GuizhouGuizhou Hengfeng贵州队

Guizhou F.C. (simplified Chinese: 贵州足球俱乐部; traditional Chinese: 貴州足球俱樂部; pinyin: Guizhou Zuqiu Julebu; Mandarin pronunciation: [kwei ʈʂou xə̌ŋ.fəŋ.tsu tɕʰjou tɕy lɤ̂ pu]) is a professional Chinese football club that currently participates in the China League One division under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team is based in Guiyang, Guizhou and their home stadium is the 51,636 seater Guiyang Olympic Sports Center. Their current majority shareholders are Hengfeng Real Estate, Guizhou Zhicheng Enterprise Group Investment Co., Ltd. and the Guizhou Provincial Sports Bureau.

History

On 18 February 2005 the Guizhou Provincial Sports Bureau and Guizhou Zhicheng Enterprise Group Investment Co., Ltd. took over and re-established the Guizhou Province football team as a youth team after paying the membership fee of 600,000 Yuan to the Chinese Football Association. After playing within the youth leagues for several seasons the club decided the team's players were old enough to enter the senior football league. They entered in the third tier at the beginning of the 2008 league season where they came fourth within the Southern league and entered the play-offs where they were knocked out in the quarter-finals. They would achieve the same feat the following season but this time go one better by being knocked out in the second round of the play-offs.

In the 2010 league season the team finished third within the league and missed out on promotion, however despite this the owners decided to take over second tier football club Pudong Zobon's registration for 5 million Yuan and their place within the division. At the beginning of the season Wang Haifang (王海芳) was brought in to manage the team and initial results under his reign saw the club briefly push for promotion until on 3 June 2011 he died in a car accident. Zhang Ning (张宁) was brought in as his replacement, however results plummeted and Yuan Yi (袁弋) came in but he was unable to stop the club fr

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