Zhejiang Yiteng F.C.

Zhejiang Yiteng
Zhèjiāng Yìténg
浙江毅腾
Full name Zhejiang Yiteng Football Club
浙江毅腾足球俱乐部
Founded 1988 (1988) (Amateur)
1994 (Professional)
Ground Shaoxing China Textile City Sports Center
Capacity 40,000
Chairman Cui Yi 崔毅
Manager Maurício Copertino (毛里西奥·科佩尔蒂诺)
League China League One
2017 League One, 13th
Website Club website

Zhejiang Yiteng Football Club (simplified Chinese: 浙江毅腾; traditional Chinese: 浙江毅騰; pinyin: Zhèjiāng Yìténg), or Yiteng Football Club (Simplified Chinese: 毅腾足球俱乐部, for official ownership reasons) is a professional Chinese football club that participates in the China League One division under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team is based in Shaoxing, Zhejiang and their home stadium is the Shaoxing City Sports Centre Stadium that has a seating capacity of 20,000. Their majority shareholder is Cui Yi (崔毅) and the Yiteng Group.

They were founded as an amateur team in 1988 and called Dalian Tielu (Railway). They took part in China's national leagues before becoming a professional team when the Yiteng Group gained ownership of the club. After years of stagnation the club was moved to Harbin where they have since predominantly remained and gained their first silverware, which was the 2011 China League Two title. Since then, they gradually improved their league standing and gained promotion to China's top tier when they came second within the 2013 China League One division.

History

In April 1988 the club was established as Dalian Tielu (Railway) and soon joined the Chinese national leagues at the bottom of the pyramid in the third tier at the beginning of the 1989 league season.[1] After the team's debut performance the club's appearances within the national leagues became sporadic because they were an amateur team at a time when the league was being restructured as a fully professional unit. When professionalism arrived to the Chinese leagues in the 1994 league season, the club had started being funded by the Yiteng Group on February of that year. The funding helped to establish them as semi-professional unit and then soon after a fully professional team in the third division.[2] Xu Yin and Cheng Xianfei were appointed as joint managers. They came third in the league and were promoted to the second tier.[3]

The club's time in the second tier was not a success and at the end of the 1995 league season they finished tenth in the league and were relegated back into the third division.[4] The Yiteng Group took full control of the club in 1996, and by the following season merged the team with local lower league rivals Dalian Shunfa. With the merger the owners were hoping for promotion and by the 1999 league campaign they believed that they had assembled a squad capable of achieving this. They did not reach the division play-offs that season because Mianyang Fenggu had exactly the same points and goal difference as them after the last-placed odd number team was taken out of the equation.[5] The Chinese Football Association decided that the only way to settle the issue was that the two teams should draw lots to see who would qualify for the play-offs, however the club lost. The Chairman Cui Yi and the Yiteng Group were so aggrieved that they decided to pull out of the competition the following season and sold their squad to Dalian Shide F.C. for 8 million Yuan.[6]

After the Yiteng Group had formed significant business ties within Harbin, Heilongjiang, Cui Yi decided that it was a good time for the club to re-enter the national leagues on December 20, 2005. They registered with the Chinese FA the new name of the club called Harbin Yiteng and took part at the bottom of the Chinese pyramid in the third tier for the start of the 2006 Chinese league two division. The club moved in the 30,000 capacity Hagongda Stadium and they quickly won promotion at the end of the season after coming runners-up to Beijing Institute of Technology FC.[7] The club struggled in the division and had a Chinese record sixteen game winless streak, however the team were able to avoid relegated that season. They moved to Yantai in Shandong on March 2008 and played in the 45,000 capacity Yantai Sports Park Stadium. They also replaced their red kit with a new all-blue outfit, however the changes did not work and they were relegated at the end of the 2008 league season. They briefly moved back to Dalian until April 1, 2011 when they returned to Harbin where their fortunes changed and they won their first championship, the 2011 China League Two division, and promotion back into the second division.[8] Under Duan Xin reign as manager Harbin continued their good form in the second tier and at the end of the 2013 league season he would guide the club to second within the division and promotion to the top tier for the first time in their history.[9]

At the start of the start of the 2014 Chinese Super League, former assistant Wang Helong was promoted to Head coach while Duan Xin remained as manager.[10] The club started in the Chinese Super League with a nine-game losing streak. It ended on the 4 May 2014 when they beat local rivals Changchun Yatai 3–1 to claim their first top flight win, thanks to goals from Dori, Han Deming and Ricardo Steer.[11] On 19 July 2014 Marijo Tot was brought in as the new head coach, however he was unable to reverse the club's fortunes and the team were relegated at the end of the season.[12]

