Chongqing Lifan
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Chongqing Lifan, are a professional Chinese
football club who currently plays in the Chinese League One division. They play their home games at the 58,680 seater Chongqing Olympic Sports Center in Chongqing
and are owned by the Chongqing based Lifan Group, which manufactures motorcycles, cars and spare parts. Originally called Qianwei (Vanguard) Wuhan and formed in 1995 to take part in the recently developed fully professional Chinese football league system. They would quickly rise up to the top tier and experience their greatest achievement of winning the 2000 Chinese FA Cup
and coming fourth within the league, however since then they have struggled to replicate the same success and have twice been relegated from the top tier in their history.
and into the Datianwan Stadium
. This was followed by more Chinese internationals such as Jiang Feng and Han Jinming joining the team and ensuring the club stayed up at the end of the season. Ensuring that the club remain the only team within the reign the club would go on to merge and essentially take over lower league club Chongqing Hongyan the following season. This was then followed by a complete takeover of the entire club by the Lifan Group who bought the club for 55,800,000 yuan on August 19, 2000 and renamed the club Chongqing Lifan. While all of this was happening the clubs manager Lee Jang-Soo
was ensuring that the club would gradually improve each successive season and provide the club with their greatest achievement of winning the 2000 Chinese FA Cup
for the first time in the clubs history. Chongqing Lifan would then be eligible to enter their first continental competition when they competitied in the 2001–02 Asian Cup Winners' Cup and with Stefano Impagliazzo as their new manager he would lead the club to a semi-finals position where the club lost to Anyang Cheetahs before ending the competition in fourth after losing to Al Sadd in a third place match.
In 2003 Chongqing Lifan was relegated and the club decided to buy Yunnan Hongta with the merger allowing the club to remain in the top division. The former Chongqing Lifan team became the new formed Hunan Xiangjun club that was relegated from the second division Jia League.
Despite finishing bottom for both the first and the second season of the CSL, they still participated in the 2006 season
as relegation had been cancelled for the first two seasons. However, in 2006, they finished last again and were finally relegated for 2007. Their best ever finish in the old First Division was fourth.
As recently as 2002, Chongqing Lifan participated in Asian Cup Winner's Cup, but lost to Al Sadd. Anyang Cheetahs defeated Chongqing in the previous year. Wei Xin
was Chongqing's best player.
All-time League rankings
merged with Yunnan Hongta so that the club could stay at top level. no relegation.
Klaus Schlappner
Lee Jang-Soo
Stefano Impagliazzo
China
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football club who currently plays in the Chinese League One division. They play their home games at the 58,680 seater Chongqing Olympic Sports Center in Chongqing
Chongqing
Chongqing is a major city in Southwest China and one of the five national central cities of China. Administratively, it is one of the PRC's four direct-controlled municipalities , and the only such municipality in inland China.The municipality was created on 14 March 1997, succeeding the...
and are owned by the Chongqing based Lifan Group, which manufactures motorcycles, cars and spare parts. Originally called Qianwei (Vanguard) Wuhan and formed in 1995 to take part in the recently developed fully professional Chinese football league system. They would quickly rise up to the top tier and experience their greatest achievement of winning the 2000 Chinese FA Cup
Chinese FA Cup
The Chinese FA Cup is the national knockout cup competition in China organised by the Chinese Football Association. Its current format started in the 1995 season.In the new season, 2011 it was announced, that current Chinese FA Cup will start in May....
and coming fourth within the league, however since then they have struggled to replicate the same success and have twice been relegated from the top tier in their history.
