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Shanghai East Asia
Shànghǎi Dōngyà
上海东亚
Logo
Full nameShanghai East Asia Football Club
上海东亚足球俱乐部
Founded25 December 2005; 18 years ago (25 December 2005)
GroundShanghai Stadium,
Xuhui, Shanghai, China
Capacity65,000
ChairmanXu Genbao (徐根宝)
Head CoachXi Zhikang (奚志康)
LeagueChinese Super League
20139th
WebsiteClub website

Shanghai Dongya F.C. [1] (simplified Chinese: 上海东亚; traditional Chinese: 上海東亞; pinyin: Shànghǎi Dōngyà) is a professional Chinese football club, that currently plays in Chinese Super League (the Chinese top division) under the name of Shanghai SIPG (上海上港集团足球队) for sponsorship reasons. "Dongya" is a Chinese word means "East Asia".

Founded in 2005 by former Chinese international football coach Xu Genbao, Shanghai Dongya F.C. mostly consists of graduates from Genbao Football Academy, which was also founded by Xu in 2000. The club joined the bottom of the Chinese football league system in the 2006 and has so far won the 2007 China League Two and the 2012 China League One. In addition, they represented Shanghai at the 2009 China National Games and won the men's football gold medal.

Shanghai Dongya also earns its fame largely because of its success in youth development. In China, the team is sometimes nicknamed as "China's Manchester United", because of Xu's well-known ambition "to create a China's Manchester United".

The chairman of Shanghai Dongya Xu Genbao also holds the position of the general coach of the club, which involves designing tactical frameworks and training schedules as well as decisions on signings, while the head coach Jiang Bingyao is mostly responsible for the execution of tactical and training plans.

Shanghai Dongya plays its home matches at Shanghai Stadium in Xuhui, Shanghai.

History

Est.-2007: League Two

On May 16, 2000 former Chinese international football coach Xu Genbao founded the Genbao Football Academy and enrolled 96 academy members born between 1988 and 1991, who were to be trained in the recently built Genbao Football Base Arena.[2]

Initially, Xu Genbao had no intention of establishing a professional football club. However as the Academy youngsters grew up, the lack of youth football competition in China prompt Xu to set up a football club so that his protégés could earn match experiences in professional football. On December 25, 2005, Shanghai Dongya Football Club was jointly established by Xu Genbao and Shanghai Dongya Sports and Culture Center Co. Ltd, with Xu Genbao being the club chairman. Xu appointed Claude Lowitz, a French youth coach in Genbao Football Academy, as the team manager.

With young players aged between 14 and 17, Shanghai Dongya competed in the 2006 China League Two, the third tier of the Chinese league system. The team played their home games at Genbao Football Base Arena training ground in Chongming, Shanghai, and eventually finished their first season at the seventh place. During the campaign Xu's players broke a few records during the season, with Cao Yunding being the youngest Chinese goalscorer aged 16 years and 242 days,[3] and Wu Lei the youngest Chinese professional footballer, aged only 14 years and 287 days.[4] At the end of 2006, Claude Lowitz left the club, and former assistant manager Jiang Bingyao took up the manager position. With lessons learned and experiences gained from their debutante season, the young Dongya went on to win the division title in 2007, by beating Sichuan FC in the final, and thus gaining promotion to China League One, the second tier football league.[5]

2008-2012: League One

Despite the successful promotion, questions arose as to what would happen to the team, especially given that Xu's previous effort to create a professional club ( Shanghai Cable 02) ended up being sold off to Shanghai Shenhua in 2002 due to financial difficulties. In June 2007, Shanghai government came to Xu's rescue with financial aid, in exchange Dongya would represent Shanghai in the 2009 National Games.[6]

With the club in a higher division, Shanghai Dongya moved into the 30,000 seater Jinshan Sports Centre in Jinshan District of Shanghai and finished the 2008 China League One division campaign in a respectable sixth. In summer 2009, Shanghai Dongya represent Shanghai football team and take part in the 2009 National Games. Xu Genbao took up the management post himself and led the team to win the gold the men's football gold medal. Meanwhile in the league, Shanghai Dongya chose the 65,000 seater Shanghai Stadium as their home stadium for their 2009 China League One campaign. Shanghai Dongya finished the season in fourth place and just missed out on promotion by a single win, but such an achievement is still considered quite remarkable especially given that the team was made up of players under 20 years old, and no foreign players.

