Full name | Yunnan Hongta 云南红塔 | ||
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Founded | 1996 | ||
Dissolved | 2003 Merged with Chongqing Lifan F.C. | ||
Ground | Kunming Tuodong Sports Center, Kunming, China | ||
Capacity | 40,000 | ||
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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.