Changchun Yatai F.C.

Changchun Yatai Football Club (simplified Chinese: 长春亚泰; traditional Chinese: 長春亞泰; pinyin: Chángchūn Yàtài) is a professional Chinese football club that currently participates in the Chinese Super League under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team is based in Changchun, Jilin and their home stadium is the Changchun Stadium that has a seating capacity of 38,500. The club's founder and main investor is the private Chinese conglomerate Jilin Yatai Group.

Changchun Yatai
长春亚泰

Full name	Changchun Yatai FC 长春亚泰足球俱乐部
Founded	6 June 1996; 26 years ago (6 June 1996)^[1]
Ground	Nanling Stadium, Changchun, China
Capacity	38,500
Owner	Jiarun Investment Management Co. Ltd.
Chairman	Zeng Jiaofeng
Manager	Chen Yang
League	Chinese Super League
2022	Super League, 13th of 18
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

The club was formed on 6 June 1996 before making their debut in the third tier of China's football league pyramid in the 1997 league season. In 2000 they bought a position into the second division after they merged with Huizhou PLA Saonon. In 2001 they finished runners-up within their division, however they were denied promotion after they were embroiled in a match-fixing scandal.^[2] The club would reform and re-apply for a CFA playing license before they eventually gained promotion to China's top flight at the end of the 2005 league campaign. In the 2007 Chinese Super League they won the league title and participated in the 2008 AFC Champions League for the first time. They have since gone on to come second within 2009 Chinese Super League and also participated in the 2010 AFC Champions League.

Club history

Changchun Yatai was founded on 6 June 1996 by local conglomerate Jilin Yatai Group in Changchun, Jilin to take part in the recently fully professionalized league system, which allowed private enterprises to own their own clubs.^[3] The club would select a dragon kicking a ball as their crest while assembling the club's senior team and to make sure they had a competitive youth system they also brought in the best youth players from Shenyang before moving them into their recently created football training base at a cost of two million yuan, while the total cost of starting the whole enterprise would end up being 20 million yuan.^[4] For the next several seasons the club achieved very little until they bought a position into the second tier when the club took over Huizhou PLA Saonon at the beginning of the 2000 league season for fifteen million yuan, while during the season the team maintained an unbeaten home record but still finished in a disappointing fifth at the end of the season.^[5] The following season the club's manager Yin Tiesheng looked like he could improve upon last years results when he guided the club to a runners-up position and what looked like promotion to the top tier for the first time, however it was soon discovered that 6 October 2001 game that Changchun won 6–0 against Zhejiang Green Town was fixed. This saw the club denied promotion, had all offending participants banned for a year while the club had three months to reform and re-apply for a CFA playing license.^[6] Despite this Yin Tiesheng stayed on and promoted future Chinese internationals Du Zhenyu, Zhang Xiaofei and Cao Tianbao from the club's youth team which was assembled from Shenyang into the senior team.^[7] These players in 2003 would go on to win the Jia B (second level) title, but the club were not promoted due to the creation of the Super League.^[8]

Yin Tiesheng would leave the club in 2004 to take the Chinese U20 head coach position and Chen Jingang was brought in as the new manager.^[9] Within his reign Chen Jingang guided the club to a runners-up spot in the China League One division in 2005 and promotion to the Super League.^[10] In the club's debut season they finished fourth, however Chen Jingang was relieved of his duties after he lost the dressing room by threatening to dock player wagers if he was unsatisfied with their performances.^[11] In 2007 Gao Hongbo was brought as the new manager and in his debut season he won the Chinese Super League title with them.^[12] This would see Changchun allowed entry to the 2008 AFC Champions League for the first time along with Beijing Guoan and played their first game against Vietnamese football club Bình Dương on 12 March 2008 in a 2–1 victory^[13] While the club finished the group runners-up only one team was allowed to go through the knock out stages and the club crashed out of the tournament, this unfortunately affected the club's league performance and Gao Hongbo was fired during the season.^[14]

In September 2008 Li Shubin was brought in to manage the club and to see out the remainder of the 2008 league season, however under his leadership results improved and the club went on to have an industrious following campaign that saw them come runners-up at the end of the 2009 Chinese Super League campaign.^[15] Despite achieving consistently good performances for the team the club decided that they wanted Shen Xiangfu to manage the team for the following season and within one of his first games for the club in the 2010 AFC Champions League on 9 March 2010 Changchun beat Indonesian side Persipura Jayapura 9–0, making the victory the largest ever within the AFC Champions League for a Chinese side.^[16] Shen Xiangfu was however, unable to guide Changchun into the knock out stages despite there being two places up for grabs and his league performances were not impressive, despite this the club held on to him for another season where he fared little better and at the beginning of the 2012 Chinese Super League season the club brought in Svetozar Šapurić as the club's new manager.^[17]

In the 2018 Chinese Super League, Changchun underperformed in the last third of the season, finishing 15th. The team was relegated to the China League One. The 2019 season saw Changchun come close to earning promotion immediately back into the top tier, with a ten-game unbeaten streak in the middle of the season. Ultimately, though, the club slipped towards the end of the season and finished the campaign in fifth place. However, Changchun won the 2020 China League One title and returned to the Chinese Super League after a two-year absence.

