Suzhou Dongwu
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Wikipedia - Suzhou Dongwu F.C.
Suzhou Dongwu Football Club (Chinese: 苏州东吴足球俱乐部) is a Chinese professional football club based in Suzhou, Jiangsu, that competes in China League One, the second tier of Chinese football. Suzhou Dongwu primarily plays its home matches at the Suzhou Olympic Sports Center Stadium, located within Suzhou Industrial Park.
History
The club was established on 29 May 2008 as an amateur club named Suzhou Jinfu F.C. (Simplified Chinese: 苏州锦富). They are among the most successful amateur football clubs in the country, which have won China Amateur Football League in 2012 and, after changing their name to Suzhou Dongwu, again in 2015–––the latter of which would earn them promotion to 2016 China League Two. At the beginning of the 2018 league season the club would change the team's crest and colours from yellow to red with black stripes.
In the 2019 China League Two season the club finished fourth and despite this not being enough to gain promotion, China League One side Sichuan Longfor disbanded due to financial problems and Suzhou were promoted to the 2020 China League One.
Suzhou Dongwu powstał w 2017 roku jako klub satelicki Jiangsu Suning, ale stał się niezależnym klubem w grudniu 2020 roku, po tym jak Jiangsu Suning został rozwiązany z powodu problemów finansowych. Klub rozgrywa swoje mecze domowe na Stadionie Olimpijskim w Suzhou.
Suzhou Dongwu awansowało do China League One w 2021 roku po wygraniu tytułu China League Two. W swoim pierwszym sezonie w League One klub zajął 13. miejsce.
Najlepszymi zawodnikami Suzhou Dongwu są chińscy napastnicy Wu Lei i Lu Wenjun, a także brazylijski pomocnik Renan Oliveira.