In '96, the club was taken over by the Regal Group, and although the group wanted to name the team after the company, head coach Wang Houjun insisted that the team keep its neutral name. 98 saw the club's shareholders change to the Bridge Group, and in 1996, Wang Houjun left the club midway through the year, and Zheng Yan took over, and the Pudong team was relegated to the ninth place in the league. In 1997, Pudong brought in Uruguayan Marcelo, the first foreign manager in the team's history, but the team's record was poor. However, due to the team's poor performance, Marcelo was replaced after five rounds by compatriot Sandri, who was still unable to change the team's fate. That season, Pudong fell to their lowest point in history, finishing 10th in League B. In 1998, Zheng Yan continued to coach Pudong, but the results were still not good enough. Before the halfway point of the season, Pudong hired Wuhan coach Yin Lihua, the first foreign head coach in the history of Shanghai soccer. Under his leadership, Pudong was relegated three rounds ahead of schedule and finished seventh in the league. 1998 saw a slight improvement in Pudong's results, as the team was supplemented with some former Shenhua youth team members, including Cheng Liang, who went on to play for Shenhua FC.
In 1999, Pudong soccer reached a new stage in its development. Before the start of the league season, the Pudong team merged with the Hangxing team, which had been relegated the year before, to form the Pudong Whirlpool team. After the merger, the strength and popularity of the Pudong team grew rapidly. With their excellent performance in the A-B league, the team attracted a lot of attention from Shanghai fans. Due to the relegation of Air Star, this team had to face the end of dissolution. However, fortunately, the core strength of the team was preserved. Pudong's family member, Wei Ping, "took in" the backbone of the team. In fact, many media outlets referred to this event as the "merger of the Pudong and Hangxing teams". The Hangxing players who were merged into the Pudong team included: Li Yan, Shen Han, Wu Ming, Lu Wei, Huang Zhenhua, Zhou Yi, Qiu Zhiyin, Wang Hui, etc. The original players of the Pudong team were: Li Yan, Shen Han, Wu Ming, Lu Wei, Huang Zhenhua, Zhou Yi, Qiu Zhiyin and Wang Hui. The original members of the Pudong team included: Cheng Liang, Wang Zhigang, Jia Chunhua, Liu Ningyu and Shen Ming. Although the name of the merged team is still Pudong, and the owner is also the family member of Pudong Club, Wei Ping, in fact, the main strength of the team is the players of Hangxing. After the merger, Pudong's overall strength was significantly improved. This year, Pudong's head coach was Yin Lihua, who had joined the team halfway through the previous season and led the team to relegation. Under the leadership of Yin Lihua, coupled with the improvement of the team's strength, the Pudong team finally got out of the dilemma of relegation every year, and entered the ranks of the A. This season, the Pudong team played away from home in the first half of the season, but also in the second half of the season. This season, Pudong team away 2-0 victory over the then recognized as the strongest team in A B, this battle became the most exciting performance of the year Pudong team. In that year, Shenhua in the first A, under the leadership of Brazilian Lazzaroni only achieved the fifth league results, Shenhua slipped to the lowest point in history since the professional league, so the Pudong team, which had excellent performance in the first B, gradually began to attract more Shanghai fans. 2000, Pudong team title Lianyang 848, invited the British Horton, who had just stepped down from China's national Olympic team, and spent a lot of money to build the team of the foreigners. And spend a lot of money to build the team's foreign aid combination. Unfortunately, after 11 rounds of league play, Pudong's ranking was still only fourth, which was a bit far from everyone's expectation. Although Horton was dismissed midway through the season, despite his less-than-stellar performance, there was another little-known reason: in Horton's last game before he was dismissed, he got into an argument with club owner Weiping and even got into a fight.
Here's how it happened. In a home match against Henan Jianye, Pudong was unable to open up the game as their opponents hunkered down in the backcourt to defend. At halftime, Weiping suggested to Horton that he send in Shen Han, a "fast horse," to strengthen the offense. However, Horton did not follow Weiping's advice. He replaced Shen Han 15 minutes before the end of the game, and the team failed to win. After the game, when most of the players had not returned to the rest room, Weiping and Horton had an argument in the rest room. Horton said in a tough manner that it was his right to use the players. As a result, the two argued louder and louder, and in the end, they not only dropped mineral water bottles, but also pushed and shoved. Later, when the players all came to the lounge, Wei Ping publicly announced: Horton dismissed! The next day, assistant coach Xi Zhikang was reinstated. However, the team's situation did not get a big improvement. At the end of the league, the team still finished in fourth place, once again flirting with the first division.
