Henan Jianye F.C.
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| Full name | Henan Construction F.C. Co., Ltd. 河南建业足球俱乐部股份有限公司 |
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| Nickname(s) | 红魔 (Red devils) |
| Founded | 1958 as Henan FC 27 August 1994 (Professional) |
| Ground | Zhengzhou Hanghai Stadium |
| Capacity | 29,860 |
| Chairman | Hu Baosen |
| Manager | Jia Xiuquan |
| League | Chinese Super League |
| 2016 | Super League, 13th |
Henan Jianye Football Club (simplified Chinese: 河南建业; traditional Chinese: 河南建業; pinyin: Hénán Jiànyè) is a professional football club that currently participates in the Chinese Super League under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team is based in Zhengzhou (Chinese: 郑州市), in the province of Henan (Chinese: 河南省) and their home stadium is the Zhengzhou Hanghai Stadium that has a seating capacity of 29,860. Their owners are the Jianye Residential Group (China) Co., Ltd., which is part of the Central China Real Estate Limited.
The clubs predecessor was the Henan Provincial Team who were founded in 1958 while the current professional football team was established on August 27, 1994. The club have never won the league title and the highest position they have ever achieved was when they came third in the 2009 Chinese Super League season.
The football club were originally known as Henan Provincial team and was founded in 1958 by the local government sports body to take part in the 1959 Chinese National Games before joining the gradually expanding Chinese football league system. The team often spent much of its time in the second tier except for a short period during the late 1970s when the league was expanded to accommodate more teams. When the Chinese football league system grew to accommodate a third tier Henan found themselves in it when they were relegated from the second tier in the 1981 league season, however they were able to quickly return to the second tier when they came top of the table to win promotion in the 1982 league season. It wasn't long until they won promotion to the top tier once more in the 1985 league season where they would remain until the 1988 league season when they were relegated at the end of the season.
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