Qingdao Hainiu Football Club () is a Chinese professional

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club based in

Qingdao Qingdao, Mandarin: , (Qingdao Mandarin: t͡ɕʰiŋ˧˩ tɒ˥) is a prefecture-level city in the eastern Shandong Province of China. Located on China's Yellow Sea coast, Qingdao was long an important fortress. In 1897, the city was ceded to G ...

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, that competes in . Qingdao Hainiu plays its home matches at the

Qingdao Youth Football Stadium Qingdao Youth Football Stadium () is a football stadium in Qingdao, Shandong, China. It is the home of Chinese Super League The Chinese Football Super League (), commonly known as the Chinese Super League or the CSL (), also known as the China ...

, located within

Chengyang District Chengyang () is a county-level district of the prefecture-level city of Qingdao, Shandong, China. It has an area of , and had a 2013 population of about 740,000. The district includes hilly terrain, plains, and farmland. Location Chengyang bo ...

. Their current owners are the privately owned cable manufacturers Qingdao Jonoon Group. The club was founded as Shandong Economic and Trade Commission Football Club in 1990 and started at the bottom of the Chinese football league pyramid in the third tier. On December 31, 1993, they became the first professional club in

and changed its name to Qingdao Manatee. They went on to establish themselves as a top-tier club and won their first major trophy in 2002 by winning the

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on November 16, 2002, when they beat Liaoning Bird. In the mid-2010s the club started to decline and fell down two leagues, being relegated twice in 4 seasons.

History

Qingdao Jonoon Football Club started out as Shandong Economic and Trade Commission F.C. in 1990 by some retired footballers at the corporation affiliated with Shandong economic and trade commission associated with some workers at Qingdao Municipal Sanatorium. After playing in the Chinese Yi League for three seasons, the club finished as Second Division Champions and won promotion to the

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in 1992 – the club's first league title. As required by

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, on 31 December 1993, the club set up a professional system and became the first professional football club in Qingdao. Subsequently, the club was renamed to Qingdao Manatee F.C., the Chinese name for

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, "海牛 (hainiu, literally 'sea bull')", also being the nickname for the

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in Tuandao

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due to the sound it emits. Qingdao Manatee finished as the

Champions and won promotion to the

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in 1994. In the following season, the club was invited to compete the Tainland Queen's Cup and achieved the third place with 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss – the club's first international honour. However, in domestic league the club was relegated to the Division 1B after losing an epic battle against

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2–3. In 1996, the club appointed Wu Hongyue as manager, who led the team to a second-place league finish and regained promotion to the Division 1A. Soon after that season, the state-run tobacco producer – Qingdao Etsong Group started to invest the club, which changed its name to Qingdao Etsong Hainiu F.C. the following year. From 1997 season, the club became a regular member of the top division and was never relegated since then. On November 16, 2002, after beating Liaoning Bird 2–0 in

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, the club won its first major trophy: the 2002

. After eight-year management by Etsong Group, the club was transferred to a privately owned cable manufacturer – Qingdao Jonoon Group and dropped the long term icon "Hainiu" from its name in December 2004. The club's new owner slashed down the budget greatly, sold up all notable players and assigned the former Jinan taishan's coach

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as manager, who is famous for his defending style. In the following three seasons, Yin brought Jonoon to stay firmly in the middle position of the league. In 2008, after Yin's assignment as assistant coach of China Olympic team, the club promoted the assistant coach Guo Kanfeng as head coach and retained eighth place in that season. After six-round terrible management in the following season, Guo was sacked by the club and former notable

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n coach

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took over as manager. Though finished at thirteenth place, the team played a beautiful attacking soccer style and even the attacking combination was duplicated by the

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head coach

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. Soon after 2009 season, the club surprisingly sacked Santrač and reassigned Guo as actual head coach, with Dragan Jovanovič assigned as nominal head coach due to Gu's lack of qualification. In 2010, the club endured a horrible season and lost the last match against

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0–1, but surprisingly survived from relegation in the fourteenth place. In the 2013 league season the team's manager

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was sacked from the club despite the team sitting in tenth. The club would experience relegation at the end of the season and the club's owners publicly declared that one of their own players in

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was match fixing, which resulted in their relegation. Gabriel Melkam would claim that the accusations of match-fixing were a ploy by the owners not to pay his wages and he took his case to FIFA. While this was going on further claims of mismanagement would arise with the transfer of the club's captain Liu Jian move to

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when it was discovered that the club had forged an extension in his contract. In the 2014 league season the club were found guilty for breaking the Chinese FA's rules and were deducted 7 points. In 2016 Qingdao Jonoon finished second-to-last in the

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and were relegated to the

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of the Chinese league system.

