Qingdao Huanghai F.C.

Qingdao Huanghai Football Club (Chinese: 青島黃海足球俱樂部) 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 Huanghai
青岛黄海

Full name	Qingdao Huanghai Football Club 青岛黄海足球俱乐部
Founded	29 January 2013
Ground	Conson Stadium, Qingdao, China
Capacity	45,000
Owner	Shenzhen Hengye Investment Group Co., ltd. (63.625%) Qingdao Huanghai Health Industry Group Co., ltd. (27%) Others (9.375%)
Chairman	Tang Xiaofang
Manager	Pablo Machín
League	Chinese Super League
2019	China League One, 1st (promoted)
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Qingdao Huanghai F.C.
Traditional Chinese	青島黃海足球俱樂部
Simplified Chinese	青岛黄海足球俱乐部
Literal meaning	Qingdao Yellow Sea
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Qīngdǎo Huánghǎi Zúqiú Jùlèbù

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.

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[8]
2016–2018	Qingdao Huanghai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (90.625%) Others (9.375%)	Qingdao Huanghai F.C.[6]	QIngdao Huanghai
2019–	Shenzhen Hengye Investment Group Co., ltd. (63.625%)[9] Qingdao Huanghai Health Industry Group Co., ltd. (27%) Others (9.375%)		Qingdao Huanghai Qingdao Port

Current squad

First team squad

As of 24 July 2020[10]

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 9 FW  BRA Cléo 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 Greenland Shenhua) 18 GK  CHN Zhao Shi

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 MF  CMR Joseph Minala (on loan from Lazio) 20 MF  CHN Wang Fei 21 MF  CHN Wang Wei (on loan from Shanghai Greenland Shenhua) 22 GK  CHN Liu Zhenli 23 DF  CHN Liu Jiashen 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 Greenland 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

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 Zhang Zhen — 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

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	Pablo Machín
Assistant Coach	Adolfo Abad Barrios
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)
• Pablo Machín (22 July 2020 – )

Club honours

• China League Two (Third Tier League)[11]

Winners (1) : 2013

• China League One(Second TierLeague)

Winners (1) : 2019

Results

All-time League rankings

As of the end of 2019 season.[11][12]

Year	Div	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Pos.	FA Cup	Super Cup	AFC	Att./G	Stadium
2013	3	19	14	5	0	36	5	31	36^1	W	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	N/A	Qingdao Hongcheng Stadium
2014	2	30	7	10	13	36	47	−11	31	12	SF	DNQ	DNQ	4,229	Conson Stadium
2015	2	30	7	12	11	26	39	−13	33	11	R2	DNQ	DNQ	5,230
2016	2	30	19	2	9	52	42	10	59	3	R2	DNQ	DNQ	6,992
2017	2	30	16	4	10	56	40	16	52	4	R3	DNQ	DNQ	5,997
2018	2	30	13	10	7	63	44	19	49	4	R3	DNQ	DNQ	6,638
2019	2	30	17	6	7	59	36	23	57	W	R4	DNQ	DNQ	13,193
2020	1	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	-	-	-	-

• ^1 In group stage

Key

China top division   China second division   China third division W   Winners RU   Runners-up 3   Third place   Relegated

Pld = Played W = Games won D = Games drawn L = Games lost F = Goals for A = Goals against Pts = Points Pos = Final position

DNQ = Did not qualify DNE = Did not enter NH = Not Held  – = Does Not Exist R1 = Round 1 R2 = Round 2 R3 = Round 3 R4 = Round 4

F = Final SF = Semi-finals QF = Quarter-finals R16 = Round of 16 Group = Group stage GS2 = Second Group stage QR1 = First Qualifying Round QR2 = Second Qualifying Round QR3 = Third Qualifying Round

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries.

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