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Dalian Yifang
大连一方
Full name Dalian Yifang Football Club
大连一方足球俱乐部
Nickname(s) Blue Hawks
Founded 20 September 2009; 15 years ago (2009-09-20)
Ground Dalian Sports Center,
Dalian, Liaoning
Ground Capacity 61,000
Chairman Shi Xueqing (石雪清)
Manager Mikael Stahre
League China League One
2015 League One, 3rd
Current season

Dalian Yifang Football Club (Chinese: 大连一方足球俱乐部) is a professional Chinese football club that currently participates in the China League One division under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team is based in Dalian, Liaoning and their home stadium is the 61,000 capacity Dalian Sports Center where they are owned by the Dalian Yifang Group Co. Ltd.

The club was founded in September 20, 2009 by Dalian Aerbin Group Co. Ltd and started at the bottom of the Chinese football pyramid in the third tier. After successive league title wins in the 2nd and 3rd tier professional football leagues, they were promoted to the top tier in 2012 Chinese Super League season where they would experience their highest ever placing of fifth in the same season.[1]

History

On September 20, 2009, Dalian Aerbin Group Co. Ltd. established a new professional football club named Dalian Aerbin (Chinese: 大连阿尔滨) and hired former Chinese international footballer Li Ming to become the club manager. The club's name Aerbin comes from the Manchu language meaning a place with water, which is also the name of a small town in Jinzhou District of Dalian where Dalian Aerbin Group Co. Ltd locates. They would soon move into the Dalian University Stadium in the Dalian Development Area and bring in Chi Shangbin as their co-manager and Sun Xianlu as their Head coach.[2] Starting in the third tier league, the club made their debut in 2010 China League Two season. The club brought in established top tier Chinese Super League players such as Guo Hui, Chang Lin and Yang Lin. The quality of these players helped the club win their regional division section and later the league title over Tianjin Songjiang as the club won the championship.[3]

The following season, the club hired its first foreign coach, a Bulgarian, Aleksandar Stankov. Dalian Aerbin F.C. set up a surprising winning streak and won the 2011 China League One championship.[4] With its meteoric rise to the Super League, the club decided to use the 30,775 seater Jinzhou Stadium as its home stadium and shared it with their local rival Dalian Shide as well as signing a more experienced manager Chang Woe-Ryong who had previously succeeded in the Chinese Super League Qingdao Jonoon.[5] The club initially struggled in the league and the club brought in Aleksandar Stanojević as the head coach.[6] By July 11, 2012 Dalian Aerbin would bring in a marquee player in Mali international Seydou Keita who departed on a free transfer from Barcelona F.C. to ensure their stay within the league.[7] Stanojevć managed the club successfully and Dalian Aerbin F.C. was actually the "champion" in the 2nd half of the league. The club finally ranked 5th in 2012.

On 30 November 2012, Aerbin Group acquired the local rival Dalian Shide F.C. by taking on responsibility of their 330 million RMB debt.[8] In hopes of bringing in a harmonious merger of the two teams, former Dalian Shide manager Xu Hong was brought in for the start of the 2013 Chinese Super League. However, after only 63 days in charge he had to resign after the Chinese Football Association found that he manipulated a match while as a manager at Sichuan Guancheng and was given a 5-year suspension from all football activity, which forced Li Ming to start the season as their caretaker manager.[9]

On 8 July 2015, Dalian Yifang Group Co. Ltd. bought majority shares of the club.[10] The club fail to promote back to the first tier after finishing the 3rd place of the league in the 2015 season. They changed their name to Dalian Yifang F.C. (Chinese: 大连一方) in December 2015.[11]

Ownership and naming history

Year Owner Club name Sponsored team name
2009–15 Dalian Aerbin Group Co. Ltd. Dalian Aerbin Football Club
2015 Dalian Yifang Group Co. Ltd.
2016– Dalian Yifang Football Club

Crest history

Current squad

As of 14 march 2015 [12]