Formation
The clubs predecessor was called Qianwei and was created to take part in the recently developed fully professional Chinese football league system. They would take part at the bottom of the Chinese league pyramid in the third tier and by the 1995 league season come fourth within the league and gain promotion to the second tier. Within the second tier they would quickly gain significant funding from the local government and the Huandao Group, which in turn also saw the club change its name to Qianwei Huandao to represent this. With significant investment coming into the team they would buy several former Chinese internationals such as Feng Zhigang and Xu Tao to strengthen the squad. This would quickly pay off and the club would win the second tier title and promotion into the top tier for the first time at the end of the 1996 league season.Chongqing
In the top tier the owners decided that the club needed to affiliate itself with a major reign and would decide to move nearby to ChongqingChongqing
Chongqing is a major city in Southwest China and one of the five national central cities of China. Administratively, it is one of the PRC's four direct-controlled municipalities , and the only such municipality in inland China.The municipality was created on 14 March 1997, succeeding the...
and into the Datianwan Stadium
Datianwan Stadium
Datianwan Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Chongqing, China. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 32,000 people....
. This was followed by more Chinese internationals such as Jiang Feng and Han Jinming joining the team and ensuring the club stayed up at the end of the season. Ensuring that the club remain the only team within the reign the club would go on to merge and essentially take over lower league club Chongqing Hongyan the following season. This was then followed by a complete takeover of the entire club by the Lifan Group who bought the club for 55,800,000 yuan on August 19, 2000 and renamed the club Chongqing Lifan. While all of this was happening the clubs manager Lee Jang-Soo
Lee Jang-Soo
Lee Jang-Soo is a South Korean association football manager and a former player. As a player he had the distinction of being one of the first fully professional footballers to play in the newly formed Korean Super League in the inaugural 1983 league season, however it has been as a manager where...
was ensuring that the club would gradually improve each successive season and provide the club with their greatest achievement of winning the 2000 Chinese FA Cup
Chinese FA Cup
The Chinese FA Cup is the national knockout cup competition in China organised by the Chinese Football Association. Its current format started in the 1995 season.In the new season, 2011 it was announced, that current Chinese FA Cup will start in May....
for the first time in the clubs history. Chongqing Lifan would then be eligible to enter their first continental competition when they competitied in the 2001–02 Asian Cup Winners' Cup and with Stefano Impagliazzo as their new manager he would lead the club to a semi-finals position where the club lost to Anyang Cheetahs before ending the competition in fourth after losing to Al Sadd in a third place match.
Merger with Yunnan Hongta
See also Yunnan HongtaYunnan Hongta
Yunnan Hongta was a football club who played in the Chinese Jia-A League who were originally founded by the Shenzhen Jinpeng Group in 1996 and named Shenzhen Jinpeng...
In 2003 Chongqing Lifan was relegated and the club decided to buy Yunnan Hongta with the merger allowing the club to remain in the top division. The former Chongqing Lifan team became the new formed Hunan Xiangjun club that was relegated from the second division Jia League.
Despite finishing bottom for both the first and the second season of the CSL, they still participated in the 2006 season
Chinese Super League 2006
This article is about the 2006 season of the Chinese Football Association Super League , also known as Chinese Super League , which is the premier football league in China under the auspices of the Chinese Football Association....
as relegation had been cancelled for the first two seasons. However, in 2006, they finished last again and were finally relegated for 2007. Their best ever finish in the old First Division was fourth.
As recently as 2002, Chongqing Lifan participated in Asian Cup Winner's Cup, but lost to Al Sadd. Anyang Cheetahs defeated Chongqing in the previous year. Wei Xin
Wei Xin
Wei Xin is the assistant coach of the Chinese Super League football team, Chongqing Lifan. Before becoming a coach, he played professionally as a versatile defender or midfielder who predominately for Chongqing Lifan as well as the Chinese national football team.-Playing career:Wei Xin was...
was Chongqing's best player.
