2012 Guangzhou Evergrande F.C. season

Guangzhou Evergrande 2012
Chairman Liu Yongzhuo
Manager Lee Jang-Soo (to 16 May)
Marcello Lippi (from 17 May)
Stadium Tianhe Stadium
Super League 1st
FA Cup Winners
FA Super Cup Winners
AFC Champions League Quarterfinals
Top goalscorer League: Muriqui (12 goals)
All: Darío Conca (17 goals)
Highest home attendance 47,869 vs Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
1 May 2012 (Champions League)
Lowest home attendance 28,128 vs Henan Jianye
18 July 2012 (FA Cup)
Average home league attendance league: 37,250
all: 37,265
Home colours
Away colours

The 2012 Guangzhou Evergrande season is the 59th year in Guangzhou Evergrande's existence and is its 45th season in the Chinese football league, also its 23rd season in the top flight. The club played in the AFC Champions League for the first time in club's history after winning the league title in the 2011 season.

Review

  • 26 December 2011, Guangzhou confirmed that they had signed Zhao Xuri, Rong Hao, Li Jianbin and Peng Xinli for a total report fee of ¥30 million.[1]
  • 10 January 2012, Chinese midfielder Qin Sheng moved from Liaoning Whowin to Guangzhou with an undisclosed fee.
  • 25 February 2012, Guangzhou beat Tianjin Teda 2–1 in the 2012 Chinese FA Super Cup, winning this trophy for the first time in the club's history. Cléo scored both goals of the match.
  • 7 March 2012, Guangzhou beat K-League champions Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors 5–1 away in the club's first AFC Champions League match.[2]
  • 2 May 2012, Guangzhou Evergrande announced that they had signed Lucas Barrios from German Bundesliga side Borussia Dortmund on a four-year deal for a domestic record fee of €8.5 million.[3]
  • 4 May 2012, Darío Conca received a ban of at least 9 matches (including reserve league match) and was fined ¥1 million by the club for his remarks about the team manager Lee Jang-Soo's decision on Weibo.[4]
  • 15 May 2012, Guangzhou beat Buriram United 2–1 and advanced to the knockout phase of AFC Champions League.[5]
  • 17 May 2012, former Italian World Cup-winning football manager Marcello Lippi was appointed as the new manager of club, signing a two-and-a-half-year deal.[6]
  • 30 May 2012, Guangzhou beat J-League side FC Tokyo 1–0 in the Round of 16 of AFC Champions League, and became the first Chinese club to reach the quarterfinals of the AFC Champions League since 2006.[7]
  • 20 June 2012, CFA committee voted to pass a rule change allowing CSL clubs, who were still competing in the AFC Champions League, to add two more foreign players. Guangzhou Evergrande would be the only club able to take advantage out of the new rule change in the 2012 league season.[8]
  • 2 July 2012, Guangzhou Evergrande announced that they had signed South Korea national team defender Kim Young-Gwon on a four-year deal with a fee of US$2.5 million.[9]
  • 3 July 2012, Muriqui signed a new contract with Guangzhou Evergrande, keeping him at the club until 30 June 2016.[10]
  • 7 July 2012, Huang Bowen transferred to Guangzhou from K-League side Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors with a reported fee of US$2 million.[11]
  • 15 July 2012, Guangzhou Evergrande lost to Guangzhou R&F 0–1 at Tianhe Stadium, which ended club's record 34-league-home-match unbeaten run, as well as record 36-league-home-match scoring run.
  • 2 October 2012, Guangzhou Evergrande was knocked out of the AFC Champions League in the quarter-finals by Al Ittihad 5–4 on aggregate.
  • 27 October 2012, Guangzhou Evergrande won the league title for the second time in two years after beating Liaoning Whowin 1–0, with Gao Lin scoring the winning goal at the 90' minute to seal the title.
  • 18 November 2012, Guangzhou Evergrande won their first Chinese FA Cup title, defeating Guizhou Renhe by a score of 4–2, on aggregate 5–3.

