Hunan Shoking F.C.
Chinese football club
Hunan Shoking Football Club (simplified Chinese: 湖南湘军; traditional Chinese: 湖南湘軍; pinyin: Húnán Xiāngjūn) was a professional Chinese football club based in Changsha, Hunan Province, and participated in the China League One division under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA), after taking over Chongqing Lifan'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, Chongqing Lifan annexed Yunnan Hongta and took over their place in Chinese Super League. A new club, Hunan Shoking F.C., was formed by Hunan Corun New Energy Co. Ltd. (湖南科力远新能源有限公司) by merging existing two amateur teams already representing Hunan Province, Yiyang Corun and Hunan Wuqiang Hongdao, to take over Chongqing Lifan's spot in China League One 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 Olympic medalist Xiong Ni as their chairman and former Chinese international footballer Zhu Bo as their first manager. Playing in the 55,000-seat Helong Stadium in Changsha, the club had international players – Fu Bin and Srđan Bajčetić – while the youth team called Xiangxue Pharmaceutical participated in the 2004–05 Hong Kong First Division League 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, Miloš Hrstić came in as manager but had an extremely high-profile dispute with the owners about unpaid wages.
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