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Revision as of 08:54, 20 January 2012

Shanghai Shenhua
上海申花
logo
Full nameShanghai Shenhua F.C.
Founded1993
GroundHongkou Stadium,
Shanghai, China
Capacity35,060
ChairmanZhu Jun
Head CoachJean Tigana
LeagueChinese Super League
201111th
Current season

Shanghai Shenhua (Meaning “Flower of Shanghai” in Chinese) is a professional Chinese football club that currently participates in the Chinese Super League. The club is currently owned by Zhu Jun (75%), Shanghai SVA Group, SMEG (Shanghai Media & Entertainment Group) and Huangpu Investment Ltd. (SMEG + Huangpu Investment 25%). The team’s home stadium is called the Hongkou Football Stadium, which has a seating capacity of 33,060 and their current head coach is former French international Jean Tigana.

The club's predecessor was called Shanghai Football Club and predominantly played in the top tier, where they won several domestic league and cup titles. In 1993, the club was reorganized to become a completely professional football Club. Since then, they have won 2 League Championships and 1 Chinese FA Cup Championship.

History

Shanghai Football Club Era

Shanghai Shenhua's predecessor was East China team who were founded in October 1951 by the local government sports body to take part in China's first fully nationalized national football league tournament and finished second in the league.[1] The football league gradually expanded and the team were allowed to name themselves Shanghai after their own province in 1954 and then eventually Shanghai Football Club. By the 1961 league season Shanghai started to establish themselves as a major football team within China when they won their first league title.[2] This was then quickly followed by their second league title in 1962, however by 1966 because of the Chinese Cultural Revolution football in China was halted and Shanghai were unable to play. When football returned Shanghai were able to return to the top tier, however they were unable to regain any of the dominance that they had previously shown and were even relegated in the 1980 league season.[3] Though they were able to be quickly promoted in the following season, they still spent many years without actually winning any titles until they won the Chinese FA Cup in 1991, which was their first trophy in 29 years.[4]

Professionalism

Throughout the 1990s the Chinese football association were demanding more professionalism from their football teams and while many were semi-professional Shanghai would be one of the first when they gathered sponsorship by a local company named Shenhua (Shenhua also means "flower of Shanghai" in Chinese) on 10 December 1993 founding Shanghai Shenhua football team.[4] This then saw Shanghai hire their first professional manager in Xu Genbao who was the previous Chinese manager in 1994. The move would quickly see Shanghai win the second professional football league title at the end of the 1995 league season.[5] When he left, Shanghai attempted to bring in several foreign coaches to add more experience to the team, however none achieved any success despite being close on several occasions. By the end of 2001, the "Shenhua" group ended their sponsorship of the club and were replaced with SVA and the Shanghai Media & Entertainment Group. The club changed its name to Shanghai Shenhua SVA SMEG Football Club (SFC). The team however is unique as it still retains "Shenhua" in its name, whereas many other teams drop the name of their former sponsors completely. On the pitch the club would take over Shanghai Cable 02, a youth football team set up by Xu Genbao while also bringing in a new manager in Wu Jingui who built a new squad predominantly using many from the Shanghai Cable 02 squad and despite struggling in his debut season he was able to win the 2003 league title.[6] Critics would dispute the legitimacy of the title win after it was discovered several years later that the referee Lu Jun was bribed 350,000 Yuan by the head of the CFA referee arrangements Zhang Jianqiang to be bias towards Shenhua in a vital match against Shanghai International in a game that Shenhua won 4–1.[7] While Lu Jun and Zhang Jianqiang were both officially charged with match-fixing and despite claims that Shenhua also paid Zhang Jianqiang 350,000 Yuan the club was spared any disciplinary action.[8]

Zhu Jun Era

Shanghai Shenhua against Persik Kediri at Yuanshen Stadium (AFC Champions League 2007)

In 2007, Zhu Jun, the owner of in-city rival Shanghai United F.C. bought a majority share of Shanghai Shenhua and began to merge Shanghai United into Shanghai Shenhua. His first act was to replace the previously successful existing head coach Wu Jingui with Shanghai United's Osvaldo Gimenez.[9] The appointment was to prove highly disruptive and Wu Jingui was quickly brought back as the head coach after only a few months, but was sacked on September 9, 2008. Jia Xiuquan took over his position on the same day.[10]

In January 2009, Shanghai Shenhua made Chinese football history by becoming the first Chinese team to hire a foreign C.E.O. and a technical director. On January 1, 2009 the club hired former manager Osvaldo Gimenez as C.E.O.[11] while one day later, former PSV Eindhoven technical director Stan Valckx joined Shenhua in the same position.[12] On 12 December 2011, it has been confirmed that Chelsea striker Nicolas Anelka will be arriving in Shanghai in January 2012, and six days later, it was announced that his compatriot Jean Tigana will be the head coach from 2012 season.