In October 2000, Xu Ze Xian, chairman of the ambitious COSCO Land Group, entered the soccer world. COSCO Land gathered five shareholders (COSCO Two Bays Real Estate Co., Ltd., Huili Group, Huili Flooring Co., Huili Joint Stock Co. and Hainan Boao Holding Co.) to buy the Pudong team for 30 million yuan. After the acquisition, the Pudong team was officially named "Shanghai COSCO Huili". Since then, the team entered Xu Ze Xian's "COSCO era", and thus created a historical heyday. COSCO Land gathered five shareholders (COSCO Two Bays, Huili Group, Huili Flooring, Huili Building Materials and Hainan Boao Holding Co., Ltd.) and bought Pudong Football Club for RMB 30 million. After the change Shanghai COSCO Huili Football Club by the Shanghai Municipal Sports Committee and the Shanghai Municipal Football Association to its industry management and leadership, the club to implement the Chinese Football Association, the Shanghai Municipal Football Association to its industry management and leadership, the club to implement the Chinese Football Association, the Shanghai Municipal Football Association and the Municipal Sports Committee business department issued by the relevant provisions.
Shanghai COSCO Huili Football Club is a sports industry organization registered in China Football Association and Shanghai Football Association, and is an economic entity with independent legal personality.
Shanghai COSCO Huili Soccer Club strives to enrich the social and cultural life and give people a positive spiritual inspiration through the development of soccer. By attracting more people to participate in soccer activities, it improves the physical and psychological quality of the public, especially the youth. And continuously cultivate outstanding soccer players. At the same time also through the soccer, contact all walks of life, including more friends at home and abroad, **** with the development of the soccer market, in order to obtain greater economic benefits.
After buying the Pudong team, Xu Ze Xian went on a recruiting spree. The first was to invite Xu Genbao, who has wide popularity in Shanghai, to be the team's head coach. In terms of internal reinforcements, he poached veterans Cheng Yaodong and Wu Bing from Shenhua and brought in Hu Zhijun, the top scorer in the 1994 professional league. In terms of foreign aid, COSCO also began to show the club's strong strength and ambition to dominate. That year, COSCO brought in four foreign aiders: Mark, Borman, Garcia and Andres. With the support of Shenhua's veterans and the addition of powerful foreign players, COSCO swept through the 2001 A-B League, finishing first in the league and advancing to the A-A League. After six years of development, Pudong soccer finally realized its dream of entering the first division.
Meanwhile, COSCO took over the club and adopted a drastic remodeling. The "COSCO Huili Team" has created a buzz for COSCO's series of real estate investments in Shanghai, and the team's uniforms have been changed from the orange of the old Pudong to the dark blue of COSCO's corporate identity. The team's uniform was also changed from the old Pudong orange color to the dark blue color representing COSCO enterprises. In addition to organizing its employees into cheerleaders, COSCO also paid to integrate some of the dissidents from the Blue Devils into the COSCO Blue Devils.
Shanghai COSCO Huili finally under the leadership of Xu Genbao "one foot" A success, Shanghai also for the first time in the A League has two teams. China's "derby" has thus begun.
Entering the first year of the first A, COSCO team's biggest stroke than from Shenhua to dig the city rival's "pillars" - Qi Hong and Shen Si. This move caused a big stir in the Shanghai soccer world at that time, and became the first big event that stirred up the soccer world. At the same time, before the start of the league, due to Xie Hui from Germany back to Shenhua on loan, Xu Zexian so a phone call, Fan Zhiyi from Scotland to COSCO. At the same time that Fan, Qi Hong and Shen Si, three former Shenhua souls, joined the team, COSCO hired the Frenchman Leroy (Leroy), known as the "White Wizard", who led Cameroon to the 1998 World Cup, as head coach. Together with Alcino, Mma and other powerful foreign aid, COSCO team really has the strength and power to compete with Shenhua, but also reflects Xu Zexian intention to dominate the Shanghai soccer world and even China's soccer world determination and vigor. However, due to COSCO's lack of experience in playing in the top league, the team was only ranked ninth in the league this year. Of course, with city rivals Shenhua sinking due to rejuvenation, COSCO won both matches in the sensational derby that was born of this season, completely crushing Shenhua. For historical reasons, the former Pudong or Yuyuan, in fact, is still just a Shenhua's second team, Shenhua does not use the old players sent over, good seedlings transported up, the concept of derby is very thin. COSCO took over, this relationship gradually changed, especially with the Shenhua conflict Shen Si, Qi Hong and others after the arrival of the kind of brother Yan wall of the fire derby outbreak, back to Shenhua coach Xu Genbao in the derby after the loss of this exclamation: even Shen Si shoveled the ball, the ball can not lose it? This shows the intensity at the time.