The 2010 league season saw former Chinese international Fan Zhiyi receive his first management job at the club as well as the introduction of their first ever foreign players in Macedonian Nikola Karçev and Haitian Fabrice Noël. Despite these new signings the club failed to improve upon the previous seasons results and finished in the fourth place. Failure to gain promotion and financial difficulties caused the club unable to hold onto their rising stars. Before the 2011 season, five of the team's starting XI left the club: team captain Wang Jiayu, Chinese international Zhang Linpeng and Chinese U-23 players Cao Yunding, Jiang Zhipeng, and Gu Chao.[7] In the following 2011 season, Xu Genbao promoted several young players into the first team and the team finished the season in a disappointing ninth place.

At the beginning of the 2012 season. The club sold team name to a Sponsor, Zobon Group for 30 million Yuan on a three year deal, which saw the club change first team's name to Shanghai Tellace on December 31, 2011, while the club name remains unchanged as Shanghai Dongya F.C.[8] At the end of the season, Shanghai Tellace won the league title and was promoted to Chinese Super League.

2013-present: CSL

Before the 2013 season, Shanghai Dongya changed its first team name again to Shanghai SIPG, under a 40-million sponsorship deal with Shanghai International Port (Group).[9]

In January 2013, another Shanghai-based football club Shanghai Pudong Zobon F.C., which was previously playing in 2012 China League Two, was dissolved. Most of its players, born between 1993 and 1994 and graduated from Genbao Football Academy, were brought back under Xu Genbao's wing and would become the reserve team of Shanghai Dongya F.C.[10]

Name History

  • 2005-2011 Shanghai Dongya (上海东亚)
  • 2012 Shanghai Tellace (上海特莱士队) 1
  • 2013-present Shanghai SIPG (上海上港集团足球队) 2
12 These names only apply to its first team, while "Shanghai Dongya" is still preserved as club name and used by its junior teams.

Results

  • As of the end of 2013 season

All-time League rankings

Season 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Division 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 1
Position 71 1 6 4 4 9 1 9
  • ^Note 1 : in South League

Current squad

As of 8 June 2013 [11]

First team

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 Yan Junling
2 DF China CHN Li Yunqiu
3 DF China CHN Wu Yuyin
4 DF China CHN Wang Shenchao
5 MF China CHN Wang Jiajie
6 MF China CHN Cai Huikang
7 FW China CHN Wu Lei
9 FW Colombia COL Luis Carlos Cabezas
10 FW China CHN Zhu Zhengrong
11 DF China CHN Fu Huan
12 FW China CHN Lü Wenjun
13 MF China CHN Zheng Dalun
14 FW Australia AUS Bernie Ibini-Isei
No. Pos. Nation Player
15 FW China CHN Lin Chuangyi
16 MF China CHN Geng Jiaqi
17 MF China CHN Ji Xiaoxuan
18 DF China CHN Sun Kai
19 FW China CHN Li Shenglong
20 FW China CHN Mao Jiakang
21 DF Spain ESP Ibán Cuadrado
22 GK China CHN Sun Le
24 GK China CHN Dong Jialin
25 DF Ghana GHA Ransford Addo
26 MF China CHN Wu Yizhen
27 DF China CHN Hu Bowen

Reserve squad

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 DF China CHN He Guan
42 DF China CHN Yang Shiyuan
43 DF China CHN Li Tianchen
44 DF China CHN Yang Guiyan
45 MF China CHN Zhang Yi
46 DF China CHN Zhang Wei
47 MF China CHN Li Jiawei
48 FW China CHN Li Haowen
49 FW China CHN Zhang Wentao
No. Pos. Nation Player
50 MF China CHN Sun Yashu
51 MF China CHN Hao Shuai
52 DF China CHN Wu Haitian
53 MF China CHN Yun Zhihai
54 MF China CHN Sun Jungang
55 DF China CHN Chen Kejiang
56 FW China CHN Hu Jinghang
57 MF China CHN Xiao Mingjie
58 FW China CHN Chen Minghui
59 FW Australia AUS Linden Pywell

Coaching staff

Position Staff
Head coach China Xi Zhikang
Assistant coach China Qiu Jingwei
Goalkeeping coach China Bian Genxi
Fitness coach China Jiang Bingyao
Team physicians China Sun Lianxi
China Sun Guozhu

Source: Sina.com

Club honours

Managers

References