Crest

Results

  • As of the end of 2011 season
All-Time League rankings
Season 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1973 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993
Division 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Position 3 6 2 8 7 3 1 1 11 2 2 21 12 10 9 13 2 4 32 4 6 5 3 6 3 4 2 5 7
Season 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Division 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Position 3 1 2 2 2 5 2 2 12 1 10 2 2 4 2 5 3 11

no league game in 1959, 1966–72, 1975; Shanghai did not compete in 1965, 1974

  • ^Note 1 : in group stage
  • ^Note 2 : in South League
FA Cup results
Season 1956 1960 1984 1985 1986 1990 1991 1992 1995 1996
Results Champions Quali. Round 3 3 Group Stage Group Stage Champions First Round Runners-Up Quarterfinals
Season 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2011
Results Runners-Up Champions Semifinals Second Round First Round Second Round Quarterfinals Semifinals Quarterfinals Quarterfinals Semifinals
CSL Cup results
Season 2004 2005
Results Semifinals Semifinals
Asian Results
Season 96/97 99/00 02/03 2004 2006 2007 2009 2011
Competition ACC ACWC ACL ACL ACL ACL ACL ACL
Position Second Round Second Round Group Stage Group Stage Quarterfinals Group Stage Group Stage Group Stage
East Asian Results
Season 1998 2004 2007
Competition FECC A3CC A3CC
Position 4 3 1

Current squad

First team

As of 14 July 2011[13]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
2 DF China CHN Xiong Fei
4 MF China CHN Wang Lin
5 DF China CHN Dai Lin
6 MF China CHN Yu Tao (captain)
7 MF China CHN Feng Renliang
9 FW France FRA Nicolas Anelka
10 MF China CHN Jiang Kun
11 DF China CHN Song Boxuan
12 FW China CHN Bai Xuefeng
13 DF China CHN Cheng Liang
15 DF China CHN Fei Yu
17 MF China CHN Fan Lingjiang
No. Pos. Nation Player
18 DF China CHN Jiang Jiajun
20 DF China CHN Wu Xi
22 GK China CHN Qiu Shengjiong
23 GK China CHN Wang Dalei
25 MF China CHN Wang Guanyi
28 MF China CHN Cao Yunding
29 DF China CHN Qiu Tianyi
30 DF China CHN Tao Jin
33 DF China CHN Liu Jiashen
34 MF China CHN Su Shun
39 FW China CHN You Yuanwen
— MF Australia AUS Joel Griffiths

Reserve squad

As of 1 June 2010[14]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
25 MF China CHN Wang Guanyi
28 MF China CHN Fei Yu
31 MF China CHN Bai Xuefeng
32 MF China CHN Gu Bin
33 MF China CHN Fan Lingjiang
- GK China CHN Zhang Zhanyao
No. Pos. Nation Player
- GK China CHN Dong Guangxiang
- DF China CHN Cai Qi
- DF China CHN Zhang Jiawei
- MF China CHN Liu Junnan
- FW China CHN Wang Yang
- FW China CHN Tang Junfeng

Coaching staff

As of 10 August 2011[15]

Position Staff
Manager France Jean Tigana
Team Leader China Guo Guangqi
Executive Assistant Manager China Xi Zhikang

Honours since 1994 (Professional League)

International

Domestic

League titles
  • First Division A Champions (2)
    • 1995, 2003
  • First Division A Runners-Up (5)
    • 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001
Cups
  • Chinese Super Cup Winners (3)
    • 1996, 1999, 2002

Youth Team

U19 team
  • Adidas Youth League Champions (1)
    • 2004

Records (since 1994)

Notable former players

Notable Coaching Members

See also

References

  1. ^ "China League Tables 1951". rsssf.com. 18 April 2004. Retrieved 4 November 2009.
  2. ^ "China League Tables 1961". rsssf.com. 22 October 2009. Retrieved 4 November 2009.
  3. ^ "China League Tables 1980". rsssf.com. 22 October 2009. Retrieved 4 November 2009.
  4. ^ a b http://scripts.sportscn.com/center/program/team.php?id=144
  5. ^ "China League Tables 1995". rsssf.com. 22 October 2009. Retrieved 4 November 2009.
  6. ^ "China League Tables 2003". rsssf.com. 18 April 2004. Retrieved 4 November 2009.
  7. ^ http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/2011-03/31/content_12300071.htm
  8. ^ http://english.cri.cn/8046/2010/03/18/45s557440.htm
  9. ^ http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-02/17/content_5749542.htm
  10. ^ http://soccerphile.blogspot.com/2008/04/interview-shanghai-shenhua-boss-wu.html
  11. ^ http://www.shenhuafc.com.cn/newsDetail.htm?bd1873241e65ef09011e9011e9930011
  12. ^ http://www.shenhuafc.com.cn/newsDetail.htm?bd1873241e65ef09011e95fa18c90013
  13. ^ 2011赛季中超联赛上海申花队球员名单 Template:Zh icon
  14. ^ http://www.shenhuafc.com.cn/chiefMember.htm?TeamType=48
  15. ^ http://www.shenhuafc.com.cn/drillmasterTeam.htm

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