If 2002 was the beginning of COSCO's tentative domination of soccer, then Xu Zexian was bold and bold enough for the 2003 season. COSCO brought in big names in the internal aid market in one fell swoop, such as Wu Chengying, Jiang Jin and Li Ming, all of whom are valued at the top of the listing list. In terms of foreign aid, while retaining Alcino, it also brought in Paraguayan international Cuevas from Argentina's River Plate. The powerful COSCO team is finally "out of control" this season. It is worth mentioning that during the SARS suspension period, COSCO decided to change the manager, Lehua, who led the team to four wins and one loss in the first stage and ranked first, was dismissed, and Cheng Yaodong, who was suspended at the end of 2002 and ended his career as a player as a result, assumed the post. After Sung Yiu Tung took over, the team made steady progress in all aspects of work, and approached the league championship step by step. In the final stage of the league, it was a competition between COSCO and Shenhua for the title. Unfortunately, in the second half of the league, COSCO suffered two major defeats. The first was a 1-4 defeat to Shenhua in the championship derby, and the second was a loss to Tianjin in the final game to decide the title, ultimately ending up as the runner-up.
Despite finishing second in the league in 2003, rumors circulated at the 80,000-strong stadium after the final game that COSCO was retreating. It is worth mentioning that in the middle of the 2003 season, COSCO changed its name to "International Team". This seemed to be a move in response to the FA's call, but it actually signaled the team's turbulent future. On September 30, 2003, COSCO suddenly announced that it was changing its name to Shanghai COSCO Huili Football Club International Team.
The COSCO side said that from October 1, the name of the team belonging to the club would be unified to use "Shanghai COSCO Huili Football Club International Team", or "Shanghai International Team". The English name is "internationalshanghai". Club executives said that in the past, the team was named "COSCO", which is more like a corporate team. With the development of professional soccer, the soccer team represents the city and the region, and can not be limited to the enterprise itself; in the process of renaming, the club considered names such as "Shanghai United", and finally selected "Shanghai International", "Shanghai International", "Shanghai International", and so on. During the name change process, the club had considered names such as "Shanghai United Team", and finally selected "Shanghai International Team" considering that the team represents Shanghai, which is an international metropolis, and the name of the team should be in line with the identity of the city of Shanghai. At the same time, the name change to "international" team did not refer to the famous International Milan team name. The team logo of the international team obviously has traces of imitation of Juventus, especially the horse with rhinoceros horns has no origin, and the European style is full. In fact, at the end of 2002, a joint venture between Shanghai's COSCO Property Group, of which Xu Zexian is the general manager, and Indonesian tycoon Lin Shaoliang's Sanlin Group optimized the combination, and more than one-third of the employees within the company were laid off -- many of them suing around after witnessing the company throwing money at soccer.
Before the joint venture, the COSCO club did not have financial troubles, but after the joint venture, the Indonesian side sent a financial director in charge of the funds, Xu Zexian want to mobilize the funds also need his review, so the club's source of funds is far less plentiful than the original. What's even more annoying is that the Indonesian joint venture party has no interest in soccer, and has repeatedly hinted to Xu Ze Xian to cut down the soccer project. Because they know very well, in the current China want to rely on soccer to obtain profits is simply impossible, see a huge sum of money by the soccer swallowed, their attitude has gradually hardened, and ultimately become Xu Zexian give up soccer an important factor. It is said that Xu Zexian responded to the call of the Football Association, suddenly changed the name of Shanghai COSCO to Shanghai International Team, unauthorized "COSCO" two words from the name of the team, but also let the leadership of the COSCO head office is quite dissatisfied.
