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Shanghai Shenhua
上海申花
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Full nameShanghai Shenhua Football Club
上海申花足球俱乐部
FoundedOctober 1951 (Semi-professional)
December 1993 (Professional)
GroundHongkou Football Stadium,
Shanghai, China
Capacity33,060
ChairmanZhu Jun
Head coachSergio Batista
LeagueChinese Super League
2012Super League, 9th
Websitehttp://www.shenhuafc.com.cn/
Current season

Shanghai Shenhua Football Club is a Chinese professional football club that currently participates in the Chinese Super League. The team is based in Shanghai. The team 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 Hongkou Football Stadium, which has a seating capacity of 33,060.

The club's predecessor was called Shanghai F.C. and predominantly played in the top tier, where they won several domestic league and cup titles. In 1993, the club was reorganised to become a completely professional football club. Since then, they have won the 1995 league title and 1998 Chinese FA Cup.

History

Early club era

Shanghai Shenhua's predecessor was originally called East China and were founded in October 1951 by the local Shanghai government sports body to take part in China's first fully nationalized national football league tournament where they finished second in the league that year.[1] The football league gradually expanded and the team were allowed to name themselves after their own province of Shanghai in 1957. Soon afterwards by 1961, 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 in 1966 because of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, football in China was halted and Shanghai were unable to play. When football returned in China, 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 1980.[3] Though they were able to be quickly promoted in the following season, they 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 from Yu Zhifei and the local company named Shenhua on December 1993, founding Shanghai Shenhua.[4] This then saw Shanghai hire their first professional manager in Xu Genbao, who was the previous Chinese national team manager in 1994. The move would quickly see Shanghai win the second professional football league title by 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 few achieved any success despite being close on several occasions, except for Muricy Ramalho's brief spell when the club won the 1998 Chinese FA Cup. 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. The team however remained 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 squad and despite struggling in his debut season, he was able to win the league title in 2003.[6] Critics would dispute the legitimacy of the title win after it was discovered in 2011 that the referee Lu Jun was bribed by the head of the CFA's referee arrangements, Zhang Jianqiang, to be biased towards Shenhua in a vital match against Shanghai International in a game that Shenhua won 4–1.[7] Lu Jun and Zhang Jianqiang were both officially charged with match-fixing, and it was also discovered that the Shenhua's general manager Lou Shifang also paid Zhang Jianqiang the same amount as Lu Jun. Despite this indiscretion, however, the club was spared any disciplinary action.[8] The reason provided by the CFA for the leniency was that they would be punishing the individuals who put the game in disrepute and not the club; because Lou Shifang was Shenhua's offending participant and had left the club several years before the allegations were confirmed, it would have been harsh to punish the club retrospectively.[9] On February 18, 2013 The CFA would decide to change it's mind on Shenhua and retrospectively decided to punish the club by revoking it's 2003 league title, finig the club with 1 million Yuan and giving a 6 point deduction at the beginning of the 2013 Chinese Super League season after it was discovered that they also fixed another game against Shaanxi Guoli F.C. en route to winning the 2003 league title.[10][11]

Zhu Jun era

In 2007, the owner of inner-city rival of Shanghai United, Zhu Jun and his company The9 Limited 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 Giménez.[12] 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.[13]

In January 2009 Shanghai Shenhua made Chinese football history by becoming the first Chinese team to hire a foreign CEO and a technical director when on January 1, 2009, the club hired former manager Osvaldo Gimenez as their chief executive officer. [14] One day later, former PSV Eindhoven technical director Stan Valckx joined Shenhua in the same position.[15] After a disappointing 2011 season in the Chinese Super League, Zhu Jun decided to bring in a marquee player, so on December 12, 2011 it was confirmed that Chelsea striker Nicolas Anelka will be arriving in Shanghai in January 2012, while six days later it was announced that his compatriot Jean Tigana would be the head coach from the 2012 season. Tigana was fired after a poor string of results and was replaced by former Argentinian national team coach Sergio Batista to lead the team. After a successful season playing for Chelsea F.C and winning the 2011-12 UEFA Champions League, Ivorian striker Didier Drogba signed a two-and-a-half-year deal with Shanghai Shenhuaon. [16] Shanghai Shenhua also signed Colombian footballer Giovanni Moreno from Argentinian club Racing Club around the same time they signed Drogba.

