Zhuhai Qin'ao Football Club () was a professional Chinese

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club that participated in the

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. The team was based in

Hengqin Hengqin (, ) is an island that lies mostly in Zhuhai, a prefecture-level city and special economic zone in Guangdong Province of the People's Republic of China. It has a population of about 3,000. Parts of Hengqin are leased to Macau by the S ...

Zhuhai Zhuhai; Yale romanization of Cantonese, Yale: ''Jyūhói''; Chinese postal romanization, also known as Chuhai is a prefecture-level city located on the west bank of the Pearl River (China), Pearl River estuary on the central coast of southern ...

Guangdong ) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...

History

Beijing Land Tiger F.C. was founded on 8 January 2005 in

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. In 2016, the club changed their name to Beijing City United F.C. In 2021, they moved to the

district of

and changed their name to Zhuhai Qin'ao F.C. The club participated in

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in 2021 and was promoted to

. In June 2022, the club changed its Chinese name.

Name history

*2005–2015 Beijing Land Tiger F.C. () *2016–2020 Beijing City United F.C. () *2021– Zhuhai Qin'ao F.C. ()

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