Chinese Super League
Awards -- Golden Boot Award
Table:
Year

Top scorer

Club

Goals

2004

Kwame Ayew

Inter Shanghai

17

2005

Branko Jelić

Beijing Guoan

21

2006

Li Jinyu

Shandong Luneng Taishan

26

2007

Li Jinyu

Shandong Luneng Taishan

15

2008

Éber Luís

Tianjin Teda

14

2009

Hernán Barcos
Luis Ramírez

Shenzhen Asia Travel / Shanghai Shenhua
Guangzhou GPC

17

2010

Duvier Riascos

Shanghai Shenhua

20

2011

Muriqui

Guangzhou Evergrande

16

2012

Cristian Dănălache

Jiangsu Sainty

23

2013

Elkeson

Guangzhou Evergrande

24

2014

Elkeson

Guangzhou Evergrande

28

2015

Aloísio

Shandong Luneng Taishan

22

2016

Ricardo Goulart

Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao

19

2017

Eran Zahavi

Guangzhou R&F

27

2018

Wu Lei

Shanghai SIPG

27

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Li Jinyu ( Chinese : 李金羽 ; pinyin : Lǐ Jīnyǔ ; born 6 July 1977 ) is a Chinese football coach and a former international player . As a player he represented Liaoning Whowin and Shandong Luneng in the Chinese Super League and spent one season on loan at French club AS Nancy . He is also currently the top goalscorer in Chinese professional league history and won the Golden Boot Award three times in the process .
Shandong Luneng Taishan ( simplified Chinese : 山东鲁能泰山 ; traditional Chinese : 山東魯能泰山 ; pinyin : Shāndōng Lǔnéng Tàishān ) is a professional football club that currently participates in the Chinese Super League under licence from the Chinese Football Association ( CFA ) . The team is based in Jinan , Shandong and their home stadium is the Jinan Olympic Sports Center Stadium that has a seating capacity of 56,808 . Their current majority shareholder is Shandong Electric Power Group Corporation , the biggest supplier of electric energy in Shandong province and itself part of the State Grid Corporation of China . Luneng is the name of Luneng Group , now another subsidiary corporation of State Grid Corporation of China . The last part of the club name derives from Mount Tai . The club 's predecessor was called Shandong Provincial team who were founded in April 10 , 1956 while the current professional football team was established in December 2 , 1993 . They were one of the founding members of the first fully professional top tier league in China . Since then they have gone on to win their first ever league title in the 1999 league season . They have continued to win domestic silverware with the 2006 , 2008 , 2010 league titles , making them one of the most successful Chinese football teams . According to Forbes , Shandong are the 5th most valuable football team in China , with a team value of $ 126 million , and an estimated revenue of $ 24 million in 2015 .
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Hernán Barcos ( Spanish pronunciation : [ eɾˈnam ˈbaɾkos ] ; [ a ] born 11 April 1984 ) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for Bangladeshi club Bashundhara Kings . He is nicknamed El Pirata ( The Pirate ) and is well known for his finishing ability , technique and strength .
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Shenzhen Football Club ( simplified Chinese : 深圳市足球俱乐部 ; traditional Chinese : 深圳市足球俱樂部 ; pinyin : Shēnzhènshì Zúqiú Jùlèbù ) is a professional Chinese football club that currently participates in the Chinese League One under licence from the Chinese Football Association ( CFA ) . The team is based in Shenzhen , Guangdong and their home stadium is the Shenzhen Universiade Sports Centre that has a seating capacity of 60,334 . Their majority shareholder is Property Development company the Kaisa Group who took over the club on April 12 , 2016 . The club was founded on January 26 , 1994 and was known as Shenzhen FC while they started at the bottom of the Chinese football pyramid in the third tier . After successive league title wins in the third and second tier of the professional football leagues , they were promoted to the top tier in the 1996 Chinese Jia-A League season . After only one season they were relegated , however they quickly regained promotion and started to establish themselves within the league before they won the rebranded 2004 Chinese Super League title , making them the first club to win all three divisions within the Chinese league pyramid . Since this achievement the club have struggled to match the same success and after 14 years experienced relegation to the second tier at the end of 2011 Chinese Super League season .
Shanghai Greenland Shenhua Football Club ( simplified Chinese : 上海绿地申花足球俱乐部 ; traditional Chinese : 上海綠地申花足球俱樂部 ; pinyin : Shànghǎi Lǜdì Shēnhuā Zúqiú Jùlèbù ) , is a Chinese professional football club that participates in the Chinese Super League under licence from the Chinese Football Association ( CFA ) . The term shen hua literally translates as the Flower of Shanghai in English - shen is one of the alternative names of Shanghai and hua means flower in Chinese . The team is based in Kangqiao , Shanghai and their home stadium is the Hongkou Football Stadium , which has a seating capacity of 33,060 . Their majority shareholder is Chinese developer Greenland Group who took over the operation of the club when they bought the 28.5% share from previous majority shareholder Zhu Jun in 2014 . The club 's predecessor was called Shanghai F.C . and they predominantly played in the top tier , where they won several domestic league and cup titles . On 10 December 1993 the club was reorganised to become a completely professional football club so they could play in the 1994 Chinese Jia-A League season making them one of the founding members of the first fully professional top tier league in China . Since then , they have won one league title and three Chinese FA Cups . According to Forbes , Shenhua are the 6th most valuable football team in China , with a team value of $ 106 million , and an estimated revenue of $ 29 million in 2015 .
