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FBref's latest addition to our continuously expanding domestic league coverage is the Chinese Super League, which we now have player statistics for back to the 2015 season. We are also tracking the current 2019 season, which sees Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao, Shanghai SIPG and Beijing Sinobo Guoan battling for the top spot on the league table.

Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao is being led this season in scoring by Paulinho, who Barcelona fans may recall as a contributor to their 2017-18 La Liga championship season. Other footballers with European experience now plying their trade in the Chinese Super League include Éder, who spent a decade in the Italian Serie A before playing with Jiangsu Suning for the past 2 seasons, and Ezequiel Lavezzi, who won 4 Ligue 1 championships with Paris Saint-Germain before moving on to Hebei Fortune. In the other direction, Wu Lei was the 2018 Chinese Footballer of the Year after 27 goals scored with Shanghai SIPG, leading the league; he went on to play in 16 games for Espanyol in La Liga.

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