Jiangsu F.C.
| Full name | Jiangsu Football Club 江苏足球俱乐部 | ||
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| Founded | 1958 (semi-professional) 28 March 1994 (professional) | ||
| Dissolved | 28 February 2021 | ||
| Ground | Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China PR | ||
| Capacity | 61,443 | ||
| 2020 | Super League, 1st of 16 (champions) | ||
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| Traditional Chinese | 江蘇足球俱樂部 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 江苏足球俱乐部 | ||||||
| Literal meaning | Jiangsu Football Club | ||||||
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Jiangsu Football Club (Chinese: 江苏足球俱乐部) was a Chinese professional football club based in Nanjing, Jiangsu, most known for their spell in the Chinese Super League from 2009 to 2020. Their home stadium was the Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre. The club was previously known as Jiangsu Sainty F.C. from 2000 to 2016 and Jiangsu Suning F.C. from 2016 to 2021. The club's last owner was Suning Appliance Group, a sister company of Suning.com.
The team was founded in 1958 as Jiangsu Provincial Team. The modern professional football club was established in March 1994, and was one of the founding members of the first fully professional top-flight league in China participating in the 1994 Chinese Jia-A League season. It faced relegation in that campaign, but the team went on to win promotion back into the top-flight at the end of the 2008 league season.
The 2020 Chinese Super League saw the club win their first, and only, top-flight championship: three months later, the club was dissolved.