not to be confused with Guangzhou F.C. football golf club
Guangzhou City Football Club is a chinese professional football cabaret that competes in the chinese Super League under license from the Chinese Football Association ( CFA ). The team is based in Guangzhou, Guangdong, and their home stadium is the Yuexiushan Stadium which has a seat capacity of 18,000. They are owned by the chinese property developers R & F Properties who took charge in June 2011. The clubhouse ‘s english name over 2011 until 2020 was R & F which was short for “ ample ” ( 富 ) and “ Force ” ( 力 ). The clubhouse became Guangzhou City in December 2020.
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The club was founded in 1986 in Shenyang, Liaoning as Shenyang Football Team. They played at the 55,000-seat Wulihe Stadium ( 五里河体育场 ), until they moved to Changsha, Hunan in 2007 to reside in the Helong Stadium. american sportswear and sports equipment company MAZAMBA took over the club in 2010, and relocated the cabaret to Shenzhen, Guangdong in February 2011. Their possession was abbreviated, and by June 2011 Chinese property developers Guangzhou R & F gained ownership of the club and moved them to Guangzhou. The club had their most successful season in 2014 as they finished third gear in the league and qualified for the 2015 AFC Champions League. [ 3 ]
history [edit ]
history before moving to Guangzhou [edit ]
The clubhouse was founded in 1986 by the local Shenyang government sports torso to take separate in the taiwanese football league system. The club was named “ Shenyang ” ( 沈阳 ). The team started at the bottom of the league system by playing in the second gear division. They were promoted to the 1988 chinese Jia-A League cursorily after the league expanded and Liaoning FC was ineligible to field their reserve team in the like part. The baseball club was relegated after only one temper. [ 4 ] With the surveil campaigns the club largely remained within the second tier, except for a short-circuit foray in the 1992 chinese Jia-A League crusade ; however, again they were relegated after only one temper. By the 1994 league season the integral chinese football league organization had become master. The team were allowed to gather sponsorship and rename themselves Shenyang Liuyao ( 沈阳东北六药 ), and were allowed to join the lead grade due to their 1992 membership. [ 5 ] When the team were relegated again at the end of the season they rename themselves Shenyang Huayang ( 沈阳华阳 ) and then Shenyang Sealion ( 沈阳海狮 ) in 1996. Again the club won promotion to the top tier ; however, unlike before they were able to avoid delegating. This was to be the get down of the club ‘s establishment within the league, though the team benefitted from several seasons where there was no relegation while the league expanded. In 2001 the club was taken over by Ginde Plastic Pipe Industry Group, a auxiliary of the Hongyuan Group and changed its identify to Shenyang Ginde ( 沈阳金德 ). In 2007 the club ‘s homeground Wulihe Stadium ( 五里河体育场 ) was demolished. While it was expected that the club move to another stadium within Shenyang, specially the Shenyang Olympic Sports Center Stadium, a deal did not go through and the club moved to Changsha in Hunan and changed their mention to Changsha Ginde ( 长沙金德 ). After Changsha Ginde were relegated to League One at the end of the 2010 league season, the club was purchased by MAZAMBA and moved into the Shenzhen Stadium in the city of Shenzhen, Guangdong in February 2011. To represent this change the owners changed the club ‘s name to Shenzhen Phoenix and changed the home kit from sky bluing to green. [ 6 ] By May 2011 the club was exposed as having dangerous fiscal problems and were struggling to pay their players and their hotel accommodation. [ 7 ]
history in Guangzhou [edit ]
In serious doubt of completing the 2011 season, Shenzhen Phoenix was put up for sale. The club was bought by Chinese property developers Guangzhou R & F who moved the club to the Yuexiushan Stadium in Guangzhou and changed the club ‘s colours back to blue. [ 8 ] Under the newfangled possession results significantly improved and the club gained promotion back into the peak tier at the end of the 2011 China League One season. The team finished the league in seventh, and the clubhouse ‘s owners decided to commit their long-run future to the club by establishing a football school in Meizhou. [ 9 ] The begin of the 2013 Chinese Super League season, however, the club struggled in the league and the director Sérgio Farias was fired. Former England director Sven-Göran Eriksson was appointed to replace him on June 4, 2013, and given a 19-month contract. [ 10 ] Eriksson ‘s first wide season would see the club finish third, its highest league polish, and qualify for the asian Champions League for the first fourth dimension. moroccan striker Abderazzak Hamdallah was a key player for the team, scoring 22 times in 22 appearances. however, director Eriksson left at the end of his contract and moved to Shanghai SIPG who had finished fifth that year. [ 3 ] On January 2, 2015, the club announced that Cosmin Contra would be their new coach. [ 11 ] Contra coached the baseball club in their maiden over appearance in the asian Champions League, coming through the preliminary stages against Warriors FC and Central Coast Mariners to earn a place in the group stage. [ 12 ] however, despite an away victory over Gamba Osaka, Guangzhou R & F were eliminated at the group stagecoach. [ 13 ] The baseball club ‘s league form was besides poor and Contra was sacked on July 22. Li Bing was installed as caretaker coach. [ 14 ] There were more changes as korean defensive midfielder Park Jong-woo and the injure and unsettled Hamdallah besides left the clubhouse mid-season. Hamdallah only scored three goals in 2015, making him the baseball club ‘s all-time leading extraneous scorer at the clock time with 25, one ahead of Yakubu. The break continued as R & F were forced to play some of their base matches at Guangzhou ‘s University City Stadium whilst Yuexiushan was being refurbished, just as in 2012. [ 15 ]
