| Full name | Wuhan Zall Football Club 武汉卓尔职业足球俱乐部 |
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| Founded | 2009 | ||
| Ground | Xinhua Road Sports Center Wuhan, Hubei, China (Capacity: 36,000) |
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| Chairman | Wang Xi'nan (王细南) | ||
| Manager | Jose Carlos de Oliveira | ||
| League | China League One | ||
| 2011 | China League One, 7th | ||
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Wuhan Zall (Simplified Chinese: 武汉卓尔) is a Chinese football club who play at the 36,000 seater Xinhua Road Sports Center based in Wuhan, Hubei and currently play in China League One division. The club was founded in 2009 after its predecessor Wuhan Guanggu withdrew and then dissolved from the league for unfair punishment by the Chinese Football Association. The Hubei Province soccer association decided to help create a new team made from players mainly from the former Wuhan Guanggu and Hubei youth teams and start at the bottom of the professional Chinese football league pyramid in the third tier of the 2009 league campaign before winning promotion to the second tier.
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Hubei Greenery was created in February, 2009 after its predecessor Wuhan Guanggu withdrew from the top tier for what it claimed was unfair punishment by the Chinese Football Association in October, 2008.[1] Due to their withdrawal they were unable to register and participate in any professional Chinese tournaments, however the Hubei Province soccer association decided that due to the lack of reprsentation of any Hubei teams within the Chineses soccer league system they would help create a new team to represent Hubei and use the Wuhan U-19 team as well as the Hubei youth team as the foundation for the squad. This saw the establishment of a new soccer club on the 26 February 2009 when the Hubei Greenery officially registered itself within the Chinese Soccer association and start at the bottom of the professional football system in the third tier.[2] The club would show their unusual strength in depth when they would breeze through the regional section of the league campaign and enter into the play-off finals where they lost thir only game of the season Hunan Billows F.C. in a penalty shoot out. Despite the defeat the club would win promotion to the second tier and to strengthen their team they bought back the contracts of several Wuhan Guanggu players who were not permanently sold off.
By December 2011 the club changed ownership to Wuhan Zall Development Holding Co. Ltd., and club name changed to Wuhan Zall Football Club.[3]
All-time League Rankings
| Season | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 |
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| Division | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Position | 2 | 5 | 7 |
As of 25 March 2011 [4]
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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| Position | Staff |
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| Head coach | Jose Carlos de Oliveira |
| Assistant coach | Hu Yijun |
| Coaches | Yuan Jian Wang Wenhua |
| Team Physician | Rao Anxin Zhou Hong |
Source: Sohu.com