Qingdao Huanghai F.C.

Club history

Qingdao Hainiu F.C. was established on 29 January 2013 by former players and coaches from Shandong that included Qi Wusheng as chairman, Hao Haidong as managerial director and Su Maozhen as general manager.^[1] With the financial backing of 20 million Yuan from Qingdao Central Plaza Business Management Co., Ltd the club would choose the name Hainiu (海牛), which means "The Sea Bulls" despite it once being used by Qingdao Jonoon, another football club in Qingdao between 1994 and 2004, hoping to inspire the golden era of Qingdao football. On the field the team would show their dominance within the league and go through the divisions group stage undefeated, while also beating Meixian Super-X and Shenzhen Fengpeng F.C. to reach the play-off final.^[2] In the final the club would defeat Hebei Zhongji F.C. 3–1 to gain promotion to the second tier and win a million Yuan in prize money for the game with a further 3 million won throughout the season.^[3]

On 31 January 2015, Qingdao Huanghai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. purchased a 51% stake of the club.^[4] On 3 July 2015, Serbian player Goran Gogić collapsed and lost consciousness after a training section with the club. He died later on the same day.^[5] Qingdao Hainiu finished 11th place in the 2015 season. On 30 December 2015, Qingdao Hainiu F.C. changed their name to Qingdao Huanghai F.C. after Qingdao Huanghai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. took full charge of the club.^[6] Qingdao Huanghai finished level on 59 points with Tianjin Quanjian and Guizhou Zhicheng under Spanish manager Jordi Vinyals in the 2016 season, but their head-to-head points was worse than the other two clubs, thus failing to promote to the Chinese Super League.^[7]

Ownership and naming history

Reserve squad

As of 2 March 2018

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

No. Position Player 41 GK Yang Jiatao 42 DF Cao Yue 44 DF Liang Jiawei 45 MF Liang Kaiqiang 47 MF Li Peng 48 FW Lü Zonglin 49 DF Zeng Xiuhu 51 DF Sui Xuze 53 MF Peng Liedong 54 DF Guo Zhihao

No. Position Player 55 MF Shi Hanchen 56 GK Xing Yu 58 DF Zeng Yi 60 GK Wang Shuo 66 FW Zhang Zongzheng 67 DF Wang Wei 68 FW Deng Yu'nong 69 DF Yang Yankai 70 FW Zhang Yuepeng

Retired numbers

12 – Club Supporters (the 12th Man) The number was retired in January 2016.

Managerial history

• Su Maozhen (29 January 2013 – 28 July 2015)
• Sun Xinbo (caretaker) (28 July 2015–28 Dec 2015)
• Jordi Vinyals (28 Dec 2015–)