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, another team in the League One in the same city, started to get more attention. Qingdao had no more foreign players by 2019. In the 2019 season, there were deducted six points for a rule violation.

Ownership and naming history

Kits and colours

The club's first choice of home kit colors were all red and they did not have a badge until they won promotion. When they won promotion they changed the club's home kit colors to yellow and their name to Qingdao Manatee (), which Chinese name also literally means "Sea Bull", which directly influenced their badge design, which was simply a bull. The owners Etsong Group decided to rebrand the club once more with a new badge, which was a simple striped design with the new owners name at the top while the new kit colors became red and white. With Jonoon Group coming in as their new sponsor the club changed their colors once again to blue while using red as their new away colors. When the Jonoon Group took over they incorporated their own logo of two tigers merged as the club's new badge and chose orange as the new home colors because they believe it represents "passion and energy" as well as also being the same color of their own brand.

Kit evolution

Crest history

File:Qingdao Hainiu F.C.1995.svg, Qingdao Manatee logo used between 1995 and 2004 File:Qingdao Hainiu F.C.2005.svg, Qingdao Etsong Hainiu logo used between 2005 and 2007 File:Qingdao Hainiu F.C.2008.svg, Qingdao Jonoon logo used between 2008 and 2020 File:Qingdao Hainiu F.C.2021.svg, Qingdao Hainiu logo used in 2021 File:Qingdao Hainiu F.C.svg, Qingdao Hainiu logo used since 2022

Grounds

The current home stadium of Qingdao Hainiu is the Qingdao Youth Football Stadium, which opened in 2023. The previous stadium of Qingdao Hainiu Football Club was

Qingdao Tiantai Stadium The Qingdao Tiantai Stadium (), former name Qingdao First Stadium (), is a multi-use stadium in Qingdao, Shandong, China. It is used mostly for football matches, but also for athletics and rugby sevens. Tiantai Stadium was built in 1932 as Qingd ...

, which is also known as Qingdao First Stadium. Tiantai Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium built in 1933 as Qingdao Municipal Stadium, and was renamed Qingdao First Stadium in 1955. Qingdao Jonoon started to play in Tiantai Stadium in the first three professional seasons, and resided there permanently from 2007 to 2019.

Players

Current squad

Reserve squad

Out on loan

Club officials

Current coaching staff

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Managerial history

Information correct as of end of 2024 league season. *

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(1990–91) *

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(1992) * Wang Shouye (1993–94) *

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(1995) *

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(1996) * Liu Guojiang (1997) * Li Yingfa (1998) *

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(1999) * Guo Zuojin (''Caretaker'') (1999) * Wang Shouye (''Caretaker'') (1999) * Yang Weijian (''Caretaker'') (1999) *

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(2000) * Guo Zuojin (2000–01) * Lee Jang-Soo (2002–03) *

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(2004) *

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(''Caretaker'') (2004) *

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(2008–09) *

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(2010) The actual manager is Guo Kanfeng *

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(2010) The actual manager is Guo Kanfeng *

(Jan 1, 2011 – Dec 31, 2011) *

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(Jan 20, 2012 – March 13, 2012) * Yang Weijian (''Caretaker'') (2012) *

(May 24, 2012 – Aug 20, 2013) * Li Yingfa (''Caretaker'') (Aug 20, 2013 – Sept 5, 2013) *

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(Sept 5, 2013 – Oct 30, 2013) * Li Xiaopeng (Oct 30, 2013–22 July 2014) *

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(''Caretaker'') (5 October 2015 – 15 December 2015) *

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(25 December 2023 – 17 January 2025) * Li Xiaopeng (18 January 2025 –）

Honours

Qingdao Jonoon's first trophy was the Chinese Yi League Champions, which it won as Shandong Economic and Trade Commission in 1992. In 1995, the club won its first international honour as Qingdao Hainiu – the Thailand Queen's Cup third place. In 2002, the club won its first major trophy – the

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, which allowed to enter the

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where they came Runners-up that season. Domestic *

**Winners:

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**Runners-up:

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(level 2) **Champions:

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**Runners-up:

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1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

* Chinese Yi League /

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(level 3) **Champions:

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Reserve team *Coca-Cola Olympic League Champions: 2 :: 1998, 1999 Youth team: *U19 FA Cup Winners: 1 :: 2006

International

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Third-place: 1 :: 1995

Player honours

Chinese Football Association Young Player of the Year * Qu Bo – 2000 *

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– 2012 Best 11 in the Chinese Football Association Team of the year * Chen Gang – 1999, DF * Liu Jian – 2007, MF * Qu Bo – 2009, FW

Results

All-time league rankings *As of the end of 2023 season. *: In final group stage. : No promotion. : 2 points each win. : No relegation.: Deducted 7 points.: Deducted 6 points. ;

results Key

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All-time top scorers

Since

the first professional league season. CFA Cup and CSL Cup are included. Correct as the end of season 2011.

Top league scorers each season

Since

the first professional league season. Correct as of 2 July 2012.

Records

Team records

Matches

*First Jia-B League match: Shandong Economic and Trade Commission 3–0

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, 17 January 1993 *First Professional League match: Qingdao Manatee 3–2

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, 17 April 1994 *First Jia-A League match:

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1–0 Qingdao Manatee, 16 April 1995 *First

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match: Qingdao Etsong Hainiu 0–1

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, 6 February 2003 *First

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match: Qingdao Etsong Hainiu 2–2

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, 16 May 2004 *First League Cup match: Qingdao Etsong Hainiu 2–1 Liaoning Zhongyu, 2 June 2004

Record wins

*Record win: 6–1 v

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, 8 August 2009 *Record League win: 6–1 v

, 8 August 2009 *Record

win: 6–1 v

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win: 4–0 :v

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, 27 June 2012 *Record League home win: 6–1 v

, 8 August 2009 *Record League away win: 5–1 v

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, 11 October 2008

Record defeats

*Record defeat: 0–7 v

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, 30 May 1999 *Record League defeat: 0–5 v

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, Jia-A League, 10 June 2001 *Record

defeat: 0–4 :v

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, 22 August 2007 :v

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, 8 September 2007 :v Jiangsu Sainty, 22 August 2010 *Record

defeat: 0–7 v

, 30 May 1999 *Record League home defeat: 0–4 v

, 22 August 2007 *Record League away defeat: 0–5 v

, Jia-A League, 10 June 2001

Player records

*Most goals in a season in all competition: 12 – Qu Bo,

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*Most League goals in a season: 12 – Qu Bo,

*Top scorer with fewest goals in a season: 4 –

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, Jia-A League,

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

*Most goals scored in a match: 3 –

Jiang Ning Jiang Ning (; ; born 1 September 1986) is a Chinese former professional footballer who played as a striker and winger. Club career Ning began his football career when he joined Qingdao Jonoon's youth academy at the age of 11. He made hi ...

, 29 March 2006 *Fastest Goal: 20 seconds –

Peng Weijun Peng Weijun ( zh, c=彭伟军; born February 23, 1973) is a retired Chinese football player who is the younger brother of former Chinese international Peng Weiguo. In his career, he played for Happy Valley, Guangzhou Apollo, Shenzhen Jinpeng, Q ...

, 2 April 2000 *First hat-trick:

, 29 March 2006

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries. Asia *

Ildar Magdeev Ildar Magdeev (born 11 April 1984) is an Uzbek professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for FK Dinamo Samarqand. Club career Magdeev played for FK Buxoro and Pakhtakor Tashkent before joining Lokomotiv Tashkent in 2012. In March 2013 h ...

Aziz Ibragimov Aziz Ibragimov (also spelled Ibrahimov, born 21 July 1986) is an Uzbekistani footballer who plays as a defender for Turon Yaypan. Club career Ibragimov played for various clubs in his native Uzbekistan, as well as in Slovakia, the Czech Republ ...

Sherzod Karimov Sherzod Karimov (, born 26 January 1989) is an Uzbekistani footballer currently playing for Surkhon Termez as a midfielder. Career Karimov has played for Shaykhontohur Toshkent, Qizilqum Zarafshon and currently Pakhtako]. he scored an important ...

George Mourad George Mourad (; born 18 September 1982) is a former professional footballer who played as a striker. Mourad represented both Sweden and Syria internationally. Club career After playing for Västra Frölunda IF, he joined IFK Göteborg in 2004 ...

Joel Griffiths Joel Griffiths (born 21 August 1979) is an Australian professional football manager who currently serves as the manager of Newcastle Olympic FC for National Premier Leagues Northern NSW and retired professional football striker. Biography Cl ...