Name changes
- 1995: Qianwei (Vanguard) Wuhan (前卫武汉)
- 1995: Qianwei (Vanguard) FC (前卫俱乐部)
- 1996-98: Qianwei (Vanguard) Huandao (前卫寰岛)
- 1999-00: Chongqing Longxin (重庆隆鑫)
- 2000-02: Chongqing Lifan (重庆力帆)
- 2003: Chongqing Lifan Xinganjue (重庆力帆新感觉)
- 2004: Chongqing Qiche (重庆奇伡)
- 2005-08: Chongqing Lifan (重庆力帆)
- 2009-: Chongqing Shixian Taibai (重庆诗仙太白)
Results
- As of the end of 2011 season
All-time League rankings
| Season | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 Chinese Jia-A League 1997 -Overview:It was performed in 12 teams, and Dalian Wanda won the championship.-League standings:-References:*... |
1998 Chinese Jia-A League 1998 -Overview:It was performed in 14 teams, and Dalian Wanda won the championship.-League standings:-References:*... |
1999 Chinese Jia-A League 1999 -League standings:-References:*... |
2000 Chinese Jia-A League 2000 -Overview:It was performed in 14 teams, and Dalian Shide won the championship.-League standings:-References:*... |
2001 Chinese Jia-A League 2001 -Overview:It was performed in 14 teams, and Dalian Shide won the championship.-League standings:-References:*... |
2002 Chinese Jia-A League 2002 -Overview:It was performed in 15 teams, and Dalian Shide won the championship.-League standings:-References:*... |
2003 Chinese Jia-A League 2003 -League standings:-References:*... |
2004 Chinese Super League 2004 -Overview:The first Chinese Super League season was greeted with great enthusiasm by the media and the FA, with the decision to create a new top tier league in China made in order to freshen up Chinese football... |
2005 Chinese Super League 2005 The 2005 Chinese Super League season was only the second season of China's top-tier football competition. With no relegation the previous season, the league expanded from 12 to 14 clubs with the promotion of Shanghai Zobon and Wuhan Huanghelou... |
2006 Chinese Super League 2006 This article is about the 2006 season of the Chinese Football Association Super League , also known as Chinese Super League , which is the premier football league in China under the auspices of the Chinese Football Association.... |
2007 | 2008 Chinese Football Association Jia League 2008 -Final league table:||rowspan=3 style="background:white;"|||rowspan=4 style="background:white;"|||rowspan=2 style="background:white;"|||rowspan=1 style="background:white;"|-Promotion and Relegation:Teams promoted from Yi League 2007... |
2009 | 2010 2010 Chinese Super League The 2010 Chinese Super League season was the seventh season since the establishment of the Chinese Super League, the seventeenth season of a professional association football league and the 49th top-tier league season in China.... |
2011 2011 China League One The 2011 China League One is the eighth season of the China League One, the second tier of the Chinese football league pyramid, since its establishment... |
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| Division | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Position | 4 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 6 | 13 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 15 | 8 |
Current squad
As of 25 March 2011Notable players
| Peng Weiguo Peng Weiguo Peng Weiguo is a retired Chinese football player. He was known as one of the best midfielders in China in the 1990s. He is now a manager.-Club career:... Gao Feng Gao Feng (footballer) Gao Feng is a former Chinese football striker.He was married to Chinese vocalist Na Ying and had a son together, but divorced in 2005.-External links:* *... Fu Bin Fu Bin Fu Bin is a former Chinese international football goalkeeper who currently holds the record for being the oldest professional player in Chinese history aged 40 years and 133 days before he retired... Zhou Lin Zhou Lin Zhou Lin is a Chinese football player who plays as a defender in Guangzhou F.C..-Chongqing Lifan:Zhou Lin began his professional football career when he was able to break into the Chongqing Lifan first-team during the 1999 league season after previously playing for their youth team... Wei Xin Wei Xin Wei Xin is the assistant coach of the Chinese Super League football team, Chongqing Lifan. Before becoming a coach, he played professionally as a versatile defender or midfielder who predominately for Chongqing Lifan as well as the Chinese national football team.