The 2021 Chinese Women's Football League, officially known as the 2021 China Taiping Chinese Football Association Women's Football League (Chinese: 2021中国太平中国足球协会女子甲级联赛) for sponsorship reasons, was the 7th season in its current incarnation.
In this season, all matches were held at the Dalian Youth Football Training Base, Dalian, Liaoning.
[1] In this season, the number of clubs was expanded from 7 to 11.
Clubs promoted from 2020 Chinese Women's League Two[2] Clubs relegated from 2020 Chinese Women's Super League Clubs promoted to 2021 Chinese Women's Super League
To preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards.