Guangzhou R&F

Guangzhou R&F
Basic data
Surname	Guangzhou R&F Football Club
Seat	Guangzhou , China
founding	1986
Website	gzrffc.com.cn
First soccer team
Head coach	Dragan Stojkovic
Venue	Yuexiushan Stadium
Places	18,000
league	Chinese Super League
2019	12th place
home Away

The Guangzhou R&F Football Club ( Chinese  廣州 富力 , Pinyin Guǎngzhōu Fùlì ) is a soccer club from Guangzhou in China . The club plays in the Chinese Super League , the highest league in the country. The club plays its home games at Yuexiushan Stadium .

Club history

The club was founded in 1986 as Shenyang Huayang . The club was called Shenyang Haishi from 1996 to 2003 and Shenyang Ginde FC from 2003 to 2007 . Since moving to Changsha City in 2007, the association has called itself by its current name. The club is owned by the Ginde Plastic Pipe Industry Group . So far, Changsha Ginde has not won a title. At the end of the 2008 season, the club finished eleventh; In 2009, the club reached 14th place and was thus able to just prevent relegation. The following year, he was relegated in 16th place. The return to the highest league succeeded immediately. Since then, the club has played in the country's top division again. In 2014 the qualification for the AFC Champions League was achieved for the first time with third place .

Placements

season	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
league	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1
position	8th	13	13	10	11	14th	16	2	7th	6th	3	14th	6th	5

Name history

• 1986–1993: Shenyang (沈 阳)
• 1994: Shenyang Liuyao (沈 阳 东北 六 药)
• 1995: Shenyang Huayang (沈 阳 华阳)
• 1996–2001: Shenyang Haishi (沈 阳 海狮)
• 2001–2006: Shenyang Ginde (沈 阳 金德)
• 2007–2010: Changsha Ginde (长沙 金德)
• 2011: Shenzhen Phoenix (深圳 凤凰)
• 2011–: Guangzhou R&F (广州 富力)

Former known players (selection)

Name of the player	Period	comment
Aboubakar Oumarou	2006	• Cameroonian international
Benedict Akwuegbu	2002	• Former Nigerian international
Kwame Ayew	2003	• Former Ghanaian international
Robert Caha	2001
Nevil Dede	2008	• Former Albanian international
Garba Lawal	2007	• Former Nigerian international
Miguel Miranda	1998 2000	• Former Peruvian international
Mauricio Wright	2003	• Former Costa Rican international
Song Zhenyu	2006-2009	• former China international
Abderazak Hamedallah	2014-2015	• Former Moroccan international

Trainer (incomplete)

Name of the trainer	Period	comment
Ademar Braga	1999
Valery Kuzmich Nepomnyashchi	2000
Henryk Kasperczak	2000-2001
Alain Laurier	2001
Toni	2002
Dragoslav Stepanović	2003
Bob Houghton	2005-2006
Martin Koopman	2006
Milan Živadinović	2007
Slobodan Santrač	2008
Zhu Bo	2008-2009
Hao Wei	2009-2010
Miodrag Ješić	2010
Li Shubin	2010-2011
Sérgio Farias	2012-2013
Li Bing	2013	Interim trainer
Sven-Göran Eriksson	2013-2014
Cosmin Contra	2015
Li Bing	2015	Interim trainer
Dragan Stojkovic	2015–

Web links

• Official website