Wuhan Zall F.C.

Wuhan Zall
Wǔhàn Zhuó'ěr
武汉卓尔
Full name Wuhan Zall Football Club
武汉卓尔职业足球俱乐部
Nickname(s) Han Army, Nine-headed Bird
Founded February 17, 2009 (2009-02-17)
Ground Zhongnan University of Economics and Law Stadium
Wuhan, Hubei, China
Manager Li Tie
League China League One
2017 League One, 5th
Website Club website

Wuhan Zall Football Club[1] (simplified Chinese: 武汉卓尔; traditional Chinese: 武漢卓爾; pinyin: Wǔhàn Zhuó'ěr) is a professional Chinese football club that currently participates in the China League One division under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team is based in Wuhan, Hubei and their home stadium is the Wuhan Sports Center Stadium that has a seating capacity of 60,000.[2] Their current majority shareholder is the investment company Wuhan Zall Development Holding Co. Ltd.

The club was founded in 2009 after the withdrawal and then dissolution of its predecessor Wuhan Guanggu from the league after the club had a dispute with the Chinese Football Association over their on-field behaviour. The Hubei Province soccer association decided to help form a new team with players mainly from the former Wuhan Guanggu and Hubei youth teams. They entered at the start of the 2009 league campaign at the bottom of the professional Chinese football league pyramid in the third tier. The team won promotion to the 2013 Chinese Super League after coming runners-up in the 2012 China League One division and spent only one season in the top flight.

History

Hubei Greenery was founded in February, 2009 after its predecessor Wuhan Guanggu withdrew from the top tier for the reason of unfair punishment on October, 2008 after the club had a dispute with the Chinese Football Association over the clubs on-field behaviour against Beijing Guoan in a September 27, 2008 league game where a scuffle broke out.[3] Due to their withdrawal they were unable to register and participate in any professional Chinese tournaments, however the Hubei Province soccer association decided that due to the lack of representation of any Hubei teams within the Chinese soccer league system they would help create a new team to represent Hubei and use the Wuhan U-19 team as well as the Hubei youth team as the foundation for the squad. This saw the establishment of a new soccer club on the 26 February 2009 when the Hubei Greenery officially registered itself within the Chinese Soccer association and start at the bottom of the professional football system in the third tier.[4] The club would show their unusual strength in depth when they would breeze through the regional section of the league campaign and enter into the play-off finals where they lost their only game of the season Hunan Billows F.C. in a penalty shoot out. Despite the defeat the club would win promotion to the second tier and to strengthen their team they bought back the contracts of several Wuhan Guanggu players who were not permanently sold off.

With the club in the second tier they would go through a period of joint investment from several parties until December 14, 2011 saw the Zall Group take ownership of the club and rename them Wuhan Zall Football Club as well as changing the teams colours back to orange, which was the clubs predecessors main colours.[5] Initially the new owners saw the team struggle throughout the 2012 league season and decided to sack the existing manager Jose Carlos de Oliveira and replace him with Zheng Xiong on a caretaker basis.[6] As the season went on the results considerably improved under Zheng Xiong who was given a full-time contract before guiding Wuhan Zall to second within the league and promotion to the Chinese Super League.

In 2015 the football club was sold to a private company of the chairman Yan Zhi and his relatives, for RMB 20,630,000 .[7]

Name history

  • 2009–2010: Hubei Greenery F.C. (湖北绿茵)
  • 2011: Wuhan Zhongbo F.C. (武汉中博)
  • 2012–: Wuhan Zall F.C. (武汉卓尔)

Current squad

As of 13 July 2018[8]

