2016 Dalian Yifang F.C. season
| Chairman |
 Shi Xueqing Lin Lefeng
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| Manager |
 Mikael Stahre Milinko Pantić Sergio Piernas Cárdenas
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| Stadium | Dalian Sports Center | ||
| League One | 5th | ||
| FA Cup | 3rd round | ||
| Top goalscorer |
 Nyasha Mushekwi (19 goals) |
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| Highest home attendance | 18,631 | ||
| Lowest home attendance | 2,532 | ||
| Average home league attendance | 10,806 | ||
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The 2016 Dalian Yifang F.C. season is the 7th season in club history.
Before the season, Yifang announced that Mikael Stahre will continue his job. The team and the manager himself claimed that the team will try to gain promotion into the 2017 Chinese Super League.
In July 2016, Yifang made changes of critical personnel including chairman and technical staffs, replacing their manager Mikael Stahre with Milinko Pantić from Atletico Madrid B, and signed Lin Lefeng as the chairman, hoping to improve their performance, but it failed. After just 8 matches, Pantić was replaced with Sergio Piernas Cárdenas, his assistant coach.
Yifang had experienced local derby back in 2012, when they got promoted as Dalian Aerbin to compete with Dalian Shide before downfall of the latter team, in the Chinese Super League. Since then, this is the first time they have chance to compete with an alternate local rival, as Dalian Transcendence stepped up to the League One in this season. Yifang won by 2-0 in the first leg, but lost by 1-2 in the second leg.
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