Qingdao Huanghai F.C.

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]

In the following 2 years, the club came close to promotion each time but fell short, earning fourth place in the League One. In the 2019 China League One the club earned first place and gained promotion.

As of 1 March 2020[10]

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 Xing Yu 2 DF Jiang Weipeng 3 MF Shi Hanchen 4 DF Yaki Yen 6 MF Wang Dong 7 MF Gao Xiang 8 DF Fang Xinfeng 9 FW Cléo 10 MF Romain Alessandrini 11 FW Bari Mamatil 15 MF Zhang Zhen 16 DF Han Qingsong 17 MF Liu Long 18 MF Lu Haolin 19 MF Zhuang Jiajie 20 MF Wang Fei 22 GK Zhao Shi 23 DF Liu Jiashen

No. Position Player 25 MF Yu Yang 27 MF Ma Long 28 GK Li Zhizhao 29 MF Li Peng 30 FW Memet-Abdulla Ezmat 32 MF Yang Yu 33 DF Shi Zhe 37 DF Yao Jiangshan 56 GK Zeng Yi - MF Joseph Minala (on loan from Lazio) - DF Jagoš Vuković - GK Liu Zhenli - GK Cao Guojun - DF Zou Zheng (on loan from Guangzhou R&F) - DF Wang Hao - MF Wang Wei (on loan from Shanghai Greenland Shenhua) - FW Zhou Junchen (on loan from Shanghai Greenland Shenhua)

As of 7 March 2019

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

No. Position Player 21 MF Peng Liedong 26 DF Lin Jianwei 41 GK Yang Jiatao 42 DF Cao Yue 43 MF Lu Xinyu 44 FW Zhang Yuepeng 45 MF Liang Kaiqiang 46 MF Su Zhenqun 47 DF Guo Zhihao 48 FW Lyu Zonglin 49 DF Yu Bin 50 DF Wang Bingxiang

No. Position Player 51 DF Cheng Rui 52 DF Sun Chengwei 53 DF Wang Wei 54 DF Yang Yankai 55 GK Yu Ziqin 57 DF Wang Xudong 58 DF Sui Xuze 59 MF Huang Zhengyan 60 DF Liang Jiawei 61 FW Zhao Xiaodong 62 MF Li Tongrui - GK Cao Guojun

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

• Su Maozhen (29 January 2013 – 28 July 2015)
• Sun Xinbo (caretaker) (28 July 2015 – 28 Dec 2015)
• Jordi Vinyals (28 Dec 2015 – 30 July 2019)
• Óscar Céspedes (caretaker) (30 July 2019 – 18 August 2019)
• Juanma Lillo (18 August 2019 – 5 June 2020)