Beijing Sport University Football Club (Chinese: 北京北体大; pinyin: Běijīng Běitǐdà), commonly known as BSU (Chinese: 北体大; pinyin: Běi Tǐ Dà), is a defunct Chinese professional football club that participated in the China League One division under license from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team was based in Beijing. The club was dissolved in March 2023.[1]

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Beijing BSU
Běijīng Běitǐdà
北京北体大
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Full nameBeijing Sport University Football Club
北京北体大足球俱乐部
Founded2004; 20 years ago (2004) (as Beijing Baxy&Shengshi F.C.)
2019 (as BSU F.C.)
Dissolved29 March 2023; 18 months ago (2023-03-29)
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History

Beijing Baxy&Shengshi F.C. was founded in 2004 by former Chinese footballers Guo Weiwei, Wang Tao and Guo Weijian as an amateur football club.[2] By 2009 the club's youth team were considered good enough to take part in professional football and the club entered the third tier of Chinese football at the beginning of the 2009 China League Two season. Within their first professional campaign Wang Tao was their chairman who brought in Cao Xiandong to manage the team. The players wore white tops, black bottoms, white socks for the home kits and blue tops, white bottoms, dark blue socks for their away kit.[3] After a promising start to the campaign that saw them lead the table within the group stage the club ultimately finished third in the play-off and just missed out of promotion to the second division.[4] After failure to win promotion from the previous season the club decided to take over financially struggling China League One side Beijing Hongdeng and took over their position within the league at the beginning of the 2010 league season.[5] In their first season in the second tier, they were given a 6-point deduction due to Beijing Hongdeng's late payment of wages for Rajko Vidović in the 2007 season.[6]

In 2011, they renamed themselves Beijing Baxy. They finished 15th out of 16 teams in the 2012 season and was supposed to relegate to China League Two; however, they were spared from relegation due to Dalian Shide's dissolution. On 26 February 2013, Croatian manager Goran Tomić was officially announced as the new coach of the club.[7] After signing some high level players such as Stephen Makinwa, Lucian Goian, Ryan Griffiths and Hu Zhaojun, they finished historic high record of 7th place in the 2013 season. In the next year, they had a 21-match-unbeaten (8 wins and 13 draws) start in the 2014 season. They remained the hope of promotion until the last round and eventually finished in 4th place. Goran Tomić won China League One Coach of the Year award in December 2014.

On 25 December 2014, Beijing Enterprises Holdings Limited bought majority shares of the club and the club name was changed into Beijing Enterprises Group.[8] They would also change the club's badge and home kit from all white to blue and red as well as bring in former Beijing Guoan manager Aleksandar Stanojević on 12 January 2015 on a three-year contract with the club.[9]

On 30 December 2016, the team officially sacked Aleksandar Stanojević, and signed Yasen Petrov as their new manager.[10] On 5 June 2017, Beijing Enterprise player, Cheick Tioté died after suffering a heart attack during training at the age of 30. The club retired Tioté's number 24 shirt on 24 June 2017.[11]

On 23 June 2017, in the pre-match media conference, team manager Gao Hongbo announced that team has signed former Everton and Sunderland forward Victor Anichebe as a free agent.

Name history

  • 2004–2010: Beijing Baxy&Shengshi F.C. (北京八喜盛世)
  • 2011–2014: Beijing Baxy F.C. (北京八喜)
  • 2015–2018: Beijing Enterprises Group F.C. (北京控股)
  • 2019–2022: Beijing Sport University F.C. (北京北体大)

Retired numbers

24 Ivory Coast Cheick Tioté, Midfielder, 2017 posthumous. The number was retired in June 2017.[11]

Managerial history

Only League matches are counted.

More information Name, From ...
Name From To Pld W D L Notes
China Xu Hui 2009 2009 15834
China Cao Xiandong 2010 2010 2410410
Belgium Piet Demol 2011 2011 5113
China Cao Xiandong 2011 2011 21687
China Cui Enlang 2012 2012 153210
China Gai Zengjun 2012 2012 4112
China Cao Xiandong
China Wang Tao
2012 2012 11443
Croatia Goran Tomić 2013 2014 602521142014 Chinese League One Manager of the Year
Serbia Aleksandar Stanojević 2015 2016 60281319
Bulgaria Yasen Petrov 2017 2017 6015
China Gao Hongbo 2017 2019 77331925
China Su Maozhen 2019 2021 328915
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Grounds

The club's home ground was the Chaoyang Sports Centre which is located on Yaojiayuan Road No. 77 in the Chaoyang District. The stadium was used during the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the grounds also incorporate a golf driving range, equestrian shop, baseball venue, indoor tennis, and training pitches.[12] Baxy do not train at this venue, but amateur football club Forbidden City Football Club often play weekend matches at the pitches located directly behind the main stadium. They moved their new home stadium to Olympic Sports Centre (Beijing) in 2015.

Results

All-time League Rankings

More information Year, Tier ...
Year Tier Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Pos Cup Asian Avg league att Stadium
20093158342522+321 13NHDNQEastern Aojing Sports Centre
2010224104102424028 28NHDNQChaoyang Sports Centre
201122679101828−103011R1DNQ
201223087153446−123115R2DNQ845Shijingshan Stadium
2013230118113542−7417R2DNQ2,269Chaoyang Sports Centre
201423014133452718554R2DNQ1,668
20152301758482919564SFDNQ5,435Olympic Sports Centre (Beijing)
20162301181140382418R3DNQ3,463
2017230114154350-7378R2DNQ5,227
20182301211743349475R3DNQ2,083
201923013710513021468R4DNQ
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  • ^1 in group stage ^2 6-point deduction for late payment of wages

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Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries.

See also

References

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