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| Full name | Shandong Taishan Football Club 山东泰山足球俱乐部 | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Taishan Dui (Chinese: 泰山队; lit. 'The team of Mount Tai') | ||
| Founded | 10 April 1956 (Semi-professional) 2 December 1993 (Professional) | ||
| Ground | Jinan Olympic Sports Center Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 56,808 | ||
| Owner | Shandong Luneng Group | ||
| Chairman | Sun Hua | ||
| Manager | Choi Kang In | ||
| League | Chinese Super League | ||
| 2023 | Chinese Super League, 2nd of 16 | ||
| Website | Club website | ||
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| Traditional Chinese | 山東泰山 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 山东泰山 | ||||||
| Literal meaning | Shandong Mount Tai | ||||||
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Shandong Taishan Football Club (Chinese: 山东泰山足球俱乐部; pinyin: Shāndōng Tàishān Zúqiú Jùlèbù) is a Chinese professional football club based in Jinan, Shandong, that competes in the Chinese Super League, the top tier of Chinese football. Shandong Taishan plays its home matches at the Jinan Olympic Sports Center Stadium, located within Lixia District. Their current majority shareholder is Shandong Electric Power Group Corporation,[1] the biggest supplier of electric energy in Shandong province and itself part of the State Grid Corporation of China.[2][3] Shandong Taishan is one of the four clubs to have never been relegated from the Chinese top-flight since the Chinese Super League's foundation in 2004. The club name Taishan derives from Mount Tai.
The club's predecessor was called Shandong Provincial team which was founded on April 10, 1956, while the current professional football team was established on December 2, 1993. They were one of the founding members of the first fully professional top-tier football league in China. Since then, they have gone on to win their first league title in the 1999 league season. They have continued to win domestic silverware with the 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2021 league titles, making them one of the most successful football clubs in China.
According to Forbes, Shandong is the 5th most valuable football team in China, with a team value of $126 million, and an estimated revenue of $24 million in 2015.[4] In that year, Beijing Guoan, Guangzhou Evergrande and Shandong Luneng Taishan were the only Chinese sports clubs with at least 5 million followers on Weibo.[5]
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