Kunshan F.C.
Chinese football club
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Kunshan Football Club (Chinese: 昆山足球俱乐部) or Kunshan FC, formerly known as Zhenjiang Huasa, was a professional Chinese football club based in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China. They participated in the Chinese Super League, under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). It was founded on 12 December 2014 as the amateur Zhenjiang Huasa Football Club, before moving to Kunshan, where the Kunshan municipal party committee and municipal government became their major shareholders. The club was dissolved in March 2023.[1]
昆山足球俱乐部
2018 (as Kunshan F.C.)
Kunshan
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| Full name | Kunshan Football Club 昆山足球俱乐部 | ||
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| Founded | 12 December 2014 (as Zhenjiang Huasa F.C.) 2018 (as Kunshan F.C.) | ||
| Dissolved | 29 March 2023 | ||
| Ground | Kunshan Stadium Kunshan | ||
| Capacity | 30,000 | ||
| Chairman | Fu Qiang | ||
| 2022 | League One, 1st of 18 | ||
| Website | http://kunshanfc.cn/ | ||
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History
Zhenjiang Huasa, whose members were mainly fans of FC Barcelona in China, was founded on 12 December 2014. Huasa, meaning Chinese Barca, was used as the club's name.[2] They played in the 2016 China Amateur Football League and won the winners of 2016 Jiangsu Provincial Football League.[3] Zhenjiang Huasa finished the 6th place in the national finals and won promotion to 2017 China League Two.[4] In December 2018, Zhenjiang Huasa moved to Kunshan and changed their name to Kunshan F.C.[5] With the support of the Kunshan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government as well as private financing the club were able to gain stability, improve their position to ninth and gain a total of 80310 fans with the highest average attendance of 5534 at the end of the 2019 league season.[6] While the club finished in ninth at the end of the season they were granted promotion to the second tier, due to the expansion of the league and disbandment of Tianjin Tianhai.[7]
In their debut season within the second tier, manager Gao Yao was able to guide the team to a third-place finish, however, unable to improve upon these results in the following season, he was let go by the club on 16 September 2021 and replaced by Sergio Zarco Díaz.[8] In the 2022 China League One campaign, Sergio was able to gain promotion to the top tier for the first time in the club's history, winning the division with the highest recorded points total in the division's history.[9] However, the club was dissolved before its participation in the Chinese Super League.
Name history
| Year | Team name | Club name |
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| 2015 | Zhenjiang Huasa | Zhenjiang Huasa Football Club |
| 2015 | Danyang Henglu | |
| 2015 | Zhenjiang Hua Sahenglu | |
| 2017–2018 | Zhenjiang Cultural Tourism Huasa | |
| 2019–2021 | Kunshan FC | Kunshan Football Club |
Crest history
Kunshan logo used since 2018
Managerial history
Li Dong (2016–2017)
Dragan Stančić (caretaker) (2017)
Goran Miscevic (2017)- Li Xiao (2017)
- Tang Jing (2018)
- Dragan Okuka (2019)
- Gao Yao (2019–2021)
Sergio Zarco Díaz (2021–2023)
Honours
- China League One
- Champions (1): 2022
Results
All-time league rankings
As of the start of 2023 season.[10]
| Year | Div | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Pos. | FA Cup | Super Cup | AFC | Att./G | Stadium |
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| 2015 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 20 | 11 | 9 | –1 | 6 | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | ||
| 2016 | 5 | –1 | 1 | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | |||||||||
| 4 | 6 | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | Zhenjiang Sports and Exhibition Center | ||||||||||
| 2017 | 3 | 24 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 22 | 50 | −28 | 11 | 21 | R1 | DNQ | DNQ | 927 | |
| 2018 | 3 | 28 | 12 | 7 | 9 | 31 | 33 | −2 | 43 | 13 | R2 | DNQ | DNQ | 2,598 | |
| 2019 | 3 | 30 | 17 | 4 | 9 | 45 | 23 | 22 | 552 | 9 | R1 | DNQ | DNQ | 5,534 | Kunshan Stadium |
| 2020 | 2 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 25 | 3 | QF | DNQ | DNQ | 927 | |
| 2021 | 2 | 34 | 13 | 12 | 9 | 56 | 35 | 21 | 51 | 9 | R4 | DNQ | DNQ | 0 | |
| 2022 | 2 | 34 | 28 | 5 | 1 | 80 | 19 | 61 | 89 | 1 | R2 | DNQ | DNQ | ||
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