Kunshan F.C.

Kunshan FC

昆山FC
Full name	Kunshan Football Club; 昆山足球俱乐部
Founded	12 December 2014; 6 years ago (as Zhenjiang Huasa F.C.)
Ground	Kunshan Stadium; Kunshan, China
Capacity	30,000
Manager	Gao Yao
League	China League One
2020	League One, 3rd of 18
Home colours	Away colours

Kunshan Football Club (Chinese: 昆山足球俱乐部), or simply Kunshan F.C., is an association football club based in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China. They currently play in China League One, the second tier of Chinese football.

History[]

Zhenjiang Huasa, whose members are mainly the fans of FC Barcelona in China, was founded on 12 December 2014. Huasa, meaning Chinese Barca, was used as the club's name.^[1] They played in the 2016 China Amateur Football League and won the winners of 2016 Jiangsu Provincial Football League.^[2] Zhenjiang Huasa finished the 6th place in the national finals and won promotion to 2017 China League Two.^[3] In December 2018, Zhenjiang Huasa moved to Kunshan and changed their name to Kunshan F.C..^[4] With the support of the Kunshan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government as well as private financing the club were able to gain stability, improve their position to 9th and gain a total of 80310 fans with the highest average attendance of 5534 at the end of the 2019 league season.^[5]

Name history[]

2014–2018 Zhenjiang Huasa F.C. 镇江华萨
2018– Kunshan F.C. 昆山FC

Current squad[]

First team[]

As of 31 July 2021^[6]

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	CHN	Chen Anqi
2	DF	CHN	Wang Xijie
3	DF	CHN	Zhang Chenglin (on loan from Guangzhou)
4	MF	CHN	Liu Boyang
5	MF	CHN	Cui Peng
6	DF	CHN	Sun Guoliang
7	MF	CHN	Xiao Taotao (on loan from Guangzhou)
8	FW	CHN	Wu Yufan
9	FW	CHN	Zhu Zhengrong
10	MF	CHN	Ruan Yang
11	MF	CHN	Gu Wenxiang
12	GK	CHN
13	GK	CHN	Peng Peng
14	MF	CHN	Liu Zefeng
16	FW	CHN	Yang Yun
17	DF	CHN	Zhang Wei


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
18	DF	CHN	Wang Jiajie
19	FW	CHN	Feng Boyuan
20	MF	CHN	Zhang Yudong
21	MF	CHN	Abduwahap Aniwar
23	DF	CHN	Liu Ruicheng
24	MF	CHN	Zhang Chen
25	FW	CHN	Liu Yuhao
26	MF	CHN	Liu Yi
27	DF	CHN	Tu Dongxu
28	DF	BRA	Bruno Pires
29	MF	CHN	Xu Junmin
31	MF	CPV	Hildeberto Pereira
32	DF	CHN	Wei Lai (on loan from Shanghai Port)
33	MF	CHN	Cai Mingmin (on loan from Guangzhou)
35	MF	CHN	Gong Chunjie
36	MF	CHN

Reserve squad[]

As of 31 July 2021

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
22	DF	CHN
-	GK	CHN
-	MF	CHN	Sun Zhaoliang
-	DF	CHN	Pan Jiajun
-	FW	CHN	Zhang Tianhan
-	DF	CHN
-	DF	CHN
-	DF	CHN


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
-	MF	CHN
-	GK	CHN
-	DF	CHN
-	MF	CHN
-	DF	CHN	Han Chao
-	DF	CHN
-	DF	CHN	Li Long
-	MF	CHN

Coaching staff[]

Position	Staff
Head coach	Gao Yao
Assistant coach	Nedim Tutić

Source: CFA

Managerial history[]

(2016–2017)
Dragan Stančić (caretaker) (2017)
Goran Miscevic (2017)
Li Xiao (2017)

Tang Jing (2018)
Dragan Okuka (2019)
Gao Yao (2019–)

Results[]

All-time league rankings

As of the end of 2019 season.^[7]

Year	Div	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Pos.	FA Cup	Super Cup	AFC	Att./G	Stadium
2016	4									6	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ		Zhenjiang Sports and Exhibition Center
2017	3	24	2	5	17	22	50	−28	11	21	R1	DNQ	DNQ	927
2018	3	28	12	7	9	31	33	−2	43	13	R2	DNQ	DNQ	2,598
2019	3	30	17	4	9	45	23	22	55¹	9	R1	DNQ	DNQ	5,534	Kunshan Stadium
2020	2	15	7	4	4	14	12	2	25	3	QF	DNQ	DNQ		Kunshan Stadium

^1 In group stage.

Key

	China top division
	China second division
	China third division
	China fourth 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[]

^ "华萨足球俱乐部FOOTBALL CLUB HUASA".
^ 镇江华萨获省业余联赛冠军并获大区赛资格 at weitiyuba.com 2016-08-30 Retrieved 2017-09-09 (in Chinese)
^ 关于2017年中乙联赛预报名情况的公示 Archived 2017-02-06 at the Wayback Machine at fa.org.cn 2017-02-06 Retrieved 2017-09-09 (in Chinese)
^ 中乙镇江华萨官宣改名昆山发布新队徽主场迁移. Sina.com (in Chinese). 2018-12-11. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
^ 人民日报:由专业公司运营管理昆山FC运营值得关注. Sina.com (in Chinese). 2020-01-21. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
^ "列阵点兵！2021赛季昆山队大名单！". Dongqiudi (in Chinese). 21 April 2021. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
^ "昆山FC" (in Chinese). sodasoccer.com. Retrieved 2016-04-06.

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[2] 镇江华萨获省业余联赛冠军并获大区赛资格 at weitiyuba.com 2016-08-30 Retrieved 2017-09-09 (in Chinese)

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[5] 人民日报:由专业公司运营管理昆山FC运营值得关注. Sina.com (in Chinese). 2020-01-21. Retrieved 2020-01-21.

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