# 2016 Jiangsu Suning F.C. season

The 2016 Jiangsu Suning F.C. season is the club's eighth consecutive season in Chinese Super League. On 21 December 2015 the club was purchased by Suning Commerce Group for ¥523 million and changed their name as Jiangsu Suning F.C. Jiangsu Suning are also competing in the 2016 Chinese FA Super Cup, 2016 Chinese FA Cup, and the 2016 AFC Champions League.

## Squad

As of 29 February 2016
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | CHN | Gu Chao |
| 2 | DF | CHN | Li Ang |
| 5 | DF | CHN | Zhou Yun |
| 6 | DF | AUS | Trent Sainsbury |
| 7 | MF | BRA | Ramires |
| 8 | MF | CHN | Liu Jianye |
| 9 | FW | BRA | Jô |
| 10 | MF | BRA | Alex Teixeira |
| 11 | MF | CHN | Xie Pengfei |
| 12 | MF | CHN | Zhang Xiaobin |
| 13 | FW | CHN | Tao Yuan |
| 14 | FW | CHN | Qu Cheng |
| 15 | MF | CHN | Cao Kang |
| 16 | MF | CRO | Sammir |
| 17 | DF | CHN | Xu Youzhi |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 18 | FW | CHN | Zhang Wei |
| 19 | MF | CHN | Yang Hao |
| 20 | MF | CHN | Zhang Xinlin |
| 21 | MF | CHN | Li Zhichao |
| 22 | MF | CHN | Wu Xi (captain) |
| 23 | DF | CHN | Ren Hang |
| 24 | MF | CHN | Ji Xiang |
| 25 | GK | CHN | Jiang Hao |
| 28 | DF | CHN | Yang Xiaotian |
| 29 | MF | CHN | Yang Jiawei |
| 30 | GK | CHN | Zhang Sipeng |
| 32 | DF | CHN | Liu Wei |
| 33 | FW | CHN | Gu Wenxiang |
| 34 | MF | CHN | Cao Wen |
| 40 | FW | CHN | Ge Wei |

## Transfers

In January, Jiangsu Suning broke their transfer fee record twice in the same window, with a fee of £25 million paid for Ramires from Chelsea F.C., and later fellow Brazilian Alex Teixeira for a fee of €50 million (£37 million) from Shakhtar Donetsk

### In
#### Winter

| Pos | Player | Transferred From | Fee |
| GK | Gu Chao | Hangzhou Greentown F.C. | €7,000,000 |
| MF | Yang Jiawei | Shanghai Shenxin | €6,750,000 |
| MF | Li Zhichao | Henan Jianye | €2,000,000 |
| RW | Xie Pengfei | Hangzhou Greentown F.C. | €4,000,000 |
| MF | Ramires | Chelsea | €28,000,000 |
| AM | Alex Teixeira | Shakhtar Donetsk | €50,000,000 |
| ST | Jô | Al Shabab | €2,000,000 |
| CB | Trent Sainsbury | PEC Zwolle | €1,000,000 |
| DF | Liu Wei | Reserve squad | |

### Out
#### Winter

| Pos | Player | Transferred To | Fee |
| RW | Sun Ke | Tianjin Quanjian F.C. | €9,000,000 |
| ST | Viðar Örn Kjartansson | Malmö FF | €325,000 |
| ST | Édison Toloza | Junior F.C. | Free transfer |
| GK | Deng Xiaofei | Chongqing Lifan | Free transfer |
| RW | Bari Mamatil | Qingdao Huanghai F.C. | Free transfer |
| CB | Sölvi Ottesen | Wuhan Zall | Free transfer |
| DF | Miao Ming | Baoding Yingli ETS | |
| MF | Lu Bofei | End of career | |

## Competitions
### Overview

| Competition | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | G | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Chinese Super League | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 5 | +9 | 060.00 |
| Chinese FA Super Cup | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | −2 | 000.00 |
| Champions League | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 7 | +3 | 033.33 |
| Total | 17 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 24 | 14 | +10 | 047.06 |
Updated to match played 21 May 2016 Source: Competitions

### Chinese FA Super Cup

Win  Draw  Loss

### Chinese Super League

Win  Draw  Loss  Upcoming fixture

#### Overall placement

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao (C) | 30 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 62 | 19 | +43 | 64 | Qualification to Champions League group stage |
| 2 | Jiangsu Suning | 30 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 53 | 33 | +20 | 57 | Qualification to Champions League group stage |
| 3 | Shanghai SIPG | 30 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 56 | 32 | +24 | 52 | Qualification to Champions League play-off round |
| 4 | Shanghai Greenland Shenhua | 30 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 46 | 31 | +15 | 48 | Qualification to Champions League play-off round |
| 5 | Beijing Guoan | 30 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 34 | 26 | +8 | 43 | |
* ↑ Shanghai Greenland Shenhua qualified for the 2017 AFC Champions League Qualifying play-offs round as Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao and Jiangsu Suning are 2016 Chinese FA Cup finalists.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 21 May 2016. Source: Competitive matches

### AFC Champions League

For winning the Chinese FA Cup in the previous year, Jiangsu Suning have qualified for the Group Stage of the 2016 AFC Champions League. Jiangsu Suning were drawn in Group E with Korea's Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors, Japan team FC Tokyo, and Becamex Bình Dương from Vietnam. They were eliminated after a draw kept them with nine points, just one point below Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors and FC Tokyo.

#### Group stage

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | JHM | TOK | JIA | BBD |
| 1 | Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 9 | +4 | 10 | Advance to knockout stage | — | 2–1 | 2–2 | 2–0 |
| 2 | FC Tokyo | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 10 | Advance to knockout stage | 0–3 | — | 0–0 | 3–1 |
| 3 | Jiangsu Suning | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 7 | +3 | 9 | | 3–2 | 1–2 | — | 3–0 |
| 4 | Becamex Binh Duong | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 13 | −7 | 4 | | 3–2 | 1–2 | 1–1 | — |
Win  Draw  Loss  Upcoming fixture