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| Full name | Chengdu Tiancheng Football Club 成都天诚足球俱乐部 | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Chinese Sheffield United | ||
| Founded | 1996 as Chengdu Wuniu F.C. | ||
| Dissolved | 2015 | ||
| Ground | Shuangliu Sports Center, Shuangliu County | ||
| Capacity | 26,000 | ||
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| Simplified Chinese | 成都天诚足球俱乐部 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 成都天誠足球俱樂部 | ||||||||||
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Chengdu Tiancheng F.C. (simplified Chinese: 成都天诚; traditional Chinese: 成都天誠; pinyin: Chéngdū Tiānchéng) was a Chinese professional football club based in Chengdu, China who last played in the 26,000 seater Shuangliu Sports Center in the China League One division. The club was founded on 26 February 1996 and was formerly known as Chengdu Five Bulls named after their first sponsor, the Five Bulls Cigarette Company. However, the club was officially dissolved on 4 January 2015[1] and was subsequently de-registered by the Chinese Football Association on 31 January 2015 due to unpaid salaries to players and staff.[2]
The team was named after English professional football club Sheffield United.[3] On 11 December 2005, Sheffield United took over the organization and changed the club's badge as well as the team's home kit to represent this. The club went on to achieve promotion and their highest ever league position of seventh in the top tier of Chinese football until they were embroiled in a match-fixing scandal in 2009. Punished with relegation the owners eventually sold their majority on 9 December 2010 to Hung Fu Enterprise Co., Ltd and Scarborough Development (China) Co., Ltd.[4][5] On 23 May 2013 the Tiancheng Investment Group announced the acquisition of the club.[6]
- ^ 成都天诚球队不在基地挣扎 球员当务之急找工作 Archived 2015-07-07 at the Wayback Machine at sports.sina.com 2015-01-26 Retrieved 2015-02-09 (in Chinese)
- ^ 足协帮球员讨回3千万薪水 设审查组长效监管 Archived 2015-02-07 at the Wayback Machine at sports.sina.com 2015-02-07 Retrieved 2015-02-07 (in Chinese)
- ^ Davis, Peter. "Chengdu Blades- The Failed Experiment". Wild East Football. Archived from the original on March 23, 2016. Retrieved April 2, 2016.
- ^ 成都谢菲联俱乐部2011赛季首次新闻通气会 Archived December 3, 2013, at the Wayback Machine at sufc.com.cn 2011-03-03 Retrieved 2013-11-22 (in Chinese)
- ^ 英投资方决定成都谢菲联不出售 尽快解决欠薪稳军心 Archived 2013-10-29 at the Wayback Machine at sports.sina.com.cn 2010-12-09 Retrieved 2013-11-22 (in Chinese)
- ^ 成足更名天诚谢菲联 短期内回中超3年内进亚冠 Archived 2013-12-02 at the Wayback Machine at sports.sohu.com 2013-05-24 Retrieved 2013-11-22 (in Chinese)