-Playing career:Wei Xin was... Xie Hui Xie Hui (footballer) Xie Hui is a retired Chinese professional football player who currently is hired as an assistant manager for Shanghai Shenhua. He is one-eighth English; his great-grandmother was English.-Professional career:... Jiang Feng Ou Chuliang Ou Chuliang Ou Chuliang （; born August 26, 1968 in Guangzhou, Guangdong）is an assistant coach and former international Chinese football goalkeeper. He was also a participant of the Chinese football team that took part in the 2002 FIFA World Cup.-Club career:... |
Sebastián Cobelli Sebastián Cobelli Sebastián Pablo Cobelli Larese is an Argentine football striker who plays for Talleres de Córdoba in Argentina.-Career:... Aílton Ailton Gonçalves da Silva Aílton Gonçalves da Silva , usually known simply as Aílton, is a Brazilian football striker who last played for FC Oberneuland.- Career :... Elizeu Ferreira Marciano Miroslav Bičanić Miroslav Bicanic Miroslav Bičanić is a former Croatian footballer. He played in two matches for the Croatia national football team in friendlies against Ukraine and Hungary.Bicanic is one of the best players of NK Osijek 1990-1996 and one of the best goal-assistants of Croatian League at that time.He was... Dean Računica Dean Racunica Dean Računica, , is a former Croatian footballer. He is currently assistant manager at Hajduk Split.Računica played for HNK Hajduk Split in the Croatian Prva HNL.-References:... Paul Rideout Paul Rideout Paul Rideout is a retired English professional football player who played in the 1980s and 1990s. He is a youth coach with Sporting Kansas City, heading their U-16, U-17 and U-18 teams.-Playing career:... Giorgi Chikhradze Giorgi Chikhradze Giorgi Chikhradze is a Georgian football manager and former member of the Georgian national football team.Chikhradze played club football for FC Dinamo Sokhumi in the Soviet Second League and Spartak Anapa in the Russian First League.... Rachid Azzouzi Rachid Azzouzi Rachid Azzouzi is a Moroccan footballer.He played for several clubs, including MSV Duisburg, Fortuna Köln and Greuther Fürth, all in Germany.... |
Abdeljalil El Hajji Abdeljalil El Hajji Abdeljalil El Hajji is a retired Moroccan footballer. He played as a midfielder.-External links: ... Akhrik Tsveiba Akhrik Tsveiba Akhrik Sokratovich Tsveiba is a retired Soviet association footballer.-Career:... Mark Williams Le Huynh Duc Le Huynh Duc Lê Huỳnh Đức is a Vietnamese football manager and former footballer currently coaching SHB Ðà Nẵng of the V-League. Đức is a former member of the Vietnam national football team, with whom he earned 60 caps , as well as being its top scorer... Zola Kiniambi Zola Kiniambi Zola Kiniambi is a former Congolese footballer. He is the only foreign player who played in Chinese football league for more than 10 years.-Club career:Zola Kiniambi move to China at 1997 season... Agent Sawu Agent Sawu Agent Sawu is a Zimbabwean football striker who is assistant coach of Zimbabwe Saints FC in the Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League.-International career:... |
Coaching staff
Notable Coaching Members
Milos HrsticMiloš Hrstic
Miloš Hrstić is a former Croatian footballer.During his club career he played for NK Rijeka, Deportivo de La Coruña and Olimpija Ljubljana...
Klaus Schlappner
Klaus Schlappner
Klaus Schlappner is a football manager. He is predominately remembered for his first spell with SV Waldhof Mannheim, where he led them to the Second Fußball-Bundesliga title and several seasons in the Bundesliga as well as being the first foreign coach to manage the Chinese national football...
Lee Jang-Soo
Lee Jang-Soo
Lee Jang-Soo is a South Korean association football manager and a former player. As a player he had the distinction of being one of the first fully professional footballers to play in the newly formed Korean Super League in the inaugural 1983 league season, however it has been as a manager where...
Stefano Impagliazzo
External links
- Chongqing Lifan website
- Lifan Thailand website