Hao Haidong is currently helping out at Chengdu Blades, the Chinese club recently purchased by Sheffield United Football Club in the Football League Championship. Although transferred to the Sheffield outfit in January 2005, he made little impact, suffering from injury, and worked mainly as a coach at the Academy. He holds the record for the cheapest ever transfer fee, joining Sheffield United from Dalian Shide for a pound in 2005.

Sun Jihai (born September 30, 1977 in Dalian, China) is a Chinese football (soccer) player who currently plays for Manchester City as a defender and for the China national football team as a midfielder. Sun's main strengths are his speed, physical strength, crossing and attacking forays down the wings. He is a highly versatile player, having played on both wings, central defense, holding midfielder.

Dong Fangzhuo is a Chinese football forward who currently plays for Manchester United and represents China at full international level.

Zhang Enhua (born 28 April, 1973 in Dalian) is a retired Chinese football player. He played for Dalian Shide and was on loan at Grimsby Town F.C. in England. He played for China national football team and was a participant at the 2002 FIFA World Cup. In 2005, Zhang Enhua joined South China of Hong Kong to extend his football career. [[Category:Hong Kong First Division League players]

Yan Song is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Dalian Shide. He is well-known in China for his good ball control and dribbling, especially as a winger. During the ACL 2006 when Dalian played a home match against J-League champions Gamba Osaka, Yan Song dribbled through the entire Gamba defense and almost scored with a curled lob.

An Qi (Simplified Chinese: 安琦) (born 19 June, 1981 in Dalian, China) is a Chinese football goalkeeper who currently plays for Xiamen Lanshi in the Chinese Super League. An previously played for Dalian Shide and was one of the more promising young goalkeeper on the China national team. His poor performance recently has seen him falling out of favor with the national team. An was on the Chinese national squad that played during the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

Perica Ognjenović (born 24 February 1977 in Smederevska Palanka, Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia), is a Serbian footballer. At one point considered to be among Serbia's brightest footballing talents, he is now widely viewed as one of the more spectacular examples of a sports-related bust.

Wang Sheng is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Dalian Shide.

Wang Peng is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Dalian Shide.

Ermin Šiljak in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is a Slovenian football player and plays as a forward. He played for clubs such as NK Olimpija, SC Bastia (France), Servette Geneva (Switzerland), Panionios (Greece),Mouscron (Belgium) and Dalian Shide (China). He played for the Slovenia national football team and was a participant at the 2000 UEFA European Championship and currently has 48 caps & 14 goals.

Chen Dong is a Chinese football player who currently plays keeper for Dalian Shide.

Václav Němeček, is a Czech football player. He played for Czechoslovakia and later the Czech Republic, for both he played total 60 matches and scored 6 goals. He was a participant in the 1990 FIFA World Cup. He played for example for FC Hradec Králové, AC Sparta Praha, Toulouse FC, Servette Geneva and Dalian Shide.

Zoran Janković is a naturalized Bulgarian football player of Serbian ethnicity who has been playing for Dalian Shide in China since 2002 as a striker. He is considered one of the best players in the Chinese Super League. Janković is a target man up front and has been his club's topscorer for many seasons now. For this reason, many other teams have shown great interest on buying him. He was part of the Bulgarian 2004 European Football Championship team.

Nicolas Ouédec is a French former professional football (soccer) player.

Glenn Helder (born 28 October 1968 in Leiden) is a former Dutch footballer. He was a product of Ajax Amsterdam's youth system, though to get first team football he moved to Sparta Rotterdam in 1989 where he played 93 games, scoring 9 goals. In 1993 he moved to Vitesse Arnhem where he played 52 games, scoring 12 goals and attracting the interest of English club Arsenal.