The club was founded in 1995 as Wuhan Qianwei before making their debut in the newly developed fully professional Chinese football league system where they started in the third tier within the 1995 league season. 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. In 2002, they came fourth place in the last season of the Asian Cup Winners' Cup. After these achievements they struggled to replicate the same success and experienced their first relegation from the top tier in the 2006 league season. After gaining promotion in 2008 back into the top tier they were unable to remain in the top flight and were relegated once more in the 2010 season. In 2014, they finished the season at the top of Chinese League One (tier 2) division and won promotion to the Chinese Super League again. Between 2017 and 2021 the club was known as Chongqing Dangdai Lifan.
According to Forbes, in 2016, Chongqing was the 9th most valuable football team in China, with a team value of $76 million, and an estimated revenue of $17 million in 2015.[1]
Wuhan Qianwei F.C. was founded in Wuhan, Hubei Province in early 1995 on the basis of the second team of Hubei WISCO, which had taken the vacant place in Jia B League created by the merger of Hubei Football Team (est. 1954) and Wuhan Football Team to form its parent team in the previous year,[3] and was relegated to China League Two after that season.
In the 1995 season, Hubei Qianwei took part in the bottom level (tier-3) China League Two and finished fourth to gain promotion to the second division.[4] In the second tier, they quickly received significant funding from the Ministry of Public Security along with the Huandao Group, a notable company in tourism industry based in Hainan, which in turn also saw the club change its name to Qianwei Huandao to represent their new stockholder. Qianwei Huandao tried to relocate their home ground in Haikou, the capital city of Hainan province, but the team finally chose to stay in Wuhan since there was no suitable stadium in Hainan to serve as the home ground. With significant investment coming into the team, they bought several former Chinese international players such as Feng Zhigang and Xu Tao to strengthen the squad. This soon paid off when the club won the second-tier league and promoted to the top tier at the end of the 1996 league season.[5]
Move to Chongqing
In the top tier the owners decided that the club needed to affiliate itself with a major region that had a great football fan population, so they decided to move to the nearby city of Chongqing and chose the Datianwan Stadium as their new home ground. This was followed by more Chinese internationals such as Jiang Feng and Han Jinming joining the team and ensuring the club stayed up in the tier one at the end of the season. Ensuring that the club remain the only team within the Chongqing region, the club went on to merge and essentially take over a club in the lower-level league, Chongqing Hongyan, after the 1999 season. This was then followed by a complete shift of the club ownership. Lifan Group, a local flagship company in automobile industry, bought the club for 55,800,000 yuan on 19 August 2000 and renamed the club Chongqing Lifan.[6] While all of this was happening the club's 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 club's history.[7] Chongqing Lifan would then be eligible to enter their first continental competition when they competed in the 2001–02 Asian Cup Winners' Cup and with Edson Tavares as their new manager he would lead the club to a semi-finals position where the club lost 0:2 to Anyang Cheetahs before ending the competition in fourth after losing to Al Sadd by penalty kicks after a 0:0 regular-time draw in a third-place final game.[8]
In the 2003 league season Chongqing Lifan had brought in Miloš Hrstić as their new coach, however his appointment was a disaster and the club was relegated at the end of the season.[9] With the club desperate to remain within the top tier they would buy Yunnan Hongta's registration and merge the clubs' senior teams together allowing Chongqing Lifan to remain in the top division. Surprisingly the club would actually profit from the merger when several of the surplus players from both teams would then go on to gain investment from the Hunan Corun Group and buy Chongqing Lifan's second division registration for 20,000,000 yuan to then form Hunan Shoking.[10] Back on the field the club would bring in Yu Dongfeng as their new manager in the 2004 league season, however because it was an expansion season the club would stagnate at the bottom of the league, safe in the knowledge that there was no relegation that season. With no relegation again in the 2005 league season there was no improvement within the team despite the change in management with Ma Lin coming in. With relegation reinstated in the 2006 league season the club brought in another change of management with Xu Hong, however for the third straight season in a row the club finished bottom of the league and were relegated at the end of the season.[11] The club would decide to bring in a new manager and hired from within with former player Wei Xin chosen. The move would pay-off when on his second season the club won promotion back into the top tier when Chongqing came second at the end of the 2008 league season.