First team

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

No. Position Player
1 China GK Zhang Chong
2 China DF Wang Wanpeng
3 China DF Cao Xuan (captain)
4 China DF Li Shuai
5 China DF Wu Yuyin
6 China MF Zhu Xiaogang
7 China MF Li Zhendong
8 China MF Zhu Ting
9 Zimbabwe FW Nyasha Mushekwi
10 China MF Chen Tao
11 Sierra Leone FW Mohamed Bangura
12 China FW Zhao Xuebin
15 China MF Jin Qiang
17 China MF Zhang Hui
18 China FW Wang Jinxian
19 China GK Yu Ziqian
No. Position Player
20 China MF Du Yuxin
21 China MF Liu Yingchen
22 China FW Duan Yunzi
23 China GK Chen Junlin
25 China DF Wang Qianshuo
26 China MF Cui Ming'an
27 China DF Shan Pengfei
29 China MF Sun Bo
30 China DF Han Xuegeng
31 China DF Wang Yaopeng
32 China DF Eddy Francis
44 China FW Xie Hui
45 China DF Dong Yanfeng
- China DF Zou You
- China FW Nan Yunqi

Reserve squad

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

No. Position Player
43 China MF Song Xiaoyu
46 China FW Yan Peng
47 China MF Dong Honglin
48 China GK Liu Yipeng
49 China FW Yang Fangzhi
50 China DF Li Zhen
No. Position Player
51 China MF Wang Tianci
52 China DF Fu Yuncheng
53 China MF Zhou Chenye
54 China DF Cheng Rui
59 China MF Li Yuqiu
60 China GK Zhang Zhenqiang

On loan

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

No. Position Player

Coaching staff

Head coach Sweden Mikael Stahre
Assistant coach Serbia Vanja Radinović
China Cheng Jun
China Shi Lei
Fitness coach France Fabien Bossuet
Goalkeeper coach China Han Wenhai
Reserve coach China Li Guoxu
Team physician South Korea Kwon Hyuck-Jun
China Li Hengjun
China Wang Zhong
U17 Team coach China Guo Hui
U15 Team coach France Serge Romano
China Qi Xiaoguang
China Yang Dexin
U13 Team coach China Liu Yujian
China Wang Zhaochen

Managerial history

As of 9 January 2015 [13][14]
Managers Period
China Chi Shangbin Jan 1, 2009 – Dec 31, 2010
China Sun Xianlu 2010
Bulgaria Aleksandar Stankov June 2010 – Dec 11
South Korea Chang Woe-Ryong Jan 1, 2012 – April 3, 2012
Serbia Aleksandar Stanojević April 4, 2012 – Nov 9, 2012
China Xu Hong Dec 11, 2012 – Feb 18, 2013
China Li Ming (interim) Feb 18, 2013 – June 5, 2013
Bosnia and Herzegovina Simo Krunić June 3, 2013 – Dec 5, 2013
China Ma Lin Nov 5, 2013 – May 28, 2014
Japan Yasuharu Kurata May 30, 2014 – Dec 19, 2014
Sweden Mikael Stahre January 5, 2015–

Honours

Winners (1): 2011
Winners (1): 2010

Results

All-time League Rankings

Year Div Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Pos. FA Cup Super Cup AFC Att./G Stadium
2010 3 21 14 3 4 37 14 23 34 1 W NH DNQ  – Dalian University Stadium
2011 2 26 16 6 4 45 20 25 54 W R2 DNQ  – Dalian University Stadium
2012 1 30 11 11 8 51 46 5 45 5 R4 DNQ - 15,774 Jinzhou Stadium
2013 1 30 11 8 11 40 43 −3 41 5 QF DNQ  – 10,538 Jinzhou Stadium
2014 1 30 6 11 13 32 45 −13 29 15 R3 DNQ  – 10,993 Dalian Sports Center
2015 2 30 17 7 6 46 22 24 58 3 R3 DNQ  – 15,213 Dalian Sports Center
  • ^1 in group stage

Key

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries.

References

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  10. 重磅!一方4000万入股阿尔滨 万达回归大连足球 at sina 2015-07-08 Retrieved 2015-12-23
  11. 大连阿尔滨主要股权转让并更名为大连一方的公示 at fa.org.cn 2015-12-14 Retrieved 2015-12-22
  12. 2015赛季中甲联赛大连阿尔滨队球员报名名单 (Chinese)
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