Ownership and naming history

Year Owner Club name Sponsored team name
1988–93 Dalian Railway Bureau Dalian Tielu (Railway) Football Team
1994 Dalian Lichuang
1995 Dalian Tielu Yiteng
1996 Yiteng Group Dalian Yiteng Liantie Football Club
1997 Anshan Yiteng Liantie
1998–99
2000–05 Dalian Yiteng Football Club
2006 Harbin Pharmaceutical Group Yiteng
2007 Harbin Yiteng
2008 Yantai Yiteng Hurricane
2009–10
2011 Harbin Songbei Yiteng
2012–13 Harbin Yiteng
2014–15 Harbin Yiteng Football Club
2016– Zhejiang Yiteng Football Club

Current squad

As of 15 July 2018 [13]

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 Wu-Yao Shengxuan
3 China DF Hao Qiang
5 China DF Yu Tao
6 China DF Li Hong
7 Brazil MF Sérgio Mota
9 China MF Piao Taoyu
10 China MF Ji Xiaoxuan
11 China MF Erpat Dilxat
14 China MF Hu Zhaojun
15 China DF Dai Shunli
16 China DF Liu Xiaolong
17 Brazil FW Guto
18 China FW Zhou Bingxu
19 China MF Wang Tianci
20 China MF Yang Fan
No. Position Player
22 China MF Zhang Jiarui
23 China MF Fan Yang
24 China MF Wang Kai
25 China DF Li Xudong
26 China GK Wang Jingping
27 China DF Li Shizhou (on loan from Jiangsu Suning)
28 China DF Liu Chunlong
29 China DF Chen Yuhao
30 China DF Ren Xin
31 China DF Ren Peng
32 China GK Lai Xiaoyu
33 China MF Yang Qiang
34 Brazil MF Rodrigo Paulista
37 China DF Zhang Song
39 China MF Zhao Zhihao

Retired numbers

12 – Club Supporters (the 12th Man) The number was retired in March 2013.

Reserve squad

As of 15 July 2018

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

No. Position Player
2 China DF Shan Haiyang
8 Australia MF Adam Hughes
13 China GK Li Luning
21 China MF Wei Jiawei
41 China MF Tian Yafei
42 China GK Wang Xizhe
43 China GK Ren Xinglei
44 China FW Qi Xiongfei
45 China MF Tang Guoliang
46 China MF Zhang Xiaoyu
47 China MF Wang Zhaoqiang
48 China MF Wang Zihao
No. Position Player
49 China DF Yang Xinpeng
50 China DF Gui Jiamin
51 China MF Almas Akli
52 China MF Ouyang Shangkun
53 China FW Wang Yan
54 China MF Wang Xintong
56 China DF Chen Haoyang
57 China DF Li Jiaqi
58 China FW Chen Shilong
60 China DF Zhang Kaihao
61 China MF Kang Yingkai
62 China MF Zheng Guowei

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

Coaching staff

Position Staff
Head Coach Brazil Maurício Copertino
Assistant Coach China Lin Tao 林涛
Assistant Coach Brazil Mathaus Cardoso Sodre
Fitness Coach Brazil Rodrigo Garcia Quito
Goalkeeping Coach Brazil Robson De Oliveira Agondi
Team Physician China Wang Zhaojun 王兆钧

Source: yitengfc.com

Managerial history

Information correct as of end of 2015 league season.[14][15][16]

Honours

Winners (1) : 2011

Results

All-time League Rankings

Year Tier Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Pos Cup Asia Avg league att Stadium
198935NHDNQDalian Locomotive stadium
199135 1DNQDNQDalian Locomotive stadium
1994383502015+56 23NHDNQDalian Locomotive stadium
199522264122036−162210DNQDNQDalian Locomotive stadium
199633 200347−304 2DNQDNQDalian Locomotive stadium
199733 210255033 2DNQDNQDalian Locomotive stadium
199833DNQDNQDalian Locomotive stadium
1999310352118+3143 2DNQDNQDalian Locomotive stadium
20063169522616+10322DNQDNQHagongda Stadium
200722447131836+181912NHDNQHagongda Stadium
200822451092835−72513NHDNQCity Sports Centre
20093124261715+2145 1NHDNQLiaoning Normal University
20103219662822+627 14NHDNQLiaoning Normal University
20113191423389+2936 1WDNQDNQHarbin ICE Sports Center
2012230136115343+10454R2DNQ4,002Harbin ICE Sports Center
201323018665529+26602R3DNQ6,540Harbin ICE Sports Center
201413056193556−212116R3DNQ26,126Harbin ICE Sports Center
201523011145433112475R2DNQ20,477Harbin ICE Sports Center
2016230115143949-103813R2DNQ2,351Shaoxing China Textile City Sports Center
201723088143546-113213R2DNQ4,005Shaoxing China Textile City Sports Center
2018230R3DNQShaoxing China Textile City Sports Center

Yiteng didn't compete in 1990，1992–1993 and 2000–2005. ^1 in group stage *^2 in Final round group stage

Key

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries.

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