| Full name | Beijing Guoan Football Club 北京国安足球俱乐部代表队 |
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| Nickname(s) | Yulinjun (御林军, Imperial Guards) founded = 1992 |
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| Ground | Workers Stadium (工人体育场) Beijing, China (Capacity: 66,161) |
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| Chairman | Li Shilin (李世林) | ||
| Coach | Jaime Pacheco | ||
| League | Chinese Super League | ||
| 2011 | 2nd | ||
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| Traditional Chinese | 北京國安 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 北京国安 | ||||||||||
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Beijing Guoan Football Club (Simplified Chinese: 北京国安 is part of CITIC Group (China International Trust and Investment Corporation). Their current home stadium is Workers Stadium and the Fengtai stadium for less popular games. The current head coach is Jaime Pacheco and the club's general manager is Li Xiaoming. In 2010, Guoan finished a disappointing 5th place and, thus, missed out on an Asian Champions League spot.
Like Shandong Luneng, Beijing Guoan is one of the most noticeable Chinese football clubs with a significant holding by Chinese state-owned enterprises. Its main source of investment since its inception, the CITIC Guoan Group, is a Shanghai (SSE: 600084) and Shenzhen (SZSE: 000839) listed state-owned enterprise. Also, Chinese governmental departments such as the Beijing Sports Bureau has made subsidies to the club on several occasions, the most recent being for 20 million RMB, announced in January 2009.[1][2][3]
The clubs first incarnation came in 1951 when the local government sports body decided to take part in China's first fully nationalized national football league tournament and decided to merge the best players from Beijing and Tianjin to create the North China team who ended up finishing fourth in their debut season.[4] With the football league gradually expanding the team were allowed to separate themselves from Tianjin and the local Beijing government sports body were allowed to reformed the club as Beijing Football Club after their own city in 1955. The club would make it's debut appearance in the 1956 league season where they were allowed to also enter their youth team called Beijing Youth B who actually went on to win the league title while Beijing came sixth that season.[5] The club would rectify this the following seasons when they went out and won the 1957 as well as the 1958 league titles.[6] With these results the club would become a major force within Chinese football and with the clubs youth team still participating within the top tier there was a constant supply of players coming into the team to fight for places. Being China's capital city and for their success on the field the club would become a feeder team for the Chinese national football team until 1966 when the Chinese Cultural Revolution halted football within the country. When football returned back to the country Beijing would win the re-established 1973 league title.[7] While Beijing were once again established as major title contenders they couldn't actually win anything until 1982 league title, which was then followed by the 1984 league title and 1985 Chinese FA Cup title. After this period the club would actually start to decline in their performances and were actually relegated for the first time at the end of the 1988 league season, however their time within the second tier was short lived and they won the division title and promotion at the end of the 1990 league season.[8] In total Beijing would have won the league title six times during the old Chinese National Football League era before the club realised full professionalism in 1992.
Beijing Guoan Football Club was formed on December 31, 1992, as a result of the Chinese football reform. The club was set up by the CITIC Guoan Group and the Beijing Municipal Sports Committee.[9] In 2003, the club signed an endorsement contract with Beijing Hyundai Motor Company and the adult men's football team of the club changed its name to Beijing Hyundai Motor Football Team. The contract ended in early 2006 and the team's original name was restored.
The Team finished in second place of the Jia A (Top Chinese Football League before the forming of Chinese Super League) in 1995 and third place in 1997, 1998 and 2002. The team also entered the final game of China FA Cup 5 times and won the tournament 3 times. The team produced a number of star players of Chinese football including the current Energie Cottbus forward Shao Jiayi and former Eintracht Frankfurt striker Yang Chen. The team hired Liobu Petrovic, former head coach of Red Star Belgrade, as head coach during the 2002 and 2003 seasons.
The club sold a part of its ownership to Real Madrid in 2006, hoping to achieve better popularity and results. Due to renovation for the 2008 Summer Olympics, Beijing Guoan moved to new home stadium, the Fengtai Sports Center for three years. In 2009, the club is coming back to its previous home stadium, Workers Stadium.
The club entered a car in Superleague Formula in 2008, winning the inaugural motor racing championship.
Beijing made a good start to the 2009 season, challenging near the top of the Chinese Super League, though they crashed out of the AFC Champions League at the group stage.
It was announced in May that the team would be taking part in the Premier League Asia Trophy during the summer of 2009.[10] Beijing will be hosting the competition, in which Hull City, Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United will also be competing.
