  71'		Guarín  45+3' Qin Sheng  52' Moreno  62' Ba  69'	Stadium: Tianhe Stadium Attendance: 48,396 Referee: Tan Hai Assistant referees: Tong Yong, Lou Fangping Fourth official: Zhang Long

Hangzhou Greentown v Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao

8 May 2016 8	Hangzhou Greentown	-	Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao	Hangzhou
19:35 UTC+8				Stadium: Huanglong Stadium

Chinese FA Cup

Hohhot Zhongyou v Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao

11 May 2016 Third round	Hohhot Zhongyou	-	Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao	Hohhot
19:35 UTC+8				Stadium: Hohhot City Stadium

AFC Champions League

Group stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sydney FC (A)	6	3	1	2	4	4	0	10	Knock-out stage
2	Urawa Red Diamonds (A)	6	2	3	1	6	4	+2	9
3	Guangzhou Evergrande (E)	6	2	2	2	6	5	+1	8
4	Pohang Steelers (E)	6	1	2	3	2	5	−3	5

Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(A) Advanced to a further round; (E) Eliminated.

Guangzhou Evergrande v Pohang Steelers

24 February 2016	Guangzhou Evergrande	0 - 0	Pohang Steelers	Guangzhou, China
19:30 UTC+8		Report Summary		Stadium: Tianhe Stadium Attendance: 571^[A] Referee: Mohanad Qasim Eesee Sarray (Iraq) Assistant referees: Ameer Dawood Hussein (Iraq), Abdullah Mubarak Mohamed Al Shammakhi (Oman) Fourth official: Md Mizanur Rahman (Bangladesh)

Sydney FC v Guangzhou Evergrande

2 March 2016	Sydney FC	2 - 1	Guangzhou Evergrande	Sydney, Australia
20:00 UTC+11	Stambolziev  18' Ryall  21' Dimitrijević  89' Smeltz  90+2'	Report Summary	Goulart  22' (pen.) Calver  25' (o.g.) Paulinho  76'	Stadium: Sydney Football Stadium Attendance: 18,149 Referee: Alireza Faghani (Iran) Assistant referees: Reza Sokhandan (Iran), Mohammad Reza Mansouri (Iran) Fourth official: Farhad Bin Mohamed (Singapore)

Guangzhou Evergrande v Urawa Red Diamonds

16 March 2016	Guangzhou Evergrande	2 - 2	Urawa Red Diamonds	Guangzhou, China
19:30 UTC+8	Goulart  6' (pen.) Goulart  14' Zheng Zhi  84'	Report Summary	Ljubijankić  5' Muto  30' Moriwaki  75' Koroki  89'	Stadium: Tianhe Stadium Attendance: 48,816 Referee: Mohammed Abdulla Hassan Mohamed (United Arab Emirates) Assistant referees: Mohamed Alhammadi (United Arab Emirates), Hassan Almahri(United Arab Emirates) Fourth official: Chen Hsin-chuan (Chinese Taipei)

Urawa Red Diamonds v Guangzhou Evergrande

5 April 2016	Urawa Red Diamonds	1 - 0	Guangzhou Evergrande	Saitama, Japan
19:30 UTC+9	Moriwaki  42' Muto  52'	Report Summary	Martínez  31' Zhang Linpeng  38' Zheng Zhi  44'	Stadium: Saitama Stadium 2002 Attendance: 30,282 Referee: Abdulrahman Al-Jassim (Qatar) Assistant referees: Taleb Salem Al-Marri (Qatar)，Saoud Ahmed AlMaqaleh (Qatar) Fourth official: Alongkorn Feemuechang (Thailand)

Pohang Steelers v Guangzhou Evergrande

19 April 2016	Pohang Steelers	0 - 2	Guangzhou Evergrande	Pohang, South Korea
19:30 UTC+9	Kim Jun-su  50'	Report Summary	Goulart  33' Gao Lin  47' Paulinho  50' Feng Xiaoting  90+2'	Stadium: Pohang Steel Yard Attendance: 9,274 Referee: Ilgiz Tantashev (Uzbekistan) Assistant referees: Mamur Saidkasimov (Uzbekistan), Ruslan Serazitdinov (Uzbekistan) Fourth official: Sherzod Kasimov (Uzbekistan)

Guangzhou Evergrande v Sydney FC

3 May 2016	Guangzhou Evergrande	1 - 0	Sydney FC	Guangzhou, China
18:30 UTC+8	Gao Lin  2' Li Xuepeng  58' Xu Xin  77'	Report Summary	Calver  51'	Stadium: Tianhe Stadium Attendance: 33,517 Referee: Nawaf Shukralla (Bahrain) Assistant referees: Yaser Tulefat (Bahrain), Ebrahim Saleh (Bahrain) Fourth official: Ammar Ebrahim Hasan Mahmood (Bahrain)

Notes

1. ^ Guangzhou Evergrande played their first group stage home match behind closed doors due to breaches of the AFC Champions League Regulations.^[20]

Statistics

As of 3 May 2016 ^[21]

