Kunshan F.C.

Kunshan Football Club (Chinese: 昆山足球俱乐部), or simply Kunshan F.C., is a professional Chinese association football club based in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China. They currently participate in the Chinese Super League, under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). Their home stadium is the 30,000 capacity Kunshan Stadium. The club was founded on 12 December 2014 as an amateur membership club called Zhenjiang Huasa F.C. before moving to Kunshan where the Kunshan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government became their majority shareholders.

Kunshan FC
昆山FC
Full nameKunshan Football Club
昆山足球俱乐部
Founded12 December 2014 (12 December 2014) (as Zhenjiang Huasa F.C.)
GroundKunshan Stadium
Kunshan, China
Capacity30,000
ManagerSergio Zarco Díaz
LeagueChinese Super League
2022League One, 1st of 18 (Promoted)
WebsiteClub website

History

Zhenjiang Huasa, whose members are mainly the fans of FC Barcelona in China, was founded on 12 December 2014. Huasa, meaning Chinese Barca, was used as the club's name.[1] They played in the 2016 China Amateur Football League and won the winners of 2016 Jiangsu Provincial Football League.[2] Zhenjiang Huasa finished the 6th place in the national finals and won promotion to 2017 China League Two.[3] In December 2018, Zhenjiang Huasa moved to Kunshan and changed their name to Kunshan F.C..[4] With the support of the Kunshan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government as well as private financing the club were able to gain stability, improve their position to ninth and gain a total of 80310 fans with the highest average attendance of 5534 at the end of the 2019 league season.[5] While the club finished in ninth at the end of the season they were granted promotion to the second tier, due to the expansion of the league and disbandment of Tianjin Tianhai.[6]

In their debut season within the second tier, the clubs Head, Gao Yao was able to guide the team to a third place finish, however unable to improve upon these results in the following season he was let go by the club on 16 September 2021 and replaced by Sergio Zarco Díaz.[7] In the 2022 China League One campaign, Sergio was able to gain promotion to the top tier for the first time in the clubs history by winning the division with the highest recorded points total in Chinese history for the division.[8]

Name history
  • 2014–2018 Zhenjiang Huasa F.C. 镇江华萨
  • 2018– Kunshan F.C. 昆山FC

Players

Current squad
As of 21 January 2023[9]

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 Lin Xiang
2 DF  CHN Wang Xijie
3 DF  CHN Jiang Wenjun
5 DF  CHN Zhang Hao
6 DF  CHN Sun Guoliang
7 FW  SRB Nemanja Čović
8 DF  CHN Liu Boyang
9 FW  CHN Zhu Zhengrong
10 MF  CHN Ruan Yang
11 FW  CHN Wu Yufan
12 GK  CHN Yu Jianxian
13 GK  CHN Peng Peng
14 MF  CPV Hildeberto Pereira
17 MF  CHN Abduwahap Aniwar
No. Pos. Nation Player
18 FW  CHN Gong Qiule
19 FW  CHN Feng Boyuan
20 MF  CHN Zhang Yudong
21 DF  CHN Wang Jiajie
24 DF  CHN Li Songyi
25 FW  CHN Liu Yuhao
26 MF  CHN Liu Yi
27 DF  CHN Wang Tianci
29 MF  CHN Xu Junmin
32 MF  CHN Chen Jie
35 MF  CHN Gong Chunjie
36 MF  CHN Liao Jintao
37 MF  CHN Che Shiwei

Coaching staff
Position Staff
Head coach Sergio Zarco Díaz
Assistant coach Nedim Tutić

Source: CFA

Managerial history

Results

All-time league rankings

As of the end of 2021 season.[10]

Year Div Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Pos. FA Cup Super Cup AFC Att./G Stadium
201646DNQDNQDNQZhenjiang Sports and Exhibition Center
201732425172250−281121R1DNQDNQ927
201832812793133−24313R2DNQDNQ2,598
201933017494523225519R1DNQDNQ5,534Kunshan Stadium
202021574414122253QFDNQDNQ
202123413129563521519R4DNQDNQ
  • ^1 In group stage.

Key

References

  1. "华萨足球俱乐部FOOTBALL CLUB HUASA".Archived 2015-03-27 at the Wayback Machine
  2. 镇江华萨获省业余联赛冠军 并获大区赛资格 at weitiyuba.com 2016-08-30 Retrieved 2017-09-09 (in Chinese)
  3. 关于2017年中乙联赛预报名情况的公示 Archived 2017-02-06 at the Wayback Machine at fa.org.cn 2017-02-06 Retrieved 2017-09-09 (in Chinese)
  4. 中乙镇江华萨官宣改名昆山 发布新队徽主场迁移. Sina.com (in Chinese). 2018-12-11. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
  5. 人民日报:由专业公司运营管理 昆山FC运营值得关注. Sina.com (in Chinese). 2020-01-21. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
  6. "足协公布三级联赛准入名单：深足递补天海进入中超". sports.people.com.cn (in Chinese). 2020-05-23. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  7. "发布会宣！昆山已完成换帅，球队预备队教练萨尔科取代高尧". m.dongqiudi.com (in Chinese). 2021-09-17. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  8. "2022中甲联赛圆满落幕 昆山强势打破两项记录". sports.sina.com.cn (in Chinese). 2022-12-08. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  9. "昆山FC公布新赛季大名单：31名球员包括2名外援". Sina (in Chinese). 10 May 2022. Retrieved 14 June 2022.
  10. "昆山FC" (in Chinese). sodasoccer.com. Retrieved 2016-04-06.Archived 2020-07-03 at the Wayback Machine
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