Dangdai era
On 26 June 2016, Jiang Lizhang purchased 98.13% of Granada CF,[12] setting up an affiliation, which has seen Feng Jing and Wang Zixiang go to the Spanish club,[13] with Chongqing Lifan. On 5 January 2017, Jiang, alongside the Dangdai International Group, purchased 90% of Chongqing Lifan, renaming the club Chongqing Dangdai Lifan.[14]
Throughout Chongqing Lifan's history they have built rivalries with Sichuan Quanxing, Chengdu Blades and Chongqing F.C., whom they contested in regional derbies. The oldest of these rivalries was against Sichuan Quanxing, which was formed when the club moved to the neighbouring province of Chongqing and effectively created a local derby.[15] With both clubs in the top tier representing two neighbouring provinces, a fierce local rivalry would form that reached its peak on 12 November 2003 in a vital league game for both teams to avoid relegation. Sichuan won 2–0 in a highly contentious game that saw Qiu Weiguo (邱卫国) from Chongqing and Marko Jovanović of Sichuan receive suspensions for their on-field behavior.[16] This rivalry would come to end when Sichuan declared themselves defunct at the end of the 2005 league season; however, another Sichuan province club in Chengdu Blades soon took over the baton as local rivals.[17] This was ignited on 14 April 2007 in a home league game for Chongqing Lifan that saw Chengdu win 1–0 as both teams looked to win promotion into the top tier that season.[18] For several seasons these two clubs would fight in an intermittent rivalry until Chengdu were dissolved in 2015 after facing financial difficulties.[19]
The Chongqing derby was contested by Chongqing Lifan and Chongqing F.C. as a local inner city rivalry. Hostilities were immediately started with the formation of Chongqing F.C. in 2010 when their owners proclaimed that the formation of their club would produce a "healthy Chongqing" football environment for the sport within the province, a term that was seen as an insult directed at Chongqing Lifan who were relegated from the top flight that season.[20] After only one season both clubs would meet each other within the second division and had their first encounter in a league game with Chongqing F.C. playing at home as Chongqing Lifan won 4–1.[21] The return fixture would see violence break out between the two set of fans as the rivalry intensified between the clubs.[22] On 21 December 2013 the rivalry was cancelled when Chongqing F.C. was dissolved due to financial difficulties.[23]
Some fans of Chongqing Lifan also regard Shijiazhuang Yongchang F.C. (a club in Hebei province) as a major rival due to the hostility between fanbases of these two clubs triggered by the transfer of Wang Dong from Shandong Tengding to Chongqing Lifan in 2014. Wang was hated by Yongchang fans because of his previously unfriendly words against another Hebei team Hebei Zhongji (now Hebei China Fortune).
^4 Two Super League clubs were involved in match-fixing scandal and relegated to League One, so Chongqing could stay at top level.
^5 Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, matches of the 2020 season were changed to a 2-stage format. Chongqing finished at the 3rd position in the 8-team Suzhou group (W7, D3, L4) and entered the Suzhou championship playoff in the second stage, where it eventually finished at the 6th position. No game was played at the home ground. No attendance was allowed in the group stage and 5 out of 6 playoff games had limited permitted attendance.
