1994 Dalian Wanda F.C. season

The 1994 season was the first season that the Jia-A League had turned professional.^[1][2] Private enterprises were allowed to sponsor or operate a football club. Wang Jianlin, owner of the Wanda Group, acquired the Dalian football club,^[3] and reorganized the team as Dalian Wanda Football Club in March 1994. Originally, he planned to establish a team that consist players and managerial staff only from Dalian, but was convinced by Gai Zengjun, former manager of the team.^[4] He threw quite some money at the time by appointing Zhang Honggen from Shanghai as the head coach, and set high winning bonuses for the team.^[5] Dalian Wanda won the 1994 Chinese Jia-A League without effort.

Since round 5 of the 1994 season, the team set a record of 57 unbeaten home league matches.^[6]

As of the 1994 season.^[7][8][9]

No.	Name	Nat.	Place of birth	Date of birth	Aged	Joined from
Goalkeepers
1	Han Wenhai		Dalian	28 January 1971	22	Dalian
23	Zhou Yong		Dalian	28 July 1973	20	Dalian youth
24	Chen Dong		Dalian	3 May 1978	15	Dalian youth
Defenders
2	Zhang Enhua		Dalian	28 April 1973	20	Dalian
3	Zhao Lin		Dalian	15 February 1966	27	Dalian
4	Zhu Xiaodong		Dalian	25 January 1969	24	Dalian
5	Xu Hong		Dalian	17 April 1968	25	Dalian
14	Zheng Yong		Dalian	28 June 1973	20	Dalian youth
19	Fan Wei		Dalian	20 June 1973	20	Dalian
21	Sun Jihai		Dalian	17 August 1977	16	Dalian youth
22	Wu Jun		Dalian	24 March 1977	16	Dalian youth
Midfielders
6	Li Ming		Dalian	26 January 1971	22	Dalian
7	Xu Hui		Dalian	22 August 1968	25	Dalian
8	Ma Xiaohong		Dalian	24 October 1970	23	Dalian
9	Wang Tao		Dalian	9 April 1967	26	Bayi
10	Shi Lei		Dalian	19 June 1963	30	Dalian
12	Sun Minghui		Dalian	20 April 1971	22	Dalian
13	Gao Jinggang		Dalian	8 January 1971	22	Dalian
15	Sun Xiaodong		Dalian	19 February 1974	19	Dalian
18	Liu Zhongchang		Dalian	31 August 1962	31	Dalian
25	Wang Jun		Dalian	20 April 1963	30	Dalian
Forwards
11	Wei Yimin		Dalian	12 July 1971	22	Dalian
16	Gao Xu		Dalian	2 April 1967	26	Liaoning
17	Zhang Gang		Dalian	30 March 1977	16	Dalian youth
20	Wang Tao		Dalian	22 April 1970	23	Dalian