Qingdao Manatee F.C.

Qingdao Hainiu Football Club (simplified Chinese: 青岛海牛; traditional Chinese: 青島海牛; pinyin: Qīngdǎo Zhōngnéng, known as Hai-Niu or literally the Sea Bulls) is a professional Chinese football club that currently participates in the China League Two division under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team is based in Qingdao, Shandong and their home stadium is the Qingdao Tiantai Stadium that has a seating capacity of 20,525. Their current owners are the privately owned cable manufacturer Qingdao Jonoon Group.

Qingdao Hainiu
Qīngdǎo Zhōngnéng
青岛海牛
Full nameQingdao Hainiu Football Club
青岛海牛足球俱乐部
Nickname(s)Hai-Niu (The Sea Bulls, 海牛)
Founded1990 (1990) as Shandong Economic and Trade Commission FC
GroundQingdao Tiantai Stadium,
Qingdao, Shandong, China
Capacity20,525
ChairmanQiao Weiguang
ManagerZhu Jiong
LeagueChina League Two
2020League Two, 6th of 20

The club was founded as Shandong Economic and Trade Commission Football Club in 1990 and started at the bottom of the Chinese football league pyramid in the third tier. On December 31, 1993 they became the first professional club in Qingdao and changed its name to Qingdao Hainiu. They went on to establish themselves as a top tier club and won their first major trophy in 2002 by winning the Chinese FA Cup on November 16, 2002 when they beat Liaoning Bird. In the mid-2010s the club started to decline and fell down two leagues, being relegated twice in 4 seasons.

History

Qingdao Jonoon Football Club started out as Shandong economic and trade commission in 1990 by some retired footballers at the corporation affiliated with Shandong economic and trade commission associated with some workers at Qingdao Municipal Sanatorium. After playing in the Chinese Yi League for three seasons, the club finished as Second Division Champions and won promotion to the Chinese Jia-B League in 1992 – the club's first league title. As required by Chinese Football Association, on 31 December 1993, the club set up a professional system and became the first professional football club in Qingdao. Subsequently, the club was renamed to Qingdao Hainiu, which means "The Sea Bulls of Qingdao", originates from the sound of the foghorn in Tuandao Lighthouse.[1]

Qingdao Hainiu finished as the Chinese Jia-B League Champions and won promotion to the Chinese Jia-A League in 1994.[2] In the following season, the club was invited to compete the Tainland Queen's Cup and achieved the third place with 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 lose – the club's first international honour. However, in domestic league the club was relegated to the Division 1B after losing an epic battle against Sichuan Quanxing 2–3. In 1996, the club appointed Wu Hongyue as manager, who led the team to a second-place league finish and regained promotion to the Division 1A. Soon after that season, the state-run tobacco producer – Qingdao Yizhong/Etsong Group started to invest the club and added "Yizhong/Etsong" to its name the following year. From 1997 season, the club became a regular member of the top division and was never relegated since then. On November 16, 2002, after beating Liaoning Bird 2–0 in Yizhong Sports Center, the club won its first major trophy: the 2002 Chinese FA Cup.[3]

After eight-year management by Yizhong/Etsong Group, the club was transferred to a privately owned cable manufacturer – Qingdao Jonoon Group and dropped the long term icon "Hainiu" from its name in December 2004.[4] The club's new owner slashed down the budget greatly, sold up all notable players and assigned the former Jinan taishan's coach Yin Tiesheng as manager, who is famous for his defending style. In the following three seasons, Yin brought Jonoon to stay firmly in the middle position of the league. In 2008, after Yin's assignment as assistant coach of China Olympic team, the club promoted the assistant coach Guo Kanfeng as head coach and retained eighth place in that season. After six-round terrible management in the following season, Guo was sacked by the club and former notable Serbian coach Slobodan Santrač took over as manager. Though finished at thirteenth place, the team played a beautiful attacking soccer style and even the attacking combination was duplicated by the National Team head coach Gao Hongbo. Soon after 2009 season, the club surprisingly sacked Santrač and reassigned Guo as actual head coach, with Dragan Jovanovič assigned as nominal head coach due to Gu's lack of qualification. In 2010, the club endured a horrible season and lost the last match against Hangzhou Greentown 0–1, but surprisingly survived from relegation in the fourteenth place.[5]

In the 2013 league season the team's manager Chang Woe-Ryong was sacked from the club despite the team sitting in tenth.[6] The club would experience relegation at the end of the season and the club's owners publicly declared that one of their own players in Gabriel Melkam was match fixing, which resulted in their relegation.[7] Gabriel Melkam would claim that the accusations of match-fixing were a ploy by the owners not to pay his wages and he took his case to FIFA. While this was going on further claims of mismanagement would arise with the transfer of the club's captain Liu Jian move to Guangzhou Evergrande when it was discovered that the club had forged an extension in his contract.[8] In the 2014 league season the club were found guilty for breaking the Chinese FA's rules and were deducted 7 points.[9]

In 2016 Qingdao Jonoon finished second-to-last in the League One and were relegated to the third level of the Chinese league system. Qingdao Huanghai, another team in the League One in the same city, started to get more attention. Qingdao had no more foreign players by 2019. In the 2019 season, there were deducted six points for a rule violation.

