Hebei F.C.

Hebei
Full name	Hebei Football Club
Founded	2009; 12 years ago
Ground	Langfang Stadium
Capacity	30,000
Owner	China Fortune Land Development
Manager	Kim Jong-boo
League	Chinese Super League
2020	CSL, 8th of 16
Website	Club website
Home colours	Away colours

Hebei Football Club (simplified Chinese: 河北足球俱乐部]; traditional Chinese: 河北足球俱樂部; pinyin: Héběi Zúqiú Jùlèbù) is a professional Chinese football club that participates in the Chinese Super League division under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team is based in Langfang, Hebei and their home stadium is the Langfang Stadium that has a seating capacity of 30,000. Their current owners are real estate developers China Fortune Land Development who took over the club on 27 January 2015.

According to Forbes, Hebei are the 7th most valuable football team in China, with a team value of $90 million, and an estimated revenue of $22 million in 2015.^[1]

History[]

Hebei Zhongji was founded on 28 May 2010 by the Hebei football association and Hebei Zhongji Group who promised to invest three million Yuan a season for next four campaigns.^[2] They registered to play within China League Two, third tier of the Chinese football league system, as Hebei Yilin Shanzhuang (Simplified Chinese: 河北依林山庄) for sponsorship reasons in the 2011 league season. They failed to advance into the Play-offs after finishing in 5th place in the group stage. On 17 October 2011, the cooperation relationship between Hebei FA and Hebei Zhongji Group was terminated and Hebei Zhongji Group took full ownership of the club while the players who were owned by Hebei FA split into a new team called Hebei Youth.^[3] In the 2012 league season, Hebei Zhongji finished in 1st place in the North Group with 18 wins, 5 draws and only 1 defeat, however they were knocked out in the quarter-finals of the Play-offs by Hubei China-Kyle with the score at 1–1, losing on the away goals rule. On 16 August 2013 Guo Ruilong was brought in to manage the team for the rest of the 2013 league season, however during his brief tenure at the club he quickly led them to promotion after finishing runners-up at the end of the campaign.^[4] Huang Yang was brought in to coach the team during the off season while on December 26, 2013 the club announced that Uruguayan Nelson Agresta would be the club's first foreign manager.^[5]

On 27 January 2015, they changed the team name to Hebei China Fortune (Simplified Chinese: 河北华夏幸福) after being purchased by China Fortune Land Development. Serbian manager Radomir Antić signed a three-year contract with the club on the same day.^[6] They changed the club name to Hebei China Fortune F.C. in December 2015 after winning promotion to Chinese Super League in the 2015 season. The club has since expanded its bid for league success by landing international stars such as Gervinho and Ezequiel Lavezzi.^[7] In August 2016, the Chilean Manuel Pellegrini became manager of the club,^[8] as part of a larger plan for Hebei China Fortune F.C. and Chinese football to make a great leap forward by the end of the decade. This process continued with the appointment of Chris Coleman on 10 June 2018.^[9]

Ownership and naming history[]

Year	Owner	Club name	Sponsored team name
2011	Hebei Zhongji Group	Hebei Zhongji Football Club	Hebei Yilinshanzhuang
2012–2014	Hebei Zhongji Group
2015	China Fortune Land Development		Hebei China Fortune
2016–2020		Hebei China Fortune Football Club^[7]	Hebei China Fortune
2021–		Hebei Football Club^[10]	Hebei Football Club

Current squad[]

First team squad[]

As of 31 July 2021^[11]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
2	DF	CHN	Zhang Junzhe
4	DF	CHN	Lei Tenglong
5	DF	BIH	Samir Memišević
6	MF	NOR	Ole Selnæs (on loan from Shenzhen)
7	FW	CHN	Xu Tianyuan
9	MF	CHN	Gong Qiule
11	MF	CHN	Hu Rentian
13	MF	CHN	Yin Hongbo
14	MF	CHN	Feng Gang
15	MF	CHN	Wang Qiuming
16	DF	CHN	Chen Yunhua
17	MF	CHN	Song Xintao
18	FW	CHN	Gao Huaze
19	MF	CHN	Li Hao
21	DF	CHN	Cui Lin
22	GK	CHN	Chi Wenyi
23	FW	POR	João Silva