chongqing, liangjiang, athletic, chongqing, liangjiang, athletic, simplified, chinese, 重庆两江竞技, traditional, chinese, 重慶兩江競技, pinyin, chóngqìng, liǎngjiāng, jìngjì, defunct, chinese, football, club, team, based, chongqing, chongqing, liangjiang, athletic, chóng. Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic simplified Chinese 重庆两江竞技 traditional Chinese 重慶兩江競技 pinyin Chongqing Liǎngjiang Jingji is a defunct Chinese football club The team was based in Chongqing Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic Chongqing Liǎngjiang Jingji 重庆两江竞技 Full nameChongqing Liangjiang Athletic Football Club重庆两江竞技Founded1995 28 years ago 1995 Dissolved2022 1 year ago 2022 GroundChongqing Olympic Sports CenterCapacity58 680OwnerWuhan Dangdai Group 90 Lifan Group 10 ChairmanJiang LizhangLeagueChinese Super League2021Super League 13th of 16WebsiteClub websiteThe club was founded in 1995 as Wuhan Qianwei before making their debut in the newly developed fully professional Chinese football league system where they started in the third tier within the 1995 league season 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 In 2002 they came fourth place in the last season of the Asian Cup Winners Cup After these achievements they struggled to replicate the same success and experienced their first relegation from the top tier in the 2006 league season After gaining promotion in 2008 back into the top tier they were unable to remain in the top flight and were relegated once more in the 2010 season In 2014 they finished the season at the top of Chinese League One tier 2 division and won promotion to the Chinese Super League again Between 2017 and 2021 the club was known as Chongqing Dangdai Lifan According to Forbes in 2016 Chongqing was the 9th most valuable football team in China with a team value of 76 million and an estimated revenue of 17 million in 2015 1 The club was dissolved on 24 May 2022 2 Contents 1 History 1 1 Establishment in Wuhan 1 2 Move to Chongqing 1 3 Takeover of Yunnan Hongta 1 4 Dangdai era 2 Name history 3 Rivalries 4 Managerial history 5 Honours 5 1 League 5 2 Cup 5 3 Youth 6 Results 7 References 8 External linksHistory EditEstablishment in Wuhan Edit Wuhan Qianwei F C was founded in Wuhan Hubei Province in early 1995 on the basis of the second team of Hubei WISCO which had taken the vacant place in Jia B League created by the merger of Hubei Football Team est 1954 and Wuhan Football Team to form its parent team in the previous year 3 and was relegated to China League Two after that season In the 1995 season Hubei Qianwei took part in the bottom level tier 3 China League Two and finished fourth to gain promotion to the second division 4 In the second tier they quickly received significant funding from the Ministry of Public Security along with the Huandao Group a notable company in tourism industry based in Hainan which in turn also saw the club change its name to Qianwei Huandao to represent their new stockholder Qianwei Huandao tried to relocate their home ground in Haikou the capital city of Hainan province but the team finally chose to stay in Wuhan since there was no suitable stadium in Hainan to serve as the home ground With significant investment coming into the team they bought several former Chinese international players such as Feng Zhigang and Xu Tao to strengthen the squad This soon paid off when the club won the second tier league and promoted to the top tier at the end of the 1996 league season 5 Move to Chongqing Edit In the top tier the owners decided that the club needed to affiliate itself with a major region that had a great football fan population so they decided to move to the nearby city of Chongqing and chose the Datianwan Stadium as their new home ground This was followed by more Chinese internationals such as Jiang Feng and Han Jinming joining the team and ensuring the club stayed up in the tier one at the end of the season Ensuring that the club remain the only team within the Chongqing region the club went on to merge and essentially take over a club in the lower level league Chongqing Hongyan after the 1999 season This was then followed by a complete shift of the club ownership Lifan Group a local flagship company in automobile industry bought the club for 55 800 000 yuan on 19 August 