Sichuan First City F.C.

{{Short description|Chinese football club}} {{Infobox football club | clubname = Sichuan First City | image = SichuanGuancheng.jpg | upright = 0.7 | alt = logo | fullname = Sichuan First City Football Club | nickname = | founded = {{Start date and age|1953}} (Semi Pro)<br> 1993 (Professional) | dissolved = {{Start date and age|2006}} | ground = [[Chengdu Sports Centre]], <br> [[Chengdu]], China | capacity = | league = [[Chinese Super League]] | season = 2005 | position = 9th | pattern_la1=|pattern_b1=_thindarkbluesides|pattern_ra1=| leftarm1=FFD700|body1=FFD700|rightarm1=FFD700|shorts1=FFD700|socks1=FFD700| pattern_la2=|pattern_b2=_thindarkbluesides|pattern_ra2=| leftarm2=3333FF|body2=3333FF|rightarm2=3333FF|shorts2=3333FF|socks2=3333FF| }}

'''Sichuan First City''' ({{zh|c=四川冠城}}) is a defunct Chinese [[Association football|football]] club, which was located in [[Chengdu]], [[Sichuan]] where they played in the [[Chengdu Sports Centre]]. They were founded in 1953 and spent a large part of their history within the top tier of Chinese football until on November 8, 1993, they became a fully professional unit and took part in China's inaugural season of [[Professional sports|professional]] football in the [[Chinese Jia-A League 1994|1994 Chinese Jia-A League]] season.<ref>[http://sports.163.com/special/00051O64/csgc.html 冠城解散] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610195104/http://sports.163.com/special/00051O64/csgc.html |date=2015-06-10 }} at sports.163.com Retrieved 2013-01-18</ref> After being the flagship of western Chinese football the club was sold to the Dahe Group in 2002, however the new owners were found to be under the influence of another Chinese football team [[Dalian Shide]]. Despite the sale of the club to the First City Group in 2003, an investigation by the [[Chinese Football Association]] found them to still be breaking competition rules, and on January 27, 2006, the club were unable to sell the club's remaining Dalian Shide's shares to the [[Sichuan Football Association]] and were forced to disband.

==History== Formed as '''Sichuan Quanxing''' (四川全兴) on 8 November 1993, the football club was the football flagship of western China until Qianwei Huandao (now [[Chongqing Lifan]]) surfaced. In 2002, Sichuan Quanxing was sold to Dahe Group and was renamed '''Sichuan Dahe'''.

However, the Dahe Group was found under the influence of [[Dalian Shide]]. Under the criticism of [[unfair competition]], the team was sold again to the First City Group, renamed '''Sichuan First City''' and finished 9th in the 2004 and 2005 seasons. The sale had not removed the doubt of Dalian Shide influence, however. After an investigation by [[Chinese Football Association]], the club was ordered to remove any relationship with Dalian Shide. The club disbanded on January 27, 2006, because the owner Dalian Shide could not make a deal with the Sichuan Football Association in time.

==Name history== * 1953–1993: '''Sichuan''' 四川 * 1994–2001: '''Sichuan Quanxing F.C.''' 四川全兴 * 2002: '''Sichuan Dahe F.C.''' 四川大河 * 2003–2005: '''Sichuan First City F.C.''' 四川冠城

==Crest history== <gallery> Image:SichuanQuanxing.png|Sichuan Quanxing logo Image:SichuanDahe.png|Sichuan Dahe logo Image:SichuanGuancheng.jpg|Sichuan First City logo </gallery>