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
24	FW	CHN	Zhang Yu
25	MF	CHN	Liao Wei
26	DF	CHN	Jiang Wenjun
28	MF	CHN	Zhang Chengdong
29	DF	CHN	Chen Xiao
30	GK	CHN	Bao Yaxiong
31	GK	CHN
32	DF	CHN	Ding Haifeng
33	MF	CHN
34	GK	CHN
35	MF	CHN	Jin Qiang (on loan from Shenzhen)
36	MF	CHN
37	DF	CHN	Pan Ximing
38	FW	CHN	Zhang Wei
39	MF	CHN	Yao Xuchen
40	MF	CHN	Zhang Hui
45	FW	BRA	Leonardo (on loan from Shandong Taishan)

Reserve squad[]

As of 1 March 2019

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	GK	CHN	Li Taoyang
43	MF	CHN	Zhang Haitao
44	MF	CHN
46	MF	CHN	Feng Siqi
48	MF	CHN	Xu Wenlong
49	MF	CHN	Jin Xing
50	FW	CHN	Piao Lei
52	MF	CHN	Yang Shaochen
54	MF	CHN	Li Shuaihu
55	DF	CHN	Li Yiying


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
56	MF	CHN	Kang Mingjie
57	DF	CHN	Yang Chenyu
58	DF	CHN	Wang Hongzhi
59	DF	CHN	Yang Song
62	MF	CHN	Wang Wenhao
-	GK	CHN	Yang Cheng
-	MF	CHN	Ren Wei
-	MF	CHN	Chen Tang

Unregistered players[]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	DF	CHN
—	DF	CHN	Wei Changsheng
—	DF	HKG	Andy Russell


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	MF	CHN	Chen Ao
—	MF	CHN

Out on loan[]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
-	MF	CHN	Zu Pengchao (at Shaanxi Chang'an Athletic until 31 December 2021)
-	DF	CHN	Liu Jing (at Sichuan Jiuniu until 31 December 2021)


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player

Coaching staff[]

Position	Staff
Head coach	Xie Feng
Assistant Manager	Li Yi
Team leader	Gao Yao
Sports Science
Assistant coaches	Zheng Bin
Goalkeeper Coach
Fitness coaches

Source: CFFC

Managerial history[]

Nationality	Manager	Duration		Departure reason
Nationality	Manager	Start	Finish	Departure reason
	Wei Yuanhao	May 28, 2010	October 13, 2011	Mutual consent
	Zhang Yandong	October 14, 2011	August 15, 2013
	Guo Ruilong	August 16, 2013	December 3, 2013
	Huang Yang	December 4, 2013	December 25, 2013
	Nelson Agresta	December 26, 2013	August 14, 2014	Sacked
	Alejandro Larrea	August 14, 2014	December 31, 2014	Mutual consent
	Radomir Antić	January 27, 2015	August 18, 2015	Mutual consent
	Li Tie	August 18, 2015	August 27, 2016	Sacked
	Manuel Pellegrini	August 27, 2016	May 19, 2018	Mutual consent
	Chris Coleman	June 10, 2018	May 15th, 2019	Sacked

Results[]

All-time league rankings

As of the end of 2019 season.^[12]^[13]

Year	Div	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Pos.	FA Cup	Super Cup	AFC	Att./G	Stadium
2011	3	14	4	4	6	14	16	−2	16	5 ¹	DNE	DNQ	DNQ		Yutong International Sports Center
2012	3	26	18	7	1	50	11	39	59 ¹	6^[14]	R2	DNQ	DNQ	4,783
2013	3	19	11	4	4	40	13	27	27 ¹	RU	R2	DNQ	DNQ
2014	2	30	6	11	13	31	54	−23	29	14	R2	DNQ	DNQ	6,239
2015	2	30	18	6	6	53	30	23	60	RU	R4	DNQ	DNQ	7,796	Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Center Stadium
2016	1	30	11	7	12	34	38	−4	40	7	QF	DNQ	DNQ	18,469
2017	1	30	15	7	8	55	38	17	52	4	R4	DNQ	DNQ	18,054
2018	1	30	10	9	11	46	50	−4	39	6	R16	DNQ	DNQ	16,029	Langfang Stadium
2019	1	30	9	6	15	37	55	-18	33	11	R4	DNQ	DNQ	17,799	Langfang Stadium

^1 In group stage.

