Shanghai Shenhua
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| Shanghai Shenhua United 上海申花 |
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| Full name | Shanghai Shenhua United Football Club 上海申花联合足球俱乐部 |
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| Nickname(s) | Shenhua | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1993 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Hongkou Stadium, Shanghai, China (Capacity 35,000) |
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| Chairman |  Zhu Jun |
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| Manager | Wu Jingui |
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| League | Chinese Super League | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007 | Chinese Super League, 4th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Shanghai Shenhua (Simplified Chinese: 上海申花) is a Chinese Super League football club. They play at the 35,000 seat Hongkou Stadium in Shanghai, China and is owned by Zhu Jun (75%), Shanghai SVA Group, SMEG (Shanghai Media & Entertainment Group) and Huangpu Investment Ltd. (SMEG + Huangpu Investment 25%). Their head coach is Wu Jingui.
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[edit] History
The club was founded on 10 December 1993 and was first sponsored by a local company named Shenhua (Shenhua also means "flower of Shanghai" in Chinese). At the end of 2001, Shenhua ended their sponsorship of club, then SVA and SMEG came aboard. The club changed its name to Shanghai Shenhua SVA SMEG Football Club (SFC). The team however is unique as it still retains "Shenhua" in its name while many other teams drop the name of their former sponsors completely.
The club is the most successful of the Shanghai teams, the others being Shanghai Zobon and, formerly, Inter Shanghai. Shenhua are 2 time top-tier champions and 6 time runners up. Their biggest supporters club is called Blue Devil.
In 2007, Zhu Jun, the owner of in-city rival Shanghai United F.C. bought a majority share of Shanghai Shenhua, thus began to merge the two clubs. The new club moved their home stadium to Yuanshen Sports Centre Stadium in Pudong, Shanghai, which was the stadium Shanghai United F.C. played in last season. In the new squad submitted for the AFC Champions League, 17 players appeared in the China national football team or the China national under-23 football team.
After the merge, the club struggled in the league. Rumors of internal conflicts are spreading after Du Wei was abruptly demoted to the reserves team for lack of match-fitness immediately after playing two games for the national team[1]. Many other old Shenhua players were also demoted, such as Zheng Kewei, Li Chengming, Liu Hongtao and Cheng Liang. In the 2007 Asian Champions League, Shanghai suffered three straight losses with two draws, the worst record of any Chinese team in the ACL.
With the start of the 2008 season, former coach Wu Jingui was rehired as the head coach and the team moved back to Hongkou Stadium for their home fixtures. These changes are having a positive affect on the team with Shenhua winning the first 3 games to start the 2008 season.
[edit] Honours
[edit] International
- A3 Champions Cup Winners (1)
[edit] Domestic
League titles
- Jia A Champions (2)
- 1995, 2003
- Jia A Runners-Up (5)
- 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001
- Chinese Super League Runners-up (2)
- 2005, 2006
Cups
- Chinese FA Cup Winners (1)
- 1998
- Chinese Super Cup Winners (3)
- 1996, 1999, 2002
[edit] Current squad
The players in bold have senior international caps
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[edit] Famous players
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[edit] Affiliated Clubs
[edit] See Also
List of Chinese Super League clubs
[edit] External links
- Official Site
- Shanghai Shenhua Stadium at Worldstadiums.com
- Sinosoc
- Gimenez to coach newly combined Shanghai Shenhua
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