First team

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 Jia Xinyao
2 China DF Huang Bowen
3 China DF Han Xuan
4 China DF Ai Zhibo
5 China DF Zhang Yaokun
6 China DF Li Chao
7 China MF Luo Yi
8 China MF Yao Hanlin (captain)
9 Brazil FW Rafael Silva
11 China MF Zhou Tong
12 China GK Zhu Zisen
13 China FW Kang Zhenjie
14 China MF Huang Xiyang
15 China DF Ming Tian
16 China MF Li Zhichao
No. Position Player
17 Ivory Coast FW Jean Evrard Kouassi
18 China DF Song Zhiwei
19 China FW Nie Aoshuang
20 China MF Li Hang
22 China DF Liao Junjian (on loan from Hebei China Fortune)
23 China GK Sun Shoubo
26 China MF Liu Yun
27 China MF Tong Xiaoxing
28 China MF Jiang Minwen
29 China DF Ni Bo
30 China GK Wang Zhifeng
32 China DF Du Longquan
35 China MF Jiang Zilei (on loan from Shanghai SIPG F.C.)
37 Brazil FW Pedro Júnior (on loan from Kashima Antlers)
54 China DF Xia Ao

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
10 Bolivia FW Marcelo Moreno
21 China MF Li Yang
41 China DF Liu Hao
42 China DF Wu Huan
43 China MF Wu Jie
44 China DF Chen Xiangxiang
45 China MF Zhang Haoran
46 China MF Gao Ming
47 China DF Yi Xiaolong
48 China MF Mei Cong
49 China GK Wang Chen
No. Position Player
50 China DF Li Yiming
51 China FW Wang Yifan
52 China FW Chen Luoqi
53 China MF Zhang Bohao
55 China MF Fan Xiaobin
56 China MF Fan Xiaowei
57 China MF Song Defu
58 China MF Zhou Bozhao
59 China GK Ding Jinglong
60 China DF Li Yueming

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
24 China MF Wang Xudong (at Jilin Baijia until 31 December 2018)

Coaching staff

Position Staff
Head coach China Li Tie
Assistant coach China Zheng Bin
Assistant coach China Ma Yongkang
Goalkeeping Coach China Sun Minghan
Physio China Xue Shen
Team doctor China Huang Zhuping
Team doctor China Kang Kebao

Source: sina.com

Managerial history

Results

  • As of the end of 2017 season.[9][10]

All-time League Rankings

Year Tier Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Pos Cup AFC Att./G Stadium
2009313850162+1424 12NHDNQXinhua Road Sports Center
201022410773024+6375NHDNQ
20112268992628−2337R1DNQ
201223016684029+11542R2DNQ6,701
201313037202458−361616R3DNQ14,403Wuhan Sports Center Stadium
201423018394631+15573R2DNQ8,457Xinhua Road Sports Center
2015230812103130+13610R2DNQ5,300
2016230127113133−2436R2DNQ4,853
201723013894740+7475R2DNQ13,525Wuhan Sports Center Stadium
20182301R4DNQZhongnan University of Economics and Law Stadium
  • ^1 in group stage

Key

See also

References

  1. ↑ 关于中甲联赛版权声明及正确使用中甲联赛名称的函 fa.org.cn 2015-04-16 Retrieved 2016-03-04
  2. ↑ "卓尔新赛季主场场地将迁至武汉体育中心" (in Chinese). Changjiang Times. February 9, 2017. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Wuhan ejected from soccer league". english.people.com.cn. November 10, 2008. Retrieved 2013-02-01.
  4. ↑ "湖北绿茵足球俱乐部"注册成功 参加中乙成定局 (in Chinese). sports.sohu.com. 2009-02-28. Retrieved 2013-02-01.
  5. ↑ 武汉中博易主卓尔集团接手 湖北首富入主成老板 (in Chinese). sports.enorth.com.cn. 2011-12-14. Retrieved 2013-02-01.
  6. ↑ 卓尔宣布卡洛斯正式下课！高层称赞敬业精神可嘉 (in Chinese). sports.sina.com.cn. 2012-04-24. Retrieved 2013-02-01.
  7. ↑ 2015 Annual Report Zall Group (in Chinese)
  8. ↑ 2018赛季中甲联赛16强全名单:新土豪组强阵冲中超 sports.sina.com 2018-03-02 Retrieved 2018-03-03
  9. ↑ "China – List of Champions". rsssf.com. 10 Oct 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  10. ↑ "武汉卓尔". sodasoccer.com. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
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