Hunan Shoking Football Club () was a professional

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club based in

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, and participated in the

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division under licence from the

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(CFA), after taking over

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's place in the league before the 2014 season, but was relegated and dissolved after spending three seasons there.

History

Before the start of the 2004 Chinese football league season,

annexed

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and took over their place in

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. A new club, Hunan Shoking F.C., was formed by Hunan Corun New Energy Co. Ltd. () by merging existing two amateur teams already representing

, Yiyang Corun and Hunan Wuqiang Hongdao, to take over

's spot in

by buying the club's registration into the division for 20 million Yuan. On January 15, 2004, the club was inaugurated into the Chinese football league. They hired former Chinese

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as their chairman and former Chinese international footballer

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as their first manager. Playing in the 55,000-seat

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, the club had international players –

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and

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– while the youth team called

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participated in the

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to gain experience. Although the youth team had limited success, the senior team fared little better and struggled in their debut season by finishing tenth at the end. The following season was extremely difficult for the club,

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came in as manager but had an extremely high-profile dispute with the owners about unpaid wages. It was soon discovered that the club were in financial difficulties due to an excessive wage bill for their players along with renting of Helong Stadium. The ownership of the club moved to the company Bailong and their general manager Sun Yingui for a brief period. However this was short-lived and Hunan Corun took over the club again. While this was going on Li Hui was managing the side with little success. He and his players reached a breaking point after a humiliating 5–1 defeat to Shanghai Yungtay on June 18, 2005, in a

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game. Li Hui publicly criticized his players' lack of commitment before deciding to leave the club. Wang Tao was brought in as his replacement to manage the club. The team finished in a disappointing twelfth but remained in the league. Li Kejia was brought in as a new manager in the 2006 league season, but was unable to stop the losing streak of the club in the new season, to the point when former Chinese international

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was brought in as a General manager to help with the team. This turned out to be fruitless and the club finished at the bottom of the league, relegated to the third tier, and the club was dissolved soon afterwards.

Managerial history

15 January 2004 – 27 November 2004 * Xie Yuxin 21 December 2004 – 1 February 2005 *

14 February 2005 – 29 April 2005 * Li Hui 10 May 2005 – 27 June 2005 *

(caretaker) 27–30 June 2005 * Wang Tao 30 June–24 July 2005 * Xu Zhengyin 1 August–November 2005 *

24 November 2005 – 1 May 2006 * Wang Shihai (caretaker) 1 May-11 July 2006 * Li Kejia 11 July-28 October 2006

Results

All-time league rankings

References

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