Liaoning Football Club (), officially known as Liaoning Hongyun
(), was a professional
association football
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club with a long history in Chinese football. The club can predate their formation to 1953, when Shenyang government sports body joined existing club Northeast China to play in the Chinese national football league. By 1956, the league was gradually expanded and regional sports institutes' own representatives were allowed, which eventually formed Liaoning Football Club. The club won several titles as well as the
1989–90 Asian Club Championship
The 1989–90 Asian Club Championship was the 9th edition of the annual Asian club football competition hosted by Asian Football Confederation.
Liaoning FC of China won the final and became Asian champions for the first time.
Qualifying Tourna ...
when they beat
Nissan Yokohama in the final, making Liaoning FC the first Chinese club to win an Asian club championship trophy. Since February 26, 1994, the team was established as a full professional football club to play in the
1994 Chinese Jia-A League
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season, making them one of the founding members of the first fully professionalized top-tier league in China.
The team was based in
Shenyang,
Liaoning Province and their home stadium was the
Tiexi New District Sports Center
Tiexi Stadium (Simplified Chinese: 铁西新区体育中心) is the multi-purpose stadium and multi-use gym
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that has a seating capacity of 30,000. Their majority shareholders were the
Liaoning Sport Technology College and the Huludao Hongyun Group Co., Ltd, which was part of the real estate and financial
conglomerate the
Hongyun Group.
According to Forbes, Liaoning were the 10th most valuable football team in China in 2015, with a team value of $67 million, and an estimated revenue of $14 million.
On 23 May 2020, Liaoning Football Club was disqualified by
Chinese Football Association
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(CFA) due to wage arrears.
History
Early club era
The football club can predate their formation to 1953 when the local
Shenyang government sports body joined existing club Northeast China to play in the recently created Chinese national football league. In 1954,
Guo Hongbin
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(郭鸿宾) was appointed as their Head coach and as part of the Northeast China team he would achieve immediate success by winning the league title. The club would continue to be a regular competitor within the football league until 1956 when the team would split after the league allowed regional sports institutes their own representatives. The Shenyang sports body would take over the team and rename themselves Shenyang Sports Institute until 1959 when they named themselves Liaoning Football Team after their own province. While they came close to winning the title on several occasions under Guo Hongbin when football was halted because of the
cultural revolution
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he left the team. When football returned to the country the club hired
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in 1975 and took part in the multi-sport event 1975
Chinese National Games
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, which Gu Mingchang won in his debut season. From that tournament youngsters
Chi Shangbin,
Lin Lefeng
Lin Lefeng (; born October 16, 1955 in Dalian, Liaoning) is a Chinese former international football player. Since retiring he has worked for a number of Chinese football clubs where he has served as a coach, manager, general manager. Currently ...
,
Zhang Yiming
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and
Li Shubin would build the spine of the team that re-entered the national league and they would progress to see Liaoning win the 1978 league title. After that achievement Gu Mingchang was unable to replicate the same success despite coming runners-up twice under his reign before he left in 1980.
1984–1993: Ten consecutive years of success
In 1984, Mi Jide (倪继德) was appointed as the new manager of the team and his introduction signified immense changes within the club. The first was the inclusion of the Liaoning Youth team now competing within the Chinese football pyramid as well as the organization of semi-professionalism already established 1982. Under his reign he utilized these factors to make Liaoning the dominant team within the football league. His first success came when he won the 1984
Chinese FA Cup
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, which was then used as a springboard to win the 1985 league title.
The club would participate in the
1985–86 Asian Club Championship
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for the first time in their history and decided that it was important enough that they would not defend their league title and concentrate on the continental competition, however despite this commitment they still finished bottom within their group. The team still took part in the 1986 Chinese FA final and beat
Beijing
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1–0 in the final as the team's assistant Li Yingfa (李应发) led them to victory after Mi Jide had to leave the team due to being diagnosed with stomach cancer.
After that victory Li Yingfa was permanently promoted to the Head coach position and built upon the foundations laid by Mi Jide by winning successive league titles in the 1987 and 1988 competitions. After dominating the Chinese league the team would turn their attentions to the premier Asian competition and won the
1989–90 Asian Club Championship
The 1989–90 Asian Club Championship was the 9th edition of the annual Asian club football competition hosted by Asian Football Confederation.
