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Chinese professional football clubFootball club
Cangzhou Mighty Lions
沧州雄狮
Full nameCangzhou Mighty Lions Football Club
Founded25 February 2011; 13 years ago (2011-02-25)
GroundCangzhou Stadium
Capacity31,836
OwnerYongchang Real Estate
ChairmanLi Qiang
Head coachLi Xiaopeng
LeagueChinese Super League
2024Chinese Super League, 13th of 16
Websitehttp://www.sjzycfc.com/
Home colours Away colours

Cangzhou Mighty Lions Football Club (Chinese: 沧州雄狮足球俱乐部; pinyin: Cāngzhōu Xióngshī Zúqiú Jùlèbù) is a Chinese professional football club based in Cangzhou, Hebei, that competes in the Chinese Super League, the top tier of Chinese football. Cangzhou Mighty Lions plays its home matches at the Cangzhou Stadium, located within Yunhe District. Their majority shareholder is the Yongchang Real Estate, who own 70% of the shares of the club.

History

On February 25, 2011, the club was founded by Smart Hero International Trading Limited (骏豪投资有限公司), Xiamen Dongyuhang Import & Export Co., Ltd. (厦门东屿行进出口有限公司), Xiamen City HS Sheng Industrial Co., Ltd. (厦门协晟工贸有限公司), and Xiamen City Shengxin Metal Products Co., Ltd. (厦门金盛鑫金属制), on the basis of local amateur club Xiamen Dongyuhang, which just won the runners-up spot of the China Amateur Football League last year, as Fujian Smart Hero F.C. (Chinese: 福建骏豪足球俱乐部). Within their debut season, they played in the China League Two division within the 2011 league season, where their home uniforms were yellow tops and black shorts. Fujian, in their first season, would win promotion to the 2012 China League One division via the League One relegation play-off in which Fujian beat Guizhou Zhicheng 6–5 in a penalty shootout.

In the 2012 China League One campaign, Xu Hui was appointed as manager and he would lead the club to a third-place finish. This saw Yongchang Real Estate (Chinese: 永昌地产集团) becoming interested in the team and they bought 70% shares of the club, which officially went through on January 18, 2013. The club moved to Hebei Province's capital city Shijiazhuang into the Yutong International Sports Center. They changed the club's colors to blue and the team's name into Shijiazhuang Yongchang Junhao F.C. (Chinese: 石家庄永昌骏豪足球俱乐部). On December 27, 2013, Yongchang Real Estate bought the remaining 30% shares of the club and on February 24, 2014, Shijiazhuang Yongchang Junhao F.C. changed their name to Shijiazhuang Yongchang F.C.(Chinese: 石家庄永昌足球俱乐部). In the 2014 league season, Shijiazhuang Yongchang won promotion to the top tier for the first time in their history when they came runners-up within their division. The club's first act within the top flight was to change their English name to Shijiazhuang Ever Bright F.C. (while their Chinese name still remained as 石家庄永昌) in January 2015.

The club's debut season within the top tier saw the club's manager Yasen Petrov guiding the team to seventh in the league and safely away from relegation at the end of the 2015 league season. The following campaign would prove to be considerably more difficult and Yasen Petrov was relieved of his position on 14 July 2016, and replaced by Li Jinyu on a caretaker basis, after a run of bad form saw the club in a relegation battle. The club was relegated at the end of the 2016 Chinese Super League season and on 7 November 2016, brought in Afshin Ghotbi as their new coach for the following season. Fortunately, they remained contenders for promotion in the next few seasons, but despite earning third place in 2017, they failed to win promotion for the next two years.

They were promoted again in 2019 but finished last in the 2020 relegation tournament. They escaped relegation when Super League team Jiangsu F.C. dissolved in 2021. They were renamed as Cangzhou Mighty Lions ahead of the 2021 season when the Chinese FA sought to remove corporation names from team names.