==Managerial history== Managers who coached the club and team since Sichuan First City became a professional club in 1993.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.worldfootball.net/teams/te17701/sichuan-guancheng/all-managers/|title=Sichuan Guancheng » Manager history|publisher=worldfootball.net|access-date=2015-11-09|archive-date=2016-03-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305014512/http://www.worldfootball.net/teams/sichuan-guancheng/9/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.sina.com.cn/s/2004-09-13/0643364569s.shtml|title=冠城主帅高惠辰只有遗憾：这是我首场职业联赛啊|publisher=sports.sina.com.cn|date=2004-09-13 |access-date=2018-01-23}}</ref> * {{Flagicon|Croatia}} [[Milos Hrstic]] (1998) * {{Flagicon|China}} [[Chi Shangbin]] (1998) * {{Flagicon|Brazil}} [[Edson Tavares]] (1999) * {{Flagicon|Croatia}} [[Milos Hrstic]] (2000) * {{Flagicon|England}} [[Bob Houghton]] (2001) * {{Flagicon|China}} [[Xu Hong]] (2003–2004) * {{Flagicon|China}} [[Gao Huichen]] (2004–2005)

==Results== ;All-time league rankings<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesc/chinachamp.html|title=List of Chinese football league tables|date=2015-11-05|website=[[RSSSF]]|access-date=2015-11-09|archive-date=2014-07-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140704080845/http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/chinachamp.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:Center" !Season !1960 !1961 !1962 !1963 !1964 !1965 !1973 !1974 !1976 !1977 !1978 !1979 !1980 !1981 !1982 !1983 !1984 !1986 !1987 ![[Chinese Jia-A League 1988|1988]] !1989 !1990 !1991 !1992 !1993 |- |Division |bgcolor=#D0F0C0|1 |bgcolor=#D0F0C0|1 |bgcolor=#D0F0C0|1 |bgcolor=#D0F0C0|1 |2 |2 |bgcolor=#D0F0C0|1 |bgcolor=#D0F0C0|1 |bgcolor=#D0F0C0|1 |bgcolor=#D0F0C0|1 |2 |bgcolor=#D0F0C0|1 |2 |bgcolor=#D0F0C0|1 |bgcolor=#D0F0C0|1 |bgcolor=#D0F0C0|1 |bgcolor=#D0F0C0|1 |2 |2 |bgcolor=#D0F0C0|1 |3 |3 |2 |2 |2 |- |Position |13 |9 |15 |24 |4 |9 |18 |9 |6{{Ref|1|1}} |23 |bgcolor=silver|2 |14 |4 |10 |10 |5{{Ref|2|2}} |8 |bgcolor=orange|3 |9 |19 |7 |bgcolor=silver|2 |8 |4 |5 |}

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: Center;" !Season ![[Chinese Jia-A League 1994|1994]] ![[Chinese Jia-A League 1995|1995]] ![[Chinese Jia-A League 1996|1996]] ![[Chinese Jia-A League 1997|1997]] ![[Chinese Jia-A League 1998|1998]] ![[Chinese Jia-A League 1999|1999]] ![[Chinese Jia-A League 2000|2000]] ![[Chinese Jia-A League 2001|2001]] ![[Chinese Jia-A League 2002|2002]] ![[Chinese Jia-A League 2003|2003]] ![[Chinese Super League 2004|2004]] ![[Chinese Super League 2005|2005]] |- |Division |bgcolor=#D0F0C0|1 |bgcolor=#D0F0C0|1 |bgcolor=#D0F0C0|1 |bgcolor=#D0F0C0|1 |bgcolor=#D0F0C0|1 |bgcolor=#D0F0C0|1 |bgcolor=#D0F0C0|1 |bgcolor=#D0F0C0|1 |bgcolor=#D0F0C0|1 |bgcolor=#D0F0C0|1 |bgcolor=#D0F0C0|1 |bgcolor=#D0F0C0|1 |- |Position |6 |10 |6 |7 |5 |3 |3 |4 |14 |8 |9 |9 |}

* No league games in 1959, 1966–72, 1975; Sichuan did not compete in 1985. *{{note|1|1}}: In the group stage. *{{note|2|2}}: in the southern league.

==References==

==External links== *[http://sports.sina.com.cn/chinaa/sichuan/ Team profile] at sina.com

[[Category:Defunct football clubs in China]] [[Category:Association football clubs established in 1993]] [[Category:Association football clubs disestablished in 2006]] [[Category:1993 establishments in China]] [[Category:2006 disestablishments in China]] [[Category:Football clubs in Chengdu]] [[Category:Football clubs in China]] [[Category:Chinese Super League clubs]]