Current squad

First team squad

As of 17 January 2023^[18]

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   CHN Liu Weiguo 3 DF   CHN Han Pengfei 4 DF   DEN Jores Okore 5 DF   CHN Sun Jie (captain) 8 MF   CHN Wang Jinxian 10 MF   BRA Serginho 13 FW   CHN Cheng Changcheng 15 MF   CHN Dilyimit Tudi 16 MF   CHN Zheng Zhiyun 17 DF   CHN Hui Jiakang 18 FW   CHN Memet-Raim Memet-Ali 19 DF   CHN Liao Chengjian 20 MF   CHN Zhang Yufeng 21 DF   CHN Cui Qi 22 MF   CHN Song Ziwenhao 23 GK   CHN Wu Yake

No. Pos. Nation Player 24 DF   CHN Yan Zhiyu 25 DF   CHN Wang Huapeng 26 FW   CHN Dong Honglin 27 MF   CHN Zhang Li (vice captain) 28 GK   CHN Ci Henglong 29 FW   CHN Tan Long 31 DF   CHN Rao Weihui 32 MF   CHN Li Guangwen 33 MF   CHN Feng Shuaihang 34 DF   CHN He Yiran 35 FW   CHN Abdulla Adil 36 FW   CHN Fan Chao 37 MF   CHN Huang Yushen 38 GK   CHN Lu Ning 39 DF   CHN Mao Kaiyu 44 MF   AUT Peter Žulj

Reserve squad

Updated 20 April 2022

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 GK   CHN Liu Yu 35 DF   CHN Yijin Huang 36 DF   CHN Jin Chenglong 37 MF   CHN Li Jiaqi 41 GK   CHN Gao Yuqin 42 MF   CHN Zhang Hengyuan 43 MF   CHN Cui Jingming 45 MF   CHN Yang Shukai 46 DF   CHN Yang Jingfan 47 DF   CHN Azimet Ahat 49 MF   CHN He Wei 51 GK   CHN Shi Yuan 53 DF   CHN An Kang 54 DF   CHN Feng Wenjun 55 MF   CHN Li Shangwen 57 DF   CHN Fang Liang 58 GK   CHN Chen Kaijun

No. Pos. Nation Player 59 DF   CHN Li Jiachen 60 MF   CHN Han Tianlin 62 MF   CHN Zhao HanYu 63 MF   CHN Zhang Le - FW   CHN Liu Ziliang - MF   CHN Yan Xu - FW   CHN Zhang Yutian - DF   CHN Xiang Jiaming - DF   CHN Xu Chaochao - FW   CHN Sun Jun - MF   CHN Han Zilong - MF   CHN Cao Ziheng - MF   CHN Guan Hao - DF   CHN Zuo Yiteng - MF   CHN Feng Shuaihang - DF   CHN Zhang Yusheng - DF   CHN Ren Peng

Retired numbers

Main article: Retired numbers in football

12 – Club Supporters (the 12th Man) retired in 2017.^[19]

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	Chen Yang
Team leader	Yang Jingdong
Assistant coach	Grigoriy Kolosovskiy
Goalkeepers coach	Anton Mayeranov
Fitness coach	Aleksandar Galic
Physiotherapist	Felipe Osorio Marques
Team physicians	Yu Da   Yang Junchao

Source: Changchun Yatai F.C.

Managerial history

As of 5 October 2020.^[20][21]

•   Tang Pengju (1997–98)
•   Yin Tiesheng (1999–04)
•   Qu Gang (interim) (2004 – 26 Apr 2004)
•   Li Hui (26 Apr 2004 – 6 July 2004)
•   Chen Jingang (18 July 2004 – 2006)
•   Arie Schans (1 Jan 2005 – 31 Dec 2007) Team leader
•   Gao Hongbo (1 Jan 2007 – 5 July 2008)
•   Li Shubin (interim) (20 July 2008 – 31 Dec 2008)
•   Ernst Middendorp (27 July 2008 – 31 Dec 2008)
•   Li Shubin (interim) (Sept 2008 – 25 Dec 2008)^[22]
•   Li Shubin (1 Jan 2009 – 31 Dec 2009)
•   Shen Xiangfu (2010–11)
•   Svetozar Šapurić (24 Nov 2011 – 28 Dec 2012)
•   Li Shubin (28 Dec 2012 – 20 May 2013)
•   Svetozar Šapurić (21 May 2013 – 21 April 2014)
•   Gao Jinggang (interim) (21 April 2014 – 28 April 2014)
•   Dragan Okuka (28 April 2014 – 12 Nov 2014)
•   Gao Jinggang (19 Dec 2014 – 12 Jun 2015)
•   Marijo Tot (12 Jun 2015 – 31 Dec 2015)
•   Slaviša Stojanovič (13 Jan 2016 –4 May 2016)
•   Lee Jang-soo (6 May 2016 –4 May 2017)
•   Chen Jingang (4 May 2017 –6 Jun 2019)
•   Svetozar Šapurić (9 Jun 2019 – 2 Dec 2019)
•   Samvel Babayan (2 Dec 2019 – 5 Oct 2020)
•   Chen Yang (5 Oct 2020 – )

