Tianjin Tianhai F.C.
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| Full name | Tianjin Songjiang Football Club 天津松江足球俱乐部 | ||
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| Founded | 6 June 2006 | ||
| Ground | Tianjin Tuanbo Football Stadium, Tianjin, China | ||
| Capacity | 22,320 | ||
| Chairman | Li Weiqi (李微奇) | ||
| Manager | Goran Tomić | ||
| League | China League One | ||
| 2014 | 7th | ||
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Tianjin Songjiang Football Club (Chinese: 天津松江; pinyin: Tiānjīn Sōngjiāng) 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 Tianjin and their home stadium is the Tianjin Tuanbo Football Stadium that has a seating capacity of 22,320. Their current owners are Quanjian Natural Medicine who officially took over the club on 7 July 2015.
History
On June 6, 2006 the Tianjin Binhai Holdings Limited company would form a new football team based in Hohhot called Hohhot Binhai and would name former Chinese international player Han Jinming as their manager. They would move into the Hohhot People's Stadium while taking part at the bottom of the Chinese pyramid within the third tier at the start of the 2007 league season. By May 5, 2007 Tianjin Songjiang Sports Culture Industry Co. Ltd would take a controlling interest within the club and hired another former Chinese international player in Hao Haidong to be the clubs general manager.[1] When the club finished in a disappointing fifth within the group stages of the division it was decided that the club needed significant restructuring, which saw Hao Haidong named as Chairman, Han Jinming moved to General management, Zhang Xiaorui was named as the new manager and lastly the entire team was moved to Tianjin to play within the Hedong Sports Centre.[2]
While under Zhang Xiaorui's reign results gradually improved, however while the club were constant play-off contenders they could not gain promotion and he was soon replaced by the Belgium Patrick De Wilde who guided the club to a runners-up spot and promotion at the end of the 2010 league season.[3] By the following season the club had already moved into the 60,000 seater Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium, however despite their grand settings the team would struggle within the division and narrowly avoided relegation at the end of the season.[4] This saw Patrick De Wilde exit soon after and the club decided to promote his assistant as well as Hao Haidong's cousin Hao Haitao into the management chair. In the 2012 league season Hao Haitao would actually guide the club to their best ever finish of sixth within the league, however at the end of the campaign Li Weiqi (李微奇) took over Hao Haidong's position as Chairman and Hao Haitao followed his cousin in leaving the club.[5]
At the start of the 2013 league season Pei Encai was brought in as Head coach, however he left the team four games before the end of the season due to the passing away of his mother, which saw Zhang Xiaorui return to the club as a caretaker manager.[6] Italian Gianni Bortoletto was brought in at the beginning of the 2014 league season, initially as a technical director before accepting the Head coach position but after a series of disappointing results he was fired on 14 June 2014.[7] On 23 June 2014 Portuguese manager Manuel Cajuda came in for the remainder of the season.[8] The club would once again start the following season with a new manager when Croatian coach Dražen Besek joined the team 15 December 2014.[9] After a series of defeats, Besek was replaced by another Croatian in Goran Tomić who joined the management on 12 May 2015.[10] On 7 July 2015 Quanjian Natural Medicine officially took over the club.[11] This would be their second foray into Chinese football after their sponsorship of Tianjin Teda F.C. abruptly came to an end on 30 June 2015 after a public dispute occurred on who had control over the clubs player transfers.[12]
Name Changes
- 2006–2007 "Hohhot Binhai F.C." 呼和浩特滨海
- 2008–2015 "Tianjin Songjiang F.C." 天津松江
Crest history
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Hohhot Binhai
2006–2007 -
Tianjin Songjiang
2008–2015
Current squad
As of 17 march 2015 [13]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Reserve squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Coaching staff
| Position | Staff |
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| Head Coach |  Goran Tomić
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| Assistant Coach |  Sun Jianjun Bai Yi
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| Goalkeeping Coach | Zhang Fengwu
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| Team Physician | Liu Shaoqing Wu Shouchen
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Managerial history
Han Jinming (2007)- Zhang Xiaorui (2008–09)
- Hao Haidong (Caretaker) (2010)
Patrick de Wilde (2010–11)- Hao Haitao (2012)
- Pei Encai (2013)
- Zhang Xiaorui (Caretaker) (2013)
Gianni Bortoletto (15 March 2014, 2014–14 June 2014)
Manuel Cajuda (23 June 2014–6 November 2014)
Dražen Besek (15 December 2014–6 May 2015)- Sun Jianjun (Caretaker) (6 May 2015-12 May 2015)
- Goran Tomić (12 May 2015–)
Results
All-time League Rankings
| Year | Tier | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Pos | FA Cup | Super Cup | Asia | Att./G | Stadium |
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| 2007 | 3 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 19 | 19 | 0 | 18 | 5 1 | NH | DNQ | DNQ | Hohhot People's Stadium | |
| 2008 | 3 | 18 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 36 | 14 | 22 | 29 | 2 2 | NH | DNQ | DNQ | Hedong Sports Centre | |
| 2009 | 3 | 14 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 18 | 15 | 3 | 18 | 3 1 | NH | DNQ | DNQ | Shuidi Outer Stadium | |
| 2010 | 3 | 19 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 32 | 12 | 20 | 35 | RU | NH | DNQ | DNQ | Tianjin Olympic Outer Stadium | |
| 2011 | 2 | 26 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 23 | 31 | −8 | 25 | 12 | R1 | DNQ | DNQ | Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium | |
| 2012 | 2 | 30 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 27 | 24 | 3 | 45 | 6 | R2 | DNQ | DNQ | 2,998 | Tianjin Tuanbo Football Stadium |
| 2013 | 2 | 30 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 31 | 36 | −5 | 35 | 10 | R3 | DNQ | DNQ | 2,247 | Tianjin Tuanbo Football Stadium Tianjin Haihe Education Park Stadium |
| 2014 | 2 | 30 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 39 | 33 | 6 | 43 | 7 | R3 | DNQ | DNQ | 2,511 | Tianjin Tuanbo Football Stadium |
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Notable players
Had international caps for their respective countries.
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