The Beijing Royal Fighters () are a Chinese professional men's

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team which is based in

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and plays in the Northern Division of the

Chinese Basketball Association The Chinese Basketball Association (), often abbreviated as the CBA, is the first-tier men's professional basketball league in China. The league is commonly known by fans as the CBA, and this acronym is even used in Chinese on a regular basis ...

(CBA). Beijing BG (known in Chinese as 北京控股) is the club's corporate sponsor.

History

The franchise was founded in 2009 in

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and spent its first five seasons of existence competing in the lower levels of China's basketball league system. The team relocated to

Chongqing ChongqingPostal Romanization, Previously romanized as Chungking ();. is a direct-administered municipality in Southwestern China. Chongqing is one of the four direct-administered municipalities under the State Council of the People's Republi ...

in 2012. The club entered the CBA in the 2014–15 season as an expansion team and finished at the bottom of the league standings with a record of 4–34. In September 2015, the club relocated again and was initially renamed Beijing BG,重庆翱龙正式变更为北京控股男篮
but to avoid confusion with the city's

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team, which is also called Beijing BG, as well as to avoid confusion with the Beijing Ducks when only the geographical names of the clubs are used, a large number of Chinese sports websites refer to the team as the Beikong Fly Dragons.

Current roster

Honours

Seri Mutiara Cup champion 2017

References

External links

Beijing Royal Fighters on Weibo.com
{{Chinese Basketball Association Chinese Basketball Association teams Sport in Chongqing 2009 establishments in Beijing Basketball teams established in 2009 National Basketball League (China) former teams