Nei Mongol Zhongyou F.C.

Nei Mongol Zhongyou
内蒙古中优

Full name	Nei Mongol Zhongyou Football Club 内蒙古中优足球俱乐部
Founded	8 October 2011
Ground	Hohhot City Stadium
Capacity	51,632
Manager	Wang Bo
League	China League One
2015	League One, 6th
Home colours Away colours

Nei Mongol Zhongyou Football Club (Chinese: 内蒙古中优) 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 Hohhot, Inner Mongolia and their home stadium is the 51,632 capacity Hohhot City Stadium. Their current majority shareholders are the Hohhot Sports Bureau and Shanghai Zhongyou Real Estate Group.

History

On 8 October 2011 Shanxi Jiayi football club was officially established by the Shanghai Zhongyou Real Estate Group who formed a senior team predominantly comprised from players from the Taiyuan University of Technology.^[1] With the aid of the Sports Bureau of Shanxi Province a youth team and women's team was also established and the Shanxi Sports Centre Stadium was chosen to be the clubs home ground.^[2] They registered to play within the third tier of the Chinese football league system in the 2012 league season while the club chose white shirts and black shorts as their home uniform. In their debut season they however decided to move to the artificial turf ground Wanbolin Stadium and later Taiyuan Institute of Electrical Engineering Stadium to play their home games.^[3] On the field the club made their debut in the 2012 Chinese FA Cup where they were knocked out in the first round by Shanghai Pudong Zobon F.C. 3-1 while in their first season they finished ninth within their group.^[4]

The club owners decided not to compete within the 2013 league season after a disappointing debut campaign. Wang Bo replaced Wu Jianwen as the clubs manager and the team went through an extensive rebuilding process in preparation for the 2014 league season as well as changing the clubs name to Taiyuan Zhongyou Jiayi.^[5] The rebuilding process would be a big success and the club would come runners-up within the league to Jiangxi Liansheng F.C. that saw them gain promotion to the second tier for the first time.^[6] Despite the promotion the club officially admitted the financial difficulties required with the higher level of professionalism and would consider relocating the team to gain the necessary investment.^[7] On 5 January 2015 the Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Government Information Office held a press conference to announce that the Hohhot Sports Bureau would be investing and relocating the team to their city, which resulted in the name change of Nei Mongol Zhongyou.^[8]

Name history

• 2011–2013: Shanxi Jiayi (Chinese: 山西嘉怡)
• 2014: Taiyuan Zhongyou Jiayi (Chinese: 太原中优嘉怡)
• 2015–present: Nei Mongol Zhongyou (Chinese: 内蒙古中优)

Crest history

• 

  2015 Nei Mongol Zhongyou

Current squad

As of 4 march 2016 ^[9]

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Chen Chang 2 DF Li Chenguang 3 DF Luo Hao 4 DF Zhang Tianxiang 5 DF Shi Juwei 6 DF Jiao Zhe (captain) 7 MF Wang Yunlong 8 MF Quan Lei 9 MF Nenad Milijaš 10 FW Dori 11 MF Nizamidin Afanti 12 MF Zou Yucheng 13 FW Lei-Lu Dekun 14 MF Yu Wenhe

No. Position Player 16 GK Zhu Zilin 18 MF Lin Kun 19 MF Luo Andong 20 MF Hu Hao 21 MF Li Shuai 23 MF Yin Lu 25 DF Deng Hanwen 27 DF Wang Bo 28 MF Ren Chenchao 29 GK Han Fangteng 30 DF Jonas Salley 31 MF Li Yuhang 32 DF Mao Kaiyu 33 MF Guo Sheng

Reserve squad

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

No. Position Player 41 FW Wang Yida 42 FW Wang Haoyu 43 DF Geng Tianming

Out on loan

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

No. Position Player DF Li Boyang (at Jingtie Locomotive until 31 December 2016)

Coaching staff

Position	Staff
Head coach	Wang Bo
Assistant coach	Yue Songtao
Assistant coach	Piao Junjie
Goalkeeper coach	Ma Longfei
Goalkeeper coach	Vítor Valente
Fitness coach	Dudley Hitchman
Physio	Cai Puwang
Physio	Fu Dongming
Physio	Mao Jie
Scout	Jiang Chao

Source: CFA

Managerial history

• Wu Jianwen (2012)
• Wang Bo (2014–)

Results

All-time league rankings

As of the end of 2015 season.^[10][11]

Year	Div	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Pos.	FA Cup	Super Cup	AFC	Att./G	Stadium
2012	3	24	8	4	12	31	36	−5	28	9^1	R1	DNQ	DNQ	715	Wanbolin Stadium/Taiyuan IEE Stadium
2014	3	19	11	6	2	30	10	20	33^2	RU	DNE	DNQ	DNQ	2,500	Shanxi Sports Centre Stadium
2015	2	30	12	7	11	38	32	6	43	6	R3	DNQ	DNQ	18,238	Hohhot City Stadium

Shanxi Jiayi did not compete in 2013.

• ^1 in North Group. ^2 In group stage.

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

References

1. "山西嘉怡足球俱乐部简介" (in Chinese). zhongyou888.com. 2011-12-11. Retrieved 2015-07-28.
2. "山西足球新军"交学费"在所难免 目标5年冲中超" (in Chinese). chinanews.com. 2012-05-04. Retrieved 2015-07-28.
3. "山西战中乙 主场今日首演" (in Chinese). sports.163.com. 2012-05-07. Retrieved 2015-07-28.
4. "中乙积分榜：河北贵州夺头名 新疆男足无缘复赛" (in Chinese). sports.sohu.com. 2012-05-25. Retrieved 2015-07-28.
5. "明日在海埂开始春训" (in Chinese). sports.dzwww.com. 2014-03-22. Retrieved 2015-07-27.
6. "中乙-江西2-0擒太原夺冠 贵州2-0胜梅州获季军" (in Chinese). sports.sohu.com. 2014-10-25. Retrieved 2015-07-29.
7. "中甲新军山西嘉怡或外迁 场地资金困难重重" (in Chinese). chinanews.com. 2014-12-08. Retrieved 2015-07-29.
8. "关于太原中优嘉怡足球俱乐部有限公司工商迁移并更名的公示" (in Chinese). fa.org.cn. 2015-01-14. Retrieved 2015-07-29.
9. 2016中甲联赛呼和浩特中优队完全名单 sports.sohu.com 2016-03-04 Retrieved 2016-03-04
10. "China – List of Champions". rsssf.com. 20 March 2014. Retrieved 2015-03-30.
11. "呼和浩特中优" (in Chinese). sodasoccer.com. Retrieved 2015-03-31.

External links

• Club page at The Sport Website of Huhhot