Liaoning FC of China won the final and became Asian champions for the first time.
Qualifying Tourna ...
by beating
Nissan Yokohama 3–2 on aggregate to claim their first and China's first continental competition. The following campaign Liaoning went on to reclaimed the league title and once again reached the
Asian Club Championship
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final where this time they faced Iranian team
Esteghlal Tehran
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but lost the game 2–1. After that defeat Liaoning struggled to compete in the following
1991 Asian Club Championship
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Al-Hilal from Saudi Arabia won the final and became the first Asian Championship winner from Saudi Arab ...
and were knocked out early within that competition, however when they returned to their league they went on to retain the 1991 league title and Li Yingfa decided to leave the team. Yang Yumin (杨玉敏) was brought in at the start of the 1992 championship and continued the work of his predecessor and deliver another league title at the end of the season. The 1993 league title would end in dramatic fashion when goal-difference saw Liaoning beat
Guangdong Hongyuan to the championship and see the club win its tenth major trophy in ten seasons, however after the campaign the majority of the players who were essential within those ten seasons such as
Ma Lin,
Tang Yaodong
Tang Yaodong (; born 17 February 1962 in Shenyang, China), is a Chinese football manager and former Chinese international footballer. He mainly played as a centre forward for Liaoning FC.
Playing career
Club career
Tang Yaodong began his footb ...
,
Zhao Faqing
Zhao Faqing (; born 3 January 1964) is a former Chinese footballer.
Club career
Born in Dalian, Liaoning, Zhao joined provincial team Liaoning. During his time with Liaoning, Zhao won one Chinese National League title in 1985 and five Jia-A L ...
,
Gao Sheng,
Dong Liqiang,
Wang Jun,
Fu Yubin and
Li Bing would all either retire or soon leave the club, ending the club's dominance within Chinese football.
1994: Professionalism
On February 26, 1994, Liaoning was re-established as a professional unit as a result of the Chinese football reform, which was the Chinese Football Association looking to professionalize the whole of the Chinese football league. The club would take part in the 1994 Chinese Jia-A League season, making them a founding member of the first fully professional top-tier league in China. While private businesses were allowed to own or sponsor football clubs for the first time Liaoning had already spearheaded the reform in 1988 when they were the first ever Chinese club to gain any form of sponsorship when the Pharmaceutical Enterprise Group sponsored them within that season. Liaoning's transition toward full professionalism was difficult compared to their peers and the developments of their rivals saw them achieve only one victory in their first four games, which resulted in Yang Yumin resigning from his post as manager. The club's struggles would continue on October 23, 1994, when their first major signing within the professional era
Jiang Feng was caught stamping on
Shanghai Shenhua
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player
Wu Chengying
Wu Chengying (; Pinyin: ''Wú Chéngyīng''; born 21 April 1975 in Shanghai) is a Chinese former international football player who spent the majority of his career at Shanghai Shenhua where he won the league and Chinese FA Cup before moving to Sh ...
in a league game that saw him banned by the CFA for the rest of the season. At the end of the season they finished the league in fourth and for the first time in ten seasons they were unable to achieve any silverware.
1995–2005: Financial trouble
In the
1995 Chinese league season Liaoning's reign as China's dominant football club officially came to end when they were defeated by
Guangzhou Apollo
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2–1 on November 12, 1995, and were relegated for the first time in their history to the second tier. Within the campaign the influential
Chinese Football Association Footballer of the Year winner Li Bing was sold for a then Chinese record fee of 640,000 Yuan to
Guangdong Winnerway and the club's results suffered due to his absence. On June 14, 1995, the club's manager Wang Hongli was replaced by the former Liaoning player Li Shubin in his first Head coach position, however he was unable to make a difference and was relieved of his duties at the end of the season. In the wake of the disappointment private investor Cao Guojun (曹国俊),
Liaoning Sport Technology College,
Beijing Jiahua Group
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,
China Northern Airlines
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and members from the
Dalian Development Area
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History
Kaifaqu was established in September, 1984 under the fo ...
