Shanghai Dongya F.C.
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Shanghai East Asia Football Club 上海东亚足球俱乐部 | ||
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| Founded | 25 December 2005 | ||
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Shanghai Stadium, Xuhui, Shanghai, China | ||
| Capacity | 80,000 | ||
| Chairman | Xu Genbao (徐根宝) | ||
| Head Coach | Xi Zhikang (奚志康) | ||
| League | Chinese Super League | ||
| 2013 | 9th | ||
| Website | Club home page | ||
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Shanghai Dongya F.C. [1] (simplified Chinese: 上海东亚; traditional Chinese: 上海東亞; pinyin: Shànghǎi Dōngyà) is a professional Chinese football club, that currently plays in Chinese Super League (the Chinese top division) under the name of Shanghai SIPG (上海上港集团足球队) for sponsorship reasons. "Dongya" is a Chinese word means "East Asia".
Founded in 2005 by former Chinese international football coach Xu Genbao, Shanghai Dongya F.C. mostly consists of graduates from Genbao Football Academy, which was also founded by Xu in 2000. The club joined the bottom of the Chinese football league system in the 2006 and has so far won the 2007 China League Two and the 2012 China League One. In addition, they represented Shanghai at the 2009 China National Games and won the men's football gold medal.
Shanghai Dongya also earns its fame largely because of its success in youth development. In China, the team is sometimes nicknamed as "China's Manchester United", because of Xu's well-known ambition "to create a China's Manchester United".
The chairman of Shanghai Dongya Xu Genbao also holds the position of the general coach of the club, which involves designing tactical frameworks and training schedules as well as decisions on signings, while the head coach Jiang Bingyao is mostly responsible for the execution of tactical and training plans.
Shanghai Dongya plays its home matches at Shanghai Stadium in Xuhui, Shanghai.
History
Est.-2007: League Two
On May 16, 2000 former Chinese international football coach Xu Genbao founded the Genbao Football Academy and enrolled 96 academy members born between 1988 and 1991, who were to be trained in the recently built Genbao Football Base Arena.[2]
Initially, Xu Genbao had no intention of establishing a professional football club. However as the Academy youngsters grew up, the lack of youth football competition in China prompt Xu to set up a football club so that his protégés could earn match experiences in professional football. On December 25, 2005, Shanghai Dongya Football Club was jointly established by Xu Genbao and Shanghai Dongya Sports and Culture Center Co. Ltd, with Xu Genbao being the club chairman. Xu appointed Claude Lowitz, a French youth coach in Genbao Football Academy, as the team manager.
With young players aged between 14 and 17, Shanghai Dongya competed in the 2006 China League Two, the third tier of the Chinese league system. The team played their home games at Genbao Football Base Arena training ground in Chongming, Shanghai, and eventually finished their first season at the seventh place. During the campaign Xu's players broke a few records during the season, with Cao Yunding being the youngest Chinese goalscorer aged 16 years and 242 days,[3] and Wu Lei the youngest Chinese professional footballer, aged only 14 years and 287 days.[4] At the end of 2006, Claude Lowitz left the club, and former assistant manager Jiang Bingyao took up the manager position. With lessons learned and experiences gained from their debutante season, the young Dongya went on to win the division title in 2007, by beating Sichuan FC in the final, and thus gaining promotion to China League One, the second tier football league.[5]
2008-2012: League One
Despite the successful promotion, questions arose as to what would happen to the team, especially given that Xu's previous effort to create a professional club ( Shanghai Cable 02) ended up being sold off to Shanghai Shenhua in 2002 due to financial difficulties. In June 2007, Shanghai government came to Xu's rescue with financial aid, in exchange Dongya would represent Shanghai in the 2009 National Games.[6]
With the club in a higher division, Shanghai Dongya moved into the 30,000 seater Jinshan Sports Centre in Jinshan District of Shanghai and finished the 2008 China League One division campaign in a respectable sixth. In summer 2009, Shanghai Dongya represent Shanghai football team and take part in the 2009 National Games. Xu Genbao took up the management post himself and led the team to win the gold the men's football gold medal. Meanwhile in the league, Shanghai Dongya chose the 65,000 seater Shanghai Stadium as their home stadium for their 2009 China League One campaign. Shanghai Dongya finished the season in fourth place and just missed out on promotion by a single win, but such an achievement is still considered quite remarkable especially given that the team was made up of players under 20 years old, and no foreign players.
The 2010 league season saw former Chinese international Fan Zhiyi receive his first management job at the club as well as the introduction of their first ever foreign players in Macedonian Nikola Karçev and Haitian Fabrice Noël. Despite these new signings the club failed to improve upon the previous season's results and finished in the fourth place. Failure to gain promotion and financial difficulties caused the club unable to hold onto their rising stars. Before the 2011 season, five of the team's starting XI left the club: team captain Wang Jiayu, Chinese international Zhang Linpeng and Chinese U-23 players Cao Yunding, Jiang Zhipeng, and Gu Chao.[7] In the following 2011 season, Xu Genbao promoted several young players into the first team and the team finished the season in a disappointing ninth place.
