Qingdao Hainiu Football Club (, known as Hai-niu or literally Sea Bull) is a professional Chinese

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club that currently participates in the

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division under licence from the

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(CFA). The team is based in

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and their home stadium is the

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that has a seating capacity of 20,525. Their current owners are the privately owned cable manufacturer Qingdao Jonoon Group. The club was founded as Shandong Economic and Trade Commission Football Club in 1990 and started at the bottom of the Chinese football league pyramid in the third tier. On December 31, 1993 they became the first professional club in

and changed its name to Qingdao Hainiu. They went on to establish themselves as a top-tier club and won their first major trophy in 2002 by winning the

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on November 16, 2002 when they beat Liaoning Bird. In the mid-2010s the club started to decline and fell down two leagues, being relegated twice in 4 seasons.

History

Qingdao Jonoon Football Club started out as Shandong Economic and Trade Commission F.C. in 1990 by some retired footballers at the corporation affiliated with Shandong economic and trade commission associated with some workers at Qingdao Municipal Sanatorium. After playing in the Chinese Yi League for three seasons, the club finished as Second Division Champions and won promotion to the Chinese Jia-B League in 1992 – the club's first league title. As required by

, on 31 December 1993, the club set up a professional system and became the first professional football club in Qingdao. Subsequently, the club was renamed to Qingdao Manatee F.C., the Chinese name for

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, "海牛 (hainiu, literally 'sea bull')", also being the nickname for the

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in Tuandao

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due to the sound it emits. Qingdao Manatee finished as the Chinese Jia-B League Champions and won promotion to the

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in 1994. In the following season, the club was invited to compete the Tainland Queen's Cup and achieved the third place with 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss – the club's first international honour. However, in domestic league the club was relegated to the Division 1B after losing an epic battle against

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2–3. In 1996, the club appointed Wu Hongyue as manager, who led the team to a second-place league finish and regained promotion to the Division 1A. Soon after that season, the state-run tobacco producer – Qingdao Etsong Group started to invest the club, which changed its name to Qingdao Etsong Hainiu F.C. the following year. From 1997 season, the club became a regular member of the top division and was never relegated since then. On November 16, 2002, after beating Liaoning Bird 2–0 in

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, the club won its first major trophy: the 2002

. After eight-year management by Etsong Group, the club was transferred to a privately owned cable manufacturer – Qingdao Jonoon Group and dropped the long term icon "Hainiu" from its name in December 2004. The club's new owner slashed down the budget greatly, sold up all notable players and assigned the former Jinan taishan's coach

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as manager, who is famous for his defending style. In the following three seasons, Yin brought Jonoon to stay firmly in the middle position of the league. In 2008, after Yin's assignment as assistant coach of China Olympic team, the club promoted the assistant coach

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as head coach and retained eighth place in that season. After six-round terrible management in the following season, Guo was sacked by the club and former notable

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n coach

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took over as manager. Though finished at thirteenth place, the team played a beautiful attacking soccer style and even the attacking combination was duplicated by the National Team head coach

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. Soon after 2009 season, the club surprisingly sacked Santrač and reassigned Guo as actual head coach, with

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assigned as nominal head coach due to Gu's lack of qualification. In 2010, the club endured a horrible season and lost the last match against

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0–1, but surprisingly survived from relegation in the fourteenth place. In the 2013 league season the team's manager Chang Woe-Ryong was sacked from the club despite the team sitting in tenth. The club would experience relegation at the end of the season and the club's owners publicly declared that one of their own players in Gabriel Melkam was match fixing, which resulted in their relegation. Gabriel Melkam would claim that the accusations of match-fixing were a ploy by the owners not to pay his wages and he took his case to FIFA. While this was going on further claims of mismanagement would arise with the transfer of the club's captain Liu Jian move to

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when it was discovered that the club had forged an extension in his contract. In the 2014 league season the club were found guilty for breaking the Chinese FA's rules and were deducted 7 points. In 2016 Qingdao Jonoon finished second-to-last in the League One and were relegated to the third level of the Chinese league system.

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, another team in the League One in the same city, started to get more attention. Qingdao had no more foreign players by 2019. In the 2019 season, there were deducted six points for a rule violation.

Ownership and naming history

Crest and colours

The club's first choice of home kit colors were all red and they did not have a badge until they won promotion. When they won promotion they changed the club's home kit colors to yellow and their name to Qingdao Manatee (海牛), which Chinese name also literally means "Sea Bull", which directly influenced their badge design, which was simply a bull. The owners Etsong Group decided to rebrand the club once more with a new badge, which was a simple striped design with the new owners name at the top while the new kit colors became red and white. With Jonoon Group coming in as their new sponsor the club changed their colors once again to blue while using red as their new away colors. When the Jonoon Group took over they incorporated their own logo of two tigers merged as the club's new badge and chose orange as the new home colors because they believe it represents "passion and energy" as well as also being the same color of their own brand.

Kit evolution

Grounds

The current home stadium of Qingdao Jonoon Football Club is

, which is also known as Qingdao First Stadium. Tiantai Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium built in 1933 as Qingdao Municipal Stadium, and was renamed Qingdao First Stadium in 1955. Qingdao Jonoon started to play in Tiantai Stadium in the first three professional seasons, and resided there permanently since 2007.