2000 and renamed the club Chongqing Lifan 6 While all of this was happening the club s 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 club s history 7 Chongqing Lifan would then be eligible to enter their first continental competition when they competed in the 2001 02 Asian Cup Winners Cup and with Edson Tavares as their new manager he would lead the club to a semi finals position where the club lost 0 2 to Anyang Cheetahs before ending the competition in fourth after losing to Al Sadd by penalty kicks after a 0 0 regular time draw in a third place final game 8 Takeover of Yunnan Hongta Edit See also Yunnan Hongta In the 2003 league season Chongqing Lifan had brought in Milos Hrstic as their new coach however his appointment was a disaster and the club was relegated at the end of the season 9 With the club desperate to remain within the top tier they would buy Yunnan Hongta s registration and merge the clubs senior teams together allowing Chongqing Lifan to remain in the top division Surprisingly the club would actually profit from the merger when several of the surplus players from both teams would then go on to gain investment from the Hunan Corun Group and buy Chongqing Lifan s second division registration for 20 000 000 yuan to then form Hunan Shoking 10 Back on the field the club would bring in Yu Dongfeng as their new manager in the 2004 league season however because it was an expansion season the club would stagnate at the bottom of the league safe in the knowledge that there was no relegation that season With no relegation again in the 2005 league season there was no improvement within the team despite the change in management with Ma Lin coming in With relegation reinstated in the 2006 league season the club brought in another change of management with Xu Hong however for the third straight season in a row the club finished bottom of the league and were relegated at the end of the season 11 The club would decide to bring in a new manager and hired from within with former player Wei Xin chosen The move would pay off when on his second season the club won promotion back into the top tier when Chongqing came second at the end of the 2008 league season Dangdai era Edit On 26 June 2016 Jiang Lizhang purchased 98 13 of Granada CF 12 setting up an affiliation which has seen Feng Jing and Wang Zixiang go to the Spanish club 13 with Chongqing Lifan On 5 January 2017 Jiang alongside the Dangdai International Group purchased 90 of Chongqing Lifan renaming the club Chongqing Dangdai Lifan 14 Name history Edit1995 Wuhan Qianwei 武汉前卫 1996 1998 Qianwei Huandao 前卫寰岛 5 1999 2000 Chongqing Longxin 重庆隆鑫 2000 2003 Chongqing Lifan 重庆力帆 6 2004 Chongqing Qiche 重庆奇伡 2005 2016 Chongqing Lifan 重庆力帆 2017 2020 Chongqing Dangdai Lifan 重庆当代力帆 14 2021 2022 Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic 重庆两江竞技 Rivalries EditThroughout Chongqing Lifan s history they have built rivalries with Sichuan Quanxing Chengdu Blades and Chongqing F C whom they contested in regional derbies The oldest of these rivalries was against Sichuan Quanxing which was formed when the club moved to the neighbouring province of Chongqing and effectively created a local derby 15 With both clubs in the top tier representing two neighbouring provinces a fierce local rivalry would form that reached its peak on 12 November 2003 in a vital league game for both teams to avoid relegation Sichuan won 2 0 in a highly contentious game that saw Qiu Weiguo 邱卫国 from Chongqing and Marko Jovanovic of Sichuan receive suspensions for their on field behavior 16 This rivalry would come to end when Sichuan declared themselves defunct at the end of the 2005 league season however another Sichuan province club in Chengdu Blades soon took over the baton as local rivals 17 This was ignited on 14 April 2007 in a home league game for Chongqing Lifan that saw Chengdu win 1 0 as both teams looked to win promotion into the top tier that season 18 For several seasons these two clubs would fight in an intermittent rivalry until Chengdu were dissolved in 2015 after facing financial difficulties 19 The Chongqing derby was contested by Chongqing Lifan and Chongqing F C as a local inner city rivalry Hostilities were immediately started with the formation of Chongqing F C in 2010 when their owners