Liaoning Whowin F.C.

Liaoning Whowin
Liáoníng Hóngyùn
辽宁宏运

Full name	Liaoning Whowin Football Club 辽宁宏运足球俱乐部
Nickname(s)	Northeast Tiger (东北虎) Liaoning Tigerkin （辽小虎）
Founded	1953 (1953)
Ground	Liaoning Panjin Stadium, Liaoning, China
Ground Capacity	35,600
Chairman	Cheng Penghui
Manager	Chen Yang (陈洋)
League	Chinese Super League
2014	Super League, 10th
Home colours Away colours

Liaoning Whowin Football Club (simplified Chinese: 辽宁宏运; traditional Chinese: 遼寧宏運; pinyin: Liáoníng Hóngyùn) is a professional association football club that currently participates in the Chinese Super League and who play their home games in the 30,000 capacity Shenyang Tiexi Stadium in China's sports capital Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China. Their current head coach is Ma Lin and their main investor is Huludao Hongyun Corp.

The club can predate their formation to 1953 from their predecessor, which was called Liaoning Football Club who won several league titles as well as the 1989-90 Asian Club Championship when they beat Nissan Yokohama making Liaoning FC the first Chinese club to win an Asian club championship trophy. Since February 26, 1994 the current football team was established to be an entirely professional football club, however they have struggled to maintain the same success.

History

The football club was originally known as Northeast China when the Shenyang local government sports body joined the team in 1953 after China had recently created their national football league table. As part of the Northeast China team they would achieve immediate success when they won the 1954 league title and would continue to be a regular competitor within the football league until 1956 when the team would split after the league allowed regional sports institutes their own representatives. The Shenyang sports body would take over the team and rename themselves Shenyang Sports Institute until 1959 when they named themselves Liaoning Football Club after their province. While they came close to winning the title on several occasions it was only after the cultural revolution and the return of football when Liaoning started to make an impact within Chinese football when they won the 1978 league title.^[1] The inclusion of the Liaoning Youth team now competing within the Chinese football pyramid in 1982 and the eventual establishment of semi-professionalism within the football team saw the club become a dominant team within the football league as well as in Asia during the 1980s and 1990s. With the football association demanding more professionalism Liaoning would have to achieve this when they were one of the first team to gather sponsorship. By the 1994 league season the entire Chinese football league season had become professional and Liaoning would quickly follow when they officially became professional in 1995.^[2] Liaoning's transition toward professionalism was differcult and they found themselves relegated at the end of the 1995 league season, which effectively ended the team's dominance within the Chinese league.^[3] The team had to spend several seasons in the second tier before they were able to achieve promotion to the top tier once more when they came runners up in the 1998 league season.^[4] The club would come close to immediately winning the 1999 league title in their return to the top tier, however lost it to Shandong Luneng by a single point.^[5]

In the 2008 league season the club were relegated, however in 2009 they won the second division and immediately achieved promotion back to the top tier.

Name history

Crest history

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  Liaoning FC original crest

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  alternate crest

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  1999 crest

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  Liaoning Whowin FC crest

Results

As of the end of 2014 season.^[6][7]

All-time League rankings

No league games in 1959, 1966–72, 1975;

Did not participate in 1986 league;

• ^1 in group stage *^2 in final group stage *^3 in North League

Key

China top division   China second division   China third division W   Winners RU   Runners-up 3   Third place   Relegated

Pld = Played W = Games won D = Games drawn L = Games lost F = Goals for A = Goals against Pts = Points Pos = Final position

DNQ = Did Not Qualify DNE = Did Not Enter NH = Not Held - = Does Not Exist 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

Honours

Domestic

League

• Chinese National League
  • Winners (1): 1954
• Chinese Jia-A League
  • Winners (8): 1978, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993
• China League One
  • Winners (1): 2009

Cup

• Chinese FA Cup
  • Winners (1): 1986

• Chinese Super Cup
  • Winners (1): 2000

Asian

• Asian Club Championship
  • Winners (1): 1990
  • Runners-up (1): 1991

Youth Team

• Winners (1): 2008
• U15 Team
• Nike Cup

Current squad

As of 5 March 2015 ^[8]

First team

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Zhang Lu 3 DF Wu Gaojun 4 MF Sun Shilin 5 DF Yang Shanping 6 MF Yang Yu 8 FW Zhang Ye 9 MF Zhao Junzhe (captain) 10 FW Franck Boli 11 DF Zheng Tao 12 FW James Chamanga 15 DF Song Chen 16 FW Yang Chaosheng 17 MF Wang Liang 18 MF Ni Yusong 19 MF Zhang Jingyang