Some sources said that in May 2003, after the joint venture of Shanghai COSCO Sanlin Real Estate Group Co., Ltd. was transferred to the Shanghai Huili Group Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Huili Building Materials Co. However, judging from the statement that the club was changed to an international team, it seems that the club's corporate name has not been changed, at least not when it was renamed as an international team.
In 2004, under double pressure from COSCO and the SASAC, Xu Ze Xian, a military man, had to divest the club from COSCO, a company directly under the SASAC, and at the same time, he also divested himself of his personal "personnel relations" with COSCO, evolving into a real private entrepreneur. It is rumored that in October of that year, Xu Ming, Zhang Hai, Xu Zexian and other investors met in Xianghe, under the meeting, they were seriously discussing a problem, in the current market downturn, the acquisition of the club is just the right time to be resold later when the market is red-hot, will certainly be profitable. Zhang Hai and Xu Zexian privately reached an agreement that "no matter what, we can not let the club slip away". They finished 3rd in the inaugural Chinese Super League that year.
In February 2005, the Shanghai Yongda Group acquired all the shares of Shanghai COSCO Sanlin Real Estate Group Co. Shanghai Yongda Football Club strives to participate in the social and cultural life through soccer, bring people a positive attitude and way of life, make more people care about soccer, participate in soccer, especially for the development of Chinese soccer to provide, explore, and cultivate more excellent talents. At the same time, Shanghai Yongda Football Club will invite people from all walks of life at home and abroad, *** with the cultivation, development of China's soccer market.
Xu Zexian and Zhang Hai pseudo-Yongda elevator in the name of the acquisition of the COSCO Sanlin club to 150 million yuan to take over 95% of the shares, including the base, the club also changed its name to the Shanghai Yongda Football Club, the international team name is still retained. However, leaving such a backer as COSCO, the International's decline was predictable. They slipped to eighth in the Chinese Super League that year.
In early 2006, the club officially announced that the team would move to Xi'an, changing its name to "Xi'an Chanba International Soccer Club," with all of the former club's leadership remaining in place. On the same day, the club officials appeased the fans who demonstrated in the rain against the relocation of the team to Xi'an. At the same time, the club also announced that players who were not willing to move to Xi'an with the team could apply for a transfer. All of this indicates the fact that the club moved to Xi'an with no intention of returning. According to the analysis, there are two main reasons for the westward move. First, the owner behind the move, Xu Ze Xian, is involved in the real estate industry in Xi'an. He needs the team to travel to Xi'an for image advertising and public relations. Secondly, Yongda Group has secretly withdrawn and transferred its shares. Of course it was still announced at the press conference that Shanghai Yongda Group and Xi'an Xixia Real Estate Company*** co-financed the formation of the team.
On January 10, 2006, Shanghai International Football Club (SIFC) held a press conference at the Xi'an Qujiang Hotel, officially announcing that the westward-moving SIFC team would be named Xi'an Chanba International Football Team, and that the SIFC would be funded by Shanghai Yungtay Group and Xi'an Xixia Real Estate Company*** to form the Xi'an Chanba International Football Club.
The team remained called Xi'an International for one year after moving west and finished ninth in the Chinese Super League.
On January 30, 2007, the former Xi'an Chanba International Football Club was officially changed to Shaanxi Bao Rong Chanba Football Club, and the soccer team was officially renamed Shaanxi Zhongxin Chanba Football Team.
On February 27, Shaanxi Bao Rong Chanba Football Club was officially inaugurated in Xi'an, and the Bao Rong Investment Company Limited acquired the shares of the Yungtai Company, and became the new major shareholder of the club. Ltd. acquired the shares of Yongda Corporation and became the new major shareholder of the club, while Zhongxin Group (Hong Kong) and E-House (China) Holdings became the two major sponsors of the team. According to public information, Shaanxi Bao Rong Chanba Football Club is invested by Beijing Bao Rong Investment Management Co. At the same time, the club's place of registration has also been changed to Shaanxi Football Association, and the localized "Northwest Fire Wolf" team logo has been activated. It seems that the team is completely removing the "sea flavor", and preparing to become a Northwest team with its roots in Xi'an.
The club's new chairman, legal representative Dai Xiuli told reporters that the new club by the Bao Rong Investment Management Company and Jiayu Weiye real estate company composed of a new company Bao Rong Investment Company to complete the transfer of property rights of the club, and therefore, the club's name only appears Bao Rong. Sino-Singapore is the team's main sponsor this year. Bao Rong, Jiayuweiye and Zhongxin have been strategic partners for a long time, and the fact that they have joined hands to run Chanba and **** in soccer is another example of their cooperation.
