Nantong Zhiyun F.C.

Nantong Zhiyun Football Club (Chinese: 南通支云足球俱乐部) 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 Nantong, Jiangsu and their home stadium is the 15,000 capacity Rugao Olympic Sports Center. The club's founder and owner are the Nantong Municipal Football Association.

Nantong Zhiyun
Nántōng Zhīyún
南通支云
Full nameNantong Zhiyun Football Club
南通支云足球俱乐部
Founded2016 (2016)
GroundRugao Olympic Sports Center, Rugao, Nantong
Capacity15,000
ManagerXie Hui
LeagueChina League One
2020League One, 12th of 18
WebsiteClub website

History

The club was formed when the Nantong Municipal Football Association bought the first team of Guangxi Longguida F.C. as well as their registration and position in the Chinese Football Association China League Two division.[1][2] Nantong Zhiyun F.C. was officially established on March 13, 2016 in a launching ceremony held in Rugao, Nantong in the Jiangsu province where the Chairman Fan Bing announced that the club was named after the Zhiyun Pagoda situated on the top of the Langshan hill overlooking the city of Nantong. The club's badge would utilise a wolf as reference to Langshan hill's history with wolves while blue was chosen as the team's home colours.[3] Former Chinese referee Li Jun was appointed as the club's General Manager and former Chinese international Wei Xin as the club's Head Coach.[4]

In the 2018 China League Two season, they gained promotion to China League One for the first time in its history after beating Shaanxi Chang'an Athletic 1–0 at Shaanxi Province Stadium in front of 48,869 spectators on October 27, with a last minute goal by Nan Yunqi sealing the game.

Name history

  • 2016– Nantong Zhiyun F.C. 南通支云

Current squad

As of 7 March 2019[5]

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 Li Huayang
2 DF  CHN Huang Jiaqiang
4 DF  CHN Li Jiawei
6 MF  CHN Wang Kai
8 MF  CHN Fei Yu
9 FW  POR João Silva
10 MF  CHN Xu Junmin
11 FW  BRA Mychell Chagas
12 GK  CHN Li Ya'nan
15 DF  CHN Liu Wei
17 MF  CHN Yu Jianfeng
No. Pos. Nation Player
18 FW  SRB Mladen Kovačević
19 FW  CHN Gao Zhijie
20 FW  CHN Ji Jun
21 MF  CHN Lü Jiahao
24 DF  CHN Li Hao
25 DF]  CHN Yan Xinyu
29 MF  CHN Zheng Haoqian
30 MF  CHN Li Xiangbin
32 FW  CHN Nan Yunqi
33 DF  CHN Geng Xianglong
36 MF  CHN Chu Chentao
39 DF  CHN Wang Yongxin

Reserve squad

As of 7 March 2019

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
43 MF  CHN Liu Wenfei
46 MF  CHN Shen Wei
47 DF  CHN Song Haoyu
- FW  CHN Cui Hongyu
- DF  CHN Ni Zifan
- MF  CHN Wang Guoxun
- DF  CHN Ji Jun
- MF  CHN Ji Lei
- DF  CHN Gu Huajiang
- MF  CHN Yu Hongfei
- FW  CHN Wang Yunlong
- DF  CHN Ji Bin
- MF  CHN Li Dongxu
- FW  CHN Yuan Cao
- DF  CHN He Yafeng
No. Pos. Nation Player
- DF  CHN Yan Xiaoyu
- MF  CHN Chen Kunyang
- FW  CHN Huang Yichao
- MF  CHN Liu Xingyu
- MF  CHN Xue Tian
- DF  CHN Yu Miao
- GK  CHN Ji Kailai
- DF  CHN Liu Xuanchi
- FW  CHN Zhu Xinchao
- DF  CHN Xie Zhen
- DF  CHN Liu Bolin
- MF  CHN Ren Xinglong
- MF  CHN Zhu Yifan
- GK  CHN Huang Hongbo
- FW  CHN Qian Changjie

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
- MF  CHN Huang Cong (at Nanjing Fengfan until 31 December 2020)

Coaching staff

Position Staff
Head coach Slavko Matić
Assistant coach Jia Jin
Zhao Xiaodong
Goalkeeping coach Srđan Soldatovic

Last updated: 31 March 2020
Source: 31 March 2020

Managerial history

Results

All-time league rankings

As of the end of 2019 season.[6]

Year Div Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Pos. FA Cup Super Cup AFC Att./G Stadium
20163203981422−81816R1DNQDNQ4,825Rudong Olympic Sports Center
2017324116724195398R2DNQDNQ3,371
2018331215558223668RUR16DNQDNQ9,126
201923089133538-33312R3DNQDNQ
  • ^1 in group stage.

Key

References

  1. 南通迎首支职业球队新赛季出征中乙联赛 Archived 2018-11-11 at the Wayback Machine 163.com 2016-04-07 Retrieved 2016-04-07
  2. 关于广西龙桂达足球俱乐部主要股权转让并更名的公示 Archived 2016-01-29 at the Wayback Machine fa.org.cn 2016-01-13 Retrieved 2016-04-08
  3. 南通支云俱乐部召开新赛季誓师大会 魏新挂帅 (in Chinese). sports.163.com. 2016-03-14. Retrieved 2019-01-21.
  4. 魏新出任南通中乙队主帅 目标尽早冲甲冲超成功 (in Chinese). sports.sohu.com. 2016-01-15. Retrieved 2019-01-21.
  5. 2019中甲联赛16队大名单. Sohu.com (in Chinese). 2019-03-07. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
  6. 南通支云 (in Chinese). sodasoccer.com. Retrieved 2016-11-12.


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