Wuhan Zall F.C.

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Wuhan Zall
Wǔhàn Zhuó'ěr
武汉卓尔
Logo
Full name Wuhan Zall Football Club
武汉卓尔职业足球俱乐部
Founded 2009; 15 years ago (2009)
Ground Xinhua Road Sports Center
Wuhan, Hubei, China
Ground Capacity 22,140
Manager Zheng Xiong
League China League One
2015 League One, 10th
Website Club home page

Wuhan Zall Football Club[1] (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 China League One division under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team is based in Wuhan, Hubei and their home stadium is the Xinhua Road Sports Center that has a seating capacity of 22,140.[2] 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 Guanggu 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 Guanggu 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.

History

Hubei Greenery was founded in February, 2009 after its predecessor Wuhan Guanggu withdrew from the top tier for the reason of unfair punishment on October, 2008 after the club had a dispute with the Chinese Football Association over the clubs on-field behaviour against Beijing Guoan in a September 27, 2008 league game where a scuffle broke out.[3] Due to their withdrawal they were unable to register and participate in any professional Chinese tournaments, however the Hubei Province soccer association decided that due to the lack of representation of any Hubei teams within the Chinese soccer 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 soccer club on the 26 February 2009 when the Hubei Greenery officially registered itself within the Chinese Soccer association and start at the bottom of the professional football system in the third tier.[4] 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 Guanggu players who were not permanently sold off.

With the club in the second tier they would go through a period of joint investment from several parties until December 14, 2011 saw the Wuhan Zall Development Holding Co. Ltd. take ownership of the club and rename them Wuhan Zall Football Club as well as changing the teams colours back to orange, which was the clubs predecessors main colours.[5] Initially the new owners saw the team struggle throughout the 2012 league season and decided to sack the existing manager Jose Carlos de Oliveira and replace him with Zheng Xiong on a caretaker basis.[6] 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.

Name history

  • 2009-2010: Hubei Greenery F.C. (湖北绿茵)
  • 2011: Wuhan Zhongbo F.C. (武汉中博)
  • 2012-: Wuhan Zall F.C. (武汉卓尔)

Current squad

As of 14 march 2015 [7]

First team

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

No. Position Player
1 China GK Jia Xinyao
3 China DF Han Xuan
4 China DF Ai Zhibo (captain)
5 China DF Qiu Tianyi
6 China DF Song Zhiwei
7 China MF Luo Yi
8 China MF Yao Hanlin
12 China MF Li Yang
13 China FW Kang Zhenjie
14 China FW Nie Aoshuang
No. Position Player
16 China MF Zhu Cheng
17 China MF Wang Xudong
18 China DF Ming Tian
19 China MF Liu Yun
20 China MF Li Hang
21 China MF Tang Junpeng
22 China GK Wang Yi
23 China GK Sun Shoubo
24 China DF Long Wei
26 China DF Ke Zhao

Reserve squad

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

No. Position Player
41 China MF Liu Hao
42 China DF Wu Huan
43 China DF Sun Gang
44 China MF Xia Tian
45 China FW Gao Teng
46 China MF Wu Jie
47 China MF Bai Xiangyun
48 China DF Wang Peng
No. Position Player
49 China MF Yao Daogang
50 China DF Zhang Haoran
51 China DF Jiang Minwen
52 China DF Xu Qigong
53 China MF Sun Weiwen
54 China DF Yi Xiaolong
55 China GK Wang Zhifeng

Coaching staff

Position Staff
Head coach China Zheng Xiong
Assistant coach China Liu Wuyi
Goalkeeping Coach China Liu Wei
Fitness Coach Brazil Fernando

Source: sina.com

Managerial history

Results

  • As of the end of 2015 season.[8][9]

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 Xinhua Road Sports Center
2011 2 26 8 9 9 26 28 -2 33 7 R1 DNQ Xinhua Road Sports Center
2012 2 30 16 6 8 40 29 +11 54 2 R2 DNQ 6,701 Xinhua Road Sports Center
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 Xinhua Road Sports Center
  • ^1 in group stage

Key

See also

References

  1. ↑ 关于中甲联赛版权声明及正确使用中甲联赛名称的函 (Chinese)
  2. ↑ http://nl.soccerway.com/teams/china-pr/hubei-luyin-fc/14965/venue/
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  7. ↑ 2015赛季中甲联赛武汉卓尔队球员报名大名单 (Chinese)
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