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Qingdao West Coast
青岛西海岸

Full name	Qingdao West Coast Football Club 青岛西海岸足球俱乐部
Founded	20 August 2007; 16 years ago (20 August 2007)
Ground	Guzhenkou University City Sports Center Stadium
Capacity	20,000
Chairman	Shen Jun
Manager	Hisashi Kurosaki
League	Chinese Super League
2023	China League One, 2nd of 16 (promoted)
Home colours Away colours

Qingdao West Coast Football Club ( Chinese: 青岛西海岸足球俱乐部; pinyin: Qīngdǎo Xīhǎi'àn Zúqiú Jùlèbù) is a Chinese professional football club based in Qingdao, Shandong, that competes in the Chinese Super League, the top tier of Chinese football. Qingdao West Coast plays its home matches at the Guzhenkou University City Sports Center, located within Huangdao District.

History

Qingdao Kangtaiyuan F.C. was founded in 2007 by Qingdao Kangtine Commercial Concrete Co., Ltd. as a company football team for their employees. ^[1] The club would initially participate in local amateur and futsal tournaments until the 2011 league season when they participated in the Qingdao Football Association Cup and were knocked out in the last sixteen. ^[2] The following season, they joined the Chinese football league pyramid in the second tier of the Qingdao League or seventh tier overall.

In 2017, after a third-place finish in the Qingdao City League, they changed their name to Qingdao Kangtine and participated in the China Amateur Football League for the first time. They advanced to the national play-offs after finishing first in their group but were eventually eliminated by Qinghai Zhuangbo.

In 2018, they were crowned champions of the Qingdao City League, and participated in the Chinese Champions League for a second time. However, they were eliminated by Taizhou Yuanda in the regional group stage play-offs and failed to advance to the national play-offs.

In 2019, they changed their name to Qingdao Zhongchuang Hengtai. In their third attempt at the highest level of amateur football league, they were eliminated once again by Shandong Wangyue in the group stage play-offs, but were later admitted into the national stage after the withdrawal of Huizhou Huixin. They eventually finished 8th and were promoted to China League Two for the first time in the club's history.

In January 2021, they changed their name to Qingdao Youth Island. ^[3] They finished 4th this season and entered the promotion-relegation play-offs against Beijing BIT, who finished 17th in the 2021 China League One. Qingdao won 5–4 on penalties after drawing 2–2 on aggregate, gaining promotion to China League One for the first time in the club's history.

Name history

• 2007–2017: Qingdao Kangtaiyuan F.C. (青岛康太源)
• 2017–2018: Qingdao Kangtine F.C. (青岛康太源)
• 2019–2020: Qingdao Zhongchuang Hengtai F.C. (青岛中创恒泰)
• 2021–2022: Qingdao Youth Island F.C. (青岛青春岛)
• 2023–: Qingdao West Coast F.C. (青岛西海岸)

Players

Current squad

As of 29 February 2024 ^[4]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   CHN Ji Jiabao 2 DF   CHN Song Bowei 3 DF   CHN Zhao Honglüe 5 DF   CHN Liu Pujin 6 DF   CHN Ge Zhen 7 DF   CHN Tian Yong ( captain) 8 MF   CHN Zhang Xiuwei 9 FW   COL Brayan Riascos 10 FW   ANG Nelson da Luz (on loan from Vitória de Guimarães) 11 FW   CHN Alan 13 MF   CHN Tan Kaiyuan 14 MF   CHN Feng Gang 15 MF   CHN Merdanjan Abduklim 16 FW   CHN Chen Xiangyu 17 MF   TPE Chen Po-liang

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 DF   CHN Piao Shihao 19 FW   FRA Jean-David Beauguel 21 FW   CHN Liu Ziming 22 MF   CHN Abduhelil Osmanjan 23 MF   BRA Eduardo Henrique 24 FW   CHN Duan Liuyu (on loan from Shandong Taishan) 25 MF   CHN Pei Shuai 27 DF   CHN Yang Boyu 28 GK   CHN Yerjet Yerzat 29 FW   CHN Gao Tianyu (on loan from Zhejiang) 30 MF   CHN He Longhai (on loan from Shanghai Shenhua) 33 DF   ARM Varazdat Haroyan 35 GK   CHN Shi Xiaotian 36 DF   CHN Sun Jie (on loan from Changchun Yatai) 39 FW   CHN Lei Wenjie (on loan from Shanghai Port)

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 — GK   CHN Zhang Yulei — GK   CHN Wang Qi — DF   CHN Xue Mengtao — DF   CHN Zhang Yu — MF   CHN Zhao Mingyu — MF   CHN Chen Fuhai — FW   CHN Yan Qihang

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF   CHN Chen Ao (at Hunan Billows until 31 December 2024) — MF   CHN Piao Taoyu (at Heilongjiang Ice City until 31 December 2024) — MF   CHN Du Junpeng (at Jiangxi Lushan until 31 December 2024) — FW   CHN Shi Jian (at Shanghai Jiading Huilong until 31 December 2024) — FW   CHN Li Kai (at Qingdao Red Lions until 31 December 2024)

Coaching staff

Position	Staff
Head coach	Hisashi Kurosaki
Assistant coach	Koji Maeda Javi Morillas Jiménez
Goalkeeping coach	Wang Jian
Fitness coach	Kikuchi Shinobu

Managerial history

• Zhou Xin (2018–2023)
• Zoran Janković (acting) (2023)
• Hisashi Kurosaki (2024–)

Results

All-time league rankings

As of the end of 2023 season.

Key

References

External links

• Club website at ktyfootball.com