Cangzhou Mighty Lions F.C.

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Cangzhou Mighty Lions
沧州雄狮
File:Cangzhou Mighty Lions logo.jpg
Full nameCangzhou Mighty Lions Football Club
Founded25 February 2011; 13 years ago (2011-02-25)
GroundCangzhou Stadium
Capacity31,836
OwnerZhang Huafang
ChairmanLi Xiaopeng
ManagerSvetozar Šapurić
LeagueChinese Super League
2021Super League, 11th of 16
WebsiteClub website

Cangzhou Mighty Lions Football Club (simplified Chinese: 沧州雄狮; traditional Chinese: 滄州雄獅; pinyin: Cāngzhōu Xióngshī) is a professional football club that currently participates in the Chinese Super League under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team is based in Cangzhou, Hebei and their home stadium is the Cangzhou Stadium that has a seating capacity of 31,836. Their majority shareholder is the Yongchang Real Estate who own 70% of the shares of the club.

History

On February 25, 2011, the club was founded by Smart Hero International Trading Limited (骏豪投资有限公司), Xiamen Dongyuhang Import & Export Co., Ltd. (厦门东屿行进出口有限公司), Xiamen City HS Sheng Industrial Co., Ltd. (厦门协晟工贸有限公司) and Xiamen City Shengxin Metal Products Co., Ltd. (厦门金盛鑫金属制),[1][2] on the basis of local amateur club Xiamen Dongyuhang, which just won the runners-up spot of China Amateur Football League last year, as Fujian Smart Hero F.C. (Chinese: 福建骏豪足球俱乐部). Within their debut season they played in the China League Two division within the 2011 league season where their home uniforms were yellow tops and black shorts. Fujian in their first season would win promotion to the 2012 China League One division via the League One relegation play-off in which Fujian beat Guizhou Zhicheng 6–5 in a penalty shootout.[3]

In the 2012 China League One campaign Xu Hui was appointed as manager and he would lead the club to a third-place finish. This saw Yongchang Real Estate (Chinese: 永昌地产集团) interested in the team and they bought 70% shares of the club, which officially went through on January 18, 2013.[4] The club moved to Hebei Province's capital city Shijiazhuang into the Yutong International Sports Center, changed the club's colors to blue and the team's name into Shijiazhuang Yongchang Junhao F.C. (Chinese: 石家庄永昌骏豪足球俱乐部). On December 27, 2013 Yongchang Real Estate bought the remaining 30% shares of the club and on February 24, 2014 Shijiazhuang Yongchang Junhao F.C. changed their name to Shijiazhuang Yongchang F.C.(Chinese: 石家庄永昌足球俱乐部).[5][6] In the 2014 league season Shijiazhuang Yongchang won promotion to the top tier in the first time in their history when they came runners-up within their division. The club's first act within the top flight was to change their English name to Shijiazhuang Ever Bright F.C. (while their Chinese name still remained as 石家庄永昌) in January 2015.

The club's debut season within the top tier saw the club's manager Yasen Petrov able to guide the team to seventh in the league and safely away from relegation at the end of the 2015 league season.[7] The following campaign would prove to be considerably more difficult and Yasen Petrov was relieved of his position on 14 July 2016 and replaced by Li Jinyu on a caretaker basis, after a run of bad form saw the club in a relegation battle.[8] The club were relegated at the end of the 2016 Chinese Super League season and on 7 November 2016 brought in Afshin Ghotbi as their new coach for the following season.[9] Fortunately, they remained contenders for promotion in the next few seasons, but despite earning third place in 2017, they failed to win promotion for the next two years.

They were promoted again in 2019 but finished last in the 2020 relegation tournament. They escaped relegation when Super League team Jiangsu F.C. dissolved in 2021. They were renamed as Cangzhou Mighty Lions, the same year Chinese FA sought to remove corporation names from team names.

