Dalian Professional F.C.

Dalian Professional Football Club (Chinese: 大连人足球俱乐部) is a professional Chinese football club based in Dalian, Liaoning, that participates in the Chinese Super League under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team is owned by Dalian Wanda Group headquartered in Beijing and their home stadium is Dalian Sports Center Stadium with a capacity of 61,000. The club was refounded on September 20, 2009, by Dalian Aerbin Group Company, Ltd., and started from the third tier of the Chinese football pyramid, the China League Two. IT adopted the Dalian Soccer culture and histroy from Dalian Wanda\Shide and Arbin. Winning two consecutive league titles in the second and third tier professional football leagues, they were promoted to the top tier in 2012 Chinese Super League season where they experienced their highest ever placing of fifth in the same season. In 2014, they were relegated from the Chinese Super League. In December 2015, they were renamed Dalian Yifang Football Club. In October 2017, they won the Chinese League One championship and successfully upgraded. On May 25, 2019, Dalian Yifang Football Club was renamed Dalian Professional Football Club, with new logo unveiled on January 21, 2020.[1]

Dalian Pro
Dàlián Rén
大连人
Full nameDalian Professional Football Club
大连人足球俱乐部
Nickname(s)Blue Hawks
Founded2009 (2009)
GroundDalian Sports Center Stadium
Capacity61,000
ChairmanZhang Lin (张霖)
LeagueChinese Super League
2020CSL, 12th of 16
WebsiteClub website

History

Dalian Aerbin (2009–2014)

On September 20, 2009, Dalian Aerbin Group Co. Ltd. established a new professional football club named Dalian Aerbin (Chinese: 大连阿尔滨) and hired former Chinese footballer Li Ming to become the club manager. The club's name Aerbin comes from the Manchu language meaning a place with water, which is also the name of a small town in Jinzhou District of Dalian where Dalian Aerbin Group Co. Ltd is located. They would soon move into the Dalian University Stadium in the Dalian Development Area and bring in Chi Shangbin as their co-manager and Sun Xianlu as their Head coach.[2] Starting in the third tier league, the club made their debut in 2010 China League Two season. The club brought in established top tier Chinese Super League players such as Guo Hui, Chang Lin and Yang Lin. The quality of these players helped the club win their regional division section and later the league title over Tianjin Songjiang as the club won the championship.[3]

In the following season, the club hired its first foreign coach, Bulgarian manager Aleksandar Stankov. Dalian Aerbin F.C. set up a surprising winning streak and won the 2011 China League One championship.[4] With their meteoric rise to the Super League, the club decided to use the 30,775 seater Jinzhou Stadium as its home stadium and shared it with their local rival Dalian Shide as well as signing a more experienced manager in Chang Woe-Ryong who had previously managed in the Chinese Super League with Qingdao Jonoon.[5] The club initially struggled in the league and the club brought in Aleksandar Stanojević as the head coach.[6] By July 11, 2012 Dalian Aerbin brought in a marquee player in former Barcelona F.C. midfielder Seydou Keita who departed the Spanish team on a free transfer and helped ensure Dalian Aerbin remain within the league.[7] At the end of the 2012 league season Stanojevć managed to not only avoid relegation but actually guided the club to fifth within the league.

On 30 November 2012, Aerbin Group acquired the local rival Dalian Shide F.C. by taking on responsibility of their 330 million RMB debt after Dalian Shide's chairman Xu Ming was arrested for bribing and corruption.[8] In hopes of bringing in a harmonious merger of the two teams, former Dalian Shide manager Xu Hong was brought in for the start of the 2013 Chinese Super League. However, after only 63 days in charge he had to resign after the Chinese Football Association found that he manipulated a match while as a manager at Sichuan Guancheng and was given a 5-year suspension from all football activity, which forced Li Ming to start the season as their caretaker manager.[9] Chinese Football Association called off this merger according to regulations, and decided that former Dalian Shide players should join the free market, while Dalian Aerbin could only sign them through normal transfer, 5 at most, instead of taking over the whole team.[10] This incident caused Aerbin to face some serious financial problems, being unable to pay the salaries, bonuses, or even maintenance of the stadium.[11] At the end of 2014 Chinese Super League, Aerbin was relegated to China League One.