proclaimed that the formation of their club would produce a healthy Chongqing football environment for the sport within the province a term that was seen as an insult directed at Chongqing Lifan who were relegated from the top flight that season 20 After only one season both clubs would meet each other within the second division and had their first encounter in a league game with Chongqing F C playing at home as Chongqing Lifan won 4 1 21 The return fixture would see violence break out between the two set of fans as the rivalry intensified between the clubs 22 On 21 December 2013 the rivalry was cancelled when Chongqing F C was dissolved due to financial difficulties 23 Some fans of Chongqing Lifan also regard Shijiazhuang Yongchang F C a club in Hebei province as a major rival due to the hostility between fanbases of these two clubs triggered by the transfer of Wang Dong from Shandong Tengding to Chongqing Lifan in 2014 Wang was hated by Yongchang fans because of his previously unfriendly words against another Hebei team Hebei Zhongji now Hebei China Fortune Managerial history EditAs of End of 2021 Chinese league season 24 25 Klaus Schlappner 1996 97 Lee Jang Soo 1998 01 Edson Tavares 2002 03 Milos Hrstic 2003 Yu Dongfeng 2004 Viorel Hizo 2004 05 Ma Lin 2005 Xu Hong 2006 Wei Xin 2007 09 Arie Haan 2009 Wei Xin interim 2009 10 Li Shubin 2010 Wei Xin interim 2010 Liu Jingbiao 2011 Lawrie McKinna 2012 Tang Yaodong 2012 Wang Baoshan 2013 2015 Chang Woe Ryong 2016 2017 Paulo Bento 2018 Hao Haitao caretaker 2018 Jordi Cruyff 2018 2019 Chang Woe Ryong 2020 2022 Honours EditLeague Edit Jia B Champions China League One 26 Winners 2 1996 2014Cup Edit Chinese FA Cup 27 Winners 1 2000Chinese FA Super CupRunner up 1 2000Youth Edit U19 Adidas Youth League ChampionsWinners 1 2007Results EditAll time league rankingsUpdated 1 April 2020 28 29 Year Div Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Pos FA Cup Super Cup League Cup AFC Other Att G Stadium1995 3 8 3 5 0 71 4 DNQ DNQ 2 217 Xinhua Road Sports Center1996 2 22 13 7 2 40 14 26 46 W R2 DNQ 3 1881997 1 22 8 5 9 28 28 0 29 5 SF DNQ 27 727 Datianwan Stadium1998 1 26 8 8 10 29 29 0 32 7 R3 DNQ 24 0001999 1 26 10 10 6 40 27 13 40 4 R3 DNQ 17 2312000 1 26 10 11 5 46 33 13 41 4 W RU 16 6152001 1 26 7 10 9 24 27 3 31 11 R2 DNQ CWC 4 21 6152002 1 28 10 11 7 28 25 3 41 6 R1 DNQ 14 8932003 1 28 6 8 14 21 34 13 26 132 SF DNQ 19 2862004 1 22 4 9 9 14 31 17 21 123 R1 NH R1 15 727 Datianwan StadiumMoved toChongqing Olympic Sports Center2005 1 26 2 7 17 16 41 25 13 143 R1 NH R2 5 731 Yanghe Stadium2006 1 28 3 7 18 20 51 31 16 15 R1 NH NH 6 5362007 2 24 13 5 6 34 22 12 44 4 NH NH NH 2 0882008 2 24 12 7 5 34 19 15 43 RU NH NH NH 1 8972009 1 30 7 8 15 27 51 24 29 164 NH NH NH 11 440 Chongqing Olympic Sports Center2010 1 30 7 9 14 36 48 12 30 15 NH NH NH 11 4332011 2 26 8 9 9 30 35 5 33 8 R2 NH NH 1 721 Yongchuan Sports Center2012 2 30 12 9 9 50 45 5 45 5 R3 DNQ NH 4 043 Fuling Stadium2013 2 30 17 5 8 45 27 18 56 4 R3 DNQ NH 2 7252014 2 30 17 10 3 60 24 36 61 W R3 DNQ NH 13 254 Chongqing Olympic Sports Center2015 1 30 9 8 13 37 52 15 35 8 R4 DNQ NH 37 5952016 1 30 9 10 11 43 50 7 37 8 R3 DNQ NH 36 1782017 1 30 9 9 12 37 40 3 36 10 R3 DNQ NH 34 4392018 1 30 8 8 14 40 46 6 32 13 R16 DNQ NH 32 4342019 1 30 9 9 12 36 47 11 36 10 R16 DNQ NH 30 9082020 1 20 9 4 7 31 29 2 6 R2 DNQ NH 1 500 5 1 In final group stage 2 Merged with Yunnan Hongta so that the club could stay at top level 3 No relegation 4 Two Super League clubs were involved in match fixing scandal and relegated to League One so Chongqing could stay at top level 5 Due to the COVID 19 pandemic matches of the 2020 season were changed to a 2 stage format Chongqing finished at the 3rd position in the 8 team Suzhou group W7 D3 L4 and entered the Suzhou championship playoff in the second stage where it eventually finished at the 6th position No game was played at the home ground No attendance was allowed in the group stage and 5 out of 6 playoff games had limited permitted attendance Key China top division China second division China third divisionW Winners ChampionsRU Runners up3 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 Does Not Exist 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 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