Results

All-time league rankings
Season 1951 1953 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
Division 1 1 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
Position 2 3 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
Season 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Division 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Position 7 3 1 2 2 2 5 2 2 12 13 10 2 2 4 2 5 3 11 9
  • No league games in 1959, 1966–72, 1975; Shanghai did not compete in 1965 and 1974.
  • ^1 : In the group stage.
  • ^2 : In the southern league.
  • ^3 : Title revoked due to match-fixing
FA Cup results
Season 1956 1960 1984 1985 1986 1990 1991 1992 1995 1996
Results champions qualifying 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 squad

As of 4 March, 2013. [17]

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
1 GK China CHN Wang Dalei
2 DF Argentina ARG Rolando Schiavi
4 DF China CHN Li Jianbin (on loan from Guangzhou Evergrande)
5 DF China CHN Dai Lin
7 MF China CHN Wang Changqing
8 MF China CHN Song Boxuan
9 FW Cape Verde CPV Dady
10 MF Colombia COL Giovanni Moreno
11 FW Syria SYR Firas Al-Khatib
12 DF China CHN Bai Jiajun
15 DF China CHN Zhan Yilin
16 MF China CHN Wang Fei
17 DF China CHN Xiong Fei
19 DF China CHN Zheng Kaimu
20 MF China CHN Xu Liang
No. Pos. Nation Player
21 MF China CHN Jiang Kun
22 GK China CHN Qiu Shengjiong
23 DF China CHN Liu Jiashen
25 MF China CHN Su Shun
27 MF Argentina ARG Patricio Toranzo
28 MF China CHN Cao Yunding
29 MF China CHN Wang Zhenyu
30 DF China CHN Tao Jin
31 DF China CHN Yuan Shaohua
32 MF China CHN Liang Yu
33 MF China CHN Yan Song
34 GK China CHN Dong Hang
35 GK China CHN Dong Guangxiang
36 MF China CHN Wang Shouting

Reserve squad

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
41 MF China CHN Bai Xuefeng
42 MF China CHN Pan Jiyuan
43 DF China CHN Cheng Zecheng
44 MF China CHN Zhang Jiawei
45 DF China CHN Yang Yufan
No. Pos. Nation Player
46 MF China CHN Li Hao
47 MF China CHN Gu Xiaodong
48 MF China CHN Wang Chen
49 GK China CHN Zhou Ye
50 DF China CHN Jin Chenchen

Coaching staff

Position Staff
Manager Argentina Sergio Batista
Assistant coach Argentina Alberto Osvaldo Rodriguez
Goalkeeping coach England Ian Walker
Fitness coach Argentina Alejandro Daniel Tocalli
Team leader China Guo Guangqi
Executive assistant manager China Xi Zhikang

Managerial history

Managers who have coached the club and team since Shanghai Shenhua became a professional club back in 1993.

Club honours

Domestic

League titles
Winners (1): 1995, 2003
Winners (1): 1998
Winners (3): 1995, 1998, 2001

International

Winners (1): 2007

Professional club records

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 "上海申花". Data.sports.163.com. Retrieved 10 April 2012. Template:Zh icon
  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. ^ "Details of soccer referee investigation released to public". Chinadaily.com.cn. 31 March 2011. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
  8. ^ "Zhang Jianqiang". Crienglish.com. 18 March 2010. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
  9. ^ "足坛反赌涉案队或明年降级 足协：倾向取消当年成绩". Sports.sina.com.cn. 31 January 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2012. Template:Zh icon
  10. ^ "Breaking News: Shenhua and Tianjin face 6 point deduction; Xu Hong barred from football for 5 years". wildeastfootball.net. February 18, 2013. Retrieved 2013-02-20.
  11. ^ "China Strips Shenhua of 2003 League Title, Bans 33 People for Life". english.cri.cn. 2013-02-18. Retrieved 2013-03-18.
  12. ^ "Gimenez to coach newly combined Shanghai Shenhua". Chinaview.cn. 17 February 2007. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
  13. ^ "Interview: Shanghai Shenhua Boss Wu Jingui". Soccerphile.blogspot.com. 7 April 2008. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
  14. ^ "亚冠潜在对手出炉 吉梅内斯将出席抽签仪式". Shenhua fc. 4 January 2009. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
  15. ^ "Er is bij PSV niets schimmigs gebeurd". de Volkskrant. 3 January 2009. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
  16. ^ "Didier Drogba signs for Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua". bbc.co.uk. 20 June 2012. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
  17. ^ 上海申花2013中超名单

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