* Wang Chien-ming *

* Xu Yang *

Zheng Long Zheng Long (; ; born 15 April 1988) is a Chinese professional footballer who currently plays as a left winger for Chinese Super League club Qingdao Hainiu. Club career Zheng Long started his football career after he graduated from top tier ...

Africa * Mark Williams *

James Phiri James Phiri (13 February 1968 – 5 January 2001) was a Zambian footballer, and is regarded as one of the best Zambian goalkeepers of his generation. He was the main goalkeeper in the squad for the 1994 and 1996 African Nations Cup tournaments a ...

Evans Kangwa Evans Kangwa (born 9 October 1992) is a Zambian international association football, footballer who plays for Saudi First Division League club Abha Club, Abha as a Midfielder#Winger, left winger. Club career Born in Kasama, Zambia, Kasama, Kangwa ...

* Benedict Akwuegbu * Abdoul-Aziz Nikiema *

Adama Guira Adama Guira (born 24 April 1988) is a Burkinabé former professional association football, footballer who played as a midfielder. Club career Born in Bobo-Dioulasso, Guira has played club football in Burkina Faso, Spain, Sweden, Moldova and Denm ...

Europe *

Miroslav Bičanić Miroslav Bičanić (born 29 October 1969) is a Croatian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He spent his club career in Croatia, Germany, Israel and China and made two appearances for the Croatia national team scoring one ...

Oleksandr Holovko Oleksandr Borysovych Holovko (; born 6 January 1972) is a Ukrainian association football, football manager and former player who manages FC Dinaz Vyshhorod, Dinaz Vyshhorod. A centre-back, Holovko used to be a regular starter for the Ukraine na ...

Aleksandar Rodić Aleksandar Rodić ( sr-Cyrl, Александар Родић, ; born 26 December 1979) is a Slovenian retired Association football, footballer who played as a Forward (association football), forward. Club career At the beginning of his career, ...

Ninoslav Milenković Ninoslav Milenković (; born 31 December 1977) is a Bosnian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He is currently working as an assistant coach for the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team. Club career Before coming to Chi ...

Elvis Sarić Elvis Sarić (; born 21 July 1990) is a Bosnian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Chinese Super League club Qingdao Hainiu. Sarić started his professional career at GOŠK Dubrovnik, before joining Lučko in 2009. Four year ...

Aleksandar Andrejević Aleksandar Andrejević ( sr-cyr, Александар Андрејевић; born 28 March 1992) is a Serbian footballer who plays for China League One club Suzhou Dongwu as defender. Club career FK Příbram In July 2011, Andrejević moved to ...

Central & North America *

Mitchel Brown Glen Mitchel Brown James (; born 16 July 1981), nicknamed "El Depredador" (''The Predator''), is a Honduran professional footballer. Club career A much-travelled forward, Brown has played in Italy, Guatemala, Slovakia and China along with his ...

Luis Santamaría Luis Santamaría Crisanto Figueroa (born 22 November 1975) is a Honduran footballer who plays for Liga Nacional de Honduras club Atlético Choloma as a defender. Club career A big, lanky defender, Santamaría started his career at Marathón ...

Mauricio Castillo Mauricio Castillo Contreras (born 19 June 1987) is a Costa Rican international footballer who plays professionally for La U Universitarios, as a midfielder. Club career Castillo has played for Saprissa, Belén, Cartaginés and Qingdao Jonoo ...

Osman Chávez Osman Danilo Chávez Güity (; born 29 July 1984) is a Honduran former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. Club career Chávez began his career aPlatense Juniorbefore moving to Platense. He made his professional debut on 7 Oc ...

* Jorge Claros *

Eddie Hernández Eddie Gabriel Hernández Padilla (; born 27 February 1991) is a Honduran professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Forward (association football), forward for Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional de Honduras, Liga Nacional clu ...

South America *

Adrián Paz Adrián Gustavo Paz Charquero (born 9 September 1966) is a Uruguayan football coach and former professional footballer. He played as a midfielder, notably in the Premier League for Ipswich Town who were his only team in European football. He ...

References

External links

Official Qingdao Jonoon Football Club website
(archived)
Official Qingdao Jonoon Group
(archived)

(archived) {{Chinese Super League Football clubs in China Sport in Qingdao 1990 establishments in China Association football clubs established in 1990 Football clubs in Qingdao Chinese Super League clubs China League One clubs China League Two clubs