football transfer review 2017 chinese super league edition

Chinese Super League

Winter edition

February 28th 2017

INVESTMENT CHINESE SUPER LEAGUE SIDES

2

Chinese Super League sides have invested 388m€ in player signings, 12% up vs last

winter & record high ever for 2nd consecutive season (from January to December in China)

32 4070

116

345

388

2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17

WinterMio€

+12%

3

388

277

153

99 87

18

WINTER WINDOW EXPENDITURE BY LEAGUE

Chinese Super League sides have invested more than any top European League this

January, even more than Premier League (40%). Winter transfer window is actually the

first of the season in China, which goes from January to December

Mio€

TOP 10 SIGNINGS CHINESE SUPER LEAGUE WINTER 2017

4

60,0

23,320,4 20,0 18,0 17,8

12,4 12,0 11,5 11,0

Oscar Ighalo Zhang Witsel Pato Zhao Wang Ideye Cui M.Zhao

Mio€

Top 10 most expensive signings ranking includes 4 Chinese players, all of them above

10m€ and including most expensive Chinese player ever (Zhang, 20,4m€)

TOP 10 SIGNINGS CHINESE SUPER LEAGUE + EUROPE WINTER 2017

5

Oscar’s signing by SIPG for 60mio€ is the most expensive globally in this winter window. An

hypothetical China+Europe top 10 ranking would include 5 Super League player signings

Mio€

60,0

40,0

32,0 30,0 29,023,3 23,0

20,4 20,0 18,0

Oscar Draxler G. Jesús Guedes Payet Ighalo Scheneiderlin Zhang Witsel Pato

China

Europe

6

INVESTMENT IN SIGNINGS BY TEAM

7872

67

3731 30

21

14 1310

7 52 1 1

Mio€

7

1

4 43

2

45

4 4 4 43

105 5

56

43

3 32

1

3

1

Hebei Tianjin Yanbian Shangai Chongqing Jiangsu Liaoning Henan GuangzhouR&F

Changchun Guangzhou Shandong Bejing SIPG

>50%minutes* <50%minutes*

4

6

Nº of players

11

3

8

77

1

99

8 88

4

51 out of 93 players (55%) signed last winter participated in more than

half of the minutes in the games of Chinese Super League

PARTICIPATION OF PLAYERS SIGNED IN WINTER 2015/16

8

9

5

8 8 8

5 54 4

3 34

3

1

2

4

1

3 3

3 3

3

1

No Yes

70 out of 93 players signed last winter stayed at their teams for new season

2016/17, which confirms that majority of players adapted well to China conditions

CONTINUITY IN 2016/17 OF PLAYERS SIGNED IN WINTER 2015/16

11

9 9

8 8 8 8

7 7

6

4 4

3

1

Nº of players

PARTICIPATION OF TOP 10 SIGNINGS 2015/16

9

%Minutes

A.Teixeira has become the most profitable player from top 10 most expensive of last winter. Gil,

Guarín and Jin are also among the most profitable. On the opposite side, Jinhao Bi, Jackson and

Gervinho have participated in less than 50% of the minutes

91% 90%83% 82% 79%

69%

52%48%

22%17%

A.Teixeira Gil Guarín Jin Elkeson Ramires B.Yilmaz Gervinho Jackson M. Jinhao Bi

10

PLAYERS SALES VALUE -CHINESE SUPER LEAGUE

917

21 25

113

124

2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17

Mio€

11

PLAYER SALES VALUE BY TEAM - CHINESE SUPER LEAGUE

24

21 2019

12 119

3 32 1 1 0

Mio€

12

NET INVESTMENT -CHINESE SUPER LEAGUE

Mio€

23 23

49

91

232

264

2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17

13

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