Shanghai SIPG

History and achievements

Shanghai East Asia is a football club in China. Xu Genbao founded Genbao Football Academy in 2000 and in 2005 he established Shanghai East Asia F.C. So the major part of the team players is the graduates from the Academy. In 2006 the team began to compete in the Chinese league system, they won the China League Two (the third tier of the Chinese football league system) in 2007.

In 2010 Fan Zhiyi was appointed he head coach, invited several foreigners to play for the team but that didn’t help the side to promote. In 2012 the club’s new sponsor and at the end of the season they won the China League One, thus promoting to the top flight.

Shanghai Stadium, where Shanghai East Asia F.C. play their home matches, has a capacity of 56,000 spectators.

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Club top players

№	Name and surname	Role	Ranking	Age	Weight	Height	Country
1	Odil Ahmedov	midfielder	5 038	35 years	72 kg	180 cm	Uzbekistan
2	Hulk	forward	380	37 years	85 kg	180 cm	Brazil
3	Oscar	midfielder	207	32 years	66 kg	180 cm	Brazil
4	Satybaldy Tazhiyev	midfielder	70	32 years	67 kg	175 cm	Kazakhstan
5	Marko Arnautović	forward	1	34 years	83 kg	192 cm	Austria
6	Wu Yuyin	defender	0	33 years	75 kg	188 cm	China
7	Syue Chen‎	midfielder	0	31 years	70 kg	182 cm	China
8	Mao Zhunczyun	goalkeeper	0	50 years	75 kg	180 cm	China
9	Sun Le	goalkeeper	0	34 years	80 kg	195 cm	China
10	Mao Jiakang	forward	0	32 years	78 kg	185 cm	China