chinese association football club
This article is about the men ‘s football club. For the womens football club, see dalian Professional W.F.C. football club
Dalian Professional Football Club ( chinese : 大连人足球俱乐部 ) is a professional Chinese football club based in Dalian, Liaoning, that participates in the taiwanese Super League under license from the Chinese Football Association ( CFA ). The team is owned by dalian Wanda Group headquartered in Beijing and their family stadium is dalian Sports Center Stadium with a capacity of 61,000. The club was refounded on September 20, 2009, by Dalian Aerbin Group Company, Ltd., and started from the third tier of the Chinese football pyramid, the China League Two. Winning two straight league titles in the second and third gear tier professional football leagues, they were promoted to the top tier in 2012 chinese Super League season where they experienced their highest ever placing of fifth in the lapp season. In 2014, they were relegated from the chinese Super League. In December 2015, they were renamed dalian Yifang Football Club. In October 2017, they won the chinese League One championship and successfully upgrade. On May 25, 2019, Dalian Yifang Football Club was renamed dalian Professional Football Club, with newly logo unveiled on January 21, 2020. [ 1 ]

history [edit ]

Club history [edit ]

dalian Aerbin ( 2009–2014 ) [edit ]

On September 20, 2009, Dalian Aerbin Group Co. Ltd. established a new professional football baseball club named Dalian Aerbin ( chinese : 大连阿尔滨 ) and rent former Chinese football player Li Ming to become the clubhouse director. The club ‘s name Aerbin comes from the Manchu language think of a place with water, which is besides the name of a small township in Jinzhou District of Dalian where Dalian Aerbin Group Co. Ltd is located. They would soon move into the Dalian University Stadium in the Dalian Development Area and bring in Chi Shangbin as their co-manager and Sun Xianlu as their Head coach. [ 2 ] Starting in the third tier league, the golf club made their debut in 2010 China League Two season. The club brought in established top tier chinese Super League players such as Guo Hui, Chang Lin and Yang Lin. The quality of these players helped the cabaret win their regional division section and former the league title over Tianjin Songjiang as the club won the championship. [ 3 ] In the watch season, the golf club hired its first extraneous coach, bulgarian director Aleksandar Stankov. dalian Aerbin F.C. set up a storm gain streak and won the 2011 China League One backing. [ 4 ] With their meteoric rise to the Super League, the baseball club decided to use the 30,775 seater Jinzhou Stadium as its home stadium and shared it with their local rival dalian Shide adenine well as signing a more have coach in Chang Woe-Ryong who had previously managed in the chinese Super League with Qingdao Jonoon. [ 5 ] The golf club initially struggled in the league and the club brought in Aleksandar Stanojević as the head coach. [ 6 ] By July 11, 2012 Dalian Aerbin brought in a marquee actor in former Barcelona F.C. midfielder Seydou Keita who departed the spanish team on a free transfer and helped ensure dalian Aerbin persist within the league. [ 7 ] At the end of the 2012 league season Stanojevć managed to not alone debar relegation but actually guided the club to fifth within the league. On 30 November 2012, Aerbin Group acquired the local rival Dalian Shide F.C. by taking on responsibility of their 330 million RMB debt after Dalian Shide ‘s president Xu Ming was arrested for bribe and corruption. [ 8 ] In hopes of bringing in a harmonious fusion of the two teams, early Dalian Shide coach Xu Hong was brought in for the startle of the 2013 Chinese Super League. however, after only 63 days in tear he had to resign after the Chinese Football Association found that he manipulated a match while as a director at Sichuan First City and was given a 5-year pause from all football activity, which forced Li Ming to start the season as their caretaker director. [ 9 ] Chinese Football Association called off this amalgamation according to regulations, and decided that former Dalian Shide players should join the free market, while dalian Aerbin could only sign them through normal transfer, 5 at most, alternatively of taking over the hale team. [ 10 ] This incident caused Aerbin to face some serious fiscal problems, being unable to pay the salaries, bonuses, or flush alimony of the stadium. [ 11 ] At the end of 2014 chinese Super League, Aerbin was relegated to China League One .

dalian Yifang ( 2015–2019 ) [edit ]

