Liaoning Whowin F.C.
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| Full name | Liaoning Whowin Football Club 辽宁宏运足球俱乐部 |
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| Nickname(s) | Liaoning Tiger (辽小虎) | |
| Founded | 1953 | |
| Ground | Tiexi New District Sports Center, Tiexi, Liaoning, China (Capacity: 30,000) |
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| Chairman |  Cheng Penghui |
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| Manager | Ma Lin |
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| League | Chinese Super League | |
| 2011 | 3rd | |
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Liaoning Whowin F.C. (Chinese: 辽宁宏运足球俱乐部) is a professional association football club of the Chinese Super League who plays at the 24,000-seat Shenyang Tiexi Stadium in China's sports capital Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China. The club's predecessor was called Liaoning Football Club and they played in the top tier where they won several league titles as well as the 1989-90 Asian Club Championship when they beat Nissan Yokohama making Liaoning FC to date, the only Chinese club to have won an Asian club championship. The current football team was established in 1995 to be an entirely professional football club, however they have struggled to maintain the same success. Their current head coach is Ma Lin and their main investor is Huludao Hongyun Corp.
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[edit] History
The football club was originally known as Northeast China when the Shenyang local government sports body joined the team in 1953 after China had recently created their national football league table. As part of the Northeast China team they would achieve immediate success when they won the 1954 league title and would continue to be a regular competitor within the football league until 1956 when the team would split after the league allowed regional sports institutes their own representatives. The Shenyang sports body would take over the team and rename themselves Shenyang Sports Institute until 1959 when they named themselves Liaoning Football Club after their province. While they came close to winning the title on several occasions it was only after the cultural revolution and the return of football when Liaoning started to make an impact within Chinese football when they won the 1978 league title.[1] The inclusion of the Liaoning Youth team now competing within the Chinese football pyramid in 1982 and the eventual establishment of semi-professionalism within the football team saw the club become a dominant team within the football league as well as in Asia during the 1980s and 1990s. With the football association demanding more professionalism Liaoning would have to achieve this when they were one of the first team to gather sponsorship. By the 1994 league season the entire Chinese football league season had become professional and Liaoning would quickly follow when they officially became professional in 1995.[2] Liaoning's transition toward professionalism was differcult and they found themselves relegated at the end of the 1995 league season, which effectively ended the teams dominance within the Chinese league.[3] The team had to spend several seasons in the second tier before they were able to achieve promotion to the top tier once more when the came runners up in the 1998 league season.[4] The club would come close to immediately winning the 1999 league title in their return back to the top tier, however lost it to Shandong Luneng by a single point.[5] This was to prove to be one of the bright sparks in differcult period for Liaoning who would sell the Liaoning Youth team for 28,000,000 RMB to the SVT Group in 2002 to form Huludao Whowin. In 2003 the team would gather sponsorship from Zhongyu Automobile Company, however without a steady supply of youngsters joining the senior team the clubs results would start to drop and while the club formed a new youth called Liaoning Guangyuan FC who were a satellite team in Singapore's S.League it disbanded in 2007 after a match fixing scandal in Singapore. In the 2008 league season the club would go on to be relegated, however in the 2009 league season they would go on to win the second division and immediately win promotion back to the top tier.
[edit] Name history
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[edit] Crest history
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Liaoning FC original crest
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alternate crest
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1999 crest
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Liaoning Whowin FC crest
[edit] Results
- As of the end of 2011 season
All-Time League rankings
| Season | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1973 | 1974 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 |
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| Division | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Position | 1 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 42 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Season | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 |
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| Division | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Position | 1 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 15 | 1 | 7 | 3 |
no league game in 1959, 1966–72, 1975;
FA Cup results
| Season | 1956 | 1960 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1995 | 1996 |
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| Results | Did not enter | Did not enter | Champions | 6 | Champions | Group Stage | Semifinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Second Round |
| Season | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2011 |
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| Results | Second Round | Runners-Up | Second Round | Quarterfinals | Second Round | Runners-Up | Round of 16 | First Round | Quarterfinals | First Round | Third Round |
CSL Cup results
| Season | 2004 | 2005 |
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| Results | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals |
Performance in AFC Competitions Asian Results
| Season | 1986 | 1987 | 1990 | 1991 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 2012 |
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| Competition | ACC | ACC | ACC | ACC | ACC | ACC | ACC | ACL |
| Position | Qualifying Stage | 3rd Place | Champions | Runners-Up | Qualifying - 3rd round | 4th place | Group Stage |
[edit] Current squad
As of 30 March 2011[6]
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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[edit] Coaching staff
| Position | Staff |
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| Head coach | Ma Lin |
| Assistant coach | Chen Yang |
| Goalkeepers coach | Sun Xianyi |
| Fitness coach | Chen Yang |
| Team physician | Pei Junchang Li Chunheng |
Source: Sina.com
[edit] Honours
[edit] Domestic
League
- Chinese National League
- Winners(1): 1954
- Chinese Jia-A League
- Winners (8): 1978 1985 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1993
- China League One
- Winners(1): 2009
Cup
- Chinese FA Cup
- Winners (1): 1986
- Chinese Super Cup
- Winners (1): 2000
[edit] Asian
- Asian Club Championship
- Winners (1): 1990
- Runners-up (1): 1991
[edit] Youth Team
- Winners (1): 2008
- U15 Team
- Nike Cup
[edit] Famous players
Alen Avdić
Hristo Yovov
Clément Lebe- Li Jinyu
- Li Tie
- Qu Shengqing
- Zhang Yuning
- Zhao Junzhe
- Zhuang Yi
Fabrice Grange
Qiu Li
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Club website
- Club profile at sina.com
- Club profile at sohu.com
- List of Chinese football league tables at rsssf.com
| Achievements | ||
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| Preceded by Al-Sadd  |
Champions of Asia 1989-90 |
Succeeded by Esteghlal  |
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