Beijing Enterprises Group F.C.

Full name	Beijing Enterprises Group Football Club 北京控股足球俱乐部
Founded	2004 (2004)
Ground	Olympic Sports Centre (Beijing)
Ground Capacity	36,228
Chairman	Yang Junsheng (杨俊生)
Manager	Gao Hongbo
League	China League One
2016	League One, 8th
Home colours Away colours

Beijing Enterprises Group Football Club (Chinese: 北京控股; pinyin: Běijīng Kònggǔ) or commonly known as BG (Chinese: 北控; pinyin: Běi Kòng), is a professional Chinese football club that currently participates in the China League One division under license from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team is based in Beijing and their home stadium is the Olympic Sports Center (Beijing) that has a seating capacity of 36,228. Their current majority shareholder is the conglomerate Beijing Enterprises Holdings Limited.

History

Beijing Enterprises Group F.C. was founded as Beijing Baxy F.C. in 2004 by former Chinese footballers Guo Weiwei, Wang Tao and Guo Weijian as an amateur football club.^[1] By 2009 the club's youth team were considered good enough to take part in professional football and the club entered the third tier of Chinese football at the beginning of the 2009 China League Two season. Within their first professional campaign Wang Tao was their Chairman who brought in Cao Xiandong to manage the team. The players wore white tops, black bottoms, white socks for the home kits and blue tops, white bottoms, dark blue socks for their away kit.^[2] After a promising start to the campaign that saw them lead the table within the group stage the club ultimately finished third in the play-off and just missed out of promotion to the second division.^[3] After failure to win promotion from the previous season the club decided to take over financially struggling China League One side Beijing Hongdeng and took over their position within the league at the beginning of the 2010 league season.^[4] In Beijing Baxy's first season in the second tier, they were given a 6-point deduction due to Beijing Hongdeng's late payment of wages for Rajko Vidović in the 2007 season.^[5]

Beijing Baxy finished the 15th of 16 teams in the 2012 season and was supposed to relegate to China League Two; however, they were spared from relegation due to Dalian Shide's dissolvation. On 26 February 2013, Croatian manager Goran Tomić was officially announced as the new coach of the club.^[6] After signing some high level players such as Stephen Makinwa, Lucian Goian, Ryan Griffiths and Hu Zhaojun, Beijing Baxy finished historic high record of 7th place if the 2013 season. Beijing Baxy had a 21-match-unbeaten (8 wins and 13 draws) start in the 2014 season. They remained the hope of promotion until the last round and eventually finished in 4th place. Goran Tomić won China League One Coach of the Year award in December 2014.

On 25 December 2014, Beijing Enterprises Holdings Limited bought majority shares of the club and the club name was changed into Beijing Enterprises Group F.C.^[7] They would also change the club's badge and home kit from all white to blue and red as well as bring in former Beijing Guoan manager Aleksandar Stanojević on 12 January 2015 on a three-year contract with the club.^[8]

On 30 December 2016, the team officially sacked Aleksandar Stanojević, and signed Yasen Petrov as their new manager.^[9] On 5 June 2017, Beijing Enterprise player, Cheick Tioté died after suffering a heart attack during training at the age of 30. The club retired Tioté's number 24 shirt on 24 June 2017.

On 23 June 2017, in the pre-match media conference, team manager Gao Hongbo announced that team has signed former Everton and Sunderland forward Victor Anichebe as a free agent.

Name history

• 2004–2014 Beijing Baxy 北京八喜
• 2015– Beijing Enterprises Group F.C. 北京控股

Crest history

• 
  Beijing Baxy
  2009–2010
• 
  Beijing Baxy
  2011–2014
• 
  Beijing BG
  2015–

Grounds

The home ground of Beijing Baxi FC was the Chaoyang Sports Centre which is located on Yaojiayuan Road No. 77 in the Chaoyang District. The stadium was used during the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the grounds also incorporate a golf driving range, equestrian shop, baseball venue, indoor tennis, and training pitches.^[10] Baxy do not train at this venue, but amateur football club Forbidden City Football Club often play weekend matches at the pitches located directly behind the main stadium. Beijing BG moved their home stadium to Olympic Sports Centre (Beijing) in 2015.

Current squad

As of 3 March 2017 ^[11]

First team squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Dong Lei 3 DF Liu Yi 4 MF Zhang Junzhe 5 DF Tang Jiashu 6 MF Wang Changqing 7 DF Jin Hui 8 MF Wang Jianwen 9 FW Rubin Okotie 10 MF Chen Hao-wei 11 FW Victor Anichebe 12 FW Wen Chih-hao 14 FW Leke James 16 MF Yu Tao 17 DF Xu Dong 19 FW Li Xiang

No. Position Player 20 MF Xu Borui 21 MF Bu Xin 22 GK Liu Tianxin 23 DF Yao Liang 25 MF Chen Shuo 26 DF Cui Zhongkai 27 FW Zou Zhongting 28 MF Song Yi 29 GK Dong Hengyi 31 MF Yan Xiangchuang 32 DF Wang Cun 33 DF Liu Bin 39 GK Li Yihe 56 DF Wang Haitao 60 DF Wang Junming

Reserve squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 13 DF Peng Xinbin 15 DF Yang Guiyan 45 DF Wang Zihao 46 MF Liu Bo 47 MF Yang Yun 50 DF Wu Wenguang 52 DF Jia Hongnian 53 MF Sun Chaofan 54 FW Su Jianhu

No. Position Player 55 MF Zhang Sheng 57 GK Yang Fan 58 DF Zhu Xiaojian 59 MF Wang Wen'an 65 DF Qin Cheng (on loan from Torreense) 66 MF Zhao Fengxiang 67 MF Fu Shang 68 DF Zhang Shengbin 69 DF Wu Shaocong

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 43 MF Han Yi (at Hunan Billows until Dec 31, 2017) 51 FW Gong Zheng (at Beijing BIT until Dec 31, 2017)

Retired numbers

24 – Cheick Tioté, Midfielder, 2017 posthumous. The number was retired in June 2017.^[12]

Coaching staff

Position	Staff
Head coach	Gao Hongbo
Team Manager	Tang Pengju
Assistant coaches	Aleksandar Kristić Goran Pandurović Branimir Mićović
Fitness coach	Cui Enlang
Team Physician	Xiao Bin

Managerial history

Only League matches are counted.

Name	From	To	Pld	W	D	L	Notes
Xu Hui	2009	2009	15	8	3	4
Cao Xiandong	2010	2010	24	10	4	10
Piet Demol	2011	2011	5	1	1	3
Cao Xiandong	2011	2011	21	6	8	7
Cui Enlang	2012	2012	15	3	2	10
Gai Zengjun	2012	2012	4	1	1	2
Cao Xiandong Wang Tao	2012	2012	11	4	4	3
Goran Tomić	2013	2014	60	25	21	14	2014 Chinese League One Manager of the Year
Aleksandar Stanojević	2015	2016	60	28	13	19
Yasen Petrov	2017	2017	6	0	1	5
Gao Hongbo	2017		9	6	0	3

Results

All-time League Rankings

• As of the end of 2016 season.^[13][14]

• ^1 in group stage ^2 6-point deduction for late payment of wages

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