Tianjin Jinmen Tiger Football Club is a professional Chinese football club that currently participates in the Chinese Super League under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team is based in Tianjin, and their home stadium is the Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium with a seating capacity of 54,696. The founding owners of the team are TEDA Holding (the sponsorship name is derived from the initials of Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area), a state-owned conglomerate of the People's Republic of China.
The club's predecessor was called Tianjin Football Club and they predominantly played in the top tier, where they won several domestic league and cup titles. In 1993, the club was reorganized to become a completely professional football club. Since then, they have won the 2011 Chinese FA Cup and were runners-up in the 2010 Chinese Super League season. The club is one of only four clubs that has stayed in the top tier for all fifteen seasons since the establishment of the Chinese Super League, the other three being Shandong Luneng, Beijing Guoan, and Shanghai Shenhua. Notable players of the team include Yu Genwei and Li Weifeng.
According to Forbes, Tianjin are the 8th most valuable football team in China, with a team value of $84 million, and an estimated revenue of $15 million in 2015.
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