Honours

League

Chinese Super League^[23]

• Champions: 2007
• Runners-up: 2009

China League One/Jia-B League

• Champions: 2003, 2020^[24]
• Runners-up: 2001, 2005

Results

All-time League rankings

As of the end of 2020 season.^[25][26]

Year	Div	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Pos.	FA Cup	Super Cup	League Cup	AFC	Att./G	Stadium
1997	3	5	1	1	3	4	9	−5	3^1	6^[27]	DNQ	DNQ	NH
1999	3	12	6	3	4	20	7	13	6^1	5^[28]	DNQ	DNQ	NH
2000	2	22	7	10	5	28	22	6	31	5	QF	DNQ	NH			Changchun Stadium
2001	2	22	12	6	4	39	15	24	42	RU^2	QF	DNQ	NH
2002	2	22	8	4	10	30	35	−5	28	8	R1	DNQ	NH
2003	2	26	15	8	3	51	15	36	53	W^3	R2	DNQ	NH
2004	2	32	13	12	7	53	34	19	51	5	R1	NH	DNQ			Development Area Stadium
2005	2	26	20	4	2	71	22	49	64	RU	R1	NH	DNQ			Changchun Stadium
2006	1	28	13	7	8	41	26	15	46	4	R1	NH	NH		8,607
2007	1	28	16	7	5	48	25	23	55	W	NH	NH	NH		16,429
2008	1	30	12	9	9	53	45	8	45	6	NH	NH	NH	Group	5,797
2009	1	30	14	8	8	38	31	7	50	RU	NH	NH	NH		12,179	Development Area Stadium
2010	1	30	10	8	12	40	41	−1	38	9	NH	NH	NH	Group	10,067
2011	1	30	11	12	7	33	31	2	45	7	R3	NH	NH		13,835
2012	1	30	12	8	10	37	40	−3	44	6	QF	DNQ	NH		12,701
2013	1	30	8	8	14	29	41	−12	32	14	R4	DNQ	NH		12,975
2014	1	30	8	8	14	33	40	−7	32	13	R3	DNQ	NH		12,886
2015	1	30	8	11	11	39	47	−8	35	10	R3	DNQ	NH		14,855
2016	1	30	10	5	15	30	44	−14	35	12	R3	DNQ	NH		15,202
2017	1	30	12	8	10	46	41	5	44	7	R3	DNQ	NH		16,477
2018	1	30	8	8	14	45	56	−11	32	15	R4	DNQ	NH		18,819	Changchun Stadium
2019	2	30	15	8	7	52	42	10	53	5	R16	DNQ	NH		13,785
2020	2	15	10	4	1	28	7	21	34	W	QF	DNQ	NH
2021	1	22	11	6	5	31	20	11	39	4	R16	DNQ	NH

• Did not enter in 1998 campaign.
• ^1 In group stages. ^2 Promotion to Jia-A league was cancelled due to match fixing. ^3 No promotion.

Key

China top division   China second division   China third division W   Winners RU   Runners-up 3   Third place   Relegated

Pld = Played W = Games won D = Games drawn L = Games lost F = Goals for A = Goals against Pts = Points Pos = Final position

DNQ = Did not qualify DNE = Did not enter NH = Not Held R1 = Round 1 R2 = Round 2 R3 = Round 3 R4 = Round 4

F = Final SF = Semi-finals QF = Quarter-finals R16 = Round of 16 Group = Group stage GS2 = Second Group stage QR1 = First Qualifying Round QR2 = Second Qualifying Round QR3 = Third Qualifying Round

Opponent	Season	Home	Away
Adelaide United FC	2008 AFC Champions League Group stage	0–0	0–0
Becamex Bình Dương F.C.	2008 AFC Champions League Group stage	2–1	5–0
Pohang Steelers	2008 AFC Champions League Group stage	1–0	2–2
Persipura Jayapura	2010 AFC Champions League Group stage	9–0	0–2
Kashima Antlers	2010 AFC Champions League Group stage	0–1	0–1
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors FC	2010 AFC Champions League Group stage	1–2	0–1

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External links

• Official Site (in Chinese)