Players

First team squad

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 Yang Jun
2 China DF Tu Dongxu
3 Brazil DF Paulão
4 China DF Rong Hao
5 China DF Zhang Linpeng
6 China DF Feng Xiaoting
7 China MF Feng Junyan
8 China MF Qin Sheng
9 Brazil FW Cléo
10 China MF Zheng Zhi (captain)
11 Brazil MF Muriqui
12 China GK Dong Chunyu
13 China DF Tang Dechao
14 China DF Li Jianhua
15 Argentina MF Darío Conca
16 South Korea MF Cho Won-Hee
17 China FW Gao Zhilin
18 Paraguay FW Lucas Barrios
19 China DF Li Jianbin
No. Position Player
20 China FW Ni Bo
21 China FW Jiang Ning
22 China GK Li Shuai
23 China MF Li Zhilang
24 China MF Shi Hongjun
25 China MF Peng Xinli
26 China MF Wu Pingfeng
27 China FW Ye Weichao
28 South Korea DF Kim Young-Gwon
29 China FW Gao Lin
30 China MF Peng Shaoxiong
31 China DF Zhang Hongnan
32 China DF Sun Xiang
33 China MF Li Yan
35 China FW Memet Ali
37 China MF Zhao Xuri
39 China MF Tan Jiajun
42 China MF Huang Bowen
48 China GK Zhi Xinhua

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
34 China DF Huang Jiaqiang
36 China FW Gao Shunhang
38 China DF Zhang Yujia
43 China MF Li Bin

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
— Brazil MF Renato Cajá (at Ponte Preta from 1 July 2011 to 31 May 2012)
— China DF Chen Jianlong (at Shanghai Shenxin from 5 January 2012 to 31 December 2012)
— Brazil MF Renato Cajá (at Kashima Antlers from 1 July 2012 to 1 January 2013)
33 China MF Li Yan (at Guangzhou R&F from 11 July 2012 to 8 November 2012)

Technical staff

Name Nat. Job title
Marcello Lippi Italy Head coach (from 17 May 2012)
Narciso Pezzotti Italy Assistant coaches (from 17 May 2012)
Massimiliano Maddaloni Italy
Li Tie China Assistant coach (from 26 May 2012)
Michelangelo Rampulla Italy Goalkeeping coach (from 17 May 2012)
Claudio Gaudino Italy Fitness coach (from 17 May 2012)
Peng Weiguo China Reserve team coach (from 21 May 2012)
Enrico Castellacci Italy Medical adviser (from 27 July 2012)
Silvano Cotti Italy Team doctor / Physiotherapist (from 27 July 2012)
Georg Meyer Germany Physiotherapist
Liu Shulai China Team doctors
Kang Kebao China
Wang Shucheng China
Franco Ceravolo Italy Chief scout (from 5 September 2012)
Lee Jang-Soo South Korea Head coach (to 16 May 2012)
Qiu Ming China Assistant coaches (to 16 May 2012)
Kim Yong-Kab South Korea
Lee Min-Sung South Korea
Wang Weiman China Goalkeeping coach (to 16 May 2012)
Jiang Feng China Fitness coach (to 16 May 2012)
Qu Shengqing China Reserve team coach (to 16 May 2012)
Kim Hyo-Jung South Korea Technical analyst (to 16 May 2012)

Transfers

Winter

Summer

Pre-season and friendlies

Training matches

Date Opponents H / A Result Scorers
2012-01-14 China Dalian Aerbin H 3–1 Memet Ali, Jiang Xiaochen (2 goals)
2012-01-17 China Guizhou Renhe H 1–0 Gao Lin
2012-01-18 China Shenyang Dongjin H 1–2 Tan Jiajun
2012-01-19 China Dalian Aerbin H 2–0 Zheng Zhi, Liang Xueming
2012-01-27 Spain Cádiz A 1–1 Muriqui
2012-01-28 Hungary Videoton N 1–2 Jiang Ning
2012-01-31 Georgia (country) Dinamo Tbilisi N 3–0 Cléo, Conca, Muriqui
2012-02-01 Switzerland FC Wil N 1–2 Tan Jiajun
2012-02-04 Ukraine Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk N 1–2 Ye Weichao
2012-02-07 Spain UD Marbella A 0–1
2012-02-19 South Korea Incheon United H 2–2 Wu Pingfeng, Feng Junyan
2012-03-03 South Korea Myongji University A 1–2 Shi Hongjun

