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Cangzhou Mighty Lions
沧州雄狮
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Full nameCangzhou Mighty Lions Football Club
Founded25 February 2011; 15 years ago (2011-02-25)
Dissolved2025
GroundCangzhou Stadium
Capacity31,836
OwnerYongchang Real Estate
ChairmanLi Qiang
Head coachLi Xiaopeng
2024Chinese Super League, 13th of 16 (expelled from league)

Cangzhou Mighty Lions Football Club (Chinese: 沧州雄狮足球俱乐部; pinyin: Cāngzhōu Xióngshī Zúqiú Jùlèbù) was a Chinese professional football club based in Cangzhou, Hebei. Cangzhou Mighty Lions played 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

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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),[1][2] 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.[3]

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.[4] 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).[5][6] 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.[7] 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.[8] 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.[9] 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.

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A Shijiazhuang Ever Bright home match in 2019

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

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  • 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

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Players

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First team squad

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As of 31 December 2024[10]

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

Out on loan

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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 File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg CHN Sun Jianxiang (at Wuxi Wugo until 31 December 2024)

Reserve squad

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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 File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg CHN Liu Xiaoqi

Coaching staff

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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

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Managers who have coached the club since they became a completely professional unit on February 25, 2011.[11][citation needed]

Honours

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Results

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All-time League Rankings

As of the end of the 2023 season.[13][14]

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 1 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 2 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
  • ^1 In group stage.
  • ^2 Avoided relegation due to the dissolution of Jiangsu Suning.

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