Players

Current squad

Out on loan

Club Officials

Current Coaching staff

Managerial history

Information correct as of end of 2013 league season. * Wang Shouye 1990–91 * Liu Guojiang 1992 * Wang Shouye 1993–94 * Xu Yonglai 1995 * Wu Hongyue 1996 * Liu Guojiang 1997 * Li Yingfa 1998 * Kim Jung-Nam 1999 * Guo Zuojin (''Caretaker'') 1999 * Wang Shouye (''Caretaker'') 1999 * Yang Weijian (''Caretaker'') 1999 * Miroljub Ostojić 2000 * Guo Zuojin 2000–01 * Lee Jang-Soo 2002–03 * Tang Lepu 2004 * Wang Weiman (''Caretaker'') 2004 *

2005–07 *

2008–09 *

April 30, 2009 – Nov 11, 2009 *

2010 The actual manager is Guo Kanfeng * Ji Yujie 2010 The actual manager is Guo Kanfeng * Chang Woe-Ryong Jan 1, 2011 – Dec 31, 2011 *

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Jan 20, 2012 – March 13, 2012 * Yang Weijian (''Caretaker'') 2012 * Chang Woe-Ryong May 24, 2012 – Aug 20, 2013 * Li Yingfa (''Caretaker'') Aug 20, 2013 – Sept 5, 2013 Caretaker *

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Sept 5, 2013 – Oct 30, 2013 * Li Xiaopeng Oct 30, 2013–22 July 2014 * Tomaž Kavčič 24 July 2014 – 5 October 2015 *

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(''Caretaker'') 5 October 2015 – 15 December 2015 * Su Maozhen 15 December 2015 – 6 September 2016 * Yin Tiesheng 6 September 2016 – 25 December 2017 * Goran Stevanović 25 December 2017 – 14 June 2018 * Aleksandar Kristić 14 June 2018 – 23 December 2019 *

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23 December 2019–

Honours

Qingdao Jonoon's first trophy was the Chinese Yi League Champions, which it won as Shandong Economic and Trade Commission in 1992. In 1995, the club won its first international honour as Qingdao Hainiu – the Thailand Queen's Cup third place. In 2002, the club won its first major trophy – the China FA Cup, which allowed to enter the

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where they came Runners-up that season.

Domestic

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Winners: 1 :: 2002 *Super Cup Runners-up: 1 :: 2002 * Jia-B League Champions: 1 :: 1994 * Jia-B League Runners-up: 2 :: 1993, 1996 * Yi League Champions: 1 :: 1992 Reserve team: *Coca-Cola Olympic League Champions: 2 :: 1998, 1999 Youth team: *U19 FA Cup Winners: 1 :: 2006

International

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Third places: 1 :: 1995

Player honours

Chinese Football Association Young Player of the Year
The following players have won the Chinese Football Association Young Player of the Year award while playing for Qingdao Yizhong Hainiu: * Qu Bo – 2000 The following players have won the Chinese Football Association Young Player of the Year award while playing for Qingdao Jonoon: * Song Wenjie – 2012 Top Scorer of 2010 East Asian Football Championship
The following players have won the Top Scorer of 2010 East Asian Football Championship award while playing for Qingdao Jonoon: * Qu Bo – 2010 Best 11 in the Chinese Football Association Team of the year
The following players have won the Best 11 in the Chinese Football Association Team of the year award while playing for Qingdao Yizhong Hainiu: * Chen Gang – 1999, DF The following players have won the Best 11 in the Chinese Football Association Team of the year award while playing for Qingdao Jonoon: * Liu Jian – 2007, MF * Qu Bo – 2009, FW

Results

All-time league rankings *As of the end of 2019 season. *: In final group stage. : No promotion. : 2 points each win. : No relegation.: Deducted 7 points.: Deducted 6 points. ;

results 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

All-time top scorers

Since

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the first professional league season. CFA Cup and CSL Cup are included. Correct as the end of season 2011.

Top league scorers each season

Since

the first professional league season. Correct as of 2 July 2012.

Records

Team records

Matches

*First Jia-B League match: Shandong Economic and Trade Commission 3–0

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, 17 January 1993 *First Professional League match: Qingdao Manatee 3–2 Henan Construction, 17 April 1994 *First Jia-A League match:

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1–0 Qingdao Manatee, 16 April 1995 *First

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match: Qingdao Etsong Hainiu 2–2

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match: Qingdao Etsong Hainiu 2–1 Liaoning Zhongyu, 2 June 2004

Record wins

*Record win: 6–1 v

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Record defeats

*Record defeat: 0–7 v Chongqing Longxin, 30 May 1999 *Record League defeat: 0–5 v

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, Jia-A League, 10 June 2001 *Record

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, 22 August 2007 :v

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, Jia-A League, 10 June 2001

Player records

*Most goals in a season in all competition: 12 – Qu Bo,

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*Most League goals in a season: 12 – Qu Bo,

*Top scorer with fewest goals in a season: 4 – Zhang Jun, Jia-A League,

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*Most goals scored in a match: 3 –

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, 29 March 2006 *Fastest Goal: 20 seconds –

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, 2 April 2000 *First hat-trick:

, 29 March 2006

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries. Asia *

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* Aziz Ibragimov * Sherzod Karimov *

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* Joel Griffiths Africa * Mark Williams * James Phiri *

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* Abdoul-Aziz Nikiema Europe * Miroslav Bičanić *

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* Aleksandar Rodić * Ninoslav Milenković Central & North America *

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* Luis Santamaría *

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* Osman Chávez * Jorge Claros * Eddie Hernández South America * Adrián Paz

References

External links

Official Qingdao Jonoon Football Club websiteOfficial Qingdao Jonoon Group
{{Chinese Super League Football clubs in China Sport in Qingdao 1990 establishments in China Association football clubs established in 1990