Marbella Cup 2012

2012 CSL All-Stars Game

Competitions

Overview

Competition Started round Final
position / round		 First match Last match
Chinese FA Super Cup — Winners 25 February 2012
Chinese Super League — 1st 11 March 20123 November 2012
Chinese FA Cup 4th round Winners 18 July 201218 November 2012
AFC Champions League Group stage Quarter-finals 7 March 20122 October 2012

Last updated: 18 November 2012
Source: Competitions

Chinese Super League

League table

Pos
 Team
 Pld
 W
 D
 L
 GF
 GA
 GD
 Pts
Qualification or relegation
Head-to-head
1 Guangzhou Evergrande (C) 30 17 7 6 51 30 +21 58 2013 AFC Champions League Group stage 1
2 Jiangsu Guoxin Sainty 30 14 12 4 49 29 +20 54
3 Beijing Guoan 30 14 6 10 34 35 −1 48
4 Guizhou Moutai 30 12 9 9 44 33 +11 45
4 Dalian Aerbin 30 11 11 8 51 46 +5 44 Dalian 1–2 Changchun
Changchun 1–2 Dalian
6 Changchun Yatai 30 12 8 10 37 40 −3 44

Updated to games played on 3 November 2012.
Source: Chinese Super League Table (in Chinese)
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th head-to-head goals scored; 5th goal difference; 6th goals scored; 7th disciplinary points (1 point for each yellow card, 3 points for each red card). Head-to-Head: used when head-to-head record is used to rank tied teams.
Only position first-6 showed, for full table see 2012 Chinese Super League table.
1Guizhou Renhe qualified for the 2013 AFC Champions League because league champions Guangzhou Evergrande also won the 2012 Chinese FA Cup.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results summary

OverallHomeAway
PldWDLGFGAGDPtsWDLGFGAGDWDLGFGAGD
30 17 7 6 51 30  +21 58 11 3 1 33 13  +20 6 4 5 18 17  +1

Last updated: 3 November 2012.
Source: Competitive Matches

Results by round

Round123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930
GroundHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAHA
ResultWLWWDWWWWLWDWWWDLWDLWWDDWLWDWL
Position3102222111111111111111111121111

Updated to match(es) played on 3 November 2012. Source: Chinese Super League Table (in Chinese)
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

  Win   Draw   Loss

Chinese FA Cup

Chinese FA Super Cup

AFC Champions League

Group stage

Group H
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
China Guangzhou Evergrande 6312128+410
Japan Kashiwa Reysol 6312117+410
South Korea Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors 63031015−59
Thailand Buriram United 6204811−36