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

References[]

^ "Chinese Soccer's Most Valuable Teams". Forbes. Archived from the original on September 15, 2016. Retrieved August 14, 2016.
^ 河北中基足球俱乐部简介 (in Chinese). hebeifootball.com. Archived from the original on March 25, 2012. Retrieved April 2, 2014.
^ 最新消息:河北足球正式开始职业俱乐部商业运作 (in Chinese). hebeifootball.com. October 18, 2011. Archived from the original on December 11, 2013. Retrieved April 2, 2014.
^ 河北中基昨日赴昆明冬训不排除选外籍主帅 (in Chinese). news.gmw.cn. December 3, 2013. Archived from the original on February 5, 2014. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
^ 前泰达主帅重返中国乌拉圭人内尔松挂帅河北中基 (in Chinese). sports.sina.com.cn. December 24, 2013. Archived from the original on July 14, 2015. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
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^ "Manuel Pellegrini: Ex-Manchester City manager joins Hebei China Fortune". BBC Sport. 27 August 2016. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
^ 华夏宣布前威尔士主帅执教曾在欧洲杯闯进4强. sina (in Chinese). 2018-06-10. Retrieved 2018-06-10.
^ "官方：河北华夏幸福正式更名为河北足球俱乐部". Dongqiudi. 10 February 2021. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
^ "河北大名单出炉：四外援阵容，多位外租小将回归". Dongqiudi (in Chinese). 16 April 2021. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
^ "China – List of Champions". rsssf.com. March 20, 2014. Archived from the original on July 4, 2014. Retrieved April 2, 2014.
^ 河北中基 (in Chinese). sodasoccer.com. Archived from the original on August 10, 2014. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
^ 2012年中国足球协会乙级联赛决赛阶段比赛名次 Archived September 24, 2015, at the Wayback Machine fa.org.cn March 30, 2013 Retrieved April 8, 2016

External links[]

Official site (in English)

[1] "Chinese Soccer's Most Valuable Teams". Forbes. Archived from the original on September 15, 2016. Retrieved August 14, 2016.

[2] 河北中基足球俱乐部简介 (in Chinese). hebeifootball.com. Archived from the original on March 25, 2012. Retrieved April 2, 2014.

[3] 最新消息:河北足球正式开始职业俱乐部商业运作 (in Chinese). hebeifootball.com. October 18, 2011. Archived from the original on December 11, 2013. Retrieved April 2, 2014.

[4] 河北中基昨日赴昆明冬训不排除选外籍主帅 (in Chinese). news.gmw.cn. December 3, 2013. Archived from the original on February 5, 2014. Retrieved July 12, 2015.

[5] 前泰达主帅重返中国乌拉圭人内尔松挂帅河北中基 (in Chinese). sports.sina.com.cn. December 24, 2013. Archived from the original on July 14, 2015. Retrieved July 12, 2015.

[6] 河北中基更名河北华夏幸福安蒂奇上任签约三年 (in Chinese). sohu.com. January 27, 2015. Archived from the original on January 28, 2015. Retrieved January 27, 2015.

[足协发布公告-7] Jump up to: ^a ^b 足协发布公告：河北中基正式更名为河北华夏幸福 (in Chinese). sina.com. December 15, 2015. Archived from the original on August 8, 2016. Retrieved January 17, 2016.

[HebeiIn-8] "Manuel Pellegrini: Ex-Manchester City manager joins Hebei China Fortune". BBC Sport. 27 August 2016. Retrieved 22 May 2018.

[9] 华夏宣布前威尔士主帅执教曾在欧洲杯闯进4强. sina (in Chinese). 2018-06-10. Retrieved 2018-06-10.

[10] "官方：河北华夏幸福正式更名为河北足球俱乐部". Dongqiudi. 10 February 2021. Retrieved 10 February 2021.

[11] "河北大名单出炉：四外援阵容，多位外租小将回归". Dongqiudi (in Chinese). 16 April 2021. Retrieved 16 April 2021.

[12] "China – List of Champions". rsssf.com. March 20, 2014. Archived from the original on July 4, 2014. Retrieved April 2, 2014.

[13] 河北中基 (in Chinese). sodasoccer.com. Archived from the original on August 10, 2014. Retrieved July 28, 2014.

[14] 2012年中国足球协会乙级联赛决赛阶段比赛名次 Archived September 24, 2015, at the Wayback Machine fa.org.cn March 30, 2013 Retrieved April 8, 2016

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