Suzhou Trips F.C.

Suzhou Trips
苏州趣普仕
Full name Suzhou Trips FC
苏州趣普仕派尔劲足球俱乐部
Founded January, 2004
Dissolved 2009
Ground Suzhou City Stadium,
Suzhou, China
(Capacity: 30,000)
Chairman Guan Minghua
Manager Zhu Mingliang
League China Yi League
2007 6th, Southern Group
Home colours
Away colours

Suzhou Trips (Simplified Chinese: 苏州趣普仕) is a former Chinese football club based in Suzhou, Jiangsu who played in the Suzhou City Stadium. Founded on January, 2004 the club entered the at bottom of the Chinese football league pyramid where they stayed throughout their entire existence. The club brought in former Asian Footballer of the Year winner Fan Zhiyi as their technical director to raise their profile and performances of the club, however this ended up being highly disruptive and caused the club to get into debt.[1] In their hopes to win promotion they would merge with another third tier club Zhenjiang Groupway FC and then this would following with another merging with Ningbo Huaao football club at the beginning of the 2010 league season.[2]

Contents

Results

All-Time League rankings

Season 2005 2006 2007 2008
Division 3 3 3 3
Position 81 81 61 51

See also

References

  1. ^ http://news.nen.com.cn/72344609522450432/20070825/2297485.shtml
  2. ^ http://sports.sina.com.cn/c/2008-02-20/10163482856.shtml

External links

North Division
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South Division
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