Knockout stage

Round of 16
Quarter-finals

Squad statistics

No. Pos. Player name Super League FA Cup Champions League Super Cup TOTALS
Apps. Starts Goals Yellow card YC Red card RC Apps. Starts Goals Yellow card YC Red card RC Apps. Starts Goals Yellow card YC Red card RC Apps. Starts Goals Yellow card YC Red card RC Apps. Starts Goals Yellow card YC Red card RC
1GK China Yang Jun 20200000000077020110002828020
2DF China Tu Dongxu 0000011000000000000011000
3DF Brazil Paulão 19130202200000000000002115020
4DF China Rong Hao 3200032000210000000085000
5DF China Zhang Linpeng 212126133100770401100032323101
6DF China Feng Xiaoting 19180603300099010110103231080
7MF China Feng Junyan 1451206401071000000002710130
8MF China Qin Sheng 211616044020540201001031241110
9FW Brazil Cléo 282273043100774001120040331430
10MF China Zheng Zhi 2420112033110990100000036322140
11FW Brazil Muriqui 2018125021000873001100031271550
12GK China Dong Chunyu 0000010000000000000010000
13DF China Tang Dechao 7501122000000000000097011
14DF China Li Jianhua 17131104311041000110002618220
15MF Argentina Darío Conca 2421101022110996101100036331730
16MF South Korea Cho Won-Hee 17150102201077010110002725030
17MF China Gao Zhilin 3100010000000000000041000
18FW Paraguay Lucas Barrios 832006530022100000001610600
19DF China Li Jianbin 1100000000000000000011000
21FW China Jiang Ning 15104002011042010100002212520
22GK China Li Shuai 10100006600022000000001818000
23MF China Li Zhilang 1000000000000000000010000
24MF China Shi Hongjun 2100021010000000000042010
25MF China Peng Xinli 1100022000000000000033000
26MF China Wu Pingfeng 19101103310020000100002513210
27FW China Ye Weichao 2000000000000000000020000
28DF South Korea Kim Young-Gwon 770004401022000000001313010
29FW China Gao Lin 24206203201198200110003731831
31DF China Zhang Hongnan 1100011000000000000022000
32DF China Sun Xiang 25240312200088010110003635041
33MF China Li Yan 3311000000000000000033110
34MF China Huang Jiaqiang 4301020000000000000063010
35FW China Mehmet Ali 6200000000000000000062000
37MF China Zhao Xuri 20161405411086020110103427280
39MF China Tan Jiajun 2000000000000000000020000
42MF China Huang Bowen 98120310001011000000139230
OWN GOAL
TOTALS 51603 11121 17170 230 81924

Notes and references

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 恒大官方宣布签四名新援 国足三将携潜力新星加盟(in Chinese)
  2. ↑ Jeonbuk Motors 1–5 Guangzhou Evergrande
  3. 1 2 "卢卡斯•巴里奥斯（Lucas Ramón Barrios）正式签约广州恒大足球俱乐部". Guangzhou Evergrande Official Website. 2 May 2012. Archived from the original on 7 May 2012. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  4. ↑ 关于对外援孔卡的处理决定 Archived 2012-05-09 at the Wayback Machine.(in Chinese)
  5. ↑ "Buriram United 1–2 Guangzhou Evergrande". the-afc.com. 15 May 2012. Archived from the original on 9 December 2012. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
  6. ↑ 关于聘任马塞洛•里皮担任广州恒大足球队主教练的公告(in Chinese)
  7. ↑ "Guangzhou Evergrande 1–0 FC Tokyo". the-afc.com. 30 May 2012. Archived from the original on 12 September 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2012.
  8. ↑ Chinese FA passes controversial rule change allowing Guangzhou Evergrande extra foreign players
  9. 1 2 韩国外援金英权正式加盟广州恒大足球俱乐部 Archived 2012-07-07 at the Wayback Machine.(in Chinese)
  10. ↑ Muriqui renova contrato com Guangzhou Evergrande até 2016(in Portuguese)
  11. 1 2 黄博文正式加盟广州恒大足球俱乐部 Archived 2012-07-12 at the Wayback Machine.(in Chinese)
  12. ↑ 迟到一年的牵手! 恒大超低价签新疆小将开提 (in Chinese)
  13. 1 2 恒大两小将转会 陈建龙投南昌郭子超加盟日之泉(in Chinese)
  14. ↑ 高洪波苦追恒大小将 前国青快马杨一虎加盟陕西(in Chinese)
  15. ↑ 红钻龙年首签锁恒大小将 特帅称仍有强援或弃基伦(in Chinese)
  16. ↑ 关于球员李岩租借广州富力足球俱乐部的公告 Archived 2012-07-13 at the Wayback Machine.(in Chinese)
  17. ↑ 关于巴西外援雷纳多转会日本鹿岛鹿角队的公告 Archived 2012-07-03 at the Wayback Machine.(in Chinese)
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