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| Full name | Matsunichi Electric Group FC Co, Ltd. 松日电器集团足球俱乐部有限公司 | ||
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| Founded | 28 February 1995 | ||
| Dissolved | 26 November 2000 | ||
| Ground | Xihe Sports Centre | ||
| Capacity | 21,570 | ||
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Guangzhou Matsunichi Football Club (simplified Chinese: 广州松日; traditional Chinese: 廣州松日; pinyin: Guǎngzhōu Sōngrì) was a professional football club based in Guangzhou, Guangdong, PR China who last played in the 21,570 capacity Xihe Sports Centre in Shaoguan. The club was established when the youth team for Guangzhou F.C. whom were allowed to participate within the Chinese football league pyramid and have promoted to the second tier was sold-off to Pan Sutong and his company Matsunichi Digital Holdings Limited to form a separate club on 28 February 1995. The club would soon gain promotion to the top tier of Chinese football where in total they spent three seasons before suffering relegation at the 1999 league season. When the club experienced another relegation campaign in 2000, Pan Sutong decided to pull his funding for the club, which officially became defunct on 26 November 2000.