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Qingdao Hainiu F.C.

Qingdao Hainiu F.C.

Chinese football club


Qingdao Hainiu Football Club (Chinese: 青岛海牛足球俱乐部; lit. 'Qingdao Sea Bull F.C.') is a Chinese professional football club based in Qingdao, Shandong, that competes in the Chinese Super League, the top tier of Chinese football. Qingdao Hainiu plays its home matches at the Qingdao Youth Football Stadium, located within Chengyang District. Their current owners are the privately owned cable manufacturers Qingdao Jonoon Group.

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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 Manatee. 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 F.C. 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 Manatee F.C., the Chinese name for manatee, "海牛 (hainiu, literally 'sea bull')", also being the nickname for the foghorn in Tuandao Lighthouse due to the sound it emits.[1]

Qingdao Manatee 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 loss – 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 Etsong Group started to invest the club, which changed its name to Qingdao Etsong Hainiu F.C. 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 Etsong Sports Center, the club won its first major trophy: the 2002 Chinese FA Cup.[3]

After eight-year management by 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

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Kits 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 Manatee (海牛), which Chinese name also literally means "Sea Bull", which directly influenced their badge design, which was simply a bull.[10] The owners 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 Jonoon Group 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

Crest history

Grounds

The current home stadium of Qingdao Hainiu is the Qingdao Youth Football Stadium, which opened in 2023.

The previous stadium of Qingdao Hainiu Football Club was 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 from 2007-2019.

Players

Current squad

As of 29 February 2024

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

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Out on loan

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Club officials

Current coaching staff

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Source: Dongqiudi.com

Managerial history

Information correct as of end of 2023 league season.[14][15]

Honours

Qingdao Jonoon's first trophy was the Chinese Yi League Champions, which it won as Shandong Economic and Trade Commission in 1992.[16] 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.[17][18]

Domestic

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

Best 11 in the Chinese Football Association Team of the year

Results

All-time league rankings

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  • ^Note 1 : In final group stage. ^Note 2 : No promotion. ^Note 3 : 2 points each win. ^Note 4 : No relegation.^5 : Deducted 7 points.^6 : Deducted 6 points.
Queen's Cup results
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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.

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Top league scorers each season

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

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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.


References

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  2. "China League 1994". RSSSF. 19 Jun 2003. Archived from the original on July 27, 2014. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
  3. "China 2002". RSSSF. 30 Mar 2003. Archived from the original on September 29, 2012. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
  4. 集团概况 (in Chinese). jonoon.com.cn. Retrieved 2015-06-21.
  5. "China 2010". RSSSF. 10 Dec 2010. Archived from the original on July 15, 2012. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
  6. 中能官方宣布张外龙下课 李应发接任率队征战 (in Chinese). sports.qq.com. Retrieved 2013-08-20.
  7. "Qingdao & Melkam involved in match fixing/unpaid wages row". wildeastfootball.net. 2014-02-24. Retrieved 2018-03-20.
  8. "Liu Jian, forged contracts and Chinese justice". wildeastfootball.net. 2014-04-11. Archived from the original on 2017-06-25. Retrieved 2018-03-20.
  9. 关于对青岛中能足球俱乐部违规违纪的处罚决定 (in Chinese). fa.org.cn. 2014-08-14. Archived from the original on 2014-08-19. Retrieved 2018-03-20.
  10. "风雨二十载海牛之梦——访原青岛足协主席陈敬莘". sports.163.com. 2013-12-30. Retrieved 2014-08-29.
  11. "回顾:峥嵘岁月—青岛足球20年颁奖盛典". news.qingdaonews.com. 2014-01-24. Retrieved 2014-08-19.
  12. "贝莱特队战平国际 姜峰与对手在门前争抢". sports.sohu.com. 2004-05-16. Retrieved 2014-08-30.
  13. "沈阳1–0力克青岛贝莱特 外援萨姆尔建功". sports.sohu.com. 2004-05-22. Retrieved 2014-08-30.
  14. "Qingdao Jonoon " Manager history". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 2014-09-03.
  15. "Qingdao Jonoon Football Club". footballzz.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-09-03.
  16. "China – List of Champions". RSSSF. 2015-11-05. Archived from the original on July 4, 2014. Retrieved 2015-11-09.
  17. "China List of Cup Winners". RSSSF. 2015-09-02. Retrieved 2015-11-09.
  18. "China List of Super Cup Winners". RSSSF. 2015-09-02. Retrieved 2015-11-09.
  19. "China League History". RSSSF. 22 Oct 2009. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
  20. "青岛中能". sodasoccer.com. Retrieved 28 January 2014.

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