On October 31, 2009 Beijing Guoan beat Hangzhou Nabel Greentown F.C. 4-0 and won their first Chinese Super League champions ever. Also, they became the 5th team who won Chinese Super League champions.
Shanghai Shenhua is the most notable rival of Beijing Guoan. These two clubs are based in 2 biggest cities in China. The 'National Derby' is the most historic rivalry in professional Chinese football league since 1994.
League rankings before 1993
| Season | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1973 | 1974 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 |
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| Division | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Position | 6 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 4 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1[1] | 2 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 2[2] | 1 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
no league game in 1959, 1966–72, 1975;
FA Cup results before 1995
| Season | 1956 | 1960 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 |
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| Results | 3 | Quali. Round | 5 | Champions | Runners-Up | Semifinals | Semifinals | Quarterfinals |
Since December 31, 1992, as Beijing Guoan
| Season | Competition | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts | Rank | Manager |
| 1993 | Jia A | 12 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 18 | 14 | 12 | 3 | Tang Pengju |
| 1994 | Jia A | 22 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 42 | 34 | 22 | 8 | |
| 1995 | Jia A | 22 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 36 | 20 | 42 | Runners-Up | Jin Zhiyang |
| FA Cup | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 3 | - | Semifinals | ||
| 1996 | Jia A | 22 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 30 | 25 | 33 | 4 | |
| FA Cup | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 7 | - | Champions | ||
| 1997 | Jia A | 22 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 34 | 20 | 34 | 3 | |
| FA Cup | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 4 | - | Champions | ||
| ACWC 97/98 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 | - | to Semifinals | ||
| Super Cup | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | Runners-Up | ||
| 1998 | Jia A | 26 | 10 | 13 | 3 | 32 | 19 | 43 | 3 | Shen Xiangfu |
| FA Cup | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | - | Quarterfinals | ||
| ACWC 97/98 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | - | 3 | ||
| ACWC 98/99 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | - | Second Round | ||
| Super Cup | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | - | Champions | ||
| 1999 | Jia A | 26 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 38 | 25 | 36 | 6 | |
| FA Cup | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | - | Quarterfinals | ||
| 2000 | Jia A | 26 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 38 | 32 | 35 | 6 | Milovan Đorić (released on April 5) Wei Kexing |
| FA Cup | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 12 | - | Runners-Up | ||
| 2001 | Jia A | 26 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 30 | 33 | 33 | 8 | Wei Kexing |
| FA Cup | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7 | - | Runners-Up | ||
| 2002 | Jia A | 28 | 15 | 7 | 6 | 49 | 29 | 52 | 3 | Ljupko Petrović |
| FA Cup | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | - | Second Round | ||
| 2003 | Jia A | 28 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 34 | 26 | 36 | 9 | Jose Carlos de Oliveira(resigned on April 11) Ljupko Petrović(resigned on October 4) Yang Zuwu |
| FA Cup | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 5 | - | Champions | ||
| 2004 | CSL | 22 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 35 | 33 | 28 | 7 | Wei Kexing |
| FA Cup | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | - | Second Round | ||
| CSL Cup | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | - | First Round | ||
| Super Cup | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | - | Champions | ||
| 2005 | CSL | 26 | 12 | 4 | 10 | 46 | 32 | 40 | 6 | Shen Xiangfu |
| FA Cup | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 10 | - | Semifinals | ||
| CSL Cup | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | - | Quarterfinals | ||
| 2006 | CSL | 28 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 27 | 16 | 49 | 3 | |
| FA Cup | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | - | Second Round | ||
| 2007 | CSL | 28 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 45 | 19 | 54 | Runners-Up | Lee Jang-Soo |
| 2008 | CSL | 30 | 16 | 10 | 4 | 44 | 27 | 58 | 3 | |
| ACL | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 12 | Group Stage | ||
| 2009 | CSL | 30 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 48 | 28 | 51 | Champions | Lee Jang-Soo(released on September 16) Hong Yuanshuo |
| ACL | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | Group Stage |
As of 29 March 2011[11]
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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| Position | Staff |
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| Head coach | Jaime Pacheco |
| Assistant coaches | Luis Diogo Khadim Faye Xie Feng |
| Goalkeeping coach | Li Lixin |
| Fitness coach | Xue Shen |
| Team physicians | Shuang Yin Zhang Yang |
Source: Sina.com
Branko Jelić (2005)
Jorge Luis Campos (1997)
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