Cangzhou Mighty Lions
沧州雄狮
Full nameCangzhou Mighty Lions Football Club
Founded25 February 2011 (2011-02-25)
GroundCangzhou Stadium
Capacity31,836
OwnerYongchang Real Estate
ChairmanLi Qiang
ManagerZhao Junzhe
LeagueChinese Super League
2023Chinese Super League, 12th of 16
WebsiteClub website

Cangzhou Mighty Lions Football Club (Chinese: 沧州雄狮足球俱乐部; pinyin: Cāngzhōu Xióngshī Zúqiú Jùlèbù) is a Chinese professional football club based in Cangzhou, Hebei, that competes in the Chinese Super League, the top tier of Chinese football. Cangzhou Mighty Lions plays its home matches at the Cangzhou Stadium, located within Yunhe District. Their majority shareholder is the Yongchang Real Estate, who own 70% of the shares of the club.

History

On February 25, 2011, the club was founded by Smart Hero International Trading Limited (骏豪投资有限公司), Xiamen Dongyuhang Import & Export Co., Ltd. (厦门东屿行进出口有限公司), Xiamen City HS Sheng Industrial Co., Ltd. (厦门协晟工贸有限公司), and Xiamen City Shengxin Metal Products Co., Ltd. (厦门金盛鑫金属制),[1][2] on the basis of local amateur club Xiamen Dongyuhang, which just won the runners-up spot of the China Amateur Football League last year, as Fujian Smart Hero F.C. (Chinese: 福建骏豪足球俱乐部). Within their debut season, they played in the China League Two division within the 2011 league season, where their home uniforms were yellow tops and black shorts. Fujian, in their first season, would win promotion to the 2012 China League One division via the League One relegation play-off in which Fujian beat Guizhou Zhicheng 6–5 in a penalty shootout.[3]

In the 2012 China League One campaign, Xu Hui was appointed as manager and he would lead the club to a third-place finish. This saw Yongchang Real Estate (Chinese: 永昌地产集团) becoming interested in the team and they bought 70% shares of the club, which officially went through on January 18, 2013.[4] The club moved to Hebei Province's capital city Shijiazhuang into the Yutong International Sports Center. They changed the club's colors to blue and the team's name into Shijiazhuang Yongchang Junhao F.C. (Chinese: 石家庄永昌骏豪足球俱乐部). On December 27, 2013, Yongchang Real Estate bought the remaining 30% shares of the club and on February 24, 2014, Shijiazhuang Yongchang Junhao F.C. changed their name to Shijiazhuang Yongchang F.C.(Chinese: 石家庄永昌足球俱乐部).[5][6] In the 2014 league season, Shijiazhuang Yongchang won promotion to the top tier for the first time in their history when they came runners-up within their division. The club's first act within the top flight was to change their English name to Shijiazhuang Ever Bright F.C. (while their Chinese name still remained as 石家庄永昌) in January 2015.

The club's debut season within the top tier saw the club's manager Yasen Petrov guiding the team to seventh in the league and safely away from relegation at the end of the 2015 league season.[7] The following campaign would prove to be considerably more difficult and Yasen Petrov was relieved of his position on 14 July 2016, and replaced by Li Jinyu on a caretaker basis, after a run of bad form saw the club in a relegation battle.[8] The club was relegated at the end of the 2016 Chinese Super League season and on 7 November 2016, brought in Afshin Ghotbi as their new coach for the following season.[9] Fortunately, they remained contenders for promotion in the next few seasons, but despite earning third place in 2017, they failed to win promotion for the next two years.

They were promoted again in 2019 but finished last in the 2020 relegation tournament. They escaped relegation when Super League team Jiangsu F.C. dissolved in 2021. They were renamed as Cangzhou Mighty Lions ahead of the 2021 season when the Chinese FA sought to remove corporation names from team names.

Name history

  • 2011–12: Fujian Smart Hero (福建骏豪)
  • 2013: Shijiazhuang Yongchang Junhao (石家庄永昌骏豪)
  • 2014: Shijiazhuang Yongchang (石家庄永昌)
  • 2015–2020: Shijiazhuang Ever Bright (石家庄永昌)
  • 2021–: Cangzhou Mighty Lions (沧州雄狮)

