Suzhou Dongwu F.C.

Suzhou Dongwu Football Club (Chinese: 苏州东吴足球俱乐部; pinyin: Sūzhōu Dōngwú Zúqiú Jùlèbù) is a Chinese professional football club based in Suzhou, Jiangsu, that competes in China League One, the second tier of Chinese football. Suzhou Dongwu plays its home matches at the Suzhou Sports Center, located within Gusu District.

Suzhou Dongwu
Sūzhōu Dōngwú
苏州东吴

Full name	Suzhou Dongwu Football Club 苏州东吴足球俱乐部
Founded	29 May 2008; 17 years ago (2008-05-29)
Ground	Suzhou Sports Center
Capacity	35,000
Chairman	Yu Shichang
Manager	Sergio Zarco Díaz
League	China League One
2024	China League One, 7th of 16
Home colours Away colours

History

The club was established on 29 May 2008 as an amateur club named Suzhou Jinfu F.C. (Simplified Chinese: 苏州锦富). They are among the most successful amateur football clubs in the country, which have won China Amateur Football League in 2012 and, after changing their name to Suzhou Dongwu, again in 2015^[1]–––the latter of which would earn them promotion to 2016 China League Two.^[2] At the beginning of the 2018 league season the club would change the team's crest and colours from yellow to red with black stripes.^[3]

In the 2019 China League Two season the club finished fourth and despite this not being enough to gain promotion, China League One side Sichuan Longfor disbanded due to financial problems and Suzhou were promoted to the 2020 China League One.^[4]

Name history

• 2008–2014 Suzhou Jinfu F.C. 苏州锦富
• 2015– Suzhou Dongwu F.C. 苏州东吴

Crest history

• 
  Suzhou Jinfu logo used between 2008 and 2014
• 
  Suzhou Dongwu logo used in 2015
• 
  Suzhou Dongwu logo used between 2016 and 2017
• 
  Suzhou Dongwu logo used since 2018

Players

Current squad

As of July 2025^[5]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  CHN Liu Yu 3 DF  CHN Jiang Zhixin (on loan from Shanghai Shenhua) 4 DF  CHN Wen Da 5 DF  CHN Xu Wu 6 MF  ANG Estrela 8 FW  CHN Gao Dalun 9 FW  CPV Carlos Fortes 10 MF  CHN Zhang Lingfeng 11 DF  CHN Zhang Jingzhe 14 DF  CHN Yuan Junjie (on loan from Shenzhen Peng City) 16 MF  CHN Jin Shang 17 DF  CHN Bao Shimeng (on loan from Shanghai Port) 18 MF  CHN Liang Weipeng 19 FW  CHN Wu Junjie 20 MF  CHN Fan Xulin (on loan from Hubei Istar)

No. Pos. Nation Player 21 GK  CHN Li Xinyu 22 DF  SRB Aleksandar Andrejević 23 DF  CHN Wen Junjie 25 MF  CHN Dilyimit Tudi (on loan from Changchun Yatai) 26 DF  CHN Hu Jing 29 MF  CHN Chen Ao 31 DF  CHN Wang Yifan (on loan from Shanghai Shenhua) 33 DF  CHN Liu Tao 37 GK  CHN Askhan 39 FW  CHN Liu Yue (on loan from Wuhan Three Towns) 42 MF  CHN Ghenifa Arafat 45 MF  CHN Zhou Dadi

Coaching staff

Position	Staff
Head coach	Sergio Zarco Díaz
Assistant coach	Zhu Gufeng

Source: CFA

Managerial history

• Tang Bo (2012–2016)
• Kazuo Uchida (2017–2018)
• Liu Junwei (2019–2020)^[6]
• Gary White (2020–2022)
• Lu Bofei (2022-2023)
• Niu Hongli (2023)
• Kim Dae-eui (2024-2025)
• Sergio Zarco Díaz (2025-)

Results

All-time league rankings

As of the end of 2018 season.^[7]

Year	Div	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Pos.	FA Cup	Super Cup	AFC	Att./G	Stadium
2012	4									W	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
2013	4									10	R1	DNQ	DNQ
2014	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	-	–	R4	DNQ	DNQ		Kunshan Sports Centre Stadium
2015	4									W	R2	DNQ	DNQ		Suzhou University Stadium
2016	3	20	4	7	9	12	20	−8	19	14	R2	DNQ	DNQ	728	Kunshan Sports Centre Stadium
2017	3	24	12	5	7	28	16	12	41	11	R4	DNQ	DNQ	1,115	Suzhou Sports Center
2018	3	28	10	10	8	27	31	−4	40	12	R4	DNQ	DNQ	2,062
2019	3	30	21	4	5	54	17	37	67	4	R1	DNQ	DNQ
2020	2	15	4	3	8	12	20	-8	15	10	R2	DNQ	DNQ
2021	2	34	7	11	16	36	53	-17	32	13	R3	DNQ	DNQ
2022	2	34	16	7	11	42	33	9	55	6	R3	DNQ	DNQ		Suzhou Olympic Sports Centre

Key

China top division   China second division   China third division   China fourth division W   Winners RU   Runners-up 3   Third place   Relegated

Pld = Played W = Games won D = Games drawn L = Games lost F = Goals for A = Goals against Pts = Points Pos = Final position

DNQ = Did not qualify DNE = Did not enter NH = Not Held  – = Does Not Exist R1 = Round 1 R2 = Round 2 R3 = Round 3 R4 = Round 4

F = Final SF = Semi-finals QF = Quarter-finals R16 = Round of 16 Group = Group stage GS2 = Second Group stage QR1 = First Qualifying Round QR2 = Second Qualifying Round QR3 = Third Qualifying Round