Garnet Cloud/Xinjiang Daily (By Huang Xing) On March 3, the first round of the 2024 season of the Chinese Super League (CSL) was played in its entirety.10 CSL teams registered 24 players from Xinjiang, which is the largest number of players from Xinjiang in the history of the first team of the CSL in a season.
Chengdu Rongcheng and Wuhan are the most popular players in Xinjiang this season. Chinese Super League giants Chengdu Rongcheng not only have Mutalifu Yimincari, 18-year-old Aizmati Kaisar, and 23-year-old Bugrakhan Skandanar, but also the defending champions' star player, Muzhehaibuaitijiang Mozapa, which brings the number of Xinjiang players in their squad to four. In the Wuhan tri-town, there are four more players:Efirdin Eskal, Abrahan Khalik, Shokaiti Jiang Tayir and my Mityan Jiang Yusup.
In the first round of the Chinese Super League, Muzhehmeti Jiang provided an assist for his team. Image from the web
Chinese Super League promotion contenders Qingdao West Coast and Shenzhen Xinpengcheng both have three Xinjiang players. In Qingdao West Coast's lineup, Olympic goalkeeper Yerjeti Yerzati, who has played in Portugal's third tier for many years, as well as Baidanjiang Abdukelimu and 20-year-old Abu United Effort's Manjiang.
Shenzhen's new Pengcheng, in addition to Muzapar Mukhtar and 33-year-old veteran Nizamuddin Affanti, also has the outsider force of Baihram Abdou, who has just won the 2023 Chinese Golden Boy Award.
Shandong Taishan, who won the championship, has the most stable youth training in China. From Muzhehebuaitijiang to Baihelamu, as many as double-digit Xinjiang players have come out of this club's youth training over the past 20 years. This season, 23-year-old Abdul Meat Suri Abdurahmu and 20-year-old Buyurang Mijiti will be celebrating their third season in the Chinese Super League.
Nebi Jiang Mohamati has long been the captain of the National Youth Football Team and was runner-up at the National Games with the Xinjiang Men's Football Team in 2021. Now in his third season with Beijing Guoan, he is firmly in the team's starting XI. 19-year-old goalkeeper Nur Elie Abbas is Beijing Guoan's backup goalkeeper and is in his first CSL season.
Yelijan Shnar, 24, contributed two assists for Nantong Jiyun last season, his second CSL season. Nuaili Ziming, who played well in China's first division last season, is also having his first CSL season at the age of 24.
Abdu Hemiti Abdughani, 25, and Sabiti Abdulshalamu, 30, who once came out of the Xinjiang Tianshan Snow Leopard, met at Changchun Yatai this season.
21-year-old Ablikim Abdulshalamu is celebrating his third Chinese Super League (CSL) season. As an outstanding representative of Zhejiang's youth training, he is now showing strong competitiveness in Zhejiang's offensive end.
Diliymiti Land, 25 years old from the Evergrande Soccer School, completed his first Chinese Super League goal with Henan last season before joining Cangzhou Lions this season.
