Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard F.C.

Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard
Xīnjiāng Tiānshān Xuěbào
新疆天山雪豹

Full name	Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard Football Club 新疆天山雪豹足球俱乐部
Founded	December 2011
Ground	Xinjiang Sports Centre
Capacity	50,000
Owner	Shenzhen China-Kyle Special Steel Corp., Ltd
Chairman	Li Jianzhong (李建忠)
Manager	Li Jun (李军)
League	China League One
2015	League One, 8th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard F.C. (Chinese: 新疆天山雪豹; pinyin: Xīnjiāng Tiānshān Xuěbào) 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 Ürümqi, Xinjiang and their home stadium is the Xinjiang Sports Centre that has a seating capacity of 50,000. Their current majority shareholder is the Shenzhen China-Kyle Special Steel Corp., Ltd.

History

Hubei Huakaier was established in December 2011 by the China-Kyle Special Steel Co., Ltd and they brought in Li Jianzhong (李建忠) as their Chairman as well as Li Jun (李军) as their first manager.^[1] With the aid from the Hubei Football Association they formed a team and registered to play within the third tier of the Chinese football league system in the 2012 league season. Their home location was the Huangshi Stadium and all blue was chosen as their home uniform. In their debut season they finished fourth place in the South Group and advanced into the play-offs where after beating Hebei Zhongji and Shenzhen Fengpeng they ultimately came runners-up to Guizhou Zhicheng F.C. within the division, nonetheless that position ensured promotion to the China League One division.^[2]

In their first appearance within the second division the club would struggle with the higher level of finance and professionalism required within the division. Before the start of the season the team could not aford the plane tickets required to go their training camp set in Dongguan, Guangdong and had to go there by coach.^[3] Despite the financial constrants Li Jun was able to avoid relegation on the final day of the season when the team beat Chengdu Tiancheng F.C. 2-0 at home.^[4] At the start of the 2014 league season the club would publicly declare they were looking for investment and were willing to leave Hubei Province to obtain it.^[5] This saw speculation grow that the club were going to move to Xi'an, but talks between the city broke down.^[6] The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Sports Bureau, however would express interest in investing into the club, which initially saw them take over their Under-20 team.^[7] On 14 February 2014 the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Sports Bureau followed through with their investment by providing the Xinjiang Sports Centre, training facilities and sponsorship, which saw Hubei Huakaier moved to Xinjiang's capital city Ürümqi and changed their name to Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard.^[8]

Name history

• 2011-2013 Hubei Huakaier 湖北华凯尔 or Hubei China-Kyle F.C. 湖北華凱爾
• 2014- Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard 新疆天山雪豹

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 Ding Runshan 2 DF Arpati Mijiti 3 DF Cai Xi 4 DF Mehmud Abdukerem 5 MF Zhou Heng 6 DF Vicente 7 DF Mehmudjan Minem 8 MF Wang Kang 9 FW Nusmir Fajić 10 MF Itaparica 11 MF Xu Qing 12 GK Gu Junjie 13 MF Qi Yunfei

No. Position Player 14 DF Mustapa Nurahmet 15 MF Abdul'eziz Abdusalam 16 MF Rudnei 17 GK Ekramjan Sirajidin 20 DF Song Xie 21 MF Tong Xiaoxing 22 DF Yan Zhiyu 24 MF Exmetjan 26 MF Nan Xiaoheng 27 DF Fang Zhong 28 MF Liu Shun 29 MF Yehya Ablikim 30 FW Shewket Yalqun

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 DF Almas Azat 42 MF Yerfanjan Aniwar 43 MF Mukahali Dawul 45 MF Daniyal Musajan 46 MF Subi Parhat 48 DF Zulpikar Dolqun 50 MF Xirzat Helil 51 MF Abduhamit Abdugani

No. Position Player 52 MF Keyserjan Abdugheni 53 MF Yermet Talaphan 55 MF Argin Kongelbek 56 MF Erkan Enwer 57 DF Diyar 58 DF Ilyas 59 GK Kudiret Ablet

Coaching staff

Position	Staff
Head coach	Li Jun (李军)
Assistant coach	Wang Wenhua (王文华)
Assistant coach	Yan Mingchao (严明超)
Assistant coach	Yang Quanbin (杨全斌)
Goalkeeping coach	Zheng Yuebin(郑跃斌)
Physio	Bao Tonghua (鲍同华)
Physio	Cheng Chang (程畅)

Source: sina.com

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	30	15	7	8	32	22	10	44^1	RU	DNE	DNQ	DNQ	1,645	Huangshi Stadium
2013	2	30	8	6	16	27	41	−14	30	13	R2	DNQ	DNQ	2,206	Huangshi Stadium
2014	2	30	8	11	11	29	33	-4	35	10	R2	DNQ	DNQ	3,161	Xinjiang Sports Centre
2015	2	30	10	9	11	43	51	-8	39	8	QF	DNQ	DNQ	4,114	Xinjiang Sports Centre

• ^1 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

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3. 湖北华凯尔险困境引援成奢望 主帅微博呼吁谁来拯救? (in Chinese). sports.sina.com.cn. 2013-02-28. Retrieved 2015-07-27.
4. 中甲收官 毅腾升级华凯尔保级 (in Chinese). sports.dzwww.com. 2013-11-03. Retrieved 2015-07-27.
5. 保级成功但承诺未兑现 湖北华凯尔可能被迫转场 (in Chinese). sports.sohu.com. 2013-12-09. Retrieved 2015-07-27.
6. 湖北华凯尔否认陕企介入 曾想零转让却无疾而终 (in Chinese). sxdaily.com.cn. 2013-12-18. Retrieved 2015-07-27.
7. 新疆博格达男足3月征战中甲 (in Chinese). news.sina.com.cn. 2014-01-11. Retrieved 2015-07-27.
8. 关于湖北华凯尔工商迁移并更名的公示 (in Chinese). fa.org.cn. 2015-01-14. Retrieved 2015-07-27.
9. 2016中甲联赛新疆队完全名单 sports.sohu.com 2016-03-04 Retrieved 2016-03-04
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External links

• Official club website (Chinese)