Guangzhou F.C.

chinese professional football club For another Guangzhou football club, see Guangzhou City F.C. football golf club
Guangzhou F.C.Traditional Chinese 廣州足球俱樂部

Reading: Guangzhou F.C.

Simplified Chinese 广州足球俱乐部Transcriptions

Guangzhou Football Club, once known as Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao Football Club, is a professional Chinese football baseball club that participates in the chinese Super League under the license of the Chinese Football Association. The team is based in Guangzhou, Guangdong, and their base stadium is the Tianhe Stadium which has a induct capacitance of 54,856. Their majority shareholders are the Evergrande Real Estate Group ( 56.71 % ) and the e-commerce company Alibaba Group ( 37.81 % ), [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] while the rest of the shares are traded in the chinese OTC system. The club was founded in 1954, and won respective second tier titles before turning professional in 1993. Their results improved, leading to a runner-up blot in China ‘s crown tier. ineffective to improve upon these results, the clubhouse went through a menstruation of stagnation and decline before they experienced a brief revival, when they won the 2007 moment division. In 2009, the club was embroiled in a match-fixing scandal and they were punished with relegation. The Evergrande Real Estate Group decided to purchase the club and pumped significant funds into the team. They immediately won forwarding and gained their first top tier championship in the 2011 season. The club is the only Chinese football club to win the AFC Champions League twice, in 2013 and 2015. The club is besides the beginning chinese club to participate in the FIFA Club World Cup, making its first appearance in 2013. According to Forbes report from 2016, the team was valued at US $ 282 million, the most out of all Chinese football teams, with a reported operate passing of over US $ 200 million in 2015. [ 8 ]

history [edit ]

