Jiangsu Suning F.C.
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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) March 1994 (Professional) |
| Ground | Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China |
| Capacity | 61,443 |
| Owner | Suning Appliance Group (100%) |
| Head coach | Choi Yong-soo |
| League | Chinese Super League |
| 2016 | Super League, 2nd |
| Website | Club home page |
Jiangsu Suning Football Club (simplified Chinese: 江苏苏宁; traditional Chinese: 江蘇蘇寧; pinyin: Jiāngsū Sūníng) 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, 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 finish when they ended up being 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, where they came nineteenth out of a possible twenty-five. By 1963, the league had expanded to thirty-nine teams and the Chinese Football Association were looking to only have twenty teams for next season's league system. Jiangsu finished seventh within the 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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