Shanghai Shenhua

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Shanghai Shenhua United
上海申花
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Full name Shanghai Shenhua United Football Club
上海申花联合足球俱乐部
Nickname(s) Shenhua
Founded 1993
Ground Yuanshen Sports Centre Stadium,
Shanghai, China
Capacity 16,000
Chairman Flag of People's Republic of China Zhu Jun
Manager Flag of Uruguay Osvaldo Gimenez
League Chinese Super League
2006 Chinese Super League, 2nd
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Shanghai Shenhua (Simplified Chinese: 上海申花) is a Chinese Super League football club. They play at the 35,000 seat Hongkou Stadium in Shanghai, China and is owned by Zhu Jun (75%), Shanghai SVA Group, SMEG (Shanghai Media & Entertainment Group) and Huangpu Investment Ltd. (SMEG + Huangpu Investment 25%). Their head coach is Osvaldo Gimenez.

The club was founded on 10 December 1993 and was first sponsored by a local company named Shenhua (Shenhua also means "flower of Shanghai" in Chinese). At the end of 2001, Shenhua ended their sponsorship of club, then SVA and SMEG came aboard. The club changed its name to Shanghai Shenhua SVA SMEG Football Club (SFC). The team however is unique as it still retains "Shenhua" in its name while many other teams drop the name of their former sponsors completely.

The club is the most successful of the Shanghai teams, the others being Shanghai Zobon and, formally, Inter Shanghai. Shenhua are 2 time top-tier champions and 6 time runners up. Their biggest supporters club is called Blue Devil.

In 2007, Zhu Jun, the owner of in-city rival Shanghai United F.C. bought a majority share of Shanghai Shenhua, thus began to merge the two clubs. The new club moved their home stadium to Yuanshen Sports Centre Stadium in Pudong, Shanghai, which was the stadium Shanghai United F.C. played in last season. In the new squad submitted for the AFC Champions League, 17 players appeared in the China national football team or the China national under-23 football team.

After the merge, the club is struggling in the league. Rumors of internal conflicts are spreading after Du Wei was abruptly demoted to the reserves team for lack of match-fitness immidiatly after played two games for the national team[1]. Many other old Shenhua players were also demoted, such as Zheng Kewei, Li Chengming, Liu Hongtao and Cheng Liang.

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[edit] Honours

  • (Former) Jia A Champions (1995, 2003)
  • (Former) Jia A Runners-up (1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001)
  • Chinese Super League Runner-up (2005 & 2006)
  • Chinese FA Cup Winners (1998)
  • Chinese Super Cup Winners (1996, 1999, 2002)

[edit] Current squad

Correct as of 03 February 2007

No. Position Player
1 Flag of People's Republic of China GK Wang Dalei (Shanghai United 07)
12 Flag of People's Republic of China GK Zhang Chen (Xi'an Chanba 07)
22 Flag of People's Republic of China GK Dong Lei (Shanghai United 07)
2 Flag of People's Republic of China DF Yao Lijun (Shanghai Cable02 02)
3 Flag of Hong Kong DF Ng Wai Chiu (Shanghai United 06)
4 Flag of People's Republic of China DF Chang Lin (Shanghai United 07)
5 Flag of People's Republic of China DF Du Wei (Shanghai Cable02 02)
6 Flag of People's Republic of China DF Liu Zhiqing (Shanghai United 07)
7 Flag of People's Republic of China DF Li Yi'nan (Shenyang Jinde 05)
13 Flag of People's Republic of China DF Cheng Liang (Xi'an Chanba 05)
19 Flag of People's Republic of China DF Li Chengming
23 Flag of People's Republic of China DF Li Weifeng (Shenzhen Jianlibao 06)
32 Flag of People's Republic of China DF Feng Qi (Shanghai United 07)
33 Flag of People's Republic of China DF Chen Lei
34 Flag of People's Republic of China DF Wang Tao (Shanghai United 07)
No. Position Player
8 Flag of Uruguay MF Sergio Blanco
11 Flag of People's Republic of China MF Zhang Xiaorui (Shanghai United 07)
14 Flag of People's Republic of China MF Shen Longyuan
15 Flag of People's Republic of China MF Wang Ke
16 Flag of People's Republic of China MF Yu Tao (Shanghai Cable02 02)
17 Flag of People's Republic of China MF Sun Ji (Shanghai Cable02 02)
18 Flag of People's Republic of China MF Zheng Kewei
21 Flag of People's Republic of China MF Jiang Kun (Shanghai United 07)
24 Flag of People's Republic of China MF Li Gang (Shanghai United 07)
25 Flag of People's Republic of China MF Yin Xifu (Shanghai United 07)
26 Flag of People's Republic of China MF Wang Hongliang
30 Flag of People's Republic of China MF Lu Xin (Xiamen Lanshi 07)
31 Flag of People's Republic of China MF Xiao Zhanbo (Qingdao Yizhong 04)
35 Flag of People's Republic of China MF Zhao Zhipeng (Shanghai United 07)
36 Flag of People's Republic of China MF Bai Xunfeng
37 Flag of People's Republic of China MF Liu Hongtao (Shanghai United 07)
9 Flag of Uruguay FW Diego Alonso
10 Flag of Uruguay FW Fernando Correa
20 Flag of People's Republic of China FW Xie Hui (Chongqing Lifan 04)
27 Flag of People's Republic of China FW Mao Jianqing
28 Flag of People's Republic of China FW Qu Shaoyan
29 Flag of People's Republic of China FW Gao Lin
? Flag of Honduras FW Saul Martinez

[edit] Out on loan

[edit] Famous previous players

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