Inner Mongolia Zhongyou F.C.


Inner Mongolia Zhongyou Football Club, commonly referred to as Hohhot, is a professional Chinese football club that participates in the China League One division under licence from the Chinese Football Association. The team is based in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia and their home stadium is the 51,632 capacity Hohhot City Stadium. Their majority shareholders are the Hohhot Sports Bureau and Shanghai Zhongyou Real Estate Group.

History

On 8 October 2011 Shanxi Jiayi football club was officially established by the Shanghai Zhongyou Real Estate Group who formed a senior team predominantly comprised from players from the Taiyuan University of Technology. With the aid of the Sports Bureau of Shanxi Province a youth team and women's team was also established and the Shanxi Sports Centre Stadium was chosen to be the club's home ground. They registered to play within the third tier of the Chinese football league system in the 2012 league season while the club chose white shirts and black shorts as their home uniform. In their debut season they however decided to move to the artificial turf ground Wanbailin Stadium and later Taiyuan Institute of Electrical Engineering Stadium to play their home games. On the field the club made their debut in the 2012 Chinese FA Cup where they were knocked out in the first round by Shanghai Pudong Zobon F.C. 3–1 while in their first season they finished ninth within their group.
The club owners decided not to compete within the 2013 league season after a disappointing debut campaign. Wang Bo replaced Wu Jianwen as the club's manager and the team went through an extensive rebuilding process in preparation for the 2014 league season as well as changing the club's name to Taiyuan Zhongyou Jiayi. The rebuilding process would be a big success and the club would come runners-up within the league to Jiangxi Liansheng F.C. that saw them gain promotion to the second tier for the first time. Despite the promotion the club officially admitted the financial difficulties required with the higher level of professionalism and would consider relocating the team to gain the necessary investment.
On 5 January 2015 the Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Government Information Office held a press conference to announce that the Hohhot Sports Bureau would be investing and relocating the team to their city, which resulted in the name change of Nei Mongol Zhongyou.

Name history

As of 7 March 2019

Reserve squad

As of 5 March 2019

Out on loan

Coaching staff

Managerial history

All-time league rankings
As of the end of 2018 season.
YearDivPtsPos.FA CupSuper CupAFCAtt./GStadium
201232484123136−5289R1DNQDNQ715Wanbailin Stadium/Taiyuan IEE Stadium
2014319116230102033RUDNEDNQDNQ2,500Shanxi Sports Centre Stadium
20152301271138326436R3DNQDNQ18,238Hohhot City Stadium
20162301251337352417R3DNQDNQ9,468Hohhot City Stadium
201723098134047−73510R4DNQDNQ7,656Hohhot City Stadium
2018230104163654−183413R3DNQDNQ5,553Hohhot City Stadium
2019230DNQDNQHohhot City Stadium

Shanxi Jiayi did not compete in 2013.
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