Name history

  • 2011–12: Fujian Smart Hero (福建骏豪)
  • 2013: Shijiazhuang Yongchang Junhao (石家庄永昌骏豪)
  • 2014: Shijiazhuang Yongchang (石家庄永昌)
  • 2015–2020: Shijiazhuang Ever Bright (石家庄永昌)
  • 2021–: Cangzhou Mighty Lions (沧州雄狮)

Current squad

First team squad

As of 1 September 2022[10]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK China CHN Sun Jianxiang
3 DF China CHN Cao Haiqing
5 DF China CHN Yan Zihao
6 DF China CHN Yang Yun
7 MF China CHN Zang Yifeng
8 MF China CHN Lin Chuangyi
10 FW Democratic Republic of the Congo COD Oscar Maritu
11 FW China CHN Bughrahan Skandar
12 MF China CHN Luo Jing
13 DF Zambia ZAM Stoppila Sunzu
14 GK China CHN Shao Puliang
15 MF China CHN Sabit Abdusalam
16 DF China CHN Zheng Kaimu
17 MF China CHN Piao Shihao
18 DF China CHN Li Hong
20 FW China CHN Liu Xinyu
No. Pos. Nation Player
21 DF China CHN Jiang Zhe
22 MF China CHN Guo Hao
23 FW China CHN Yang Yiming
24 FW China CHN He Youzu
25 MF China CHN Zhang Yue
26 MF China CHN Guo Yunqi
27 MF China CHN Ma Fuyu
28 DF China CHN Yang Xiaotian
29 GK China CHN Han Feng
30 DF China CHN Liu Yang
31 MF China CHN Chen Zhongliu
33 MF China CHN Zhang Xiangshuo
35 DF China CHN Wang Peng (on loan from Shenzhen)
40 MF Kazakhstan KAZ Georgy Zhukov
44 MF Netherlands NED Deabeas Owusu-Sekyere
45 FW Guinea GUI José Kanté

Reserve squad

As of 7 March 2019

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
41 GK China CHN Lu Hantao
42 MF China CHN Sun Xuelong
43 MF China CHN Mao Ziyu
47 MF China CHN Wu Xiaotian
48 MF China CHN Wang Chunkai
49 DF China CHN Zhang Hongkui
50 MF China CHN Pei Ziqi
51 DF China CHN Li Fengyin
52 FW China CHN Li Xun
No. Pos. Nation Player
53 DF China CHN Chen Yuhang
54 GK China CHN Long Tengyi
58 GK China CHN Liu Wei
59 DF China CHN Lü Hongchen
62 MF China CHN Wang Shen
64 DF China CHN Zhang Yifeng
- MF China CHN Zhang Aokai
- DF China CHN Yan Zihao

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
- FW China CHN Liu Ziming (at Liaoning Shenyang Urban until 31 December 2022)

Coaching staff

Position Staff
Head coach China Liu Yan (caretaker)
Assistant coach United States Peter Vagenas
Assistant coach United StatesJapan Jun Marques Davidson
Goalkeeper coach Brazil Cossa
Conditioning coach Italy Andrea Magini
Technical analyst AustriaIran Jahanyar Mohebbi

Source: sina.com

Managerial history

Managers who have coached the club since they became a completely professional unit on February 25, 2011.[11][12]

Honours

League

Runners-up (1): 2014

Results

All-time League Rankings

As of the end of 2019 season.[14][15]

Year Div Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Pos. FA Cup Super Cup AFC Att./G Stadium
2011 3 26 13 9 4 32 16 16 39 1 3 DNE DNQ DNQ Longyan Sports Center
2012 2 30 12 10 8 41 32 9 46 3 R2 DNQ DNQ 4,142 Fuzhou Stadium / Jinjiang Sports Center Stadium
2013 2 30 10 10 10 26 25 1 40 8 R3 DNQ DNQ 10,053 Yutong International Sports Center
2014 2 30 17 6 7 42 25 17 57 RU R2 DNQ DNQ 11,208
2015 1 30 8 15 7 34 31 3 39 7 R3 DNQ DNQ 25,070
2016 1 30 7 9 14 28 53 -25 30 16 R4 DNQ DNQ 22,523
2017 2 30 14 12 4 48 34 14 54 3 R3 DNQ DNQ 16,219
2018 2 30 12 9 9 43 38 5 45 6 R3 DNQ DNQ 12,405
2019 2 30 18 2 10 59 42 17 56 RU R4 DNQ DNQ 17,488
2020 1 20 5 7 8 23 29 -6 22 16 ? DNQ DNQ N/A
  • ^1 In group stage.

Key

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