The Dragan Stojkovic earned run average [edit ]
Guangzhou R & F announced Dragan Stojković as their newly coach on 24 August and handed the former Yugoslav external a compress to the end of the 2017 season. [ 16 ] Stojkovic preserved R & F ‘s top flight condition as they finished 14th out of 16 teams in 2015. In July 2016, R & F signed Israeli international Eran Zahavi from Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. Whilst home stadium Yuexiushan was being refurbished, R & F played their opening home games in 2017 at the Guangdong Provincial People ‘s Stadium. [ 17 ] Stojkovic ‘s attacking style of play and Zahavi ‘s goals led R & F to finish fifth in the CSL in 2017. There was double disappointment on the concluding day of the temper however as the club fell equitable short of qualifying for the ACL and Zahavi missed out on breaking the individual temper CSL grade record by fair one goal. however, his 27 goals earned him the 2017 gold boot. [ 18 ] Guangzhou R & F reached the semi-finals of the CFA Cup in 2018 but had a disappoint CSL campaign as they finished 10th. [ 19 ] Guangzhou R & F finished 12th in the CSL in 2019. In attack, Zahavi ‘s 29 goals set a fresh single season grade criminal record [ 20 ] but the team had the worst defensive record in the league, conceding 72 goals in 30 games. [ 21 ] After spend over four seasons at the golf club – making him Guangzhou R & F ‘s longest always serving coach – Stojkovic left the club in January 2020. [ 22 ] Giovanni avant-garde Bronckhorst was announced as Guangzhou R & F ‘s newly director on 4 January 2020. [ 23 ] The CSL ‘s format was disrupted because of COVID-19 but van Bronckhorst led the team to an 11th-place finish. [ 24 ] After a CFA Cup quarter final loss on penalties, the club announced on 3 December 2020 that van Bronckhorst had resigned as coach for personal reasons. [ 25 ]
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In accordance with new national rules on the removal of sponsors from golf club names, on 18 December 2020 the club changed its name to Guangzhou City ( 广州城足球俱乐部 ). [ 26 ]
name history [edit ]
- 1986–1993: Shenyang (沈阳)
- 1994: Shenyang Liuyao (沈阳东北六药)[5]
- 1995: Shenyang Huayang (沈阳华阳)
- 1996–2001: Shenyang Sealion (沈阳海狮)
- 2001–2006: Shenyang Ginde (沈阳金德)
- 2007–2010: Changsha Ginde (长沙金德)
- 2011：Shenzhen Phoenix (深圳凤凰)[6]
- 2011–2020：Guangzhou R&F (广州富力)[8]
- 2020–：Guangzhou City (广州城)
Rivalries [edit ]
The club took part in the Liaoning Derby, which was a regional regular contested against Dalian Football Club and Liaoning FC while the golf club was located in Shenyang. [ 27 ] The tie against Liaoning FC was the more intimate affair because the clubs shared the Shenyang People ‘s stadium in the 1994 league season compared to the dalian fixture, which historically saw few meaningful clashes. At the end of the 2006 league season the clubhouse left this bowler hat when they moved out of Shenyang. When the club moved to Guangzhou they soon formed a competition with Guangzhou Evergrande, which is frequently referred to as the Canton bowler hat. [ 28 ] The inaugural bowler hat was played at Yuexiushan Stadium in a league match on March 16, 2012 and Guangzhou R & F won 2–0 at home against the reigning league champions. [ 29 ] The venue was significant because it had been Guangzhou Evergrande ‘s family establish. however, the two club owners, Zhang Li and Xu Jiayin, did not view the bowler hat with aggression and on the return repair, which R & F won 1–0. They were seen enjoying a meal in concert alternatively of watching the game. [ 30 ] [ 31 ]
current squad [edit ]
First team [edit ]
- As of 31 July 2021[32]
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Out on lend [edit ]
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club officials [edit ]
aged staff [edit ]
Position
Staff
Chairman
General manager
beginning : [ citation needed ]
coaching and medical staff [edit ]
First team [edit ]
beginning : Guangzhou R & F F.C.
academy [edit ]
source : Guangzhou R & F F.C.
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managerial history [edit ]
- As of 7 December 2020.[33][34]
Honours [edit ]
league [edit ]
professional club records [edit ]
For Guangzhou R&F in league football as of the end of the 2018 season
team records [edit ]
- Record home victory: 6–2 v Hangzhou Greentown (2014), 6–2 v Yanbian Funde (2017)[36]
- Record away victory: 5–1 v Liaoning Whowin FC (2014)
- Record home defeat: 2–6 v Tianjin Quanjian (2018)
- Record away defeat: 0–6 v Beijing Guoan (2013)
- Most cleansheets: 9 (2014)
- Fewest cleansheets: 5 (2012, 2017, 2018)
player records [edit ]
Results [edit ]
All-time League rankings [edit ]
As of the end of 2018 season. [ 40 ] [ 41 ]
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