1994 Dalian Wanda F.C. season

Dalian Wanda F.C.

Chairman	Wang Jianlin
Manager	Zhang Honggen
Jia-A League	Winner
Top goalscorer	Wang Tao (16 goals)
←  1993 1995  →

The 1994 Dalian Wanda F.C. season was Dalian's 10th consecutive season in the top division of Chinese football, and the first season to compete as a fully professional team.

Overview

The 1994 season was the first season that the Jia-A League had turned professional. ^{[1] [2]} Private enterprises were allowed to sponsor or operate a football club. Wang Jianlin, owner of the Wanda Group, acquired the Dalian football club, ^[3] and reorganized the team as Dalian Wanda Football Club in March 1994. Originally, he planned to establish a team that consist players and managerial staff only from Dalian, but was convinced by Gai Zengjun, former manager of the team. ^[4] He threw quite some money at the time by appointing Zhang Honggen from Shanghai as the head coach, and set high winning bonuses for the team. ^[5] Dalian Wanda won the 1994 Chinese Jia-A League without effort.

Since round 5 of the 1994 season, the team set a record of 57 unbeaten home league matches. ^[6]

Players

As of the 1994 season. ^{[7] [8] [9]}

No.	Name	Nat.	Place of birth	Date of birth	Aged	Joined from
Goalkeepers
1	Han Wenhai		Dalian	28 January 1971	22	Dalian
23	Zhou Yong		Dalian	28 July 1973	20	Dalian youth
24	Chen Dong		Dalian	3 May 1978	15	Dalian youth
Defenders
2	Zhang Enhua		Dalian	28 April 1973	20	Dalian
3	Zhao Lin		Dalian	15 February 1966	27	Dalian
4	Zhu Xiaodong		Dalian	25 January 1969	24	Dalian
5	Xu Hong		Dalian	17 April 1968	25	Dalian
14	Zheng Yong		Dalian	28 June 1973	20	Dalian youth
19	Fan Wei		Dalian	20 June 1973	20	Dalian
21	Sun Jihai		Dalian	17 August 1977	16	Dalian youth
22	Wu Jun		Dalian	24 March 1977	16	Dalian youth
Midfielders
6	Li Ming		Dalian	26 January 1971	22	Dalian
7	Xu Hui		Dalian	22 August 1968	25	Dalian
8	Ma Xiaohong		Dalian	24 October 1970	23	Dalian
9	Wang Tao		Dalian	9 April 1967	26	Bayi
10	Shi Lei		Dalian	19 June 1963	30	Dalian
12	Sun Minghui		Dalian	20 April 1971	22	Dalian
13	Gao Jinggang		Dalian	8 January 1971	22	Dalian
15	Sun Xiaodong		Dalian	19 February 1974	19	Dalian
18	Liu Zhongchang		Dalian	31 August 1962	31	Dalian
25	Wang Jun		Dalian	20 April 1963	30	Dalian
Forwards
11	Wei Yimin		Dalian	12 July 1971	22	Dalian
16	Gao Xu		Dalian	2 April 1967	26	Liaoning
17	Zhang Gang		Dalian	30 March 1977	16	Dalian youth
20	Wang Tao		Dalian	22 April 1970	23	Dalian

Coaching staff

Position	Name	Note
Head coach	Zhang Honggen
Assistant coach	Gai Zengjun
Assistant coach	Guo Xinyuan
Assistant coach	Yang Xianmin
Team doctor	Xu Liaosheng

Chinese Jia-A League

Main article: 1994 Chinese Jia-A League

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Dalian Wanda	22	14	5	3	43	21	+22	33
2	Guangzhou Apollo	22	11	5	6	36	27	+9	27
3	Shanghai Shenhua	22	10	6	6	36	36	0	26
4	Liaoning Yuandong	22	11	3	8	47	36	+11	25
5	Shandong Taishan	22	10	4	8	22	22	0	24

Source: rsssf.com

Squad statistics

Appearances and goals

No.	Pos.	Player	Nat.	Jia-A League
				App.	Goals
1	GK	Han Wenhai		22	0
2	DF	Zhang Enhua		12	1
3	DF	Zhao Lin		19	2
4	DF	Zhu Xiaodong		20	0
5	DF	Xu Hong		21	1
6	MF	Li Ming		21	2
7	MF	Xu Hui		21	2
8	MF	Ma Xiaohong		14	0
9	MF	Wang Tao		21	3
10	MF	Shi Lei		21	3
11	FW	Wei Yimin		21	4
12	MF	Sun Minghui		16	3
13	MF	Gao Jinggang		8	0
14	DF	Zheng Yong		0	0
15	MF	Sun Xiaodong		0	0
16	FW	Gao Xu		18	8
17	FW	Zhang Gang		1	0
18	MF	Liu Zhongchang		21	2
19	DF	Fan Wei		0	0
20	FW	Wang Tao (born 1970)		19	12
21	DF	Sun Jihai		0	0
22	DF	Wu Jun		0	0
23	GK	Zhou Yong		0	0
24	GK	Chen Dong		0	0
25	MF	Wang Jun		0	0
Total					43

Source: ^[9]

Goal scorers

Rank	Player	Goals
1	Wang Tao (born 1970)	12
2	Gao Xu	9
3	Wei Yimin	4
4	Shi Lei	3
	Sun Minghui	3
	Wang Tao (born 1967)	3
7	Liu Zhongchang	2
	Xu Hui	2
	Zhao Lin	2
10	Li Ming	1
	Xu Hong	1
	Zhang Enhua	1
Total		43

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