Tianjin Quanjian F.C.

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Tianjin Quanjian
Tiānjīn Quánjiàn
天津权健
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Full nameTianjin Quanjian Football Club
天津权健足球俱乐部
Founded6 June 2006;12 years ago (6 June 2006)
Ground Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium,
Tianjin, China
Capacity30,000
Owner Quanjian Nature Medicine
ChairmanShu Yuhui
Manager Choi Kang-hee
League Chinese Super League
2018 Super League, 9th
Website Club website

Tianjin Quanjian F.C. (Chinese :天津权健; pinyin :Tiānjīn Quánjiàn; Mandarin pronunciation: [tʰjɛ́n.tɕín.tɕʰɥɛ̌n.tɕjɛ̂n] ;) is a professional Chinese football club that currently participates in the Chinese Super League division under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team is based in Tianjin and their home stadium is the Tianjin Olympic Center that has a seating capacity of 54,696. Their current owner is Quanjian Nature Medicine who officially took over the club in December 2015. [1]

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History

On June 6, 2006 the Tianjin Binhai Holdings Limited company would form a new football team based in Hohhot called Hohhot Binhai and would name former Chinese international player Han Jinming as their manager. They would move into the Hohhot People's Stadium while taking part at the bottom of the Chinese pyramid within the third tier at the start of the 2007 league season. By May 5, 2007 Tianjin Songjiang Sports Culture Industry Co. Ltd would take a controlling interest within the club and hired another former Chinese international player in Hao Haidong to be the clubs general manager. [2] When the club finished in a disappointing fifth within the group stages of the division it was decided that the club needed significant restructuring, which saw Hao Haidong named as Chairman, Han Jinming moved to General management, Zhang Xiaorui was named as the new manager and lastly the entire team was moved to Tianjin to play within the Hedong Sports Centre. [3]

Hohhot Prefecture-level city in Inner Mongolia, Peoples Republic of China

Hohhot, abbreviated Hushi, formerly known as Kweisui, is the capital of Inner Mongolia in the north of the People's Republic of China, serving as the region's administrative, economic and cultural center. Its population was 2,866,615 inhabitants at the 2010 census, of whom 1,980,774 lived in the built-up area made up of 4 urban districts.

Han Jimming is a Chinese football coach and a former international Midfielder who played for China in the 1996 Asian Cup. While in his club career his representation of Tianjin Sumsang saw him captain the team from 1993 until 1996 before leaving for Qianwei Huandao and Yunnan Hongta where he was forced to retire due to serious injury in 2000.

Hohhot People's Stadium was a multi-use stadium in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China. Situated next to Qingcheng Park, it was used mostly for football matches. This stadium holds 30,000 people. Prior to the construction of the new Hohhot City Stadium on the north side of the city, it was the home of the Hohhot City Games, several Inner Mongolia Games, and the site of a wide range of sports and political rally activities. Currently it is the home of Hohhot Black Horse, a member of the Chinese Jia League.

While under Zhang Xiaorui's reign results gradually improved, however while the club were constant play-off contenders they could not gain promotion and he was soon replaced by the Belgium Patrick De Wilde who guided the club to a runners-up spot and promotion at the end of the 2010 league season. [4] By the following season the club had already moved into the 60,000 seater Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium, however despite their grand settings the team would struggle within the division and narrowly avoided relegation at the end of the season. [5] This saw Patrick De Wilde exit soon after and the club decided to promote his assistant as well as Hao Haidong's cousin Hao Haitao into the management chair. In the 2012 league season Hao Haitao would actually guide the club to their best ever finish of sixth within the league, however at the end of the campaign Li Weiqi (李微奇) took over Hao Haidong's position as Chairman and Hao Haitao followed his cousin in leaving the club. [6] At the start of the 2013 league season Pei Encai was brought in as Head coach, however he left the team four games before the end of the season due to the passing away of his mother, which saw Zhang Xiaorui return to the club as a caretaker manager. [7] Italian Gianni Bortoletto was brought in at the beginning of the 2014 league season, initially as a technical director before accepting the Head coach position but after a series of disappointing results he was fired on 14 June 2014. [8] On 23 June 2014 Portuguese manager Manuel Cajuda came in for the remainder of the season. [9] The club would once again start the following season with a new manager when Croatian coach Dražen Besek joined the team 15 December 2014. [10] After a series of defeats, Besek was replaced by another Croatian in Goran Tomić who joined the management on 12 May 2015. [11]