In June 1954, the local Guangzhou sports body founded Guangzhou Football Team to take part in the newly formed taiwanese national football league. [ 2 ] They entered the club in the 1955 league season and named Luo Dizhi as their first director. He guided them to an eighth spotlight polish in their debut political campaign. [ 9 ] The league had grown to incorporate a second grade and their debut season performance final stand relegated them to the second base division. Guangzhou won the division championship, however the Chinese Football Association decided to restructure the league at the begin of the 1957 season and Guangzhou were denied promotion. [ 10 ] Despite this, Luo Rongman managed the team to win the 1958 second division style ; however, the clubhouse were unable to gain promotion because this meter they went into receivership. They were not re-established until April 1961 and were allowed to take character in the clear tier. Back within the top class Guangzhou often struggled within the league and were again relegated to the second base tier at the end of the 1963 league season. They remained there until 1966 when the Cultural Revolution halted football in China. [ 11 ] When the Chinese football league restarted, Guangzhou took the unusual footfall of abstaining from the competition and alternatively on 26 October 1977 brought Luo Rongman to manage their youth team. [ 12 ] The team played within the National Youth League until 1980 when it was decided that they were mature adequate to play in the aged football league pyramid. They started in the recently established third gear division. The baseball club ‘s youth team development immediately paid off and players such as Mai Chao, Zhao Dayu and late Wu Qunli all quickly rose into taiwanese international footballers. Guangzhou gained consecutive promotions until they reached the top tier. At the end of the 1982 league season Guangzhou were relegated again. They returned to the exceed division at the end of the 1984 season via the chinese FA Cup. With this promotion on 1 October 1984, the cabaret was the first chinese team to gain sponsorship when Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. signed a $ 200,000 annual cover with the club. [ 13 ] Throughout the 1990s, the Chinese Football Association were demanding more professionalism from their football teams. Guangzhou was one of the first in full professional football clubs in China after the Apollo Group took over the club on 8 January 1993. The investment aided the director Zhou Sui’an to help create a competitive squad. Hu Zhijun won the top goalscoring prize. Guangzhou were able to gain a runner-up spot in the 1994 league season. [ 14 ] The following season Zhou Sui’an left the team after having doubly guided the clubhouse to a runner-up placement within the league and a runner-up spot against Shanghai in the 1991 Chinese FA Cup. After his exit, the club were ineffective to replicate the like results. When influential international footballers Peng Weiguo and Hu Zhijun left the club, the team went into free fall and were relegated at the end of the 1998 league season. [ 15 ] With the management concerned about the team ‘s performance, an investigation was launched which discovered that Wen Junwu and three other players were in connivance with gambling groups and were immediately expelled from the club. [ 16 ] In 2001, the Guangzhou Sports Bureau took over the club again. With significant investing coming from the Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., Ltd it was hoped that the club could push for forwarding. The division was rocked by a match-fixing scandal involving Changchun Yatai, Chengdu Wuniu, Jiangsu Sainty and Zhejing Greentown. Guangzhou ‘s new sponsors Geely immediately pulled their financing from the team to distance themselves from the bad publicity. [ 17 ] The club went through a bad transitional period until the Sunray Cave Group took over the club in 2004 and started to invest money in hopes of pushing for promotion. [ 18 ] When the Guangzhou Pharmaceuticals group took over the club in 2006, they were able to realize the ambition of gaining forwarding. The baseball club won the 2007 irregular division deed and entry to the chinese Super League. [ 19 ] In February 2010, Guangzhou was relegated back to the China League One in the fallout of a match-fixing scandal despite having achieved a ninth-place ending in the 2009 season. [ 20 ] The match in question was the 19 August 2006 league game against Shanxi Wosen Luhu, which Guangzhou won 5–1 when they were still playing in the China League One. It was discovered by the patrol that the Guangzhou general director Yang Xu paid ¥200,000 to the opposing general director Wang Po to secure a winnings at home plate and that Guangzhou ‘s vice presidents Wu Xiaodong and Xie Bin knew about it. [ 21 ] With the offending participants sentenced to imprison for fraud, the club was put up for sale. [ 22 ] On 28 February 2010, Evergrande Real Estate Group took over the club for a fee of ¥100 million. Xu Jiayin, chair of Evergrande Real Estate Group, said that they would pump more funds into the transfer market. [ 23 ] His first gear act was to sign in chinese national team striker Gao Lin from Shanghai Shenhua for a report tip of ¥6 million. then, he replaced the head coach Peng Weiguo with former Beijing Guoan coach Lee Jang-soo with no reading. In the 2010 summer transfer window, the clubhouse signed Sun Xiang, the first base chinese football player to play in the UEFA Champions League with PSV Eindhoven, and the chinese national team captain Zheng Zhi on 28 June 2010. On 30 June 2010, Guangzhou confirmed that they had signed Muriqui on a four-year deal from Campeonato Brasileiro Série A side Atlético Mineiro with a domestic record tip of ¥23 million. [ 24 ] On 30 October 2010, Guangzhou became League One champion for the second clock and returned to the Super League after a 3–1 succeed against Hunan Billows. [ 25 ] During the 2011 season, Guangzhou Evergrande far strengthened its team with the leverage of Argentinean Dario Conca and brazilian Cléo. [ 26 ] Although the team was promoted to the Super League in the first year, they clinched the league title in late September 2011 although there were four games even to play. [ 27 ] In March 2012, Guangzhou played and won their first-ever AFC Champions League match, defeating south korean champions Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors 5–1. [ 28 ] In summation, Paraguayan Lucas Barrios left the german champions Borussia Dortmund in summer 2012 to join Guangzhou Evergrande. [ 29 ] Marcello Lippi replaced Lee Jang-soo as the pass coach and bring in south korean defender Kim Young-gwon and chinese midfielder Huang Bowen. [ 30 ] Guangzhou was knocked out of the 2012 AFC Champions League when they lost 5–4 on aggregate to Al-Ittihad in the quarter-finals. [ 31 ] They became the foremost chinese side to reach the quarter-finals since 2006. During the 2012 season, Guangzhou won the league for the irregular time in a row, becoming the first team in China to win the Super League entitle twice in a row, while besides securing the chinese FA Cup to become double winners for 2012. [ 32 ] In the 2013 temper, Guangzhou Evergrande strengthened their police squad by signing taiwanese goalkeeper Zeng Cheng and Brazilian Elkeson. [ 33 ] [ 34 ] This proved to be beneficial to Guangzhou as they became the inaugural team in China to win the Super League three times in a course. [ 35 ] The club besides won the 2013 AFC Champions League by defeating FC Seoul in the final examination on the away goals principle, after drawing 2–2 in the beginning branch in Seoul and 1–1 in the second base peg in Guangzhou, becoming the first gear taiwanese side to win the tournament since 1990. [ 36 ] By winning the AFC Champions League, Guangzhou was assured a station in the 2013 FIFA Club World Cup, entering in the quarter-finals, beating the african champions Al-Ahly 2–0. [ 37 ] In the semi-finals, they were defeated by the european champions Bayern Munich 3–0. [ 38 ] In the third base place match, the club lost against the confederacy american champions Atlético Mineiro 3–2 and finished in fourthly topographic point. [ 39 ] Guangzhou won its fourth and fifth consecutive chinese Super League titles in 2014 and 2015, respectively. [ 40 ] On 21 November 2015, the club won its second continental championship, defeating Al-Ahli 1–0 on sum in the 2015 AFC Champions League Final. [ 41 ] In the 2015 FIFA Club World Cup, Guangzhou won 2–1 against Club América in the quarter-finals before losing 3–0 against Barcelona in the semi-finals. [ 42 ] [ 43 ] Guangzhou besides lost the third base place match 2–1 against Hiroshima Sanfrecce, ending up in the same position as in the 2013 version. [ 44 ] In the 2019 season, Guangzhou Evergrande won their eighth Super League style with Beijing Guoan finish in second place. [ 45 ]

stadium [edit ]

