Suzhou Trips Football Club () is a former
Chinese
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football
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club based in
Suzhou
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,
Jiangsu
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who played in the
Suzhou Sports Center
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. Founded in January, 2004 the club entered at the bottom of the Chinese football league pyramid where they stayed throughout their entire existence. The club brought in former
Asian Footballer of the Year winner
Fan Zhiyi
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as their technical director to raise their profile and performances of the club, however this ended up being highly disruptive and caused the club to get into debt. In their hopes to win promotion they would merge with another third-tier club
Zhenjiang Groupway FC and then this would following with another merging with
Ningbo Huaao football club at the beginning of the 2010 league season.
Results
*As of the end of 2009 season
All-Time League rankings
*: in group stage
See also
*
Zhenjiang Groupway FC
*
Ningbo Huaao
References
External links
* https://web.archive.org/web/20070325044951/http://www.sztripsfootball.com/
Football clubs in China
Sport in Jiangsu
Defunct football clubs in China
Association football clubs established in 2004
Association football clubs disestablished in 2009
2004 establishments in China
2009 disestablishments in China
Football clubs in Suzhou
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