Qingdao F.C.

Not to be confused with Qingdao Hainiu F.C., a club with a name the club of this article used between 2013 and 2015.

Qingdao Football Club (Chinese: 青岛足球俱乐部) was a professional Chinese football club that participated in the Chinese Super League under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team was based in Qingdao and their home stadium was the Qingdao Guoxin Stadium that has a seating capacity of 45,000. The club was owned by Qingdao Central Plaza Business Management Co., Ltd. who formed the team on 29 January 2013.

Qingdao

Full name	Qingdao Football Club
Founded	29 January 2013; 11 years ago (2013-01-29)
Dissolved	13 April 2022; 2 years ago (2022-04-13)
Ground	Conson Stadium, Qingdao, China
Capacity	45,000
Owner	Shenzhen Hengye Investment Group Co., ltd. (63.625%) Qingdao Huanghai Health Industry Group Co., ltd. (27%) Others (9.375%)
2021	Super League, 16th of 16 (relegated)
Website	http://www.huanghaifc.com/index.aspx
Home colours Away colours

Qingdao F.C.
Traditional Chinese	青島足球俱樂部
Simplified Chinese	青岛足球俱乐部
Literal meaning	Qingdao Yellow Sea
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Qīngdǎo Zúqiú Jùlèbù

History

Club history

Qingdao Hainiu F.C. was established on 29 January 2013 by former players and coaches from Shandong that included Qi Wusheng as chairman, Hao Haidong as managerial director and Su Maozhen as general manager.^[1] With the financial backing of 20 million Yuan from Qingdao Central Plaza Business Management Co., Ltd the club would choose the name Hainiu (海牛), which means "The Sea Bulls" despite it once being used by Qingdao Jonoon, another football club in Qingdao between 1994 and 2004, hoping to inspire the golden era of Qingdao football. On the field the team would show their dominance within the league and go through the divisions group stage undefeated, while also beating Meixian Super-X and Shenzhen Fengpeng F.C. to reach the play-off final.^[2] In the final the club would defeat Hebei Zhongji F.C. 3–1 to gain promotion to the second tier and win a million Yuan in prize money for the game with a further 3 million won throughout the season.^[3]

On 31 January 2015, Qingdao Huanghai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. purchased a 51% stake of the club.^[4] On 3 July 2015, Serbian player Goran Gogić collapsed and lost consciousness after a training session with the club. He died later on the same day.^[5] Qingdao Hainiu finished 11th place in the 2015 season. On 30 December 2015, Qingdao Hainiu F.C. changed their name to Qingdao Huanghai F.C. after Qingdao Huanghai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. took full charge of the club.^[6] Qingdao Huanghai finished level on 59 points with Tianjin Quanjian and Guizhou Zhicheng under Spanish manager Jordi Vinyals in the 2016 season, but their head-to-head points was worse than the other two clubs, thus failing to promote to the Chinese Super League.^[7]

In the following two years, the club came close to promotion each time but fell short, earning fourth place in the League One. In the 2019 China League One the club earned first place and gained promotion.

Ahead of the 2021 season, Qingdao Huanghai changed their name to Qingdao F.C.^[8]

The club dissolved after the 2021 season.^[9]

Ownership and naming history

Year	Owner	Club name	Sponsored team name
2013–14	Qingdao Central Plaza Business Management Co., Ltd.	Qingdao Hainiu F.C.	Qingdao Hainiu
2015	Qingdao Huanghai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.(51%) Qingdao Central Plaza Business Management Co., Ltd.(49%)[4]		Qingdao Huanghai Pharmaceutical[10]
2016–2018	Qingdao Huanghai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (90.625%) Others (9.375%)	Qingdao Huanghai F.C.[6]	Qingdao Huanghai
2019–2020	Shenzhen Hengye Investment Group Co., ltd. (63.625%)[11] Qingdao Huanghai Health Industry Group Co., ltd. (27%) Others (9.375%)		Qingdao Huanghai Qingdao Port
2021		Qingdao F.C.	Qingdao F.C.

Retired numbers

Main article: Retired numbers in football

12 – Club Supporters (the 12th Man) The number was retired in January 2016.

Managerial history

• Su Maozhen (29 January 2013 – 28 July 2015)
• Sun Xinbo (caretaker) (28 July 2015 – 28 Dec 2015)
• Jordi Vinyals (28 December 2015 – 30 July 2019)
• Óscar Céspedes (caretaker) (30 July 2019 – 18 August 2019)
• Juanma Lillo (18 August 2019 – 5 June 2020)
• Óscar Céspedes (caretaker) (5 June 2020 – 22 July 2020)
• Pablo Machín (22 July 2020 – 29 July 2020)
• Yang Weijian (caretaker) (29 July 2020 - 4 August 2020)
• Wu Jingui (4 August 2020 - 13 December 2021)
• Yang Weijian (caretaker) (13 December 2021 - 12 January 2022)

Club honours

• China League Two (tier-III)^[12]
  • Winners (1): 2013
• China League One (tier-II)
  • Winners (1): 2019

Results

All-time League rankings

As of the end of 2020 season.^[12][13]

Year	Div	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Pos.	FA Cup	Super Cup	AFC	Att./G	Stadium
2013	3	19	14	5	0	36	5	31	36 1	W	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	N/A	Qingdao Hongcheng Stadium
2014	2	30	7	10	13	36	47	−11	31	12	SF	DNQ	DNQ	4,229	Qingdao Conson Stadium
2015	2	30	7	12	11	26	39	−13	33	11	R2	DNQ	DNQ	5,230
2016	2	30	19	2	9	52	42	10	59	3	R2	DNQ	DNQ	6,992
2017	2	30	16	4	10	56	40	16	52	4	R3	DNQ	DNQ	5,997
2018	2	30	13	10	7	63	44	19	49	4	R3	DNQ	DNQ	6,638
2019	2	30	17	6	7	59	36	23	57	W	R4	DNQ	DNQ	13,193
2020	1	14 1	2 1	4 1	8 1	15 1	27 1	-12 1	10 1	14	R1	DNQ	DNQ	N/A	Suzhou (Group stage) / Dalian (Relegation stage)
2021	1	22	3	2	17	13	52	-39	11	16	-	DNQ	DNQ	N/A	Guangzhou (First, Second stage) / Suzhou (Relegation stage, CSL Playoffs)

• ^1 In group stage
• ^2 The league is in progress

Key

China top division   China second division   China third division W   Winners RU   Runners-up 3   Third place   Relegated

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

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries.

China Qu Bo Wan Houliang Jiang Kun Zhang Jiaqi Deng Zhuoxiang Wang Dong Zou Zheng Liu Jian Zhu Ting Africa Joseph Minala Yves Ekwalla Hermann Kelly Youga Yaya Touré Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu Asia Yaki Yen Godfred Karikari Kim Seung-Yong

Europe Vladimir Voskoboinikov Romain Alessandrini Fredrik Ulvestad Ricardo Vaz Tê Jagoš Vuković Goran Gogić Đorđe Rakić Denis Popović Martí Crespí Joan Verdú Francisco Sandaza South America Cléo Yuri de Souza

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External links

• Official website (in Chinese) (archived)