Jiangsu Maint
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| Full name |
Jiangsu Suning Football Club Suning-Yigou Team 江苏苏宁足球俱乐部苏宁易购队 |
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| Founded |
1958 (Semi-professional) 28th March 1994 (Professional) |
| Ground | Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China PR |
| Capacity | 61,443 |
| Owner | Suning Appliance Group (100%) |
| Coach | Cosmin Olăroiu |
| League | Chinese Super League |
| 2017 | Super League, 12th |
| Website | Club website |
Jiangsu Suning Football Club (simplified Chinese: 江苏苏宁足球俱乐部; traditional Chinese: 江蘇蘇寧足球俱樂部; pinyin: Jiāngsū Sūníng Zúqiú Jùlèbù) is a professional football club that participates in the Chinese Super League under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team is based in Nanjing, Jiangsu and their home stadium is the Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre which has a seating capacity of 61,443. Their current owners are Suning Appliance Group (Chinese: 苏宁电器集团有限公司), a sister company of Suning Commerce Group (Chinese: former 苏宁电器股份有限公司).
The team was founded in 1958 as Jiangsu Provincial Team while the current professional football club was established in March 1994. They were one of the founding members of the first fully professional top tier league in China participating in the 1994 Chinese Jia-A League season; however, they faced relegation in that campaign. They have since gone on to win promotion back into the top tier at the end of the 2008 league season and achieved their best ever league position when they finished runners-up in the 2012 season.
According to Forbes, Jiangsu are the fourth wealthiest football team in China, with a team value of $144 million, and an estimated revenue of $36 million in 2015.
The club was founded in April 1958 as Jiangsu Provincial Team by the local government and took part in the 1959 Chinese National Games where they placed twelfth. They joined the top tier of the gradually expanding Chinese football league system in 1960; finishing nineteenth out of twenty-five teams. By 1963, the league had expanded to thirty-nine teams and the Chinese Football Association decided they needed to reduce the number of participants in the league to twenty for the following season. Jiangsu finished seventh within their group stages, which relegated them from the league system. In 1964, they did not take part in any of the divisions but returned to play in the second tier in 1965 where they came seventh in the group stages.
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