Qingdao F.C.

Qingdao Football Club (Chinese: 青岛足球俱乐部) is a professional Chinese football club that currently participates in the Chinese Super League under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team is based in Qingdao and their home stadium is the Qingdao Guoxin Stadium that has a seating capacity of 45,000. The club is owned by Qingdao Central Plaza Business Management Co., Ltd. who formed the team on 29 January 2013.

Qingdao
青岛
Full nameQingdao Football Club
青岛足球俱乐部
Founded29 January 2013
GroundConson Stadium,
Qingdao, China
Capacity45,000
OwnerShenzhen Hengye Investment Group Co., ltd. (63.625%)
Qingdao Huanghai Health Industry Group Co., ltd. (27%)
Others (9.375%)
ChairmanZhang Qing
ManagerWu Jingui
LeagueChinese Super League
2020CSL, 14th of 16
WebsiteClub website
Qingdao F.C.
Traditional Chinese青島足球俱樂部
Simplified Chinese青岛足球俱乐部
Literal meaningQingdao Yellow Sea

History

Club history

Qingdao Hainiu F.C. was established on 29 January 2013 by former players and coaches from Shandong that included Qi Wusheng as chairman, Hao Haidong as managerial director and Su Maozhen as general manager.[1] With the financial backing of 20 million Yuan from Qingdao Central Plaza Business Management Co., Ltd the club would choose the name Hainiu (海牛), which means "The Sea Bulls" despite it once being used by Qingdao Jonoon, another football club in Qingdao between 1994 and 2004, hoping to inspire the golden era of Qingdao football. On the field the team would show their dominance within the league and go through the divisions group stage undefeated, while also beating Meixian Super-X and Shenzhen Fengpeng F.C. to reach the play-off final.[2] In the final the club would defeat Hebei Zhongji F.C. 3–1 to gain promotion to the second tier and win a million Yuan in prize money for the game with a further 3 million won throughout the season.[3]

On 31 January 2015, Qingdao Huanghai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. purchased a 51% stake of the club.[4] On 3 July 2015, Serbian player Goran Gogić collapsed and lost consciousness after a training section with the club. He died later on the same day.[5] Qingdao Hainiu finished 11th place in the 2015 season. On 30 December 2015, Qingdao Hainiu F.C. changed their name to Qingdao Huanghai F.C. after Qingdao Huanghai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. took full charge of the club.[6] Qingdao Huanghai finished level on 59 points with Tianjin Quanjian and Guizhou Zhicheng under Spanish manager Jordi Vinyals in the 2016 season, but their head-to-head points was worse than the other two clubs, thus failing to promote to the Chinese Super League.[7]

In the following 2 years, the club came close to promotion each time but fell short, earning fourth place in the League One. In the 2019 China League One the club earned first place and gained promotion.

Ahead of the 2021 season, Qingdao Huanghai changed their name to Qingdao F.C..[8]

Ownership and naming history
Year Owner Club name Sponsored team name
2013–14 Qingdao Central Plaza Business Management Co., Ltd. Qingdao Hainiu F.C. Qingdao Hainiu
2015 Qingdao Huanghai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.(51%)
Qingdao Central Plaza Business Management Co., Ltd.(49%)[4]		 Qingdao Huanghai Pharmaceutical[9]
2016–2018 Qingdao Huanghai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (90.625%)
Others (9.375%)		 Qingdao Huanghai F.C.[6] Qingdao Huanghai
2019–2020 Shenzhen Hengye Investment Group Co., ltd. (63.625%)[10]
Qingdao Huanghai Health Industry Group Co., ltd. (27%)
Others (9.375%)		 Qingdao Huanghai Qingdao Port
2021– Qingdao F.C. Qingdao F.C.

Current squad

First team squad
As of 3 February 2021[11]

