Guangdong GZ-Power Football Club, commonly known as GZ-Power FC, is a Chinese professional

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club based in

Guangzhou Guangzhou, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Guangdong Provinces of China, province in South China, southern China. Located on the Pearl River about nor ...

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, that competes in . Guangdong GZ-Power plays its home matches at the

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, located within

Yuexiu District Yuexiu District is one of 11 urban districts and the seat of the prefecture-level city of Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong Province, China, located west of the Tianhe District and east of the Liwan District. It is the commercial, politic ...

. Founded in 2023 as Guangzhou E-Power Football Club, the club changed to its current name in 2024.

History

Guangzhou E-Power were registered as a football club on 23 March 2023 by the Guangzhou Automobile Industry Group and seven other

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. However, the club were not officially founded until 20 May 2023, when it hosted its formation ceremony at

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. On 11 April 2023, Guangzhou E-Power appointed Li Bing as manager for the first-team in preparation for the 2023 CMCL season, in the fourth tier of Chinese football, and he was appointed with a vision to win promotion to

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Between 22 May and 31 May 2023, Guangzhou E-Power served as the host for the CMCL regionals group in the cities of

and

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, in which the club succeeded in as they grabbed a spot in the final round with a win over Macau side

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in the qualifying round. Guangzhou E-Power were drawn into group B in the final round, a group which consisted of clubs like Langfang Glory City and Binzhou Huilong. Guangzhou E-Power finished second in the group, but lost to Binzhou Huilong in the promotion play-offs. On 6 February 2024, it was announced by the

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that Guangzhou E-Power were promoted to

, the Chinese third-tier, after the dissolutions of sufficient teams above them in the Chinese football pyramid. On 4 March 2024, the club changed their name to Guangdong GZ-Power Football Club. In the 2024 season, GZ-Power won the season's

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title.

Players

Current squad

Honours

**Winner (1):

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

Notes

References

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