The 2010 China League Two season is the 21st season since its establishment. League kicked off on 9 May 2010.

Hao Haitao is a Chinese football coach and a former football player. Along with his cousin, Hao Haidong he would become a professional footballer and played for Qingdao Hainiu, Shanghai Pudong and Tianjin Teda. After retiring, he would move into assistant management before becoming the Head coach of Tianjin Songjiang before joining Chengdu Blades F.C.

The 2013 China League One is the tenth season of the China League One, the second tier of the Chinese football league pyramid, since its establishment.

On 7 July 2015 Quanjian Nature Medicine officially took over the club. [12] This would be their second foray into Chinese football after their sponsorship of Tianjin Teda F.C. abruptly came to an end on 30 June 2015 after a public dispute occurred on who had control over the clubs player transfers, particularly in the attempted signing of the Chinese international player Sun Ke. [13] At the start of the 2016 season the club would go through a complete overhaul, they would redesign a new badge that reflected Quanjian Nature Medicine's own logo, change the clubs colours to a light blue, bring in experienced Brazilian coach Vanderlei Luxemburgo along with international players in Luís Fabiano, Jádson Rodrigues da Silva, Zhao Xuri and the player the owners originally attempted to sign, Sun Ke. [14] On 22 October 2016, under the guidance of Fabio Cannavaro, Tianjin Quanjian defeated Meizhou Hakka 3–0 to win the 2016 China League One title and gain promotion to the 2017 Chinese Super League. [15] At the start of the 2017 Chinese Super League season the owners once again decided to change the teams home colours from a light blue to an all red uniform. [16]

Sun Ke is a Chinese footballer who currently plays for Tianjin Tianhai in the Chinese Super League.

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Vanderlei Luxemburgo Brazilian footballer and manager

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Tianjin Municipality in Peoples Republic of China

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Quanjian Group Co., Ltd. is a Chinese herbal medicine company based in Tianjin. The group is the parent company of Quanjian Nature Medicine Technology Development Co., Ltd. for about 75.36% stake. Quanjian Group is the parent company of Dalian Quanjian F.C., which the group owned 80% stake of the women football club.

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2006 [17]
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Players

First team squad

As of 16 July 2018 [19]

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

As the governing body of association football, FIFA is responsible for maintaining and implementing the rules that determine whether an association football player is eligible to represent a particular country in officially recognised international competitions and friendly matches. In the 20th century, FIFA allowed a player to represent any national team, as long as the player held citizenship of that country. In 2004, in reaction to the growing trend towards naturalisation of foreign players in some countries, FIFA implemented a significant new ruling that requires a player to demonstrate a "clear connection" to any country they wish to represent. FIFA has used its authority to overturn results of competitive international matches that feature ineligible players.

No.PositionPlayer
1 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg GK Zhang Lu (Captain)
2 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg MF Wu Wei
3 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg DF Wang Jie
4 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg DF Liu Yiming
6 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg MF Pei Shuai
7 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg MF Zhao Xuri
8 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg MF Zhang Xiuwei
9 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg FW Yang Xu
10 Flag of Brazil.svg FW Alexandre Pato
15 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg MF Liu Yue
16 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg MF Zheng Dalun
17 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg MF Su Yuanjie
18 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg DF Zhang Cheng
No.PositionPlayer
19 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg MF Wang Xiaolong
21 Flag of South Korea.svg DF Kwon Kyung-won
22 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg GK Yang Jun
25 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg DF Mi Haolun
26 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg MF Liu Yi
30 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg MF Song Boxuan
31 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg DF Wen Junjie
32 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg GK Sun Qibin
33 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg DF Chu Jinzhao
37 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg DF Wu Lei
38 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg MF Sun Ke
39 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg MF Wang Yongpo
56 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg DF Qian Yumiao

