Qingdao Red Lions F.C.

Coordinates: 36°05′25″N 120°26′59″E / 36.090156°N 120.449844°E / 36.090156; 120.449844 (Qingdao Red Lions)

Qingdao Fortschritt Red Lions
Qīngdǎo Fortschritt Hóngshī
青岛FORTSCHRITT红狮

Full name	Qingdao Red Lions Football Club 青岛红狮足球俱乐部
Nickname(s)	The Red Lions
Founded	14 March 2016 (2016-03-14)
Ground	Zhonglian Sports Center, Jimo, Qingdao
Training Base	Laoshan Football Park, Laoshan, Qingdao
President	Piet van der Pol
Head Coach	Guo ZuoJin
League	CFA MA Champions League
2018	CMCL, R16
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Qingdao Fortschritt Red Lions Football Club ^[1] is a football club and academy from Qingdao in Shandong province, China. The club has its home base in the Laoshan district of the city. Former notable players include David Löfquist,^[2] Kwame Quansah, Milan Perić and Qiu ZhongHui.

Qingdao Red Lions was established in early 2016. The club aims to contribute to the development of Chinese football, both on youth level as in competitive league football. Within its first season the club established itself firmly on the fourth level of Chinese football and is now aiming for promotion to the third, fully professional level.

Club name and name sponsor

At a sponsor event organized by the football club in the summer of 2017 the club established a name sponsor partnership with Sino-German agricultural company Fortschritt Agritech, based in Qingdao. During the 2017 and 2018 football season the club will be playing their games in the Qingdao Super League and the China Champions League finals as Qingdao Fortschritt Red Lions. Fortschritt has a rich history in the agricultural industry as well as in football, particularly in the former German Democratic Republic.

Club badge and colours

The club badge consists of a shield containing a lion's head—a symbol for strength—and Wuyue Feng (May Wind), the iconic monument on Qingdao's May Fourth Square.

The 2018 home and away kit for Qingdao Fortschritt Red Lions are designed and manufactured by Guangzhou based sports clothing company UCANSport.

Stadium and training ground

Training takes places at a football park in Laoshan. All games in the 2018 Qingdao League will also be played at the same football park, located at the intersection of MeiLing east road and YunLing road. During the 2018 CFA Champions League finals national stage Qingdao Fortschritt Red Lions will play its home games in the Zhonglian Sports Center in the northern Jimo district of Qingdao.

During the 2017 Qingdao Super League the club played its home games at the newly developed football pitch within the Fushan Mountain Ecologicial Park. In the 2016 football season Qingdao Fortschritt Red Lions had their training base in the Jihongtan subdistrict of Chengyang, a district of Qingdao. The club played their home games in a nearby stadium with 10.000 seat capacity, located on the premises of the local Sanli factory.

Results

• 2018 Qingdao FA Cup Tournament: Qingdao Fortschritt Red Lions reached the semi finals, in which it drew with Qingdao Yinglian (1-1), but lost the penalty shoot out.
• 2018 Qingdao City Super League: Ten teams take part in the competition that starts on march 17 and finishes august 18. All games are played at Laoshan Football Park, intersection of MeiLing East road and YunLing road.
• 2018 CFA MA Champions League finals: In the 2018 season the competition was re-branded China FA Member Associations Champions League (CMCL). Qingdao Fortschritt Red Lions in August finished second in the regional final (group 4 North) and qualified for the national finals stage, which takes place between September and November.

• 2017 Qingdao FA Cup Tournament: Qingdao Fortschritt Red Lions reached the semi finals, in which it lost to Qingdao Yinglian (0-1).
• 2017 Qingdao City Super League (6 teams): Qingdao Fortschritt Red Lions finished second in the league, one point behind champions MaiDiShen.
• 2017 China Amateur Football League Finals: Qingdao Fortschritt Red Lions qualified for the regional final tournament in Zibo, Shandong province. It finished second after wins against JinZhong (9-0) and Luoyang (2-1) and a loss against Zibo Sunday (0-1), meaning the team did not qualify for the final phase of the national finals.

• 2016 Qingdao FA Cup Tournament: Qingdao Red Lions did not participate.
• 2016 Qingdao City Super League (6 teams): Qingdao Red Lions finished in third place, qualifying for 2016 China Amateur League finals.
• 2016 China Amateur Football League Finals: Qingdao Red Lions played the Southeast Regional final tournament that took place October 1–7 in Shanghai. It did not qualify for the national stage phase.

Team

As of 9 February 2018

Current 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 GK Sun MingQing 3 DF Liu EnJia 4 DF Yang GuangYu 5 MF Liu Yi 6 DF Wang Hao (captain) 7 MF Liu Peng 8 MF Shi HanJun 9 Ma Sai 11 FW Ma Jun 13 DF Chen HongYu 14 Diao ZhenYu 15 DF Yuan ShaoHua 17 FW Xu Meng

No. Position Player 18 MF Ge ShengXiang 19 MF Feng Tao 20 GK Liu AnQing 21 MF Tan JunZhou 22 DF Yang Fan 23 GK Li Qingshan 25 Zhang HaiQuan 27 Yu HaiYang 30 GK Sun Yu 31 Zhang BaoLiang 32 Shi Xin 33 MF Zhong Hua 37 Tang Chuang

Coaching staff

Position	Name	Nationality
Head coach	Guo ZuoJin
Assistant coach	Shi HanJun
Goalkeeper coach	Chen Ming

Former notable head coaches

Name	Nationality
Jan Poortvliet		19 caps for the Dutch national team. Played during the World Cup final 1978 against Argentina.
Gert Heerkes		Former head coach at Willem II and Heracles, both in Dutch Eredivisie, the highest league level.

Former notable players

Name	Nationality
Kwame Quansah		2 caps for Ghana. Played for Ajax and Heracles Almelo
David Löfquist		Played for Parma, Malmö FF and Mjällby AIF
Milan Perić		6 caps for Serbia U21. Played for Ferencvaros, Partizan Belgrade, Kaposvári and Panegialios
Qiu ZhongHui		Played in the China Super League over ten seasons with Beijing Guoan and Qingdao Jonoon

Results

All-time league rankings

As of the end of 2017 season.

• ^1 In group stage.

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