Full name | Dalian Shide FC 大连实德队 | ||
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Nickname(s) | Eight-star Dalian | ||
Founded | 1955 1983 as Dalian FC (Semi-professional) 1992 (Professional) | as Dalian Shipyards (Amateur)||
Dissolved | 30 November 2012 | ||
Ground | Jinzhou Stadium, Dalian, Liaoning, China | ||
Capacity | 30,776[1] | ||
Chairman | Xu Ming | ||
Manager | Nelo Vingada | ||
League | Chinese Super League | ||
2012 | Chinese Super League, 14th of 16 (relegated) | ||
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Simplified Chinese | 大连实德 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 大連實德 | ||||||
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Dalian Shide was a professional Chinese football club based in Dalian, Liaoning province, China who played in China's football league system between 1955 and 2012. Their home stadiums were the 55,843 capacity Dalian People's Stadium and then later in 1997 they moved to the 30,776 capacity Jinzhou Stadium.
The club was initially founded in 1955 as Dalian Shipyards and made sporadic appearances within the Chinese national leagues until 1982 when the local Dalian government took ownership of the club and renamed it Dalian Football Club. The club won their first major silverware when they won the 1992 domestic cup title. In 1993, the club was reorganised to become a completely professional football team, renamed themselves Dalian Wanda FC and went on to win the first fully professional 1994 Chinese Jia-A League title.[2] The tycoon Xu Ming and the Shide Group would go on to take over the club rename it Dalian Shide.
Achieving a total of eight league titles from both the Jia A and the rebranded CSL Dalian were the most successful club in Chinese football, while in the Asian Football Confederation the club reached the 1997–98 Asian Club Championship and 2000–01 Asian Cup Winners' Cup finals.