Bao Rong and Jiayu Weiye are both from Beijing, while Zhongxin is from Hong Kong. How do they build a Shaanxi team? First, a team's affiliation is measured by where it is registered and who it was when it was registered. This year Chanba is registered with the Shaanxi Football Association, and its identity has changed from a Shanghai club to a Shaanxi club. Second, we notice that both the investors and sponsors are related to real estate (this year's sponsors of Chanba include E-House, which also specializes in real estate). In fact, these companies are involved in real estate in Xi'an and have set up Xi'an branches, with projects concentrated in Chanba Ecological Park. For example, one of the main sponsors, Zhongxin Group, was introduced yesterday by Zhu Jun, head of the group's Xi'an company, who said that Zhongxin is developing the Peninsula Real Estate Project in Chanba Garden, with a plate of nearly 4,000 acres of land, and that the project is so large that it will be developed over a long period of time. The company is listed in Hong Kong, with a listing of 8 billion yuan. Although these companies are foreign capital, they have localized their capital by running businesses in Xi'an and engaging in long-term development.
This press conference, Cheng Yaodong expressed the team's ambition to participate in the Chinese Super League title fight: "I said that within three years of moving west, this team is going to win the championship, and this year is the second year, and we're going to fight for the championship next year." The next year he said is this year 2008, Cheng Yaodong is now honoring his promise, only we did not even notice at the time, he will be as expected?
The 2007 season was full of confidence. But too much energy was spent on club formation, resulting in poor reinforcements. 1.4 million in Li Yi scored just one goal a season, and the defense often made low-level mistakes. Halfway through the league, Shaanxi was actually at the bottom of the table. At the critical moment, Cheng Yaodong introduced Rooney, Xia Yide and other foreign aid to enhance the strength of the team also followed by a succession of points, to 13th place in the results of relegation success. After the 2007 season, Cheng Yaodong renewed the contracts of Rooney and Shayde, signed Xinfeng, loaned Jiang Chen and Zhang Peng, and recalled Wang Peng and Vicente, etc. In the 2008 season, the Shaanxi team performed amazingly well, and won the halfway championship with a record-breaking 34 points. Although Shaanxi was overtaken by their competitors in the second half of the season, and eventually finished fifth, it was the best result in the history of Shaanxi professional soccer. Home: Shaanxi Coca-Cola Stadium.
Shaanxi Coca-Cola Stadium was originally named Shaanxi Provincial Stadium, with a capacity of 50,000 spectators.
The stadium was renamed Shaanxi Coca-Cola Stadium by the Coca-Cola Company on April 6, 2005, and was originally the home of the Shaanxi Guoli team.
Completion: 1999
Capacity: 47,565
Presidency seating: 350
Luminance (lux): 1,500
Coverage (square meters): 24,000
Cost: 250 million yuan
Shaanxi Stadium, as the provincial government's As a model project of the provincial government, it is located near the South Second Ring Road, the busiest part of Xi'an. Not only does it have a stadium of nearly 60,000 people, which is the home ground of Shaanxi Zhongxin Chanba, but the 500 acres of land around it also houses the largest investment in sports and cultural facilities in Shaanxi in the past few years, such as the Shaanxi Provincial Library, the Shaanxi Provincial Art Museum, and the Sports Hotel, and the tallest building in Northwest China, the 54-story Shaanxi Science & Technology Information Building, was built to the southwest of the stadium. All these have enhanced the potential communication advantages of Shaanxi Provincial Stadium. According to incomplete statistics, the audience of the stadium's advertisements will reach 10 million people every year. Shaanxi Bao Rong Chanba Football Club Co., Ltd Chairman and Legal Person: Dai Xiuli
Vice Chairman Vice Chairman: Yang Bo
General Manager and Head Coach of the Club: Cheng Yaodong
Executive Deputy General Manager: Li Jianxin
Head Coach: Gao Hongbo
Assistant Coach: Feng Zhigang Zhu Yongsheng Qiu Zhiyin
Goalkeeper Coach: Jia Chunhua
The club is a member of the Chanba Football Club. Chunhua
Fitness Coach: Cao Xiaodong
Team Doctor: Yan Cheng