Hangzhou Greentown F.C.

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Hangzhou Greentown
Hángzhōu Lǜchéng
杭州绿城
Full name Hangzhou Greentown FC
杭州绿城房产足球俱乐部
Nickname(s) Greentown
Founded 14 January 1998 (1998-01-14)
Ground Hangzhou Huanglong Stadium
Ground Capacity 51,000
Chairman Song Weiping
Manager Yang Ji
League Chinese Super League
2013 12th
Home colours
Away colours
Current season

Hangzhou Greentown Football Club (simplified Chinese: 杭州绿城; traditional Chinese: 杭州綠城; pinyin: Hángzhōu Lǜchéng) is a Chinese football club who play at 51,000 seater Hangzhou Huanglong Stadium in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Founded on January 14, 1998 the club's main investor is the Greentown China Holdings Limited company. The team currently play in the Chinese Super League after winning promotion in 2006 and their current manager is Takeshi Okada.

History

Zhejiang Greentown Football Club Co., Ltd. was officially established on January 14, 1998 with a capital of 16,000,000 Yuan and Zeng Leming was appointed as their general manager. Greentown Real Estate Company, Hangzhou Qiantang Real Estate Company, Zhejiang University and Zhejiang Provincial Football Association all participated in the creation as well as the registration of the club.[1] The company would go on to form a youth team before finally creating a senior team on January 22, 1999 to take part in the third tier with Bao Yingfu as their first head coach. They wouldn't wait long to show their ambition when they would make the play-offs in 2000 before losing to Tianjin Lifei.[2] Still determined to win promotion the club decided to buy the first team of Jilin Aodong as well as their position in Chinese Football Association Jia League on November 23, 2000 for 25,000,000 Yuan, in time for the beginning of the 2001 league season. Under the new general manager Shen Qiang the club brought in new sponsors and Gu Mingchang as the new Head coach, however during this period the club couldn't win promotion to the top tier and the Chairman Song Weiping expressed his disappointment of the team. Song Weiping would soon discover that the reason for his clubs disappointing results when it was discovered that several of his players and coaches were taking bribes, with a 6-0 defeat against Changchun Yatai F.C. in the 2001 league season being highlighted, which saw the offending participants banned for a year while the club had three months to reform and re-apply for a CFA playing license.[3] This would see the club would go through several management changes as well as a significant ownership shift, which saw Song Weiping's company Greentown China Holdings Limited take a 96% share of the team for 20,000,000 Yuan in 2005 while Zhejiang University held on to 4%.[1]

Under Wang Zheng as their Head coach the team would start to generally push for promotion, eventually achieving it at the end of the 2006 league season when they came second in the division.[4] The club often found themselves fighting off relegation and would bring in several managers to alleviate the problem, however this wasn't enough during the 2009 league season and the club found themselves in the relegation zone at the end of the season. Surprisingly the club were allowed to stay within the 2010 Chinese Super League after it was discovered that Chengdu Blades and Guangzhou F.C. were guilty of match-fixing.[5] After gaining a reprieve from relegation the club went on a spending spree by signing several established Chinese internationals such as Du Wei, Li Yan and Wang Song.[6] The signings seemed to work and the clubs results significantly improved throughout the 2010 league campaign, which saw the club achieve their best ever finish of fourth and a chance to play within the AFC Champions League for the first time.[7]

Name history

  • 2002 Renamed to Zhejiang Greentown (浙江绿城)
  • 2003 Renamed to Zhejiang Sanhua Greentown (浙江三花绿城)
  • 2004 Renamed to Zhejiang Greentown (浙江绿城)
  • 2006 Renamed to Zhejiang Bebei Greentown (浙江巴贝绿城房产)
  • 2007 Renamed to Zhejiang Greentown (浙江绿城房产)
  • 2009 Renamed to Hangzhou Greentown (杭州绿城)
  • 2010 Renamed to Hangzhou Nabel Greentown (杭州诺贝尔绿城)
  • 2011 Renamed to Hangzhou Greentown (杭州绿城)

Results

As of the end of 2013 season.[8][9]

All-time League rankings

Season 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Division 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Position 51 5 8 7 10 8 3 2 11 9 15 4 8 11 12
  • ^1 in group stage

Key

  China top division
  China second division
  China third division
C   Champions
RU   Runners-up
3   Third place
  Relegated

  • R1 = Round 1
  • R2 = Round 2
  • R3 = Round 3
  • R4 = Round 4

  • F = Final
  • SF = Semi-finals
  • QF = Quarter-finals
  • R16 = Round of 16
  • Group = Group stage
  • GS2 = Second Group stage
  • QR1 = First Qualifying Round
  • QR2 = Second Qualifying Round
  • QR3 = Third Qualifying Round

Current squad

As of 5 July 2013.[10]

