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The 2020 season was scheduled to begin in February, but due to Corona it was postponed and starts July 25th now. The teams are split into two groups with a round robin format, followed by a championship stage for the Top4 of each group and a relegation stage for the bottom four teams accordingly. Group A will play in Dalian, group B in Suzhou.

These are the groups:


Source: https://www.flashscore.com/football/china/super-league/standings/

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For the first round, I would like to recommend the following bets:

Chongqing Lifan - Beijing Guoan 2 (@1.58)
Tianjin Teda - Shanghai SIPG 2 (@1.54)
parlay @2.43 7/10

and

Chongqing Lifan - Beijing Guoan HC2 -1.5 (@2.45)
Tianjin Teda - Shanghai SIPG HC2 -1.5 (@2.36)
parlay @5.78 2/10

Odds are from FortuneJack.

These odds are super value, should be 1.2 for both. Chongqing/Tianjin have huge trouble with their import players and Beijing/Shanghai are far superior anyway. You might want to choose lower stakes, because no one knows, what will happen in first round after Corona issues, but these odds will drop very likely and you can at least hedge them before kick-off. Games are played in neutral location.

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Feel free to discuss this league in here, post your picks or add some information (these are often hard to find). But please don't spam useless stuff here or I will have to delete it; this is a self-moderated thread.

On paper there look to be loads of good bets; will add these two with medium stakes:

Wuhan - Qingdao Wuhan -0.25 @1.88 4/10
Henan - Jiangsu Jiangsu ML @1.65 4/10

Qingdao and Henan are struggling mightily with their personnel - Henan doesn't even have any coaching staff right now -  while Jiangsu/Wuhan have all players/staff available. For those smaller and weaker teams it doesn't matter that much, where they finish in the group stage, they should look to be at their peak in the 2nd phase.

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Thanks for the heads up @notblox1, my bad and I fixed it

Only caught the 2nd half, but Wuhan was in control and weren't challenged too much by poor Qingdao. 2-0 FT

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The odds for the main bets Shanghai/Beijing have dropped a bit, but not (yet) as much as I expected. Beijing is 1.40-ish now, SIPG 1.45-ish, but still confident in both bets.

Football leagues around the world keeps increasing, particularly on the Asian countries. In our country we've got the Indian Super League, which hasn't gained much importance in the beginning. Further with every season the fanbase kept counting. As a result more players were known to the world. This is the first time coming to know about the Chinese Super League. Probably soon we can expect good football teams from Asia.

Chinese super league is indeed growing and they keep hiring good foreign players. Just like the last year, looks like GE will still dominate this league though the impact of the virus still affect some of the team players so this league is very challenging.

Football in my country is still far behind, there's no support (maybe a littl), and less exposure. Looking forward to see good football team in Asia, Japan, India and China is already doing good and Asian already have AFC.

Countries like spain, Italy, England, Germany, Brazil, Argentina and many others are running so many football leagues for a long time but in asian region we don't see this football leagues. For last few years India is running their football league and Indian super league is getting good support from asian football fans.

Football leagues are just not only helping governments to get big amount money but also put positive effects to national team. When local players get the opportunity to play with different foreign players i think it helps them to increase their skills. Which team are doing good in worldcup stage you can give a big portion of credits to their local football leagues.  

By the way good to see a separate thread for Chinese Super League (CSL).

Well, getting them citizenship is for very selfish reasons (foreign player policy) and I bet they get good money for it behind the curtains Only few players feel chinese and really want that citizenship no matter what (Ai Kesen aka Elkeson is one of those players imo).
Take for example Sandro Wagner, who was an ok-ish Bundesliga player and even was signed by Bayern Munich, but didn't play a lot because of Lewandowski. He was transferred to Tianjin last year and earns around 7.5mln/year there. At Munich he maybe earned 25% of that. And he clearly stated, that it also was a financial decision being 30+y.o at the time of the transfer already. You can earn very good money there, but for most players it's just a business decision. It's a huge cultural change and not that much of a challenge to play in CSL, so you have to compensate the players financially. If you decide to start that adventure, you are the king though; but the teams also don't hesitate to kick you out again, if you don't perform to their satisfaction

Poor round with a poor SIPG, who thought they could easily win this and were just able to get a draw with a late penalty after being down a man in second half.
Wuhan was pretty good, should have taken the -0.5 here. I like Shijazhuang though, think they will play a good season for their standards.
Hebei were ahead 2-0 already until 74th minute, but Chongqing was able to make it 2-2 in the closing stages. Odds were a rollercoaster here pre-match and also inplay. Thats the difficulty with CSL, so much going on personnel-wise and information is hard to find.

-7.63 for this round, +6.50 for the season.

Problem is, the longer the season goes, the more you lose your edge up until the point, where there is next to no edge anymore. The bookmakers have more and more data available, there are no secrets and surprises anymore. And I am not that delusional to think that I can beat the bookies without informational advantage.

For example Chongqing in first game; they had zero foreign players available, because they were all still in quarantine. Bookies didn't know it or didn't bother to price it in. Now teams playing against Chongqing are only allowed to have two foreign players on the pitch, but they can sub fresh ones in etc., so huge advantage. And you have a lot of these little things in the beginning of a season and they make a huge difference. So pre-match you will struggle more to constantly find good bets as the season goes on, but inplay is the way to go in any league anyway imo.

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Chinese Football is very special, if that makes any sense. You have big quality differences even inside a team and the chinese players often rely a bit on the foreign player to make things happen, like "you earn 5mln, me only 500k, so go ahead and show you are worth it". All offensive play is heavily impacted by the often brazilian players who earn their money there. The chinese players are mainly for defending and they are doing quite a good job. You have these fast, versatile and never tired players on the wings and in defensive midfield, plus some 1.80m+ centre backs, who defend the air very well normally. So the foreign player struggle through the middle and high balls into the box are often defended well, since most teams don't have tall strikers. It's very different dynamics than in european football for example, where the teams are more homogenous.

I am glad to hear that the Chinese team is good at what they are doing and it seems like they are hardworking and really determined to win their matches and also very eager to bring home the bacon. I can say that this is a good start for them I hope that someday, they will be as good as other professional players around the globe.