Shaanxi Renhe Commercial Chanba F.C.
Shaanxi Renhe Commercial Chanba (Chinese: 陕西人和商业浐灞) is a Chinese football club based in Xi'an, Shaanxi. They play at the Shaanxi Coca-Cola Stadium and currently compete in the Chinese Super League. Founded in Pudong, Shanghai in 1995 the club was originally known as Shanghai Pudong though they changed their second part of their name on several occasions to suit their sponsors. During 2006 the club, which had named itself Shanghai International would move away from Shanghai to Shaanxi and rename themselves Xi'an Chanba International or Inter Xi'an by the fans. Their current name of Chanba is the merging of the names of two local rivers within Xi'an, Chan River and Ba River.
History
The club was founded on February 1995 in Pudong, Shanghai to take part in the recently formed fully professional football league system and would start at the bottom of the football pyramid in the third division where they named themselves Shanghai Pudong. Playing in all blue in their debut season they would immediately taste success when they won the division title and promotion to the second tier.[1] The following seasons, however saw the team languish within the division until they brought in Xu Genbao to manage the side at the beginning of the 2000 league season and would make the club promotion contenders. Under Xu Genbao's leadership they wouldn't have to wait long to win promotion when they would go on to win the division title at the end of the season and a chance to play in the top tier.[2] Under the ownership of Shanghai Yungtay Engineering who owned (95%) and COSCO Real Estate own the other (5%) the club rebranded themselves with a new blue and white striped football kit who were big spenders that wanted to achieve immediate success by bringing in established Chinese internationals such as Cheng Yaodong, Jiang Jin and particularly Wu Chengying who cost them a Chinese record 13,000,000 RMB. This saw them become genuine title contenders and under their new manager Cheng Yaodong they would fight for the league title with Shanghai Shenhua and only come second by a single point at the end of the 2003 league season.[3]
The owners could not maintain the level of spending that they had done and the teams results would start to slip. Finding that ultimately, they could not compete with Shanghai Shenhua and in the 2005 season, they faced additional competition in Shanghai Zobon, the team decided to move to Xi'an after months of speculation. With the team known as Shanghai International or Inter Shanghai by the fans they would start to move away from their previous Yuanshen Stadium to the Shaanxi Coca-Cola Stadium and rename themselves Xi'an Chanba International by 2006. In 2007 their ownership was transferred to Baorong Investment and it was during this period that the Club would start to experiment with a new yellow football kit. This would surprisingly seem to work when the club looked as if they were title contenders once more during the 2008 league season, however their title hopes quickly faded and the team eventually finished fifth. The following season, however would see the team languish near the bottom of the table and Cheng Yaodong decided to resign. Zhu Guanghu would come in and the team would avoid relegation.
Crest
Name Changes
- 1995-98: Shanghai Pudong (上海浦东)
- 1999: Shanghai Pudong Whirlpool (上海浦东惠而浦)
- 2000: Pudong Lianyang 8848 (浦东联洋 8848)
- 2001-03: Shanghai COSCO Huili (上海中远汇丽)
- 2003-05: Shanghai International
- 2006: Xi'an Chanba International (西安浐灞国际)
moved to Xi'an City and were renamed
- 2007: Shaanxi Baorong Chanba (陕西宝荣浐灞)
- 2008-09: Shaanxi Neo-China Chanba (陕西中新浐灞)
- 2010: Shaanxi Zhongjian Chanba (陕西中建地产浐灞)[4]
- 2011-: Shaanxi Renhe Commercial Chanba (陕西人和商业浐灞)[5]
Honours
- Yiji league (third-highest division in China) champion (1995)
- (Former) Jia B champion (2001)
- (Former) Jia A Runners-up (2003)
U17 team
- U17 Winners Cup winner: 2006
Results
- As of the end of 2011 season
All-time League rankings
Current squad
As of 31 March 2011[6]
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Famous previous players
Coaching staff
| Position |
Staff |
| Manager |
Gao Hongbo |
| Assistant coach |
Qiu Zhiyin |
| Goalkepeer Coach |
Dusan Tomic |
Source: Sina.com
References
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