Changchun Yatai Football Club () is a Chinese professional

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club based in

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, that competes in . Changchun Yatai plays its home matches at the Changchun Stadium, located within Nanguan District. The club's founder and main investor is the

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Chinese conglomerate Jilin Yatai Group. The club was formed on 6 June 1996, before making their debut in the third tier of China's football league pyramid in the 1997 league season. In 2000, they bought a position into the second division after they merged with Huizhou PLA Saonon. In 2001, they finished as runners-up within their division. However, they were denied promotion after they were embroiled in a match-fixing scandal. The club would reform and re-apply for a CFA playing license before they eventually gained promotion to China's top flight at the end of the 2005 league campaign. In the 2007 Chinese Super League, they won the league title and participated in the

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for the first time. They have since gone on to come in second at the 2009 Chinese Super League and also participated in the 2010 AFC Champions League.

History

Changchun Yatai was founded on 6 June 1996, by local conglomerate Jilin Yatai Group in

, Jilin, to take part in the league system that was fully professionalized recently, which allowed private enterprises to own their own clubs. The club would select a dragon kicking a ball as their crest while assembling the club's senior team. And to make sure they had a competitive youth system, they also brought in the best youth players from

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before moving them into their recently created football training base at a cost of two million yuan, while the total cost of starting the whole enterprise would end up being 20 million yuan. For the next several seasons, the club achieved very little until they bought a position into the second tier when the club took over Huizhou PLA Saonon at the beginning of the 2000 league season for fifteen million yuan, while during the season the team maintained an unbeaten home record but still finished in a disappointing fifth at the end of the season. The following season, the club's manager, Yin Tiesheng, looked like he could improve upon last years results when he guided the club to a runners-up position and what looked like promotion to the top tier for the first time. However, it was soon discovered that the 6 October 2001, game that Changchun won 6–0 against Zhejiang Green Town was fixed. This saw the club denied promotion and had all offending participants banned for a year, while the club had three months to reform and re-apply for a CFA playing license. Despite this, Yin Tiesheng stayed on and promoted future Chinese internationals Du Zhenyu, Zhang Xiaofei, and Cao Tianbao from the club's youth team, which was assembled from Shenyang, into the senior team. These players in 2003 would go on to win the Jia B (second level) title, but the club was not promoted due to the creation of the Super League. Yin Tiesheng would leave the club in 2004 to take the Chinese U20 head coach position and

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was brought in as the new manager. Within his reign, Chen Jingang guided the club to a runner-up spot in the China League One division in 2005 and promotion to the Super League. In the club's debut season, they finished fourth. However, Chen Jingang was relieved of his duties after he lost it in the dressing room by threatening to dock player wagers if he was unsatisfied with their performances. In 2007, Gao Hongbo was brought in as the new manager and in his debut season, he won the

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title with them. This would see Changchun allowed entry to the

for the first time, along with

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, and played their first game against Vietnamese football club Bình Dương on 12 March 2008, in a 2–1 victory While the club finished the group runners-up only, one team was allowed to go through the knock out stages and the club crashed out of the tournament. This, unfortunately, affected the club's league performance and Gao Hongbo was fired during the season. In September 2008, Li Shubin was brought in to manage the club and to see out the remainder of the 2008 league season. However, under his leadership, results improved and the club went on to have an industrious following campaign that saw them come runners-up at the end of the 2009 Chinese Super League campaign. Despite achieving consistently good performances for the team, the club decided that they wanted Shen Xiangfu to manage the team for the following season and within one of his first games for the club in the 2010 AFC Champions League, on 9 March 2010, Changchun beat Indonesian side

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9–0, making the victory the largest ever within the AFC Champions League for a Chinese side. Shen Xiangfu was, however, unable to guide Changchun into the knockout stages despite there being two places up for grabs and his league performances were not impressive. Despite this, the club held on to him for another season where he fared little better and at the beginning of the 2012 Chinese Super League season, the club brought in

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as the club's new manager. In the 2018 Chinese Super League, Changchun underperformed in the last third of the season, finishing 15th. The team was relegated to the

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. The 2019 season saw Changchun come close to earning promotion immediately back into the top tier, with a ten-game unbeaten streak in the middle of the season. Ultimately, though, the club slipped towards the end of the season and finished the campaign in fifth place. However, Changchun won the 2020 China League One title and returned to the

after a two-year absence.

Crest history

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Players

First-team squad

(on loan from

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) (on loan from

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)

Reserves squad

Retired numbers

12 – Club Supporters (the 12th Man) retired in 2017.

Out on loan

(on loan to Ganzhou Ruishi)

Coaching staff

Managerial history

. * Tang Pengju (1997–98) * Yin Tiesheng (1999–04) * Qu Gang ''(interim)'' (2004 – 26 Apr 2004) * Li Hui (26 Apr 2004 – 6 July 2004) *

(18 July 2004 – 2006) * Arie Schans (1 Jan 2005 – 31 Dec 2007) Team leader * Gao Hongbo (1 Jan 2007 – 5 July 2008) * Li Shubin ''(interim)'' (20 July 2008 – 31 Dec 2008) * Ernst Middendorp (27 July 2008 – 31 Dec 2008) * Li Shubin ''(interim)'' (Sept 2008 – 25 Dec 2008) * Li Shubin (1 Jan 2009 – 31 Dec 2009) * Shen Xiangfu (2010–11) *

(24 Nov 2011 – 28 Dec 2012) * Li Shubin (28 Dec 2012 – 20 May 2013) *

(21 May 2013 – 21 April 2014) * Gao Jinggang ''(interim)'' (21 April 2014 – 28 April 2014) *

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(28 April 2014 – 12 Nov 2014) * Gao Jinggang (19 Dec 2014 – 12 Jun 2015) * Marijo Tot (12 Jun 2015 – 31 Dec 2015) * Slaviša Stojanovič (13 Jan 2016 –4 May 2016) * Lee Jang-soo (6 May 2016 –4 May 2017) *

(4 May 2017 –6 Jun 2019) *

(9 Jun 2019 – 2 Dec 2019) * Samvel Babayan (2 Dec 2019 – 5 Oct 2020) * Chen Yang (5 Oct 2020 – 17 April 2024) *

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(17 April 2024 – 7 May 2025) * Ricardo Soares (7 May 2025 –)

Honours

League

**Champions:

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

**Runners-up:

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

/Jia-B League **Champions:

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...

**Runners-up:

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

Results

All-time League rankings ''As of the end of the 2023 season''. *Did not enter in the 1998 campaign. * In group stages. Promotion to Jia-A league was cancelled due to match fixing. No promotion. Key

* 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 * 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

Continental results

References

External links

* {{Chinese Super League Association football clubs established in 1996 Sport in Changchun 1996 establishments in China Chinese Super League clubs Football clubs in Changchun Football clubs in China