Jiangsu F.C.

The club was founded in April 1958 as Jiangsu Provincial Team by the local government and took part in the 1959 Chinese National Games where they placed twelfth. They joined the top tier of the gradually expanding Chinese football league system in 1960; finishing nineteenth out of twenty-five teams. By 1963, the league had expanded to thirty-nine teams and the Chinese Football Association decided they needed to reduce the number of participants in the league to twenty for the following season. Jiangsu finished seventh within their group stages, which relegated them from the league system. In 1964, they did not take part in any of the divisions but returned to play in the second tier in 1965 where they came seventh in the group stages. The Chinese Cultural Revolution halted the league for several seasons. When it returned in 1973, Jiangsu was placed back into the top tier where they finished the league in eleventh. Jiangsu's time in the top tier did not last very long, and at the end of the 1978 season they were relegated to the second division. For the next several years, Jiangsu remained a second-tier club apart from a one-season top-tier stint in 1988. However, in 1992 it won the second tier title which guaranteed the club promotion to the country's first fully professional first-tier league in 1994, the Chinese Jia-A League, irrespective of where it finished in the 1993 season. In March 1994, the club gained sponsorship and changed its name to Jiangsu Maint to comply with…

1958: Jiangsu Province Football Team (江苏省男子足球队) 1994: Jiangsu Maint Football Club (江苏迈特足球俱乐部) 1995: Jiangsu Football Club (江苏足球队) 1996: Jiangsu Gige Football Club (江苏金陵石化加佳足球俱乐部 (江苏加佳)) 2000: Jiangsu Sainty Football Club (江苏舜天足球俱乐部) 2014: Jiangsu Guoxin-Sainty Football Club (江苏国信舜天足球俱乐部) 2016: Jiangsu Suning Football Club (江苏苏宁足球俱乐部) 2021: Jiangsu Football Club (江苏足球俱乐部)

This list contains both honors received as a professional team and as a semi-professional team.

League

Chinese Super League Champions: 2020 Chinese Jia B League/Chinese League One (Second tier) Winners: 1992, 2008 Chinese Yi League/Chinese League Two (Third tier) Winners: 1997

Cups

Chinese FA Cup Winners: 2015 Runners-up: 2014, 2016 Chinese FA Super Cup Winners: 2013 Runners-up: 2016, 2017