as well as several others increased their investment of the club on December 29, 1995, to make Liaoning China's first joint-stock club. With this investment the club hired former Chinese national team manager
Su Yongshun in the hopes of an immediate promotion. Su Yongshun would not be the person to achieve this as the club finished fourth within the division. This saw many of the investors pull-out from the club, which resulted in the team in a tight financial situation, which was only relieved when chairman and investor Cao Guojun assigned three million Yuan to the team and later bring in new investors into the club. Former manager Wang Hongli was eventually brought back into the team while emerging strikers
Qu Shengqing
Qu Shengqing (; Pinyin: ''Qū Shèngqīng'' born June 5, 1975) is a Chinese football coach and former international player. As a player he represented Liaoning FC where he won the Golden Boot in the 1999 league season before joining Shanghai She ...
and
Zhang Yuning were able to fire Liaoning back into the top tier at the end of the 1998 league season.
In the
1999 league season former Liaoning youth team coach Zhang Yin was already appointed as the club's manager and under his reign he continued to promote youth players such as
Li Jinyu
Li Jinyu (; born 6 July 1977) is a former international player who is currently the head coach of Wuhan.
As a player he represented Liaoning Whowin and Shandong Luneng in the Chinese Super League and spent one season on loan at French club ...
,
Li Tie
Li Tie (; born 18 May 1977) is a Chinese professional football coach and former player.
As a player he represented Liaoning FC in the Chinese Jia-A League, Everton in the Premier League, Sheffield United in the Football League Championship a ...
,
Wang Liang and
Zhao Junzhe
Zhao Junzhe (; born 19 April 1979) is a retired Chinese footballer who predominantly played for Liaoning F.C. in the Chinese Super League.
Club career
Zhao Junzhe was promoted to Liaoning F.C.'s first team from the club's youth academy and m ...
into the senior team. His faith within his young players would be extremely successful and Liaoning became genuine title contenders and came runners-up to
Shandong Luneng Taishan
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by a single point. Initially the team hoped they could build upon their runners-up spot by winning the league's opening showpiece event the
Chinese FA Super Cup
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, however this would be dashed on April 26, 2000, when teammates
Zhang Yuning and Qu Leheng were involved in a serious car accident. It was discovered that Zhang was drink driving while taking some teammates and friends home, however while Zhang sustained minor injuries his teammate Qu Leheng sustained serious injuries, which resulted in Qu being left a paraplegic and consigned to a wheelchair for life. Qu would go on to successfully sue Zhang 2.34 million yuan (282,000 US dollars) for compensation on November 22, 2004. Zhang would also go on to make a public apology to Qu and despite publicly believing that the compensation was especially high he decided to abnegate his right to ask for a retrial. The incident and subsequent trial would cause irrevocable damage to the club's season, which resulted in Zhang Yin leaving the team and eventually Wang Hongli returning to the club once again to steer the club to an eighth-place finish. The incident would coincide with the sell off of the club with the Liaoning Youth team sold for 28,000,000 RMB to the
Hongyun Group and
Huludao Jiuxing Ltd
Huludao (), formerly known as Jinxi () until 1994, is a coastal prefecture-level city in southwestern Liaoning province, People's Republic of China. Its name literally means "Gourd Island", referring to the fiddle-shaped contour of the peninsula ...
on December 26, 2001, to form
Liaoning Xingguang. This was followed by a relocation to the
Olympic Sports Centre in Beijing at the start of the 2002 league season on financial grounds, however the club returned to their hometown the following campaign. The striker Li Jinyu, winner of the 2002 Chinese Golden boot award was then sold to Shandong Luneng Taishan for a Chinese record 4,900,000 Yuan. By March 7, 2006, the club would admit that they were in debt and were looking to sell the club.