Name history

  • 2011–12: Fujian Smart Hero (福建骏豪)
  • 2013: Shijiazhuang Yongchang Junhao (石家庄永昌骏豪)
  • 2014: Shijiazhuang Yongchang (石家庄永昌)
  • 2015–2020: Shijiazhuang Ever Bright (石家庄永昌)
  • 2021–: Cangzhou Mighty Lions (沧州雄狮)

Crest history

  • Fujian Smart Hero logo in 2011 and 2012 Fujian Smart Hero logo in 2011 and 2012
  • Shijiazhuang Yongchang Junhao logo in 2013 Shijiazhuang Yongchang Junhao logo in 2013
  • Shijiazhuang Yongchang logo in 2014 Shijiazhuang Yongchang logo in 2014
  • Shijiazhuang Ever Bright logo between 2015 and 2020 Shijiazhuang Ever Bright logo between 2015 and 2020
  • Cangzhou Mighty Lions logo since 2021 Cangzhou Mighty Lions logo since 2021

Current squad

First team squad

As of 11 July 2024

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
5 DF China CHN Yan Zihao
6 DF England ENG Ayo Obileye
7 FW China CHN Zheng Dalun
8 MF China CHN Zhao Yingjie
9 FW Brazil BRA Héber
10 FW Democratic Republic of the Congo COD Oscar Maritu
12 DF China CHN Zhu Yue (on loan from Shanghai Shenhua)
13 DF China CHN Sun Qinhan
14 GK China CHN Shao Puliang
15 MF China CHN Wang Peng
16 DF China CHN Zheng Kaimu
17 FW China CHN Wen Da
18 MF China CHN Yao Xuchen
19 MF Kazakhstan KAZ Georgy Zhukov
20 FW China CHN Liu Xinyu
No. Pos. Nation Player
21 MF China CHN Li Xiaopeng
22 DF China CHN Wu Wei
23 DF China CHN Li Hong
24 MF China CHN Wu Guanjun
25 MF China CHN Hou Jiahao
26 MF China CHN Guo Yunqi
28 GK China CHN Han Rongze (on loan from Shandong Taishan)
29 GK China CHN Han Feng
30 MF China CHN Hou Jiarui
31 FW England ENG Viv Solomon-Otabor
32 FW Hong Kong HKG Sun Ming Him
33 MF China CHN Hu Jiali
35 MF China CHN Zhou Jianyi
36 DF China CHN Yang Yun
37 GK China CHN Dong Hang

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK China CHN Sun Jianxiang (at Wuxi Wugo until 31 December 2024)

Reserve squad

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF China CHN Liu Xiaoqi

Coaching staff

Position Staff
Head coach China Li Xiaopeng
Assistant coach Hong Kong Bai He
Goalkeeper coach Bulgaria Georgi Sheytanov
Conditioning coach Cyprus Christos Sotiriou
Technical analyst China Lü Hongchen
Technical director China Zhao Junzhe

Source: sina.com

Managerial history

Managers who have coached the club since they became a completely professional unit on February 25, 2011.

Honours

Results

All-time League Rankings

As of the end of the 2023 season.

Year Div Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Pos. FA Cup Super Cup AFC Att./G Stadium
2011 3 26 13 9 4 32 16 16 39 3 DNE DNQ DNQ Longyan Sports Center
2012 2 30 12 10 8 41 32 9 46 3 R2 DNQ DNQ 4,142 Fuzhou Stadium / Jinjiang Sports Center Stadium
2013 2 30 10 10 10 26 25 1 40 8 R3 DNQ DNQ 10,053 Yutong International Sports Center
2014 2 30 17 6 7 42 25 17 57 RU R2 DNQ DNQ 11,208
2015 1 30 8 15 7 34 31 3 39 7 R3 DNQ DNQ 25,070
2016 1 30 7 9 14 28 53 -25 30 16 R4 DNQ DNQ 22,523
2017 2 30 14 12 4 48 34 14 54 3 R3 DNQ DNQ 16,219
2018 2 30 12 9 9 43 38 5 45 6 R3 DNQ DNQ 12,405
2019 2 30 18 2 10 59 42 17 56 RU R4 DNQ DNQ 17,488
2020 1 20 5 7 8 23 29 -6 22 16 R1 DNQ DNQ N/A
2021 1 22 6 6 10 25 32 -7 24 11 R5 DNQ DNQ N/A Cangzhou Stadium
2022 1 34 11 11 12 47 51 -4 44 12 QF DNQ DNQ N/A
2023 1 30 8 7 15 29 60 -31 31 12 R3 DNQ DNQ 8,692

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
  •  – = 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 stage
  • QR1 = First Qualifying Round
  • QR2 = Second Qualifying Round
  • QR3 = Third Qualifying Round

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