Dalian Yifang (2015–2019)

With Dalian Aerbin back in the China League One division and with the loss of revenue generated from being in the top tier the club could not afford to maintain their squad, which saw a mass exodus of players.[12] Mikael Stahre was hired as the Head coach at the start of the 2015 league campaign and looked to be pushing for promotion, which saw Dalian Yifang Group Co. Ltd on 8 July 2015 buy majority shares within the club.[13] The purchase was promoted by Wang Jianlin and his Dalian Wanda Group who are a main shareholder of the Yifang Group (一方, "one region"), with the investment signalling a return of football ownership from Wang Jianlin who had previously owned Dalian Wanda F.C..[14] The club failed to win promotion back into the top tier after finishing third place at the end of the 2015 season and officially changed their name to Dalian Yifang F.C. (Chinese: 大连一方) in December 2015.[15] On 10 July 2015 in a press conference to confirm the Yifang Group's investment, the general manager Shi Xueqing (石雪清) admitted that the club was still losing money.[16]

In the 2017 China League One season Dalian Yifang won the division title and promotion back into the top tier under Head coach Juan Ramón López Caro.[17] Despite this success the Dalian Football Association announced he was replaced by Ma Lin, which saw speculation grow that the club were still in financial difficulties and were looking for the local government Dalian Sports Bureau to takeover the club.[18] On 20 February 2018 the Wanda Group took full control on the club after selling their 17% share in Atlético Madrid to Israeli businessman Idan Ofer on 14 February 2018.[19] The Wanda Group would use the money taken from Atlético Madrid and invest it in bringing in Argentinian international Nicolás Gaitán and Belgium international Yannick Carrasco.[20] In February 2019, the club completed another Marquee signing from Europe, this time acquiring the services of Napoli man Marek Hamšík, who signed for a reported fee of about €20 million (£18m/$23m). Gaitán left the team to play for the MLS side Chicago Fire after just one season.[21]

Dalian Professional (2020–present)

On 21 January 2020, Dalian Yifang changed their name to Dalian Professional.[22]

Ownership and naming history
Year Owner Club name Sponsored team name
2009–15 Dalian Aerbin Group Dalian Aerbin Football Club
2015 Dalian Yifang Group
2016–2020 Dalian Yifang Football Club
2020– Dalian Wanda Group Dalian Professional Football Club

Current squad

First team
As of 30 July 2020[23][24]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  CHN Zhang Chong
3 DF  CHN Shan Pengfei
4 DF  CHN Li Shuai
5 MF  CHN Wu Wei
7 MF  CHN Zhao Xuri
9 FW  VEN Salomón Rondón
10 FW  SWE Sam Larsson
11 MF  CHN Sun Guowen
12 MF  BRA Jailson
13 DF  CHN Wang Yaopeng
14 DF  CHN Huang Jiahui
16 DF  CHN Tong Lei
17 MF  SVK Marek Hamšík
18 DF  CHN He Yupeng
20 MF  CHN Wang Jinxian
21 FW  GHA Emmanuel Boateng
No. Pos. Nation Player
22 DF  CHN Dong Yanfeng
23 GK  CHN Li Xuebo
25 DF  CHN Li Jianbin
26 MF  CHN Cui Ming'an
27 MF  CHN Cheng Hui
28 MF  CHN Lin Liangming
29 MF  CHN Sun Bo
30 DF  SWE Marcus Danielson
31 MF  CHN Zheng Long
32 GK  CHN Xu Jiamin
33 DF  CHN Wang Xianjun
35 FW  CHN Zhang Jiansheng
36 DF  CHN Zhou Xiao
37 MF  CHN Yang Haoyu (on loan from Hubei Chufeng Heli)
39 FW  CHN Shan Huanhuan
40 DF  CHN Zhu Jiaxuan

Reserve squad

As of 1 March 2019

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
6 MF  CHN Zhu Xiaogang
8 FW  CHN Zhu Ting
12 DF  CHN Zhou Ting
19 GK  CHN Xue Qinghao
24 MF  CHN Yang Lei
35 DF  CHN Yang Shanping
41 MF  CHN Zhao Jianbo
42 MF  CHN Wang Tengda
43 DF  CHN Bi Guangfu
44 MF  CHN Zhang Yuhao
46 MF  CHN Zhang Jun
47 MF  CHN Yu Zhen
48 MF  CHN Xie Hui
49 MF  CHN Pang Chuntao
No. Pos. Nation Player
50 FW  CHN Wang Zhen'ao
51 DF  CHN Rong Linchao
52 FW  CHN Han Guangxu
53 DF  CHN Luo Hongshi
54 MF  CHN Zhu Hui
55 GK  CHN Wang Kailong
56 MF  CHN Cheng Xianfeng
57 MF  CHN Bai Yaoxu
58 FW  CHN Aximu Aini
59 MF  CHN Yi Tianyu
60 DF  CHN Yang Pengju
62 MF  CHN Zhang Zimin
63 MF  CHN Hu Jiali