2006–2017: A new chairman
On August 4, 2006, Liaoning Sport Technology College officially became the club's major shareholder. On August 20, 2006, the Hongyun Group also became a majority shareholder within the team and eventually brought in Wang Yi (王毅) to be appointed as the club's Chairman in April 2007. One of his first assignments was having to disband the club's youth team called
Liaoning Guangyuan after their time as a satellite team in Singapore's
S.League
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saw them embroiled in a match fixing scandal. In the 2008 league season the club would go on to be relegated, however in the 2009 league season they would go on to win the second division and immediately win promotion back to the top tier. The club would re-establish themselves back in the top flight and even came third within the 2011 league season, which saw them qualify for Asia's top competition for the first time in 17 years. The club would decide not to participate within the
2012 AFC Champions League after it required them to play a qualification game to enter the tournament proper.
2017–present: Relegation
On 5 July 2016 the club signed
Nigerian international footballer
Anthony Ujah for a club record €13 million from
SV Werder Bremen. The move was not a success and Liaoning Hongyun were relegated to the
League One
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once again in the
2017 season, finishing in last place. Anthony Ujah was sold at a significant loss to
Mainz 05
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for €3.8 million. In the
2018 league season the club failed to gain promotion in their first attempt. Along with the loss of revenue from the top tier the club would admit that they were in financial difficulties and were paying the teams wages late at the start of the
2019 league season. At the beginning of the
2020 league season the club were once again late in paying their player wages and had to receive an extension from the
Chinese Football Association
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to grant them their registration for the new season. On 24 February 2020 the club finally handed in their financial statements to the Chinese FA, however several players immediately wrote to the FA to claim that the financial statements handed in by the club were fraudulent and they had still not been paid. The club were once again given an extension by the FA, but had to settle all wages owed before being granted registration to play in the league. In light of this the clubs debt was discovered to be 376,140,492.50 Yuan (€48,373,237.76) as of 19 May 2019 while their operating costs throughout the season were 100 million Yuan and they were actively looking for investors, especially the local Shenyang City government or face bankruptcy.
On 11 March 2020 newly promoted club to the second tier
Shenyang Urban F.C. became interested in merging and integrating the clubs together. The club's owner
Zhuang Yi
Zhuang Yi (; born 11 July 1973) is a Chinese footballer and businessman who currently the owner and player of China League One side Shenyang Urban. He holds the record of the oldest player and scorer of Chinese professional league.
Club career
Z ...
was a former Liaoning player and publicly stated he wished to create a new Liaoning club. On 12 March 2020, Liaoning was officially disbanded. Zhuang Yi immediately received all the players from all echelons of Liaoning and started to integrate the two teams. On 13 March 2020 Shenyang Urban F.C. officially changed their name to Liaoning Shenyang Urban F.C..
On 23 May 2020, Liaoning Football Club was disqualified by CFA due to wage arrears.
Name history
*1959–92: Liaoning
*1993: Liaoning Dongyao
*1994: Liaoning Far East
*1995: Liaoning
*1996: Liaoning Hangxing
*1997: Liaoning Shuangxing
*1998: Liaoning Tianrun
*1999: Liaoning Fushun
*2000–01: Liaoning Fushun Tegang
*2002: Liaoning Bird
*2003: Liaoning Zhongshun
*2004: Liaoning Zhongyu (辽宁中誉)
*2005–07: Liaoning FC
*2008–Current: Liaoning Hongyun (Whowin)
Rivalries
The club have historically had two main rivalries, which were with
Dalian Football Club and
Shenyang. Geographically they all shared the same province of Liaoning, while the tie played between them was subsequently called the Liaoning Derby (辽宁德比). The more high-profile tie would have been the Liaoning FC and Dalian match because each team could boast successful periods within their histories; however, a direct championship rivalry between them never materialized and on 30 November 2012, Dalian were acquired by
Dalian Aerbin
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that effectively ended that rivalry. The Liaoning FC and Shenyang tie saw the clubs share the same Shenyang People's Stadium in the
1994 league season but this rivalry also ended when Shenyang left the province and moved to
Changsha
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. The Liaoning Derby has been continued with Dalian Aerbin and on 26 October 2014 it saw Liaoning FC beat Dalian Aerbin, 2–1, in a vital league game that helped relegate Dalian Aerbin to the second tier at the end of the
2014 Chinese Super League
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season.
