Wuhan F.C.

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Wuhan
Wǔhàn
武汉
Full nameWuhan Football Club
武汉足球俱乐部
Nickname(s)Han Army
Founded17 February 2009; 12 years ago (2009-02-17)
GroundDongxihu Sports Centre
Capacity30,000
ManagerLi Jinyu
LeagueChinese Super League
2021Super League, 14th of 16

Wuhan Football Club, formerly the Wuhan Zall Football Club,[1][2] (simplified Chinese: 武汉卓尔; traditional Chinese: 武漢卓爾; pinyin: Wǔhàn Zhuó'ěr) is a professional Chinese football club that currently participates in the Chinese Super League under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team is based in Wuhan, Hubei and their home stadium is the Dongxihu Sports Centre that has a seating capacity of 30,000.[3] Their current majority shareholder is the investment company Wuhan Zall Development Holding Co. Ltd.

The club was founded in 2009 after the withdrawal and then dissolution of its predecessor Wuhan Optics Valley from the league after the club had a dispute with the Chinese Football Association over their on-field behaviour. The Hubei Province soccer association decided to help form a new team with players mainly from the former Wuhan Optics Valley and Hubei youth teams. They entered at the start of the 2009 league campaign at the bottom of the professional Chinese football league pyramid in the third tier. The team won promotion to the 2013 Chinese Super League after coming runners-up in the 2012 China League One division and spent only one season in the top flight before being relegated back down. In 2018, the team won the League One again and earned their second season in the top flight.

History[]

2009–2011: Hubei Luyin[]

Hubei Luyin was founded in February, 2009 after its predecessor Wuhan Optics Valley withdrew from the top tier because of its controversial punishment in October 2008 after the club had a dispute with the Chinese Football Association over the club's on-field behaviour against Beijing Guoan in a 27 September 2008 league game.[4] Due to their withdrawal they were unable to register and participate in any professional Chinese tournaments, however the Hubei Province football association decided that due to the lack of representation of any Hubei teams within the Chinese football league system they would help create a new team to represent Hubei and use the Wuhan U-19 team as well as the Hubei youth team as the foundation for the squad. This saw the establishment of a new football club on the 26 February 2009 when the Hubei Luyin officially registered itself within the Chinese Football Association and start at the bottom of the professional football system in the third tier.[5] The club would show their unusual strength in depth when they would breeze through the regional section of the league campaign and enter into the play-off finals where they lost their only game of the season Hunan Billows F.C. in a penalty shoot out. Despite the defeat the club would win promotion to the second tier and to strengthen their team they bought back the contracts of several Wuhan Optics Valley players who were not permanently sold off.

2011–2018: Wuhan Zall[]

With the club in the second tier they would go through a period of joint investment from several parties until 14 December 2011 saw the take ownership of the club and rename them Wuhan Zall Football Club as well as changing the team's colours back to orange, which was the club's predecessor's main colours.[6] Initially the new owners saw the team struggle throughout the 2012 league season and decided to sack the existing manager and replace him with Zheng Xiong on a caretaker basis.[7] As the season went on the results considerably improved under Zheng Xiong who was given a full-time contract before guiding Wuhan Zall to second within the league and promotion to the Chinese Super League. The club's start in the 2013 league season was not a success and when the team went six games without a win, Zheng resigned.[8] The former Shandong Luneng Head coach who had won the Chinese Super League, Ljubiša Tumbaković was brought in to manage the team, however despite his experience in the league he was unable to help the club avoid relegation and he was sacked before the season was finished.[9] In 2015 the football club was sold to a private company Wuhan Zall Development Holding Co. Ltd. under the ownership of their chairman and his relatives, for RMB 20,630,000.[10]

2019-Present: Super League[]

After several seasons within the second tier, the club brought in Li Tie as the Head Coach, a manager who had previously guided Hebei China Fortune F.C. to the top tier.[11] In his debut season Li Tie was able to guide Wuhan to the victory of the division championship and promotion back into the Chinese Super League at the end of the 2018 league season.[12]

Name history[]

