无锡队2:1击败常州队，首夺“苏超”冠军

The previous final drew 62,329 spectators; this year's drew 62,356.

Only 27 extra seats, yet the single-match attendance record was rewritten once again.

On the night of the last Saturday in October, at Nanjing Olympic Sports Center Stadium, Wuxi defeated Changzhou 2-1.

Wuxi thus claimed the 2026 Jiangsu Province City Football League championship, known to fans as the 'Su Chao'.

The lottery winning rate for final tickets was only 2.7%, and the season's average reservation winning rate was 9.6%.

The suspense on the pitch ended earlier instead: in the 28th minute, Wuxi's No. 79 Lu Zeling scored with a low shot.

In the 51st minute after the break, No. 9 Liu Yuhao scored with a header to make it 2-0.

This was Liu Yuhao's 12th goal of the season, securing the season's Golden Boot.

Changzhou only pulled one back in the 84th minute when No. 36 Guo Jiatai scored from a tight angle at the byline.

Some media recorded the time of this goal as the 83rd minute; both accounts currently coexist.

The 2-1 score held to the final whistle, and Wuxi lifted the first 'Su Chao' trophy in their history.

Wuxi and Changzhou face each other across Lake Tai; this final was billed before the match as the 'Taihu Derby'.

Wuxi finished first in the regular season and Changzhou third; in the semifinals it was Wuxi that eliminated defending champions Taizhou.

The schedule was the biggest change this year: all matches were uniformly arranged on Saturdays.

The season kicked off on April 11, with the opening match seeing Changzhou host Nantong.

From April to October, the season lasted 204 days, a full month longer than the previous season.

The league ran through the 'May Day', Dragon Boat, Mid-Autumn, and National Day holidays, so matches could be seen during holidays too.

The competition was completed by 13 prefecture-level city teams in 13 cities and 17 stadiums: 78 regular-season matches and 13 knockout matches.

The whole season totaled 91 matches, and in the regular season every team had six home and six away games.

Attendance figures rose along with it; league data shows the season's live audience was 3.0395 million.

The average was about 33,400 per match; last season it was 2.4333 million total and 28,600 per match.

In one year the live audience grew by 606,000; total attendance grew about 25%, and the per-match average about 17%.

The average player age was 22.32, down 1.77 years from last season.

There were 430 players under 22, accounting for 66.46% of all players.

The number 62,356 is both the 'Su Chao' single-match record and the attendance record for domestic amateur football events.

Notably, it is only 27 more people than last year's final.

In other words, the single-match attendance line has reached a point where it is very hard to push higher.

The next point of interest is whether this arrangement—packing all matches on Saturdays and spreading the season across holidays—will be copied by other provinces.