Suzhou Trips F.C.

Suzhou Trips Football Club (simplified Chinese: 苏州趣普仕; traditional Chinese: 蘇州趣普仕; pinyin: Sūzhōu Qùpǔshì) is a former Chinese football club based in Suzhou, Jiangsu who played in the Suzhou Sports Center. 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 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.^[1] 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.^[2]

Suzhou Trips
Sūzhōu Qùpǔshì
苏州趣普仕

Full name	Suzhou Trips FC 苏州趣普仕派尔劲足球俱乐部
Founded	January 2004; 21 years ago (January 2004)
Dissolved	2009; 16 years ago (2009)
Ground	Suzhou Sports Center, Suzhou, China
Capacity	30,000
Chairman	Guan Minghua
Manager	Zhu Mingliang
League	China Yi League
2007	6th, Southern Group
Home colours Away colours

Results

• As of the end of 2009 season

All-Time League rankings

Season	2005	2006	2007	2008
Division	3	3	3	3
Position	81	81	61	51

• ^Note 1 : in group stage

See also

• Zhenjiang Groupway FC
• Ningbo Huaao