At the beginning of the 2012 season. The club sold team name to a Sponsor, Zobon Group for 30 million Yuan on a three year deal, which saw the club change first team's name to Shanghai Tellace on December 31, 2011, while the club name remains unchanged as Shanghai Dongya F.C.[8] At the end of the season, Shanghai Tellace won the league title and was promoted to Chinese Super League.
2013-present: CSL
Before the 2013 season, Shanghai Dongya changed its first team name again to Shanghai SIPG, under a 40-million sponsorship deal with Shanghai International Port (Group).[9]
In January 2013, another Shanghai-based football club Shanghai Pudong Zobon F.C., which was previously playing in 2012 China League Two, was dissolved. Most of its players, born between 1993 and 1994 and graduated from Genbao Football Academy, were brought back under Xu Genbao's wing and would become the reserve team of Shanghai Dongya F.C.[10]
Name History
- 2005-2011 Shanghai Dongya (上海东亚)
- 2012 Shanghai Tellace (上海特莱士队) 1
- 2013–present Shanghai SIPG (上海上港集团足球队) 2
- 1，2 These names only apply to its first team, while "Shanghai Dongya" is still preserved as club name and used by its junior teams.
Results
All-time League Rankings
| Year | Tier | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Pos | Cup | Asia | Avg league att | Stadium |
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| 2006 | 3 | 16 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 26 | 29 | -3 | 14 | 7 1 | not held | not qualified | Genbao Football Base Arena | |
| 2007 | 3 | 17 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 35 | 15 | +20 | 30 1 | 1 | not held | not qualified | Genbao Football Base Arena | |
| 2008 | 2 | 24 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 26 | 30 | -4 | 28 | 6 | not held | not qualified | Jinshan Sports Centre | |
| 2009 | 2 | 24 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 43 | 25 | +18 | 44 | 4 | not held | not qualified | Shanghai Stadium | |
| 2010 | 2 | 24 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 25 | 18 | +7 | 37 | 4 | not held | not qualified | Shanghai Stadium | |
| 2011 | 2 | 26 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 29 | 25 | +4 | 32 | 9 | R2 | not qualified | Shanghai Stadium | |
| 2012 | 2 | 30 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 47 | 25 | +22 | 59 | 1 | R3 | not qualified | 3,113 | Shanghai Stadium |
| 2013 | 1 | 30 | 10 | 7 | 13 | 38 | 35 | 3 | 37 | 9 | R4 | not qualified | 10,161 | Shanghai Stadium |
- ^1 in group stage
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Current squad
As of 8 June 2013 [13]
First-team squad
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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Reserve squad
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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Coaching staff
| Position | Staff |
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| Head coach |  Xi Zhikang |
| Assistant coach | Qiu Jingwei |
| Goalkeeping coach |  Ian Walker |
| Fitness coach | Jiang Bingyao |
| Team physicians | Sun Lianxi Sun Guozhu |
Source: Sina.com
Club honours
- China League Two Winners (1): 2007
- China League One Winners (1): 2012
Managers
Claude Lowitz (2006)- Jiang Bingyao (2007–09)
- Fan Zhiyi (2010)
- Jiang Bingyao (20??–Jan 31, 2011), (Dec 1, 2011–Dec 20, 2012)
- Gao Hongbo (Feb 27, 2013–Nov 7, 2013)
- Xi Zhikang (Dec 4, 2013–)
References
- ↑ 关于正确使用中超联赛及中超各俱乐部名称的函 (Chinese)
- ↑ 上海东亚足球俱乐部介绍 at eafc.online.sh.cn 02-12-2010 Retrieved 14-06-2012 (Chinese)
- ↑ 中国曼联整风后创佳绩 主场重创武汉雅琪显年轻魅力 at sina.com.cn 20-08-2006 Retrieved 14-06-2012 (Chinese)
- ↑ 乙级也有上海德比：武磊上场创纪录 东亚遗憾负东巴 at sina.com.cn 03-09-2006 Retrieved 14-06-2012 (Chinese)
- ↑ 五分钟神奇逆转 徐根宝率东亚2比1胜四川乙级封王 at sina.com.cn 25-11-2007 Retrieved 14-06-2012 (Chinese)
- ↑ 02计划失败成遗憾根宝欲借东亚重掌国字号 at jfdaily.com 29-11-2007 Retrieved 14-06-2012 (Chinese)
- ↑ 恒大巧避足协限价令 1200万天价签约国足红人 at sports.163.com 26-11-2010 Retrieved 14-06-2012 (Chinese)
- ↑ 卫平华丽牵手徐根宝 球队正式更名"上海特莱士"队 at eafc.online.sh.cn 01-01-2012 Retrieved 14-06-2012 (Chinese)
- ↑ 上港集团4000万冠名东亚 资金到位徐根宝信心满满 at eafc.online.sh.cn 12-28-2012 Retrieved 01-31-2013 (Chinese)
- ↑ 东亚收回中邦小队 根宝证实战怡麟转会达口头协议 at eafc.online.sh.cn 01-07-2013 Retrieved 01-31-2013 (Chinese)
- ↑ "China - List of Champions". rsssf.com. 10 Oct 2013. Retrieved 31 January 2014.
- ↑ "上海东亚". sodasoccer.com. Retrieved 31 January 2014.
- ↑ 上海东亚公布2013中超名单 武磊披7号迪克森8号
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