Unregistered players

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— FW  HKG Alex Akande
— GK  CHN Chen Junlin
— MF  CHN Zhang Hui
— FW  CHN Zhao Xuebin
— MF  CHN Li Qinghao
— GK  CHN Gao Tian
— DF  CHN Yang Zexiang
— DF  CHN Zheng Jianfeng
— DF  CHN Wang Liang
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF  CHN Tao Qianglong
— GK  CHN Xue Qinghao
— DF  CHN Yin Jiahao
— MF  CHN Gao Mingxin
— MF  CHN Li Yuqiu
— MF  CHN Han Peijiang
— MF  CHN Ren Jiawei
— MF  CHN Yuan Hao
— MF  CHN Liu Zhipeng

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
- MF  CHN Liu Yingchen (at Beijing Renhe until 31 December 2020)

List of foreign players in club history
Confederation of African Football
Ghana
Ivory Coast
Liberia
Mali
Morocco
Nigeria
Sierra Leone
Zimbabwe


Asian Football Confederation
Australia
Hong Kong SAR, China
Iraq


Union of European Football Associations
Belgium
Bulgaria
Croatia
France
Portugal
Romania
Slovakia
Sweden


Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football
Costa Rica


South American Football Confederation
Argentina
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Venezuela

Coaching staff

As of 24 July 2020.

Head coach Vacant
Assistant coach Vacant
Assistant coach Vacant
Fitness coach Vacant
Goalkeeping coach Vacant
First team coach Vacant
Medical advisor Song Jinhua
Team doctor Jan Jungwirth
Team doctor Yu Jiatian
Physiotherapist Vacant
Reserve coach Vacant
U19 Team coach Lü Gang [25]
U17 Team coach Liu Yujian [26]
U15 Team coach Qi Xiaoguang [27]
U14 Team coach Zou Peng [28]
U13 Team coach Li Yang [29]

Managerial history
As of 2 July 2018[30][31]
Managers Period
Chi Shangbin Jan 1, 2009 – Dec 31, 2010
Sun Xianlu 2010
Aleksandar Stankov June 2010 – Dec 11, 2011
Chang Woe-Ryong Jan 1, 2012 – April 3, 2012
Aleksandar Stanojević April 4, 2012 – Nov 9, 2012
Xu Hong Dec 11, 2012 – Feb 18, 2013
Li Ming (interim) Feb 18, 2013 – June 5, 2013
Simo Krunić June 3, 2013 – Dec 5, 2013
Ma Lin Nov 5, 2013 – May 28, 2014
Yasuharu Kurata May 30, 2014 – Dec 19, 2014
Mikael Stahre Jan 5, 2015 – Jul 5, 2016
Milinko Pantić Jul 5, 2016 – Aug 31, 2016
Sergio Piernas Aug 31, 2016 – Nov 29, 2016
Juan Ramón López Caro Nov 29, 2016 – Dec 26, 2017
Ma Lin Dec 26, 2017 – Mar 20, 2018
Bernd Schuster Mar 20, 2018 – Feb 11, 2019
Choi Kang-hee Feb 11, 2019 – July 1, 2019
Rafael Benítez July 1, 2019 – January 23,2021

Honours
Winners (2): 2011, 2017
Winners (1): 2010

Results

All-time League Rankings

As of the end of 2019 season[33][34]
Year Div Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Pos. FA Cup Super Cup AFC Att./G Stadium
2010321143437142334 1WNHNHDNQDalian University Stadium
2011226166445202554WR2NHDNQ
20121301111851465445QFDNQDNQ15,774Jinzhou Stadium
2013130118114043−3415SFDNQDNQ10,538
2014130611133245−132915R3DNQDNQ10,993Dalian Sports Center Stadium
20152301776462224583R3DNQDNQ15,233
2016230143134344−1455R3DNQDNQ10,806
2017230197448232564WR3DNQDNQ20,596
2018130105153757−203511SFDNQDNQ33,145
2019130108124451−7389SFDNQDNQ32,853
20201DNQDNQ
  • ^1 in group stage
Key

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries.

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