Crest history

Current squad

First team squad

As of 25 November 2023[10]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK China CHN Sun Jianxiang
2 DF China CHN Li Peng
3 DF China CHN Zhao Honglüe
5 DF China CHN Yan Zihao
6 DF China CHN Yang Yun
7 MF China CHN Zang Yifeng
8 MF China CHN Lin Chuangyi
9 FW Curaçao CUW Jürgen Locadia
10 FW Democratic Republic of the Congo COD Oscar Maritu
11 MF China CHN Cai Mingmin
13 DF China CHN Sun Qinhan
14 GK China CHN Shao Puliang
16 DF China CHN Zheng Kaimu
No. Pos. Nation Player
17 MF China CHN Piao Shihao
18 MF China CHN Yao Xuchen
19 MF Kazakhstan KAZ Georgy Zhukov
20 FW China CHN Liu Xinyu
22 DF China CHN Wu Wei
24 FW China CHN He Youzu
25 MF China CHN Zhang Yue
26 MF China CHN Guo Yunqi
27 MF China CHN Ma Fuyu
28 DF China CHN Yang Xiaotian
29 GK China CHN Han Feng
30 DF China CHN Liu Yang
31 MF Netherlands NED Deabeas Owusu-Sekyere
33 MF China CHN Zhang Xiangshuo

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player

Coaching staff

Position Staff
Head coach China Zhao Junzhe
Assistant coach Hong Kong Bai He
Goalkeeper coach Bulgaria Georgi Sheytanov
Conditioning coach Cyprus Christos Sotiriou
Technical analyst China Lü Hongchen
Technical director United States Peter Vagenas

Source: sina.com

Managerial history

Managers who have coached the club since they became a completely professional unit on February 25, 2011.[11][12]

  • China Zhao Tuqiang (2011)
  • China Xu Hui (2012 – May 14, 2013)
  • China Xu Tao (interim) (May 14, 2013 – June 30, 2013)
  • China Li Shubin (Jun 30, 2013 – Dec 12, 2013)
  • Bulgaria Yasen Petrov (Dec 12, 2013 – 14 Jul 2016)
  • China Li Jinyu (caretaker) (14 Jul 2016 – 7 Nov 2016)
  • Iran United States Afshin Ghotbi (7 Nov 2016 – 3 Sep 2018)
  • Bulgaria Yasen Petrov (8 Sep 2018 – 19 Jul 2019 )
  • Iran United States Afshin Ghotbi (20 Jul 2019 – 6 Sep 2021)
  • China Liu Yan (caretaker) (6 Sep 2021 – 3 Nov 2021)
  • Serbia Svetozar Šapurić (4 Nov 2021 – 20 February 2023)
  • China Zhao Junzhe (21 February 2023 – )

Honours

League

Runners-up (1): 2014

Results

All-time League Rankings

As of the end of the 2023 season.[14][15]

Year Div Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Pos. FA Cup Super Cup AFC Att./G Stadium
2011326139432161639 13DNEDNQDNQLongyan Sports Center
20122301210841329463R2DNQDNQ4,142Fuzhou Stadium / Jinjiang Sports Center Stadium
201323010101026251408R3DNQDNQ10,053Yutong International Sports Center
2014230176742251757RUR2DNQDNQ11,208
2015130815734313397R3DNQDNQ25,070
201613079142853-253016R4DNQDNQ22,523
201723014124483414543R3DNQDNQ16,219
2018230129943385456R3DNQDNQ12,405
20192301821059421756RUR4DNQDNQ17,488
20201205782329-62216 2R1DNQDNQN/A
202112266102532-72411R5DNQDNQN/ACangzhou Stadium
20221341111124751-44412QFDNQDNQN/A
202313087152960-313112R3DNQDNQ8,692
  • ^1 In group stage.
  • ^2 Avoided relegation due to the dissolution of Jiangsu Suning.

Key

References

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  2. ↑ "厦门骏豪看中福建体育品牌资源 投资试水中国足球". fjsen.com. 2011-05-11. Archived from the original on 2021-11-04. Retrieved 2015-06-12.
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  4. ↑ "厦门骏豪向河北永昌房地产开发有限公司转让的公示". fa.org.cn. 2013-01-18. Archived from the original on 2013-04-20. Retrieved 2015-06-12.
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  6. ↑ "关于石家庄永昌骏豪俱乐部更名并更换法定代表人的公示". fa.org.cn. 2014-02-24. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-06-12.
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  8. ↑ "永昌宣布主帅亚森下课 李金羽暂担任代理主教练". sports.sohu.com. 2016-07-14. Retrieved 2016-11-21.
  9. ↑ "Afshin Ghotbi, nuevo técnico de Shijiazhuang Ever Bright". es.superligachina.com. 2016-07-14. Archived from the original on 2016-11-07. Retrieved 2016-11-21.
  10. ↑ "沧州雄狮2023赛季大名单、全家福出炉". Sina (in Chinese). 13 April 2023. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  11. ↑ "Shijiazhuang Ever Bright » Manager history". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 2015-06-12.
  12. ↑ "Shijiazhuang Yongchang". footballzz.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-06-12.
  13. ↑ "CHINA LEAGUE ONE – 2014". uk.soccerway.com. Retrieved 2015-11-09.
  14. ↑ "China – List of Champions". RSSSF. 20 March 2014. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
  15. ↑ "石家庄永昌". sodasoccer.com. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
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