Wuhan Zall F.C.

Wuhan Zall
Wǔhàn Zhuó'ěr
武汉卓尔
Full name Wuhan Zall Football Club
武汉卓尔职业足球俱乐部
Nickname(s) Han Army, Nine-headed Bird
Founded February 17, 2009 (2009-02-17)
Ground Wuhan Sports Center Stadium
Wuhan, Hubei, China
Ground Capacity 54,357[1]
Manager Chen Yang
League China League One
2017 League One
Website Club website

Wuhan Zall Football Club[2] (simplified Chinese: 武汉卓尔; traditional Chinese: 武漢卓爾; pinyin: Wǔhàn Zhuó'ěr) is a professional Chinese football club that currently participates in the China League One division under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team is based in Wuhan, Hubei and their home stadium is the Wuhan Sports Center Stadium that has a seating capacity of 60,000.[3] Their current majority shareholder is the investment company Wuhan Zall Development Holding Co. Ltd.

The club was founded in 2009 after the withdrawal and then dissolution of its predecessor Wuhan Guanggu from the league after the club had a dispute with the Chinese Football Association over their on-field behaviour. The Hubei Province soccer association decided to help form a new team with players mainly from the former Wuhan Guanggu and Hubei youth teams. They entered at the start of the 2009 league campaign at the bottom of the professional Chinese football league pyramid in the third tier. The team won promotion to the 2013 Chinese Super League after coming runners-up in the 2012 China League One division and spent only one season in the top flight.

History

Hubei Greenery was founded in February, 2009 after its predecessor Wuhan Guanggu withdrew from the top tier for the reason of unfair punishment on October, 2008 after the club had a dispute with the Chinese Football Association over the clubs on-field behaviour against Beijing Guoan in a September 27, 2008 league game where a scuffle broke out.[4] 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 representation of any Hubei teams within the Chinese 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.[5] 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 their 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.

With the club in the second tier they would go through a period of joint investment from several parties until December 14, 2011 saw the Zall Group take ownership of the club and rename them Wuhan Zall Football Club as well as changing the teams colours back to orange, which was the clubs predecessors main colours.[6] Initially the new owners saw the team struggle throughout the 2012 league season and decided to sack the existing manager Jose Carlos de Oliveira and replace him with Zheng Xiong on a caretaker basis.[7] As the season went on the results considerably improved under Zheng Xiong who was given a full-time contract before guiding Wuhan Zall to second within the league and promotion to the Chinese Super League.

In 2015 the football club was sold to a private company of the chairman Yan Zhi and his relatives, for RMB 20,630,000 .[8]

Name history

Crest history

Current squad

As of 3 March 2017 [9]

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 China GK Jia Xinyao
2 China DF Huang Bowen
3 China DF Han Xuan
4 China DF Ai Zhibo
5 China DF Zhang Yaokun (captain)
6 China DF Li Chao
7 China MF Luo Yi
8 China MF Yao Hanlin
9 China MF Li Zhichao
10 Bolivia FW Marcelo Moreno
11 China MF Su Di
13 China FW Kang Zhenjie
14 China MF Huang Xiyang
15 China DF Ming Tian
16 Croatia MF Sammir
No. Position Player
17 Ivory Coast FW Jean Evrard Kouassi
18 China DF Song Zhiwei
20 China FW Nie Aoshuang
21 China MF Li Yang
22 China MF Liu Hao
23 China GK Sun Shoubo
24 China MF Wang Xudong
25 China MF Wei Zhaokun
26 China MF Liu Yun
27 China DF Wu Huan
28 China MF Jiang Minwen
29 China GK Wang Zhifeng
38 China DF Li Junfeng
48 China DF Zhang Haoran
52 China MF Sun Weiwen

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
30 Liberia FW Sam Johnson
41 China GK Zhu Zisen
42 China MF Tong Xiaoxing
43 China DF Ni Bo
44 China MF Wu Jie
45 China DF Wang Peng
46 China MF Bai Xiangyun
47 China MF Tang Junpeng
49 China MF Gao Ming
No. Position Player
50 China DF Yi Xiaolong
51 China MF Mei Cong
53 China GK Wang Chen
54 China DF Li Yiming
55 China FW Sui Jiayu
56 China DF Hu Zhuang
57 China FW Wang Yifan
58 China FW Chen Luoqi

Coaching staff

Position Staff
Head coach China Chen Yang
Assistant coach China Ma Yongkang
Goalkeeping Coach China Liu Junfeng
Coach China Li Sheng
Physio China Pan Chao

Source: sina.com

Managerial history

Results

All-time League Rankings

Year Tier Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Pos Cup AFC Att./G Stadium
2009 3 13 8 5 0 16 2 +14 24 1 2 NH DNQ Xinhua Road Sports Center
2010 2 24 10 7 7 30 24 +6 37 5 NH DNQ Xinhua Road Sports Center
2011 2 26 8 9 9 26 28 −2 33 7 R1 DNQ Xinhua Road Sports Center
2012 2 30 16 6 8 40 29 +11 54 2 R2 DNQ 6,701 Xinhua Road Sports Center
2013 1 30 3 7 20 24 58 −36 16 16 R3 DNQ 14,403 Wuhan Sports Center Stadium
2014 2 30 18 3 9 46 31 +15 57 3 R2 DNQ 8,457 Xinhua Road Sports Center
2015 2 30 8 12 10 31 30 +1 36 10 R2 DNQ 5,300 Xinhua Road Sports Center
2016 2 30 12 7 11 31 33 −2 43 6 R2 DNQ 4,853 Xinhua Road Sports Center
2017 2 30 R2 DNQ Wuhan Sports Center Stadium

Key

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.worldofstadiums.com/asia/china/hubei/wuhan-sports-centre-stadium/
  2. ↑ 关于中甲联赛版权声明及正确使用中甲联赛名称的函 fa.org.cn 2015-04-16 Retrieved 2016-03-04
  3. ↑ "卓尔新赛季主场场地将迁至武汉体育中心" (in Chinese). Changjiang Times. February 9, 2017. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Wuhan ejected from soccer league". english.people.com.cn. November 10, 2008. Retrieved 2013-02-01.
  5. ↑ "湖北绿茵足球俱乐部"注册成功 参加中乙成定局 (in Chinese). sports.sohu.com. 2009-02-28. Retrieved 2013-02-01.
  6. ↑ 武汉中博易主卓尔集团接手 湖北首富入主成老板 (in Chinese). sports.enorth.com.cn. 2011-12-14. Retrieved 2013-02-01.
  7. ↑ 卓尔宣布卡洛斯正式下课！高层称赞敬业精神可嘉 (in Chinese). sports.sina.com.cn. 2012-04-24. Retrieved 2013-02-01.
  8. ↑ 2015 Annual Report Zall Group (in Chinese)
  9. ↑ 2017赛季中甲联赛名单之武汉卓尔 sports.sina.com 2017-03-03 Retrieved 2017-03-08
  10. ↑ "China – List of Champions". rsssf.com. 10 Oct 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  11. ↑ "武汉卓尔". sodasoccer.com. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
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