About

Chongqing Lifan is a professional Chinese football club that currently participates in the Chinese Super League under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team is based in Chongqing and their home stadium is the Chongqing Olympic Sports Center that has a seating capacity of 58,680. They are owned by the Chongqing-based Lifan Group, which manufactures motorcycles, cars and spare parts. The club was founded in 1995 and originally called Qianwei (Vanguard) Wuhan before making their debut in the newly developed fully professional Chinese football league system where they started in the third tier within the 1995 league season. Throughout Chongqing Lifan's history they have built rivalrys with Sichuan Quanxing, Chengdu Blades and Chongqing F.C. whom they contested in the local Chongqing derby. The oldest of these rivalrys was against Sichuan Quanxing, which was formed when the club moved to the neighbouring province of Chongqing and effectively created a local derby. Squad: Deng Xiaofei Li Fang Yang Yun Luo Qin Sui Donglu Wang Dong Feng Jing Ding Jie Liu Yu Jael Ferreira Wu Qing Xu Xiaobo Zheng Yi Jung Woo-young Goran Milovi? Wang Weicheng Sui Weijie Xu Yang Zhang Cheng Liu Weidong Chen Lei Cui Yongzhe Wang Min Peng Xinli Sun Zhengyang Fan Peipei Tan Wangsong Chen Anqi Fernandinho Emanuel Gigliotti