Reserve squad

As of 16 July 2018

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

No.PositionPlayer
24 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg DF Pan Ximing
41 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg GK Ma Zhen
42 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg DF Bi Guangfu
43 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg MF Dai Chunlei
44 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg MF Huang Long
45 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg MF Sun Ze
46 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg DF Yang Junshan
47 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg FW Ning Zhiwei
48 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg DF Li Chunsheng
49 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg GK Xu Enze
50 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg MF Pang Chuntao
51 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg DF Lu Jiawei
52 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg MF Li Qinghao
No.PositionPlayer
53 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg MF Sun Xuelong
54 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg DF Xu Dongshu
55 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg MF Cui Jiaqi
57 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg DF Zulpikar Dolqun
58 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg MF He Youzu
59 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg DF Li Yu
60 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg DF Yan Zihao
61 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg DF Li Minghao
62 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg MF Liu Zhenhong
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg DF Yang Shanping
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg MF Zhang Yuan
Flag of Brazil.svg FW Geuvânio

Out on loan

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

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Coaching staff

PositionStaff
Head Coach Flag of South Korea.svg Choi Kang-hee
Goalkeeping Coach Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Guo Hao
Fitness Coach Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Liu Xueyu
Team Manager Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Li Weifeng

Managerial history

Honours

Winners (1): 2016 [15]

Results

All-time league rankings

YearTierPldWDLGFGAGDPtsPos FA Cup Super Cup Asia Att./GStadium
200731446419190185 1 NHDNQDNQ Hohhot People's Stadium
2008 318122436142229 2 5 [22] NHDNQDNQ Hedong Sports Centre
2009 3144731815318 2 9 [23] NHDNQDNQ Shuidi Outer Stadium
2010 319115332122035 2 RUNHDNQDNQ Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium
2011 226510112331−82512R1DNQDNQ
2012 230129927243456R2DNQDNQ2,998 Tianjin Tuanbo Football Stadium
2013 230811113136−53510R3DNQDNQ2,247
2014 2301271139336437R3DNQDNQ2,511
2015 23099122833−5369R3DNQDNQ7,369
2016 230185761273459CQFDNQDNQ12,165 Haihe Educational Football Stadium
2017 1301596463313543QFDNQDNQ24,877
2018 13099124148-7369R16DNQ QF 19,695
2019 130DNQDNQ

Key

Asian clubs ranking

As of 16 December 2018. [24]
Current RankCountryTeam
70 Flag of Indonesia.svg Arema
71 Flag of Japan.svg Shimizu S-Pulse
72 Flag of India.svg Churchill Brothers
73 Flag of India.svg Salgaocar
74 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Hebei China Fortune
75 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Tianjin Quanjian FC
76 Flag of South Korea.svg Daegu FC
77 Flag of Japan.svg Vegalta Sendai
78 Flag of Thailand.svg Chiangrai United
79 Flag of Jordan.svg Al-Wehdat
80 Flag of Australia.svg Western Sydney Wanderers

International results

As of 18 September 2018

SeasonCompetitionRoundOppositionHomeAway
2018 AFC Champions LeaguePlay-off round Flag of the Philippines.svg Ceres–Negros 2–0
Group stage Flag of Hong Kong.svg Kitchee 3–01–0
Flag of Japan.svg Kashiwa Reysol 3–21–1
Flag of South Korea.svg Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors 4–23–6
Round of 16 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Guangzhou Evergrande 0–02–2
Quarter–final Flag of Japan.svg Kashima Antlers 0–30–2

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries.