Hangzhou Greentown F.C.

Hangzhou Greentown
Hángzhōu Lǜchéng
杭州绿城
Full name Hangzhou Greentown FC
杭州绿城足球俱乐部
Nickname(s) Greentown
绿城
Green Giants
绿巨人
Founded 14 January 1998 (1998-01-14)
Ground Hangzhou Huanglong Stadium
Ground Capacity 52,672
Chairman Song Weiping
Manager Hong Myung-bo
League China League One
2016 Super League, 15th (relegated)
Website Club home page

Hangzhou Greentown Football Club (simplified Chinese: 杭州绿城; traditional Chinese: 杭州綠城; pinyin: Hángzhōu Lǜchéng) is a professional Chinese football club that currently participates in the Chinese Super League division (top tier) under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team is based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang and their home stadium is the Hangzhou Huanglong Stadium that has a seating capacity of 52,672. The club's main investor is the Zhejiang-based Greentown China Holdings Limited company, which is owned by real estate tycoon Song Weiping. Greentown became the first sports club from Hangzhou with 1 million followers on Weibo.

The club was founded on January 14, 1998 and they made their debut in the third tier of China's football league pyramid in the 1999 league season. On November 23, 2000 the club bought the first team of Jilin Aodong as well as their position in the second division for 25 million Yuan. They have subsequently won promotion to the top tier after finishing runners-up in the 2006 league season and the highest position they have ever finished is fourth in the 2010 Chinese Super League season.

History

Zhejiang Greentown Football Club Co., Ltd. was officially established on January 14, 1998 with a capital of 16,000,000 Yuan and Zeng Leming was appointed as their general manager. Greentown Real Estate Company, Hangzhou Qiantang Real Estate Company, Zhejiang University and Zhejiang Provincial Football Association all participated in the creation as well as the registration of the club.[1] The company would go on to form a youth team before finally creating a senior team on January 22, 1999 to take part in the third tier with Bao Yingfu as their first head coach. They wouldn't wait long to show their ambition when they would make the play-offs in 2000 before losing to Tianjin Lifei.[2] Still determined to win promotion the club decided to buy the first team of Jilin Aodong as well as their position in Chinese Football Association Jia League on November 23, 2000 for 25,000,000 Yuan, in time for the beginning of the 2001 league season. Under the new general manager Shen Qiang the club brought in new sponsors and Gu Mingchang as the new Head coach, however during this period the club couldn't win promotion to the top tier and the Chairman Song Weiping expressed his disappointment of the team. Song Weiping would soon discover that the reason for his clubs disappointing results when it was discovered that several of his players and coaches were taking bribes, with a 6–0 defeat against Changchun Yatai in the 2001 league season being highlighted, which saw the offending participants banned for a year while the club had three months to reform and re-apply for a CFA playing license.[3] This would see the club would go through several management changes as well as a significant ownership shift, which saw Song Weiping's company Greentown China Holdings Limited take a 96% share of the team for 20,000,000 Yuan in 2005 while Zhejiang University held on to 4%.[1]

Under Wang Zheng as their Head coach the team would start to generally push for promotion, eventually achieving it at the end of the 2006 league season when they came second in the division.[4] The club often found themselves fighting off relegation and would bring in several managers to alleviate the problem, however this wasn't enough during the 2009 league season and the club found themselves in the relegation zone at the end of the season. Surprisingly the club were allowed to stay within the 2010 Chinese Super League after it was discovered that Chengdu Blades and Guangzhou FC were guilty of match-fixing.[5] After gaining a reprieve from relegation the club went on a spending spree by signing several established Chinese internationals such as Du Wei, Li Yan and Wang Song.[6] The signings seemed to work and the clubs results significantly improved throughout the 2010 league campaign, which saw the club achieve their best ever finish of fourth and a chance to play within the AFC Champions League for the first time.[7]

However in 2016 they were relegated to the China League One, after getting second-to-last place in the 2016 Chinese super League. This club is famous for youth training facilities, in 2016 season, they were unfortunately relegated to secong level league because of their bad performances for the season with only 8 wins and 32 points, struggled in demotes.[8]

Name history

Current squad

As of 1 March 2016.[9]

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 Zhang Lei
3 China DF Ge Zhen
4 China DF Sun Zheng'ao
5 China DF Wu Wei
6 China DF Chen Xiao
7 Brazil FW Denílson Gabionetta
8 China MF Zang Yifeng
9 Brazil FW Anselmo Ramon
10 China MF Zhuang Jiajie
11 Chinese Taipei MF Chen Po-liang
12 China MF Luo Jing
13 Australia DF Matthew Spiranovic (Captain)
14 China MF Feng Gang
16 China DF Tong Lei
18 China DF Zhao Yuhao (Vice-captain)
No. Position Player
19 China FW Dong Yu
21 China DF Cao Haiqing
22 China MF Cheng Jin
23 China GK Zou Dehai
25 China MF Huang Xiyang
26 China FW Tan Yang
27 China DF Wang Yang
28 China DF Cheng Mouyi
30 Croatia MF Sammir (on loan from Jiangsu Suning)
32 South Korea DF Oh Beom-seok
33 China MF Chen Zhongliu
36 China MF Song Haiwang
43 China DF Xu Jizu
58 China GK Fan Jinming
59 China DF Zhao Yuan

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
15 China MF Wu Wei
29 China GK Liu Yang
37 China FW Gao Huaze
41 China DF Wen Junjie
42 China DF Liu Jing
44 China DF Xie Deshun
45 China MF Liu Yi
46 China MF Yang Guoyuan
47 China MF Jin Rui
48 China MF Wang Dongsheng
49 China FW He Jian
50 China DF Shen Jiaming
51 China DF Fang Renwei
No. Position Player
52 China GK Lai Jinfeng
53 China MF Ruan Yang
54 China MF Wu Qingsong
55 China MF Yi Baidi
56 China MF Liu Heng
57 China MF Shen Jin
60 China FW Wang Chaolong
61 China MF Xu Zhike
63 China DF Han Lieguang
64 China DF Liang Qingjie
65 China GK Zhang Luhao
66 China FW Wu Haoyi
67 China MF Li Chen

Out on loan

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

No. Position Player
2 China DF Yue Xin (at Vejle BK until Jun 30, 2017)
20 Ivory Coast FW Davy Claude Angan (at Gaziantepspor until Jun 30, 2017)
No. Position Player
China MF Wei Zhaokun (at Wuhan Zall until Dec 31, 2016)
Tunisia FW Imed Louati (at Dalkurd FF until Dec 31, 2016)

Coaching staff

As of 5 January 2016 [10]

Position Staff
Head coach South Korea Hong Myung-bo
Assistant coach Japan Takeshi Ono
China Wang Jun
China Gao Sheng
South Korea Cho Kwang-soo
Goalkeeping coach Bulgaria Zdravko Zdravkov
Fitness coach Japan Seigo Ikeda
U-19 team coach Japan Fujio Yamamoto
U-19 team assistant coach Japan Kosuke Yatsuda
U-17 team coach Japan Yasuharu Kurata
U-14 team coach Japan Masahiro Kobe
U-11 team coach Japan Taichi Obata
Translator China Tang Mingming
China Yu Feng
Physiotherapist Brazil Bruno Inarra
Team physician China Ye Weinian
South Korea Kim Kwang-jae
South Korea Hwang In-woo

Source:

Managerial history

As of End of 2015 Chinese league season[11][12]

  • China Bao Yingfu (1999–00)
  • China Gu Mingchang (2001)
  • China Wang Changtai (2001) (caretaker)
  • Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Goran Kalušević (2001)
  • China Wang Changtai (2001) (caretaker)
  • England Bobby Houghton (2002–03)
  • China Li Bing (2003–04) (caretaker)
  • China Wang Zheng (2004–07)
  • China Zhou Suian (May 15, 2007–07)
  • China Sun Wei (2008)
  • China Zhou Suian (2008 – Sept 20, 2009)
  • China Wu Jingui (Sept 20, 2009 – Dec 31, 2011)
  • Japan Takeshi Okada (Dec 15, 2011 – Nov 5, 2013)
  • China Yang Ji (Nov 5, 2013 – Dec 2, 2014)
  • France Philippe Troussier (Dec 2, 2014 – Jul 1, 2015)
  • China Yang Ji (Jul 1, 2015 – Dec 17, 2015)
  • South Korea Hong Myung-bo (Dec 17, 2015–)

Honours

League

Youth Team

U-15 Team

Results

All-time League rankings

As of the end of 2016 season.[14][15]

Year Div Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Pos. FA Cup Super Cup League Cup AFC Att./G Stadium
1999 3 10 3 2 5 12 15 −3 11 51 DNQ DNQ  –
2000 3 12 7 2 1 20 9 11 23 11 DNQ DNQ  –
2001 22 22 6 10 6 33 26 7 28 8 R1 DNQ  – Yellow Dragon Sports Center
2002 2 22 8 5 9 29 33 −4 29 7 SF DNQ  – Yellow Dragon Sports Center
2003 2 26 6 9 11 39 39 0 27 10 R1 DNQ  – Yellow Dragon Sports Center
2004 2 32 12 9 11 38 39 −1 45 8 R1 NH DNQ Yellow Dragon Sports Center
2005 2 26 17 4 5 50 23 27 55 3 R2 NH DNQ Yellow Dragon Sports Center
2006 2 24 17 4 3 41 18 23 55 RU QF NH NH Yellow Dragon Sports Center
2007 1 28 6 10 12 25 35 −10 28 11 NH NH NH 19,571 Yellow Dragon Sports Center
Meihu Sports Centre
2008 1 30 9 12 9 38 32 6 39 9 NH NH NH 12,188 Yellow Dragon Sports Center
2009 1 30 8 8 14 30 43 −13 32 153 NH NH NH 14,790 Yellow Dragon Sports Center
2010 1 30 13 9 8 38 30 8 48 4 NH NH NH 14,550 Yellow Dragon Sports Center
2011 1 30 10 9 11 28 32 −4 39 8 QF NH NH Group 8,586 Meihu Sports Centre
Jiaxing Stadium
2012 1 30 9 9 12 34 46 −12 36 11 QF DNQ NH 10,563 Yellow Dragon Sports Center
2013 1 30 8 10 12 34 42 −8 34 12 QF DNQ NH 14,164 Yellow Dragon Sports Center
2014 1 30 8 8 14 43 60 −17 32 12 R4 DNQ NH 13,766 Yellow Dragon Sports Center
2015 1 30 8 9 13 27 35 −8 33 11 R4 DNQ NH 12,566 Yellow Dragon Sports Center
2016 1 30 8 8 14 28 37 -9 32 15 R4 DNQ NH 11,723 Yellow Dragon Sports Center

Key

  China top division
  China second division
  China third division
W   Winners
RU   Runners-up
3   Third place
  Relegated
  • Pld = Played
  • W = Games won
  • D = Games drawn
  • L = Games lost
  • F = Goals for
  • A = Goals against
  • Pts = Points
  • Pos = Final position
  • DNQ = Did Not Qualify
  • DNE = Did Not Enter
  • NH = Not Held
  •  – = Does Not Exist
  • R1 = Round 1
  • R2 = Round 2
  • R3 = Round 3
  • R4 = Round 4
  • F = Final
  • SF = Semi-finals
  • QF = Quarter-finals
  • R16 = Round of 16
  • Group = Group stage
  • GS2 = Second Group stage
  • QR1 = First Qualifying Round
  • QR2 = Second Qualifying Round
  • QR3 = Third Qualifying Round

International friendlies

  • On 26 July 2009, Manchester United visited the Dragon Stadium and played a friendly against Hangzhou Greentown as part of their pre-season Asian tour.[16] Manchester United won by 8 goals to 2.
  • On 16 July 2011, Arsenal visited the Meihu Stadium and played a friendly against Hangzhou Greentown as part of their pre-season Asian tour.[17] The game was drawn 1–1.

AFC competition records

Opponent Season Home Away
Japan Nagoya Grampus 2011 AFC Champions League Group stage 2–0 0–1
South Korea FC Seoul 2011 AFC Champions League Group stage 1–1 0–3
United Arab Emirates Al Ain FC 2011 AFC Champions League Group stage 0–0 0–1

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "绿城介绍". GreenTown Football Club Inc. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
  2. ↑ "China League Tables 2000". rsssf.com. 19 Jun 2003. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
  3. ↑ "China League Tables 2001". rsssf.com. 19 Jun 2003. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
  4. ↑ "China League Tables 2006". rsssf.com. 8 Mar 2007. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
  5. ↑ "天上掉馅饼重庆力帆偷着乐 狂喜之外更感到自身差距". sports.sina.com.cn. 24 Feb 2010. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
  6. ↑ "陕西队长李彦加盟杭州 五大国字号有望齐聚绿城". sports.sohu.com. 11 Feb 2010. Retrieved 24 May 2012.
  7. ↑ "China League Tables 2010". rsssf.com. 10 Dec 2010. Retrieved 24 May 2012.
  8. ↑ "中超赛季回顾之杭州绿城——降级中寻弊端". http://sports.sohu.com/20161126/n474236173.shtml. Retrieved 30 Nov 2016. External link in |website= (help)
  9. ↑ 2016中超联赛杭州绿城队完全名单 sports.sohu.com 2016-03-01 Retrieved 2016-03-01
  10. ↑
  11. ↑ "Hangzhou Greentown » Manager history". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 2015-05-02.
  12. ↑ "Hangzhou Greentown". footballzz.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-05-02.
  13. ↑ "CHINA LEAGUE ONE – 2006". uk.soccerway.com. Retrieved 2015-11-09.
  14. ↑ "China League History". rsssf.com. 22 Oct 2009. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
  15. ↑ "杭州绿城". sodasoccer.com. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
  16. ↑ "China friendly announced". Manutd.com. Retrieved 24 May 2012.
  17. ↑ "Arsenal announces pre-season game in China". Arsenal.com. 25 May 2011. Retrieved 24 May 2012.

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