Shanghai Pudong Zobon F.C.

Pudong Zobon
浦东中邦
Full name Pudong Zobon Football Club
浦东中邦足球俱乐部
Nickname(s) -
Founded 2003
Ground Yuanshen Sports Centre Stadium,
Shanghai, China
(Capacity: 20,000)
Chairman Wei Ping 卫平
Manager Cheng Yaodong 成耀东
League China League Two
2011 China League One, 10th
Home colours
Away colours

Pudong Zobon F.C. (Simplified Chinese: 浦东中邦足球俱乐部) is a professional football club based in Shanghai, China who currently plays in the Chinese Yi League. They play their home games in the 20,000 seater Yuanshen Sports Centre Stadium and was founded in 2003 by Zhu Jun, the CEO of The9 Limited. Since their creation the clubs greatest achievement has been to win the 2004 Chinese Yi League.

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History

Formation

The club was founded in 2003 as Shanghai Jiucheng (The 9) by Zhu Jun, the CEO of The9 Limited and would start in the amateur league of the fourth tier where they finished fourth. The following season would see the club merge with professional Chinese Yi league club Shanghai Tianna, Shanghai Jiucheng would keep their name and the new club would breeze through the third tier without losing a single game while winning the play-offs of the Chinese Yi league and promotion to the Chinese Jia League at the end of the season.[1] The clubs first season in the Chinese Jia League would see them finish ninth position within the league.[2] Throughout the season the clubs owner wanted to unify the team by re-naming the team Shanghai United, however the teams lack of immediate success saw Zhu Jun abandon these plans so he could take over top tier Chinese side Shanghai Zobon instead.[3]

Separation from Zhu Jun

In 2005 Zhu Jun and The9 Limited purchased Shanghai Zobon, a top tier Chinese Super League team and re-named the club Shanghai Liancheng Zobon (aka Shanghai United) and tried to merge the two clubs, however except for five players such as star midfielders Qi Hong and Jiang Kun, the rest of the players at the old Jiucheng club could not join the new Shanghai Liancheng Zobon, due to transfer rules in Chinese football. The remaining players would go on to form the basis of another new club, which was bought by the Euro-China Group (Simplified Chinese: 中欧集团) who renamed the team as Shanghai Qunying also known as the Shanghai Stars and would make sure that the club would remain within the second tier. When a company called Kangbo sponsored the team from 2005 to 2006 it was then known as Shanghai Kangbo in China. A company called Qidouxing (Simplified Chinese: 七斗星商旅酒店; Top Star) would become the clubs sponsor and change the teams name into Shanghai Qidouxing. In the clubs desperate attempts to remain within the league the would hire a string of managers including former player Shen Si, Peng Weiguo and Cao Xiandong to keep them within the league until the start of the 2008 league season, the club moved to the 30,000 seater Wuxi Sports Center, in Wuxi, a city in the nearby Jiangsu Province and the club was renamed as Wuxi Zobon. The club would also bring in experienced manager Ma Liangxing, however the move to a new city was not successful either on the field or off it and after only one year within Wuxi the club returned to Shanghai again in the 2009 league season. The club would bring in Shen Si again and be renamed as Pudong Zobon as well as moving into the 30,000 seater Pudong Yuanshen Sports Centre

Starting over again

In 2011 the club relinquished its place in China Jia League and voluntarily chose to relegate itself to play in the third flight.

Name history

Crest history

Results

All-time League Rankings

Season 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Division 4 3 2 2 2 2 2 2
Position 4 1 9 10 8 11 9 10

Current squad

As of 16 July 2010

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

No. Position Player
1 GK Zhang Chen
2 DF Sun Xiaokun
3 DF Zhang Yang
4 DF Ding Yehua
5 DF Han Guanghua
6 MF Zhang Mengqi
7 MF Wang Qiang
9 FW Léo Gamalho
10 FW Júnior Paulista
11 MF Wang Jianwen
12 FW Sun Hongkun
13 MF Peng Jianlong
14 FW Huang Jie
15 DF Xu Hancheng
No. Position Player
16 DF Yao Youming
18 MF Liu Pujin
19 MF Zheng Qiang
20 DF Zheng Bin
21 MF Dong Yang
22 GK Wang Peng
23 DF Wang Lin
24 MF Lin Tao
25 FW Yan Yubin
26 DF Dong Guorong
27 FW Chen Cheng
30 DF Radenko Bojović

Coaching staff

Position Staff
Head coach Shen Si
Assistant coach Zheng Yan

Source: http://www.fa.org.cn

Honours

League

See also

References

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