No. Position Player 20 MF Jin Taiyan 21 DF Yang Yun 23 FW Wang Hao 24 GK Huang Hongbo 25 MF Hu Yanqiang 26 MF Qin Sheng 27 DF Wang Bo 28 DF Josh Mitchell 29 GK Liu Yang 30 DF Kim Yoo-jin 31 DF Fofo 32 MF Ding Haifeng 33 MF Wang Fa 34 FW Derick Ogbu 35 MF Ding Jie

Reserve squad

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

No. Position Player 36 DF Chen Fubang 37 MF Zheng Zhihao 39 MF Ma Haoran 40 GK Mu Qianyu 41 MF Wu Junkui 42 MF Xiao Qi 43 MF Zhang Qixian 46 DF Yang Shuai

No. Position Player 47 FW Feng Boyuan 48 DF Xu Wanquan 49 MF Zhao Hongxu 50 MF Zhao Cangjian 51 MF Wang Zhihui 52 MF Yu Zhen 53 MF Zhang Yanjun 55 MF Wang Jiao

On loan

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

No. Position Player GK Shi Xiaotian (at Beijing Guoan until 31 December 2015)

Coaching staff

Position	Staff
Head coach	Chen Yang
Assistant coach	Zhao Junzhe Zang Haili
Goalkeepers coach	Sun Xianyi
Fitness coach	Wang Liang
Team physician	Pei Junchang Li Chunheng

Source: Sina.com

Managers

Yang Yumin (1994) Wang Hongli (1994–95) Li Shubin (1995) Su Yongshun (1996) Yang Yumin (1996) Gai Zengchen (1997) Yang Yumin (1997) Wang Hongli (1997–98) Zhang Yin (1998–00) Li Shubin (Jan 1, 2000–Dec 31, 2000)

Yevgeni Skomorokhov (2000) Wang Hongli (2000–02) Dimitar Penev (2003) Ma Lin (2003–04) Wang Hongli (2005) Tang Yaodong (July 3, 2005–Dec 30, 2007) Werner Lorant (2008) Ma Lin (July 8, 2008–Nov 26, 2013) Gao Sheng (Nov 27, 2013–April 9, 2014) Chen Yang (April 9, 2014–)

References

1. ↑ China 1978 at rsssf.com 22 Oct 2009 Retrieved 12-11-2013
2. ↑ 辽宁足球俱乐部简介 at sportsbl.com Retrieved 12-11-2013
3. ↑ China League 1995 at rsssf.com 19 Jun 2003 Retrieved 12-11-2013
4. ↑ China League 1998 at rsssf.com 16 Jul 2003 Retrieved 12-11-2013
5. ↑ China 1999 at rsssf.com 2 Jul 2001 Retrieved 12-11-2013
6. ↑ "China League History". rsssf.com. 22 Oct 2009. Retrieved 28 January 2014. 
7. ↑ "辽宁宏运". sodasoccer.com. Retrieved 28 January 2014. 
8. ↑ 2015年辽宁宏运足球俱乐部中超联赛比赛名单

External links

• Club website
• Club profile at sohu.com
• List of Chinese football league tables at rsssf.com

Achievements
Preceded by Al-Sadd	Champions of Asia 1989-90	Succeeded by Esteghlal

Chinese Super League 2015 clubs Beijing Guoan Changchun Yatai Chongqing Lifan Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao Guangzhou R&F Guizhou Renhe Hangzhou Greentown Henan Jianye Jiangsu Guoxin Sainty Liaoning Whowin Shandong Luneng Taishan Shanghai Greenland Shenhua Shanghai Shenxin Shanghai SIPG Shijiazhuang Ever Bright Tianjin Teda Seasons Jia-A League 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Asian Club Championship and AFC Champions League winners Asian Champion Club Tournament 1967: Hapoel Tel Aviv 1969: Maccabi Tel Aviv 1970: Taj 1971: Maccabi Tel Aviv Asian Club Championship 1985–86: Daewoo Royals 1986: Furukawa Electric 1987: Yomiuri 1988–89: Al-Sadd 1989–90: Liaoning 1990–91: Esteghlal 1991: Al-Hilal 1992–93: PAS Tehran 1993–94: Thai Farmers Bank 1994–95: Thai Farmers Bank 1995: Ilhwa Chunma 1996–97: Pohang Steelers 1997–98: Pohang Steelers 1998–99: Júbilo Iwata 1999–2000: Al-Hilal 2000–01: Suwon Samsung Bluewings 2001–02: Suwon Samsung Bluewings AFC Champions League 2002–03: Al-Ain 2004: Al-Ittihad 2005: Al-Ittihad 2006: Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors 2007: Urawa Red Diamonds 2008: Gamba Osaka 2009: Pohang Steelers 2010: Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma 2011: Al-Sadd 2012: Ulsan Hyundai 2013: Guangzhou Evergrande 2014: Western Sydney Wanderers