Coaching staff
Managerial history
Managers who have coached the club and team since Liaoning became a fully professional club back on February 26, 1994.
*
Yang Yumin (1992 – May 8, 1994)
*
Wang Hongli
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(May 9, 1994 – May 21, 1995)
*
Li Shubin (July 1995 – Dec 31, 1995)
*
Su Yongshun (Jan 1, 1996 – June 23, 1996)
* Yang Yumin (June 24, 1996 – Dec 31, 1995)
*
Gai Zengchen (Jan 1, 1997 – April 6, 1997)
* Yang Yumin (April 7, 1997 – Aug 31, 1997)
* Wang Hongli (Nov 1997 – Oct 11, 1998)
* Zhang Yin (Oct 12, 1998 – April 24, 2000)
*
Yevgeni Skomorokhov (April 25, 2000 – July 17, 2000)
* Wang Hongli (July 18, 2000 – Dec 31, 2002)
*
Dimitar Penev
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(Jan 1, 2003 – April 5, 2003)
*
Ma Lin (April 6, 2003 – Dec 31, 2004)
* Wang Hongli (Jan 1, 2005 – July 2, 2005)
*
Tang Yaodong
Tang Yaodong (; born 17 February 1962 in Shenyang, China), is a Chinese football manager and former Chinese international footballer. He mainly played as a centre forward for Liaoning FC.
Playing career
Club career
Tang Yaodong began his footb ...
(July 3, 2005 – Dec 30, 2007)
*
Werner Lorant
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Playin ...
(Jan 1, 2008 – June 25, 2008)
* Ma Lin (July 8, 2008 – Nov 26, 2013)
*
Gao Sheng (Nov 27, 2013 – April 9, 2014)
*
Chen Yang (April 9, 2014 – Aug 2, 2015)
* Ma Lin (Aug 2, 2015 – Aug 1, 2017)
*
René Lobello (Aug 1, 2017 – Sep 29, 2017)
*
Zhao Junzhe
Zhao Junzhe (; born 19 April 1979) is a retired Chinese footballer who predominantly played for Liaoning F.C. in the Chinese Super League.
Club career
Zhao Junzhe was promoted to Liaoning F.C.'s first team from the club's youth academy and m ...
(Sep 29, 2017 – Dec 12, 2017)
*
Chen Yang (Dec 12, 2017 – Jan 13, 2019)
*
Zang Haili (Feb 13, 2019–)
Honours
All-time honours list including semi-professional period and one 1954 Chinese National League championship as part of North East China team.
Domestic
League
*Chinese National League
**Winners (2): 1978, 1985
*
Chinese Jia-A League
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(Semi-Pro: 1987–1993; Professional: 1994–2003)
** Winners (6): 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993
** ''Runners-Up (2):'' 1989, 1999
*
China League One
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Prior to the formation of ...
**Winners (1): 2009
Cup
*
Chinese FA Cup
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** Winners (2): 1984, 1986
*
Chinese Super Cup
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** Winners (1): 2000
Asian
*
Asian Club Championship
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** Winners (1): 1990
** Runners-up (1): 1991
Invitational
*
DCM Trophy
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** Winners (1): 1984
Youth Team
*Winners (1): 2008
*U15 Team
*Nike Cup
Results
''As of the end of 2018 season.''
All-time League rankings
No league games in 1959, 1966–72, 1975;
Did not participate in 1986 league;
* in group stage * in final group stage *in North League
Key
* Pld = Played
* W = Games won
* D = Games drawn
* L = Games lost
* F = Goals for
* A = Goals against
* Pts = Points
* Pos = Final position
* DNQ = Did not qualify
* DNE = Did not enter
* NH = Not Held
* – = Does Not Exist
* R1 = Round 1
* R2 = Round 2
* R3 = Round 3
* R4 = Round 4
* F = Final
* SF = Semi-finals
* QF = Quarter-finals
* R16 = Round of 16
* Group = Group stage
* GS2 = Second Group stage
* QR1 = First Qualifying Round
* QR2 = Second Qualifying Round
* QR3 = Third Qualifying Round
References
External links
Club websiteClub profile at sohu.com
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