Dalian Transcendence Football Club () was a Chinese
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
club based in
Dalian
Dalian ( ) is a major sub-provincial port city in Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, and is Liaoning's second largest city (after the provincial capital Shenyang) and the third-most populous city of Northeast China (after Shenyang ...
,
Liaoning
)
, image_skyline =
, image_alt =
, image_caption = Clockwise: Mukden Palace in Shenyang, Xinghai Square in Dalian, Dalian coast, Yalu River at Dandong
, image_map = Liaoning in China (+all claims hatched).svg
, ...
. Founded in 2013, the club played in the Chinese professional league between 2014 and 2018. They quit from the professional league and turn as amateur in January 2019 when failing to apply professional league license.
History
Dalian Transcendence F.C. was established on 18 November 2013 by Zhao Yang () with a registered capital of 3 million
Yuan to participate in the third tier of Chinese football at the beginning of the
2014 China League Two season. As a publicly listed football club Zhao Yang would proclaim that this model had already seen investment reach 10 million Yuan and he would be reinvesting that money on educating the team's youth system.
Liu Zhongchang was brought in as the club's manager while the club's recruitment policy saw them actively bring in recently defunct
Dalian Shide F.C.
Dalian Shide was a professional Chinese Association football, football club based in Dalian, Liaoning province, China who played in China's football league system between 1955 and 2012. Their home stadiums were the 55,843 capacity Dalian People's ...
players, which included
Han Jiabao,
Hao Xingchen,
Hu Zhaojun,
Nan Yunqi, and
Yan Song. With the club choosing the same blue home jersey colours and using the same home ground of
Jinzhou Stadium
The Jinzhou Stadium () is a multi-purpose stadium in Jinzhou District, Dalian, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, China. Currently it is mostly used for association football, football matches. The stadium holds 30,776 people and was built in ...
it saw many within the Chinese media to believe that Dalian Transcendence were actively claiming to be the successor to Dalian Shide, Zhao Yang proclaimed to be neutral on the matter.
The club's first competitive game would be on 30 March 2014 against
Guangxi Liuzhou Liuyue in the first round of the
2014 Chinese FA Cup where they won their game 3–0 at home. The club's debut appearance within the league saw them come third within the league's group stages, however within the knock-out phase they were eliminated by
Guizhou Zhicheng F.C. on
away goals. The following season the club would reach the divisions Play-off final where they lost the tie to
Meizhou Kejia F.C. on penalties, however despite coming runners-up they still gained promotion to the second tier.
In July 2018, the team signed naming sponsorship for the first time in club history, with local car dealer Dalian Huifeng, to compete as Dalian Huifeng Automobile Plaza () for the rest of the 2018 season.
On January 13, 2019, after their relegation in the 2018 season, Transcendence lost their license to compete in the 2019 China League Two, as they failed to sign the salary confirmation files. The club announced they decided to quit from the professional league and turn as amateur one day later.
Retired numbers
17 –
Wang Renlong,
Forward, 2014 posthumous. The number was retired in November 2014.
Managerial history
*
Liu Zhongchang (2014 – 13 April 2016)
*
Sun Feng (caretaker) (15 April 2016 – 21 April 2016)
*
Ermin Šiljak (21 April 2016 – 10 August 2016)
*
Rusmir Cviko (10 August 2016 – 8 August 2017)
*
Li Guoxu (8 August 2017 – 18 April 2018)
*
Dželaludin Muharemović (18 April 2018 – 31 December 2018)
Results
All-time league rankings
''As of the end of 2018 season.''
* In group stage.
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
* – = 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
Seasons
References
External links
* {{official website, https://web.archive.org/web/20161007095400/http://transcendfc.com/ (archived)
Defunct football clubs in China
2013 establishments in China
Association football clubs established in 2013
Sport in Dalian
Football clubs in Dalian
2019 disestablishments in China
Association football clubs disestablished in 2019
Football clubs in China