  • 2009–2010: Hubei Luyin F.C. (湖北绿茵)
  • 2011: Hubei Wuhan Zhongbo F.C. (湖北武汉中博)
  • 2012–2020: Wuhan Zall F.C. (武汉卓尔)
  • 2021–: Wuhan F.C. (武汉)

Current squad[]

First team[]

As of 10 December 2021[13]

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 China CHN Wang Zhifeng
3 DF China CHN Zhao Honglüe
5 MF China CHN Tian Yinong
6 DF China CHN Li Chao
7 MF China CHN Luo Yi
9 FW Brazil BRA Rafael Silva
11 MF China CHN Huang Zichang
12 DF China CHN Liu Shangkun
13 FW China CHN Dong Xuesheng
14 DF China CHN Zhang Yulong
15 DF China CHN Ming Tian
16 GK China CHN Dong Hengyi
No. Pos. Nation Player
20 MF China CHN Li Hang
22 DF China CHN Liao Junjian
23 GK China CHN
26 MF China CHN Liu Yun
27 DF China CHN Yang Boyu
28 MF China CHN Hao Junmin
29 MF China CHN Li Xingqi
32 DF China CHN Chen Yuhao
33 MF China CHN Ye Chongqiu
36 MF China CHN Song Defu
37 FW China CHN Liu Junxian
44 FW Brazil BRA Anderson Lopes

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
24 MF China CHN Wang Kai
31 MF China CHN
43 DF China CHN Xiang Hongyu
45 MF China CHN
47 DF China CHN Li Yiming
48 MF China CHN Mei Cong
49 GK China CHN Wang Chen
50 DF China CHN
51 FW China CHN Wang Yifan
52 FW China CHN Chen Luoqi
53 DF China CHN Hu Zhuang
54 MF China CHN Sun Weiwen
55 MF China CHN Fan Xiaobin
No. Pos. Nation Player
56 MF China CHN Fan Xiaowei
58 DF China CHN Yang Xin
59 GK China CHN
60 DF China CHN Ainishaer Aimaiti
61 MF China CHN Wu Kai
63 FW China CHN Xia Qihang
— DF China CHN Ai Zhibo
— DF China CHN Song Zhiwei
— MF China CHN Jiang Minwen
— MF China CHN Zhou Bozhao
— DF China CHN Huang Bowen
— MF China CHN Zhang Haoran

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 China CHN Du Longquan
— MF China CHN Chen Yinjie
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF China CHN
— MF China 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

Retired numbers[]

Main article: Retired numbers in football

8  retired for the legend, Yao Hanlin.[14]

Coaching staff[]

Position Staff
Head coach Spain José Manuel González López
Assistant coach China Zheng Bin
Assistant coach China Ma Yongkang
Goalkeeping Coach China
Physio China
Team doctor China
Team doctor China

Source: sina.com

Managerial history[]

Results[]

All-time League Rankings

Year Tier Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Pos Cup AFC Att./G Stadium
2009 3 13 8 5 0 16 2 +14 24 1 2 NH DNQ Xinhua Road Sports Center
2010 2 24 10 7 7 30 24 +6 37 5 NH DNQ
2011 2 26 8 9 9 26 28 −2 33 7 R1 DNQ
2012 2 30 16 6 8 40 29 +11 54 2 R2 DNQ 6,701
2013 1 30 3 7 20 24 58 −36 16 16 R3 DNQ 14,403 Wuhan Sports Center Stadium
2014 2 30 18 3 9 46 31 +15 57 3 R2 DNQ 8,457 Xinhua Road Sports Center
2015 2 30 8 12 10 31 30 +1 36 10 R2 DNQ 5,300
2016 2 30 12 7 11 31 33 −2 43 6 R2 DNQ 4,853
2017 2 30 13 8 9 47 40 +7 47 5 R2 DNQ 13,525 Wuhan Sports Center Stadium
2018 2 30 18 9 3 60 25 +35 63 1 R4 DNQ 6,884 Zhongnan University of Economics and Law Stadium
2019 1 30 12 8 10 41 41 0 44 6 R4 DNQ 20,484 Wuhan Five Rings Sports Center
2020 1 20 7 4 9 22 22 0 25 15 - DNQ N/A(All the matches at neutral ground)
  • ^1 in group stage

Key

See also[]

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