Ownership and naming history

Year Owner Club name Sponsored team name
1990–1993 Shandong Economic and Trade Commission Shandong Economic and Trade Commission
1994–1996 Qingdao Manatee Qingdao Manatee
1997 Qingdao Etsong Group Qingdao Etsong Manatee
1998–2000 Qingdao Etsong Manatee
2001 Qingdao Beer
2002 Qingdao Hademen
2003–2004 Qingdao Sbright
2005–2006 Qingdao Jonoon Group Qingdao Jonoon Qingdao Jonoon
2007 Qingdao Handicraft City
2008 Qingdao Shengwen Jonoon
2009–2020 Qingdao Jonoon
2021–present Qingdao Manatee Qingdao Manatee

Crest and colours

The club's first choice of home kit colors were all red and they did not have a badge until they won promotion. When they won promotion they changed the club's home kit colors to yellow and their name to Qingdao Hainiu (海牛), which means "The Sea Bulls", which directly influenced their badge design, which was simply a bull.[10] The owners Yizhong/Etsong Group decided to rebrand the club once more with a new badge, which was a simple striped design with the new owners name at the top while the new kit colors became red and white.[11] With Zhengneng coming in as their new sponsor the club changed their colors once again to blue while using red as their new away colors.[12] When the Jonoon Group took over they incorporated their own logo of two tigers merged as the club's new badge and chose orange as the new home colors because they believe it represents "passion and energy" as well as also being the same color of their own brand.[13]

Kit evolution

1992–94
1995–97
1998–99
2000–03
2004

Grounds

The current home stadium of Qingdao Jonoon Football Club is Qingdao Tiantai Stadium, which is also known as Qingdao First Stadium. Tiantai Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium built in 1933 as Qingdao Municipal Stadium, and was renamed Qingdao First Stadium in 1955. Qingdao Jonoon started to play in Tiantai Stadium in the first three professional seasons, and resided there permanently since 2007.

Current squad

First team

As of 22 October 2020[14]

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 Liu Jun
2 DF  CHN Zhang Jiaxin
4 DF  CHN Jin Hongyu
5 DF  CHN Sha Yibo
6 DF  CHN Liu Yangyang
8 FW  CHN Liu Weicheng
9 FW  CHN Wang Xiufu
11 MF  CHN Liu Long
12 GK  CHN Chen Zhao (on loan from Shanghai Greenland Shenhua)
13 GK  CHN Quan Longhai
14 DF  CHN Wang Zongzhe
15 DF  CHN Chen Bo
17 DF  CHN Chen Jiaqi
19 MF  CHN Li Xin
20 MF  CHN Li Yu
21 FW  CHN Jiang Ning
No. Pos. Nation Player
22 MF  CHN Tan Liwei
23 MF  CHN Sun Xu
24 MF  CHN Yang Jiawei (on loan from Jiangsu Suning)
25 GK  CHN Xu Enze
27 MF  CHN Wang Zeyan
28 DF  CHN Yin Guangjun
29 FW  CHN Song Bo
33 DF  CHN Liu Wenqing
42 MF  CHN Sun Weijia
47 MF  CHN Xie Jinzheng (on loan from Shanghai Greenland Shenhua)
56 FW  CHN Sun Xipeng (on loan from Shanghai Greenland Shenhua)
57 MF  CHN Pang Chengtai
59 MF  CHN Shi Yiyi (on loan from Shenzhen F.C.)
60 MF  CHN Zhou Baolin

Reserve squad

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 Wei Chao
MF  CHN Li Mou
MF  CHN Hu Jun
MF  CHN Zhang Huanan
MF  CHN Wu Kai
GK  CHN Zhu Quan
FW  CHN Pu Xianlin
FW  CHN Yang Rui
MF  CHN Song Mingtian
MF  CHN Zhao Chengde
No. Pos. Nation Player
DF  CHN Wei Jiye
MF  CHN Wei Dongliang
MF  CHN Wang Guangchao
FW  CHN Ji Yonghao
GK  CHN Bai Jinbo
DF  CHN Yan Tengfei
DF  CHN Jiang Weipeng
DF  CHN Ning Dating
MF  CHN Li Liang
MF  CHN Wang Jihao

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 Zhao Shufeng (at Shanxi Longjin until 31 December 2020)

Club Officials

Current Coaching staff

Position Staff
Head coach Zhu Jiong
Assistant coaches
Goalkeeping Coach
Fitness Coach

Source: Dongqiudi.com

Managerial history

Information correct as of end of 2013 league season.[15][16]

Honours

Qingdao Jonoon's first trophy was the Chinese Yi League Champions, which it won as Shandong Economic and Trade Commission in 1992.[17] In 1995, the club won its first international honour as Qingdao Hainiu – the Thailand Queen's Cup third place. In 2002, the club won its first major trophy – the China FA Cup, which allowed to enter the Chinese FA Super Cup where they came Runners-up that season.[18][19]

Domestic

2002
  • Super Cup Runners-up: 1
2002
1994
1993, 1996
1992

Reserve team:

  • Coca-Cola Olympic League Champions: 2
1998, 1999

Youth team:

  • U19 FA Cup Winners: 1
2006

International

1995

Player honours

Chinese Football Association Young Player of the Year
The following players have won the Chinese Football Association Young Player of the Year award while playing for Qingdao Yizhong Hainiu:

The following players have won the Chinese Football Association Young Player of the Year award while playing for Qingdao Jonoon:

Top Scorer of 2010 East Asian Football Championship
The following players have won the Top Scorer of 2010 East Asian Football Championship award while playing for Qingdao Jonoon:

Best 11 in the Chinese Football Association Team of the year
The following players have won the Best 11 in the Chinese Football Association Team of the year award while playing for Qingdao Yizhong Hainiu:

The following players have won the Best 11 in the Chinese Football Association Team of the year award while playing for Qingdao Jonoon:

Results

All-time league rankings

Year Div Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Pos. FA Cup Super Cup League Cup AFC Att./G Stadium
1990310713DNQ  
1991393DNQ  
199236510145+951CDNQ  
19932952/11145+961RU2NH  
199422011632815+13283CNH  Qingdao Tiantai Stadium
199512257102032−122211R1DNQ 13,364Qingdao Tiantai Stadium
199622214263827+1144RUR2DNQ Qingdao Tiantai Stadium
19971226791627−11259R2DNQ 10,545
199812688102430−6326R2DNQ 11,538
199912686123037−73010R2DNQ 12,192Hongcheng Stadium
200012661192229−72911R1DNQ 16,923
200112657142235−1322134QF DNQ 15,308Yizhong Sports Center
Zibo City Stadium
200212899103034−4368CRU 6,214Yizhong Sports Center
2003128105134050−103511R16DNQ 12,429Yizhong Sports Center
20041224992128−721114QFNHR14,645Yizhong Sports Center
200512697102631−5347R1NHQF4,500Yizhong Sports Center
200612867152536−112514R1NHNH6,071Qingdao Tiantai Stadium
2007128106123642−6368NHNHNH7,179Yizhong Sports Center
2008130109113936+3398NHNHNH6,600Qingdao Tiantai Stadium
200913081210363603613NHNHNH8,774Qingdao Tiantai Stadium
2010130612123144−133014NHNHNH6,247Qingdao Tiantai Stadium
201113012993733+4456R1DNQNH8,464Qingdao Tiantai Stadium
2012130106142634−83613R4DNQNH9,538Qingdao Tiantai Stadium
2013130710132641−153115QFDNQNH8,284Qingdao Tiantai Stadium
201423015874329144655R3DNQNH3,602Qingdao Tiantai Stadium
2015230118113039−9417R4DNQNH5,093Qingdao Tiantai Stadium
201623089133043−133315R3DNQNH2,702Qingdao Tiantai Stadium
20173241293291118455R2DNQNH762Qingdao Tiantai Stadium
20183281639442915518R3DNQNH433Qingdao Tiantai Stadium
2019330149739182145614R4DNQNHQingdao Tiantai Stadium
Queen's Cup results
Season 1995
Results 3

Key

All-time top scorers

Since 1994 the first professional league season. CFA Cup and CSL Cup are included. Correct as the end of season 2011.

Name Years League FA Cup League Cup Asia Other Total
1 Qu Bo2000–2009051003003000000057
2 Jiang Ning2004–2010035001003000000039
3 Liu Jian2004–2013035000003000000038
4 Gao Ming2000–2004019004000000000023
5 Zheng Long2007–2013019000000000000019
6 Zuo Wenqing1994,1996–1999017000000000000017
7 Dragan Vukoja2002–2003012004000000000016
8 Tang Lepu1994–1996014000000000000014
9 Fan Xuewei1994–1999013000000000000013
10 Jiao Chunben1994–1999012000000000000012

Top league scorers each season

Since 1994 the first professional league season. Correct as of 2 July 2012.

Season Top scorer Goals
1994 Fan Xuewei 07
1995 Tang Lepu 06
1996 Jiao Chunben
Tang Lepu
Zuo Wenqing
Ji Yujie
06
1997 Zhang Jun 04
1998 Cao Xiandong 06
1999 Gilberto William 07
2000 Qu Bo 08
2001 Emerson 05
2002 Dragan Vukoja 08
2003 Gao Ming 09
2004 Sun Xinbo 05
2005 Qu Bo
Jiang Ning
06
2006 Jiang Ning 07
2007 Liu Jian 08
2008 Mitchel Brown 07
2009 Qu Bo 12
2010 Aleksandar Rodić 08
2011 Song Wenjie
Zhu Jianrong
06
2012 Bruno Meneghel 09
2013 Bruno Meneghel 10
2014 Cristian Dănălache 10
2015 Reis 06
2016 Eddie Hernández 07

Records

Team records

Matches

Record wins

v Guizhou Zhicheng, 27 June 2012

Record defeats

v Shandong Luneng, 22 August 2007
v Tianjin Teda, 8 September 2007
v Jiangsu Sainty, 22 August 2010

Player records

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries.

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