2020 China League One
The 2020 Chinese Football Association China League will be the 17th season of the China League One, the second tier of the Chinese football league pyramid, since its establishment in 2004. The season was scheduled to begin on 29 February and is scheduled to end on 1 November, but was postponed following the coronavirus pandemic in China.
In this season, the number of teams will be expanded from 16 to 18.
Teams
Team changes
To League One
Teams relegated from 2019 Chinese Super LeagueTeams promoted from 2019 China League Two
- Liaoning Shenyang Urban
- Chengdu Better City
- Taizhou Yuanda
- Suzhou Dongwu
- Jiangxi Liansheng
- Sichuan Jiuniu
- Kunshan F.C.
From League One
Dissolved entries
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Guangdong South China Tiger -
Sichuan Longfor -
Liaoning F.C. -
Shanghai ShenxinName changes
- Shenyang Urban F.C. changed their name to Liaoning Shenyang Urban F.C. in April 2020.
Clubs
Stadiums and Locations
Clubs Locations
Managerial changes
Foreign players
The policy of foreign players was changed. The number of foreign players clubs can register over the course of the season is limited to four and the number of foreign players allowed on each team at any given time is increased from three to four. A maximum of three foreign players can be registered for each match with a maximum of two can be fielded at any time during the match. In addition, each club can register a Hong Kong, Macau, or Taiwan player of Chinese descent, provided that he registered as a professional footballer in one of those three association for the first time, as a native player.- Players name in bold indicates the player is registered during the mid-season transfer window.
| Team | Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 | Player 4 | Naturalized Players | Hong Kong/Macau/ Taiwan Players | Former players |
| Beijing BSU |  Lins |  Juan Luis Anangonó |  Wen Chih-hao | ||||
| Beijing Renhe |  Ayub Masika |  Elvis Manu | |||||
| Changchun Yatai | Serginho | Lucas Souza |  Stefan Dražić |  Aaron Samuel | Chen Po-liang | ||
| Chengdu Better City |  Dani Quintana | Nikola Đurđić | |||||
| Guizhou Hengfeng | Sérgio Mota |  Nikica Jelavić | Anton Maglica |  Festus Baise | |||
| Heilongjiang Lava Spring |  Yoann Arquin | ||||||
| Inner Mongolia Zhongyou | Guto |  Babacar Gueye | André Senghor | ||||
| Jiangxi Liansheng |  Junior Tobi | Andy Russell | |||||
| Kunshan F.C. | Bruno Pires |  Hildeberto Pereira | Tunde Adeniji |  → Xiao Taotao | |||
| Liaoning Shenyang Urban |  Juvhel Tsoumou |  Islom Tukhtakhujaev | |||||
| Meizhou Hakka | Dori |  Lonsana Doumbouya | Chisom Egbuchulam | Leung Nok Hang | |||
| Nantong Zhiyun |  Marius Obekop |  João Silva | Mladen Kovačević | ||||
| Shaanxi Chang'an Athletic |  Albi Alla | John Owoeri | Robert Ndip Tambe | ||||
| Sichuan Jiuniu |  Jules Iloki | Nemanja Vidić | |||||
| Suzhou Dongwu | |||||||
| Taizhou Yuanda | Marko Bašić | Daniel Chima Chukwu | Zoran Tošić | ||||
| Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard | Stefano Pinho | Naldinho |  Ritus Krjauklis | ||||
| Zhejiang Greentown | Rafael Martins |  Dino Ndlovu |  Nyasha Mushekwi |
- For Hong Kong, Macau, or Taiwanese players, if they are non-naturalized and were registered as professional footballers in Hong Kong's, Macau's, or Chinese Taipei's football association for the first time, they are recognized as native players. Otherwise they are recognized as foreign players.
Regular season