Appearances and goals

No.	Pos.	Player	Super League			FA Cup			Champions League			Super Cup			Total
			Apps.	Starts	Goals	Apps.	Starts	Goals	Apps.	Starts	Goals	Apps.	Starts	Goals	Apps.	Starts	Goals
2	MF	Liao Lisheng	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
3	DF	Mei Fang	6	4	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	8	6	0
4	MF	Xu Xin	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	0	0	0	6	2	0
5	DF	Zhang Linpeng	4	4	0	0	0	0	3	3	0	1	1	0	8	8	0
6	DF	Feng Xiaoting	7	7	0	0	0	0	5	5	0	1	1	0	13	13	0
7	FW	Alan Carvalho	4	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	3
8	MF	Paulinho	7	7	1	0	0	0	5	5	0	1	1	0	13	13	1
9	FW	Jackson Martínez	5	5	3	0	0	0	4	4	0	1	1	0	10	10	3
10	MF	Zheng Zhi	7	6	0	0	0	0	5	5	0	1	1	0	13	12	0
11	MF	Ricardo Goulart	6	6	4	0	0	0	6	6	3	1	1	2	13	13	9
12	MF	Wang Shangyuan	6	3	0	0	0	0	3	3	0	0	0	0	9	6	0
16	MF	Huang Bowen	7	7	0	0	0	0	6	5	0	1	1	0	14	13	0
17	DF	Liu Jian	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	0	1	0	0	6	1	0
18	MF	Li Yuanyi	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0
19	GK	Zeng Cheng	7	7	0	0	0	0	5	5	0	1	1	0	13	13	0
20	MF	Yu Hanchao	6	2	1	0	0	0	6	4	0	1	1	0	13	7	1
27	MF	Zheng Long	2	1	0	0	0	0	4	2	0	1	0	0	7	3	0
28	DF	Kim Young-gwon	5	5	0	0	0	0	4	4	0	1	1	0	10	10	0
29	FW	Gao Lin	6	6	5	0	0	0	6	2	2	0	0	0	12	8	7
32	GK	Liu Dianzuo	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
33	DF	Rong Hao	5	4	0	0	0	0	4	3	0	0	0	0	9	7	0
35	DF	Li Xuepeng	2	1	0	0	0	0	5	4	0	1	1	0	8	6	0
TOTALS					17			0			5			2			24

Goalscorers

Rank	Player	No.	Pos.	Super League	FA Cup	Champions League	Super Cup	Total
1	Ricardo Goulart	11	MF	4	0	3	2	9
2	Gao Lin	29	FW	5	0	2	0	7
3	Alan Carvalho	7	FW	3	0	0	0	3
	Jackson Martínez	9	FW	3	0	0	0	3
5	Paulinho	8	MF	1	0	0	0	1
	Yu Hanchao	20	MF	1	0	0	0	1
Own goals				0	0	1	0	1
TOTALS				17	0	6	2	25

Assists

Rank	Player	No.	Pos.	Super League	FA Cup	Champions League	Super Cup	Total
1	Gao Lin	29	FW	4	0	1	0	5
2	Huang Bowen	16	MF	1	0	0	2	3
	Rong Hao	33	DF	3	0	0	0	3
4	Paulinho	8	MF	2	0	0	0	2
	Jackson Martínez	9	FW	1	0	1	0	2
	Ricardo Goulart	11	MF	2	0	0	0	2
7	Xu Xin	4	MF	0	0	1	0	1
	Zheng Zhi	10	MF	1	0	0	0	1
	Li Xuepeng	35	DF	0	0	1	0	1
Total				14	0	4	2	20

Disciplinary record

No.	Pos.	Player	Super League			FA Cup			Champions League			Super Cup			Total
4	MF	Xu Xin	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
5	DF	Zhang Linpeng	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0
6	DF	Feng Xiaoting	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0
8	MF	Paulinho	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0
9	FW	Jackson Martínez	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
10	MF	Zheng Zhi	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0
16	MF	Huang Bowen	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	5	0	0
28	DF	Kim Young-gwon	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
29	FW	Gao Lin	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
33	DF	Rong Hao	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
35	DF	Li Xuepeng	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	0
TOTALS			16	0	0	0	0	0	9	0	0	2	0	0	27	0	0

Notes and references

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3. "OFFICIAL: Diamanti Departs The Vic". Watford F.C. 2016-01-13.
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5. "杰克逊-马丁内斯正式加盟广州队". Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao F.C. (in Chinese). 2016-02-03.
6. "Jackson se va para que vuelva Diego Costa en junio". Marca (in Spanish). 2016-02-03.
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11. "李帅正式转会上海绿地申花足球俱乐部". Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao F.C. (in Chinese). 2016-01-19.
12. "恒大铁卫租借中甲北京人和 引进刘殿座告吹？". Tencent (in Chinese). 2016-01-21.
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17. "辽足官方宣布签约五人 恒大门将刘伟国领衔加盟". Sohu (in Chinese). 2016-02-26.
18. "武汉卓尔官宣租借恒大两将 杨超声王睿正式加盟". Sohu (in Chinese). 2016-02-26.
19. "GUANGZHOU EVERGRANDE RELEASE RENE JUNIOR". footballchannel. 2016-03-17.
20. "Guangzhou Evergrande Sanctioned For Regulatory Violations At AFC Champions League Final 2015". AFC. 3 February 2016.
21. 广州恒大