Yunnan Hongta F.C.

Yunnan Hongta
云南红塔
Full nameYunnan Hongta
云南红塔
Founded1996; 28 years ago (1996)
Dissolved2003; 21 years ago (2003)
Merged with Chongqing Lifan F.C.
GroundKunming Tuodong Sports Center,
Kunming, China
Capacity40,000

Yunnan Hongta (Chinese: 云南红塔, lit. Yunnan Red Tower) was a football club who played in the Chinese Jia-A League who were founded by the Shenzhen Kinspar Group in 1996 and named Shenzhen Kinspar (Chinese: 深圳金鹏). The club predominantly played within the lower leagues until they were sold to the Yunnan Hongta Group, a tobacco producer who renamed the team Yunnan Hongta and moved the club to Kunming to play in the Tuodong Stadium. Yunnan Hongta would win promotion to the Chinese Jia-A League in the 1999 league season where they remained until Chongqing Lifan bought then merged the teams in 2003.