First team

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 China GK Gu Chao
4 China DF Sun Zheng'ao
5 China DF Shi Ke
7 China MF Xie Zhiyu
8 China MF Chen Zhongliu
12 China MF Wang Xiao
13 China DF Cao Xuan
14 China MF Feng Gang
15 China MF Niu Xiucheng
16 China DF Fan Xiaodong
18 China MF Wang Kai
19 China MF Tang Jiashu
20 Ivory Coast FW Davy Claude Angan
21 China DF Xie Pengfei
22 China DF Wang Lin
23 China MF Huang Fengtao
25 China DF Wu Hang
27 China DF Wang Hongyou
No. Position Player
28 China DF Cao Haiqing
30 China FW Teng Shangkun
31 China MF Zhuang Jiajie
32 China GK Huang Yuandong
33 China MF Wang Song (Captain)
34 China GK Zou Dehai
35 China MF Yang Ke
36 China FW Zang Yifeng
37 China DF Zhao Yuhao
38 China MF Yi Baidi
39 China DF Wu Guodong
61 China MF Ruan Yang
66 China MF Luo Jing
70 Slovenia MF Luka Žinko
- China DF Wu Wei
- South Korea MF Son Dae-Ho
- Brazil FW Anselmo Ramon
- Brazil FW Gilberto Macena

Reserve squad

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
26 China MF Yang Jinxian
40 China DF Zhang Zhenyu
41 China MF Wang Xuankai
42 China FW Fang Zhengyang
43 China MF Zheng Jie
44 China MF Wang Zhipeng
45 China DF Xiong Wei
46 China FW Dong Yu
47 China MF Cheng Jin
48 China MF Hui Ge
49 China FW Zhou Dongfang
No. Position Player
50 China GK Gao Sheng
51 China GK Peng Hao
52 China MF Zhao Xiaotian
53 China FW Zhang Xiang
54 China MF Wei Zhaokun
55 China DF Liu Hao
56 China DF Zhao Yuan
57 China MF Zhang Yuning
58 China DF Chen Xiaohan
59 China MF Shen Jin
60 China FW Lü Dechen


Out on loan

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
China GK Jiang Bo (at Beijing Baxy until 31 December 2014)
Japan FW Masashi Oguro (at Kyoto Sanga until 31 January 2015)

Coaching staff

Position Staff
Head coach Japan Takeshi Okada
Assistant coach Japan Takeshi Ono
China Gao Sheng
China Yang Ji
Goalkeeping coach Brazil Ica
Fitness coach Japan Seigo Ikeda
Physiotherapist Japan Yoshimune Shimamura
U-20 team coach Japan Akira Muto
U-18 team coach Japan Nobuhiro Ishizaki
Team physician China Nie Lianjun
China Liu Peimao

Source: Sina.com

Honours

League

Youth Team

U-15 Team

  • Nike Cup Winners: 2008

International friendlies

  • On 26 July 2009, Manchester United visited the Dragon Stadium and played a friendly against Hangzhou Greentown as part of their pre-season Asian tour.[11] Manchester United won by 8 goals to 2.
  • On 16 July 2011, Arsenal visited the Meihu Stadium and played a friendly against Hangzhou Greentown as part of their pre-season Asian tour.[12] The game was drawn 11.

Managers

  • China Bao Yingfu (1999–00)
  • China Gu Mingchang (2001)
  • England Bobby Houghton (2002–03)
  • China Li Bing (2003–04)
  • China Wang Zheng (2004–07)
  • China Zhou Suian (May 15, 2007–07), (2008–Sept 20, 2009)
  • China Wu Jingui (Sept 20, 2009–Dec 31, 2011)
  • Japan Takeshi Okada (Dec 15, 2011–Nov 5, 2013)
  • China Yang Ji (Nov 5, 2013–)

See also

References

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  2. "China League Tables 2000". rsssf.com. 19 Jun 2003. Retrieved 23 May 2012. 
  3. "China League Tables 2001". rsssf.com. 19 Jun 2003. Retrieved 23 May 2012. 
  4. "China League Tables 2006". rsssf.com. 8 Mar 2007. Retrieved 23 May 2012. 
  5. "天上掉馅饼重庆力帆偷着乐 狂喜之外更感到自身差距". sports.sina.com.cn. 24 Feb 2010. Retrieved 23 May 2012. 
  6. "陕西队长李彦加盟杭州 五大国字号有望齐聚绿城". sports.sohu.com. 11 Feb 2010. Retrieved 24 May 2012. 
  7. "China League Tables 2010". rsssf.com. 10 Dec 2010. Retrieved 24 May 2012. 
  8. "China League History". rsssf.com. 22 Oct 2009. Retrieved 28 January 2014. 
  9. "杭州绿城". sodasoccer.com. Retrieved 28 January 2014. 
  10. 杭州绿城公布2013中超名单 阿甘20号前日本国脚11号
  11. "China friendly announced". Manutd.com. Retrieved 24 May 2012. 
  12. "Arsenal announces pre-season game in China". Arsenal.com. 25 May 2011. Retrieved 24 May 2012. 

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