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 Xing Yu
2 DF  CHN Jiang Weipeng
4 DF  TPE Yaki Yen
5 DF  CHN Yan Zihao
6 MF  CHN Wang Dong
7 MF  CHN Gao Xiang
10 MF  FRA Romain Alessandrini
11 FW  CHN Bari Mamatil
13 MF  CHN Wang Cheng
14 DF  CHN Wang Hao
15 MF  CHN Wang Jianwen
17 FW  CHN Zhou Junchen (on loan from Shanghai Shenhua)
18 GK  CHN Zhao Shi
19 MF  CMR Joseph Minala (on loan from Lazio)
No. Pos. Nation Player
20 MF  CHN Wang Fei
21 MF  CHN Wang Wei (on loan from Shanghai Shenhua)
22 GK  CHN Liu Zhenli
23 DF  CHN Liu Jiashen
24 FW  CRO Dejan Radonjić
25 DF  CHN Zou Zheng (on loan from Guangzhou R&F)
26 DF  SRB Jagoš Vuković
27 FW  CHN Zhu Jianrong (on loan from Shanghai Shenhua)
29 MF  CHN Ruan Zhexiang
30 FW  CHN Memet-Abdulla Ezmat
32 MF  CHN Yang Yu
33 DF  CHN Shi Zhe
37 DF  CHN Yao Jiangshan
40 MF  SVN Denis Popović
— MF  NOR Fredrik Ulvestad

Reserve squad

As of 7 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
3 MF  CHN Shi Hanchen
16 DF  CHN Han Qingsong
41 GK  CHN Li Zhizhao
42 DF  CHN Cao Yue
43 MF  CHN Lu Xinyu
44 MF  CHN Ji Haoxiang
45 MF  CHN Liang Kaiqiang
46 MF  CHN Su Zhenqun
47 DF  CHN Guo Zhihao
48 FW  CHN Lyu Zonglin
49 MF  CHN Zhang Boling
50 DF  CHN Zhang Haochen
No. Pos. Nation Player
51 DF  CHN Cheng Rui
52 DF  CHN Sun Chengwei
53 DF  CHN Wang Wei
54 DF  CHN Yang Yankai
55 GK  CHN Yu Ziqin
56 GK  CHN Zeng Yi
57 DF  CHN Wang Xudong
58 DF  CHN Fang Xinfeng
59 MF  CHN Huang Zhengyan
60 DF  CHN Liang Jiawei
61 FW  CHN Zhao Xiaodong
62 MF  CHN Li Tongrui

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
— MF  CHN Lu Haolin
— MF  CHN Peng Liedong
— MF  CHN Yu Yang
— DF  CHN Lin Jianwei
— MF  CHN Li Peng
No. Pos. Nation Player
— GK  CHN Yang Jiatao
— FW  CHN Zhang Yuepeng
— DF  CHN Yu Bin
— DF  CHN Wang Bingxiang
— DF  CHN Sui Xuze
— GK  CHN Cao Guojun

Retired numbers
Main article: Retired numbers in football

12 – Club Supporters (the 12th Man) The number was retired in January 2016.

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

Coaching staff
Position Staff
Head Coach Wu Jingui
Assistant Coach Li Chengmin
Reserve Team Coach Óscar Céspedes
Goalkeeping Coach Mikel Touzon
Fitness Coach Liu Tongshang
Physio Jordi Escura
Physio Erica Hernández López
Analyst Alex Ballesteros

Source: sina.com

Managerial history
  • Su Maozhen (29 January 2013 – 28 July 2015)
  • Sun Xinbo (caretaker) (28 July 2015 – 28 Dec 2015)
  • Jordi Vinyals (28 Dec 2015 – 30 July 2019)
  • Óscar Céspedes (caretaker) (30 July 2019 – 18 August 2019)
  • Juanma Lillo (18 August 2019 – 5 June 2020)
  • Óscar Céspedes (caretaker) (5 June 2020 – 22 July 2020)
  • Pablo Machín (22 July 2020 – 29 July 2020)
  • Yang Weijian (caretaker) (29 July 2020 - August 2020)

Club honours
Winners (1) : 2013
Winners (1) : 2019

Results

All-time League rankings

As of the end of 2020 season.[12][13]

Year Div Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Pos. FA Cup Super Cup AFC Att./G Stadium
201331914503653136 1WDNQDNQDNQN/A Qingdao Hongcheng Stadium
2014230710133647−113112SFDNQDNQ4,229Qingdao Conson Stadium
2015230712112639−133311R2DNQDNQ5,230
20162301929524210593R2DNQDNQ6,992
201723016410564016524R3DNQDNQ5,997
201823013107634419494R3DNQDNQ6,638
201923017 6 7 59 36 23 57 WR4DNQDNQ13,193
20201 14 1 2 1 4 1 8 1 15 1 27 1 -12 1 10 1 14 R1 DNQ DNQ N/A Suzhou (Group stage) / Dalian (Relegation stage)
  • ^1 In group stage

Key

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries.

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