Chongqing Lifan

Football club infobox
clubname = Chongqing Lifan
重庆力帆


fullname = Chongqing Lifan Football Club
重庆之窗&重庆力帆足球俱乐部
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founded = 19 August, 2000
as "Chongqing Lifan"
ground = Datianwan Stadium
capacity = 32,000
chairman = flagicon|CHN Yin Mingshan 尹明善
manager = flagicon|CHN Wei Xin 魏新
league = China Jia League
season = 2007
position = 4th
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Chongqing Lifan, previously named Vanguard Huandao and Chongqing Qiche, is a former Chinese Super League club owned by Chongqing Lifan Group, which manufactures motorcycles, cars and spare parts. They play at the Chongqing Olympic Sports Center Stadium in Chongqing and their Head Coach is Wei Xin.

History

Merge with Yunnan Hongta

"see also Yunnan Hongta"

In 2003 Chongqing Lifan was relegated and the club decided to buy Yunnan Hongta with the merger allowing the club to remain in the top devision. The former Chongqing Lifan team became the new formed Hunan Xiangjun club that was relegated from the second division Jia League.

Despite finishing bottom for both the first and the second season of the CSL, they still participated in the 2006 season as relegation had been cancelled for the first two seasons. However, in 2006, they finished last again and were finally relegated for 2007. Their best ever finish in the old First Division was fourth.

As recently as 2002, Chongqing Lifan participated in Asian Cup Winner's Cup, but lost to Al Sadd. Anyang Cheetahs defeated Chongqing in the previous year. Wei Xin was Chongqing's best player.

Name changes

*-1995 Qianwei (Vanguard) FC 前卫俱乐部
*1996-1998 Qianwei (Vanguard) Huandao 前卫寰岛
*1999-2000 Chongqing Longxin 重庆隆鑫
*2000-2002 Chongqing Lifan 重庆力帆
*2003 Chongqing Lifan Xinganjue 重庆力帆新感觉
*2004 Chongqing Qiche 重庆汽车
*2005-current Chongqing Lifan 重庆力帆

Honours

*Chinese FA Cup 2000
*Jia B Champions 1996

Current squad

"As of 14 April, 2008"

External links

http://www.lifanfc.com/