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Luiz Guilherme da Conceição Silva ( born 16 June 1986 ) , commonly known as Muriqui , is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Shijiazhuang Ever Bright in the China League One .
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Jiangsu Suning Football Club ( simplified Chinese : 江苏苏宁足球俱乐部 ; traditional Chinese : 江蘇蘇寧足球俱樂部 ; pinyin : Jiāngsū Sūníng Zúqiú Jùlèbù ) is a professional football club that participates in the Chinese Super League under licence from the Chinese Football Association ( CFA ) . The team is based in Nanjing , Jiangsu and their home stadium is the Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre which has a seating capacity of 61,443 . Their owners are Suning Appliance Group ( Chinese : 苏宁电器集团有限公司 ) , a sister company of Suning.com . The team was founded in 1958 as Jiangsu Provincial Team while the current professional football club was established in March 1994 . They were one of the founding members of the first fully professional top tier league in China participating in the 1994 Chinese Jia-A League season ; however , they faced relegation in that campaign . They have since gone on to win promotion back into the top tier at the end of the 2008 league season and achieved their best ever league position when they finished runners-up in the 2012 season and the 2016 season . According to Forbes , Jiangsu are the fourth wealthiest football team in China , with a team value of $ 144 million , and an estimated revenue of $ 36 million in 2015 .
Elkeson de Oliveira Cardoso , known as Elkeson or in Chinese as Ai Kesen ( Chinese : 艾克森 ; pinyin : Ài Kèsēn ; born 13 July 1989 ) , is a Brazilian-born Chinese professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or as a forward for Guangzhou Evergrande of the Chinese Super League and the Chinese National Team . Starting out at Vitória , he played mostly as an attacking midfielder and as a winger , but since his final days at Botafogo , he was moved to attack and has played as a striker .
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Ricardo Goulart Pereira or simply Ricardo Goulart ( Brazilian Portuguese : [ ʁiˈkaʁdu ɡuˈlaʁ ] ; born 5 June 1991 ) , is a Brazilian-born Chinese footballer who plays for Guangzhou Evergrande as an attacking midfielder . Goulart started his career with Brazilian club Santo André with 2008 and stayed there till 2011 , when he was loaned to Internacional . He played the 2012 season Goiás in the second tier , before joining Cruzeiro the following year . Here he cemented a place in the first team , and during his two-year stint , he made a total of 99 appearances and scored 34 times . He won the 2014 Brasileiro with the club . His personal awards include the 2014 Bola de Ouro , besides featuring in the team of the season . In 2015 , he entered Asian football by signing for Chinese club Guangzhou Evergrande , where he won the Chinese Super League and AFC Champions League in his first season . Goulart made his international debut for the Brazil national football team against Colombia in 2014 .
Eran Zahavi ( or Zehavi , Hebrew : ערן זהבי ; born 25 July 1987 ) is an Israeli professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or as a striker for Guangzhou R & F and the Israel national team . Zahavi was named the Israeli Footballer of the Year twice ( 2013 and 2014 ) , and finished as the top goalscorer three seasons in a row in the Israeli Premier League , in 2013-14 ( 29 goals , all-time club record ) , in 2014-15 ( 27 goals ) , and in 2015-16 ( 35 goals , all-time club and league record ) . In December 2014 , Zahavi broke the Israeli Premier League record for scoring in consecutive appearances after he scored for the 18th game in a row . In 2016 , he broke the Israeli league six-decade-old season scoring record , beating the 1954-55 record . He was named the 2017 Chinese Super League MVP and broke the league 's single season scoring record in 2019 . Zahavi has been a senior international since 2010 , earning 52 caps .
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Shanghai SIPG F.C . ( Chinese : 上海上港 ; pinyin : Shànghǎi Shànggǎng ; Shanghainese pronunciation : [ zɑ̃.hɛ.zɑ̃.ɡã ] ; ) or SIPG FC is a professional football club that participates in the Chinese Super League under licence from the Chinese Football Association ( CFA ) . The team is based in Pudong , Shanghai , and their home stadium is the Yuanshen Sports Centre Stadium , which has a seating capacity of 16,000 . The club plans to move to the currently under construction Pudong Football Stadium in 2021 . Their owners are the Chinese group Shanghai International Port Group ( SIPG ) . The club was founded on 25 December 2005 , as Shanghai Dongya FC ( Dongya , Chinese : 东亚 ; pinyin : Dōngyà ; literally : 'East Asia ' ) by former Chinese international footballer coach Xu Genbao . The club used graduates from Genbao Football Base , a football academy also founded by Xu , to form their first team as they made their debut in the third tier of China 's football league pyramid in the 2006 league season . They worked their way up to the top tier and finished as league champions for the first time in the 2018 Chinese Super League season . According to Forbes , Shanghai SIPG F.C . are the third-most valuable football club in China , with a club value of $ 159 million , and an estimated revenue of $ 37 million in 2015 . According to the annual report of the parent company , the football club had a revenue of CN¥565.7 million in 2015 financial year , as well as net loss of CN¥41.5 million , total assets of CN¥286.8 million , net assets of CN¥59.7 million .