As of the 2021 season, Guangzhou play at Tianhe Stadium with a capability for 54,856 spectators. In May 2020, structure work began on the fresh 100,000-capacity stadium. completion is scheduled for December 2022, in time to host the possibility ceremony of the 2023 AFC asian Cup. [ 46 ]

ownership and naming history [edit ]

Year

Owner

Club name

Rivalries [edit ]

When professionalism was established within the taiwanese football leagues in 1994, it allowed more than one team to play within each region. This saw the institution of Guangzhou Matsunichi which used to be the young academy of Guangzhou FC before being sold to Matsunichi Digital Holdings Limited. [ 47 ] direct ties between these two teams besides saw them partake the Yuexiushan Stadium. In their first meet in the foremost round of the 1995 Chinese FA Cup, Matsunichi beat Guangzhou FC 4–3 on sum. [ 48 ] For a brief time period during the 1998 season, both teams were in the peak tier with Matsunichi finishing higher than Guangzhou FC ; however, the competition would reach its acme and subsequent stopping point during the 2000 season with both clubs in the second gear grade fighting relegation. On 15 July 2000, Guangzhou FC won 3–1 against Matsunichi which inevitability helped lead to Matsunichi ‘s relegation, causing Matsunichi to disband at the end of the season. [ 49 ] [ 50 ] When Guangzhou R & F moved to the city of Guangzhou, a local anesthetic bowler hat, frequently referred to as the Canton bowler hat, was born. [ 51 ] The first Canton bowler hat was at Yuexiushan Stadium on 16 March 2012 as Guangzhou Evergrande lost 2–0 against Guangzhou R & F. [ 52 ] Relations between the two clubhouse owners remain cordial off the cant and club owners Xu Jiayin and Zhang Li were seen enjoying a meal together alternatively of watching the second bowler hat in 2012, which Guangzhou R & F besides won. [ 53 ] [ 54 ]

current squad [edit ]

As of 30 November 2021[55][56]

First team team [edit ]

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

Reserve squad [edit ]

The keep up players were called up for the 2021 AFC Champions League group degree matches between 24 June 2021 and 9 July 2021. As of 25 June 2021
note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

managerial history [edit ]

Club honor [edit ]

all-time honours list, including those achieved during the clubhouse ‘s semi-professional period. [ 57 ] [ 58 ]

domestic [edit ]

Leagues [edit ]

Chinese Jia-A League (top division until 2003)

Chinese Super League (top division since 2004)

Winners (8): 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019

Runners-up (2): 2018, 2020

Chinese Second Division / Jia-B League (second division until 2003)

Winners (3): 1956, 1958, 1981

Runners-up (2): 1983, 1990

China League One (second division since 2004)

Winners (2): 2007, 2010

Chinese Third Division

Runners-up (1): 1980

Cups [edit ]

Winners (2): 2012, 2016

Runners-up (2): 1991, 2013

Winners (4): 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018

Runners-up (3): 2013, 2014, 2015

International [edit ]

Winners (2): 2013, 2015

Fourth place (2): 2013, 2015

Results [edit ]

All-time league rankings [edit ]

[ 59 ] [ 60 ]

Year

Div

Pts

Pos.

FA Cup
Super Cup
League Cup
AFC

Other

1955
1
10
3
1
6
12
33
−21
7
8
—
—
—
—

1956
2
5
4
1
0
13
1
+12
14
1
DNQ
—
—
—

1957
2

5
new hampshire
—
—
—

1958
2
5
4
1
0
13
5
+8
14
1
new hampshire
—
—
—

1961
1

new hampshire
—
—
—

1962
1
7
1
4
2
4
5
–1
6
25
new hampshire
—
—
—

1963
1
8
0
3
5
4
14
–10
3
20
new hampshire
—
—
—

1964
2

7
new hampshire
—
—
—

1965
2

6
new hampshire
—
—
—

1980
3
8
3
4
1
13
4
+9
10
2
new hampshire
—
—
—

1981
2
30
24
—
6

48
1
new hampshire
—
—
—

1982
1
30
9
—
21
23
53
−30
18
15
new hampshire
—
—
—

1983
2
15
11
—
4

22
2
NH