Jiangxi Liansheng F.C.

Jiangxi Liansheng Football Club (simplified Chinese: 江西联盛; traditional Chinese: 江西聯盛; pinyin: Jiāngxi Liánshèng) is a professional Chinese football club that currently participates in the China League Two division under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team is based in Nanchang, Jiangxi, and their new home stadium is the 31,000 capacity Jiujiang Stadium where they are owned by the Jiujiang Liansheng Group.

Jiangxi Liansheng
Jiāngxi Liánshèng
江西联盛

Full name	Jiangxi Liansheng Football Club 江西联盛足球俱乐部
Founded	3 April 2002 (amateur) 23 February 2012 (professional)
Ground	Jiujiang Stadium
Capacity	31,000
Owner	Sun Jun
Manager	Huang Yong
League	China League One
2020	League One, 16th of 18
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

History

The club was established as an amateur club named Jiujiang Liansheng (Simplified Chinese: 九江联盛) on 3 April 2002 and was directly named after their owners the Jiujiang Liansheng Group.[1] They played in the amateur leagues for ten years and claimed runners-up in the 2011 China Amateur Football League.[2] On 23 February 2012, the club was reorganized as a professional football club and to represent this the owners changed the club's name to Jiangxi Liansheng to signify the city they would be representing.[3] Their first season as a professional unit saw them enter the third tier of the Chinese football pyramid where in their debut season they finished eighth within their group. After three seasons within the division they won the league and gained promotion to the second tier by beating Taiyuan Zhongyou Jiayi F.C. 2–0 in the division final.[4]

Name history

• 2002–2012: Jiujiang Liansheng (九江联盛）
• 2012–: Jiangxi Liansheng (江西联盛)

Current squad

As of 13 September 2020[5]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 4 DF  CHN Zhao Yibo 6 DF  CHN Zhang Kaiming 7 MF  CHN Shang Yin 8 FW  CHN Zhang Ye 10 MF  CHN Yuan Mingcan 11 MF  CHN Li Xiaoting 13 MF  CHN Zhang Gen 14 DF  CHN Mao Weixu 16 DF  CHN Geng Zhiqing 17 MF  CHN Wang Shuai 18 FW  CHN Wei Jingxing 19 DF  CHN Xu Chen 20 MF  CHN Wang Bojun 21 MF  CHN Zhou Shengyuan

No. Pos. Nation Player 23 FW  BRA Éder 24 GK  CHN Mu Qianyu 26 DF  CHN Liu Yuchen 27 MF  CHN Sun Dong 28 FW  CHN Zhou Xuezhong 29 MF  CHN Yan Ge 31 DF  CHN Liu Shuai 32 FW  ALB Vasil Shkurti 33 FW  CHN Kang Zhenjie 34 GK  CHN Zhu Jiaqi 36 GK  CHN Ye Ruiheng 37 MF  CHN Yi Xianlong 39 MF  CHN Zhang Yanjun - MF  TUR Okan Aydın

Reserve squad

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 42 MF  CHN Wu Minfeng - GK  CHN Peng Hao - DF  CHN Zhang Kaixuan - MF  CHN Liu Chun - DF  CHN Bao Wei - FW  CHN Zhang Hao - MF  CHN Yang Xin

No. Pos. Nation Player - DF  CHN Xiong Changqing - MF  CHN Yusupjan Ahmat - MF  CHN Sheng Chunlin - MF  CHN Shepket Turhon - GK  CHN Yao Weilong - FW  CHN Zhang Jiajun - MF  CHN Li Qichao

Coaching staff

Position	Staff
Head coach	Huang Yong
Assistant coach	Zhang Yonghai
Goalkeeping Coach

Source: Jiangxi Liansheng website

Managerial history

Gu Mingchang (2012) Li Xiao (2013–2014) Huang Yan (2015) Sun Wei (2015) Song Lihui (2016)

Fan Yuhong (2017) Kazimir Vulić (2017–2018) Huang Yong (2019–)

Results

All-time league rankings

As of the end of 2019 season.[6][7]

Year	Div	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Pos.	FA Cup	Super Cup	AFC	Att./G	Stadium
2009	4									5	NH	DNQ	DNQ
2010	4									7	NH	DNQ	DNQ
2011	4									RU	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
2012	3	24	6	12	6	36	32	4	30	8^1	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	1,063	Jiangxi Olympic Sports Center
2013	3	12	2	6	4	9	14	−5	12	5^1	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
2014	3	21	13	5	3	33	13	20	34^1	W	R2	DNQ	DNQ	1,200
2015	2	30	5	8	17	32	50	−18	23	16	R16	DNQ	DNQ	5,349
2016	3	23	10	11	2	31	20	11	41	3	R1	DNQ	DNQ	5,266	Jiujiang Stadium
2017	3	24	10	7	7	26	23	3	37	14	R3	DNQ	DNQ	1,636
2018	3	28	7	10	11	36	37	−1	31	22	R2	DNQ	DNQ	5,000	Ruichang Sports Park Stadium
2019	3	30	19	4	7	41	21	20	61	6	R2	DNQ	DNQ

• ^1 in group stage.

Key

China top division   China second division   China third division   China fourth 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

Club honours

• China League Two : 2014

References

1. "俱乐部简介". jxlianshengfc.com. Archived from the original on 2015-02-15. Retrieved 2015-04-07.
2. "全国业余联赛总决赛南宁圆满落幕 九江联盛获亚军". sports.sina.com.cn. 2011-11-18. Retrieved 2015-04-07.
3. "九江联盛足球队征战2012年中乙联赛". jjxw.cn. 2012-02-27. Retrieved 2015-04-07.
4. "中乙-江西2–0擒太原夺冠 贵州2–0胜梅州获季军". sports.sohu.com. 2014-10-25. Retrieved 2015-04-07.
5. 2018中乙俱乐部报名表 Archived 2018-03-28 at the Wayback Machine fa.org.cn 2018-03-27 Retrieved 2018-03-28
6. "China – List of Champions". rsssf.com. 20 March 2014. Archived from the original on 4 July 2014. Retrieved 2015-03-30.
7. "江西联盛". sodasoccer.com. Retrieved 2015-03-31.

External links

• Official club website (in Chinese)