With Dalian Aerbin back in the China League One division and with the loss of gross generated from being in the top tier the club could not afford to maintain their police squad, which saw a mass exodus of players. [ 12 ] Mikael Stahre was hired as the Head coach at the start of the 2015 league campaign and looked to be pushing for promotion, which saw Dalian Yifang Group Co. Ltd on 8 July 2015 buy majority shares within the baseball club. [ 13 ] The leverage was promoted by Wang Jianlin and his dalian Wanda Group who are a chief stockholder of the Yifang Group ( 一方, “ one region ” ), with the investment signalling a render of football possession from Wang Jianlin who had previously owned dalian Wanda F.C. . [ 14 ] The baseball club failed to win promotion back into the top tier after finishing third seat at the end of the 2015 temper and formally changed their name to Dalian Yifang F.C. ( chinese : 大连一方 ) in December 2015. [ 15 ] On 10 July 2015 in a crush conference to confirm the Yifang Group ‘s investing, the general coach Shi Xueqing ( 石雪清 ) admitted that the club was still losing money. [ 16 ] In the 2017 China League One season Dalian Yifang won the division deed and promotion back into the peak tier under Head coach Juan Ramón López Caro. [ 17 ] Despite this achiever the Dalian Football Association announced he was replaced by Ma Lin, which saw meditation mature that the cabaret were still in fiscal difficulties and were looking for the local politics Dalian Sports Bureau to takeover the golf club. [ 18 ] On 20 February 2018 the Wanda Group took full control on the club after selling their 17 % share in Atlético Madrid to Israeli businessman Idan Ofer on 14 February 2018. [ 19 ] The Wanda Group would use the money taken from Atlético Madrid and invest it in bringing in argentinian international Nicolás Gaitán and Belgium international Yannick Carrasco. [ 20 ] The team and the Wanda Group sought further influence in the 2019 temper. In February 2019, the club completed another pavilion signing from Europe, this time acquiring the services of Napoli man Marek Hamšík, who signed for a report fee of about €20 million ( £18m/ $ 23m ). Gaitán left the team to play for the MLS side Chicago Fire after fair one season. [ 21 ] The team signed with Korean director Choi Kang-hee, but had less-than-expected performance as the league went halfways. In July 2019, dalian Pro ended shrink with Choi, while Rafael Benítez was introduced to the team, that he “ was impressed by president Wang ‘s passion and future design on football ”. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] Salomon Rondon besides joined from Newcastle United, as a respond to Benítez ‘s name.

dalian Professional ( 2020–present ) [edit ]

On 21 January 2020, Dalian Yifang changed their name to Dalian Professional. [ 24 ] due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 Chinese Super League did not start until July, after when Carrasco decided to leave the team. dalian Pro and Benitez focused on aggressive forwarding of young players, putting older players down to the reserves, as the 2020 league do not have much relegation imperativeness. In January 2021, Benítez and dalian Pro parted ways. [ 25 ] Hamsik and Rondon besides decided to leave. As the CSL introduced foster restrict on wage cap and transportation fees, the team seems to reach a post-marquee era, by not introducing newfangled foreign players, and remained low-profile .

possession and name history [edit ]

Year Owner Club name Sponsored team name
2009–15 Dalian Aerbin Group Dalian Aerbin Football Club
2015 Dalian Yifang Group
2016–2020 Dalian Yifang Football Club
2020– Dalian Wanda Group Dalian Professional Football Club

current squad [edit ]

First team [edit ]

As of 31 July 2021[26]

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

Reserve team [edit ]

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 .

Unregistered players [edit ]

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

Coaching staff [edit ]

As of 16 April 2021.

managerial history [edit ]

As of 16 April 2021[32][33]

Honours [edit ]

Results [edit ]

All-time League Rankings

As of the end of 2020 season[35][36]
Year Div Pts Pos. FA Cup Super Cup AFC Att./G Stadium
2010 3 21 14 3 4 37 14 23 34 W new hampshire new hampshire DNQ Dalian University Stadium
2011 2 26 16 6 4 45 20 25 54 W R2 new hampshire DNQ
2012 1 30 11 11 8 51 46 5 44 5 QF DNQ DNQ 15,774 Jinzhou Stadium
2013 1 30 11 8 11 40 43 −3 41 5 SF DNQ DNQ 10,538
2014 1 30 6 11 13 32 45 −13 29 15 R3 DNQ DNQ 10,993 Dalian Sports Center Stadium
2015 2 30 17 7 6 46 22 24 58 3 R3 DNQ DNQ 15,233
2016 2 30 14 3 13 43 44 −1 45 5 R3 DNQ DNQ 10,806
2017 2 30 19 7 4 48 23 25 64 W R3 DNQ DNQ 20,596
2018 1 30 10 5 15 37 57 −20 35 11 SF DNQ DNQ 33,145
2019 1 30 10 8 12 44 51 −7 38 9 SF DNQ DNQ 32,853
2020 1 14 2 5 7 18 21 −3 11 12 R1 DNQ DNQ − −
2021 1 DNQ DNQ − −
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