Beijing Guoan" redirects here. For other uses, see Beijing Guoan (Superleague Formula team).

Beijing Guoan

北京国安

Full name Beijing Guoan Football Club

北京国安足球俱乐部代表队

Nickname(s) Yulinjun (御林军, Imperial Guards)

Founded 1951 as North China team

1956 as Beijing Football Club

1992 as Beijing Guoan

Ground Workers Stadium (工人体育场)

Beijing, China

(Capacity: 66,161)

Chairman Li Shilin (李世林)

Coach Jaime Pacheco

League Chinese Super League

2011 2nd

Home colours Away colours

Current season

Beijing Guoan

Traditional Chinese 北京國安

Simplified Chinese 北京国安

[show]Transcriptions

Mandarin

- Hanyu Pinyin Běijīng Gúoān

[pèɪtɕíŋ kwɔ̌.án]

- Wade–Giles Peich'ing Kuoan

- Gwoyeu Romatzyh Beeijing Gwoan

Beijing’s Guoan Football Club (which in simplified Chinese reads as: 北京国安) is a professional Chinese football club that currently participates in the Chinese Super League. It is part of the CITIC Group (China International Trust and Investment Corporation). They play their home games at the Workers Stadium stadium or the Fengtai stadium is sometimes used for less popular games. Their current head coach is Jaime Pacheco and the club's general manager is Gao Chao.

The club's predecessor was called the Beijing Football Club and they played in the top tier, where they won several domestic league and cup titles. In 1992, the club was reorganized to become a completely professional football Club and like Shandong Luneng Chinese state-owned enterprises, which have a significant holding place within the club. Its main source of investment since its inception, the CITIC Guoan Group, is a Shanghai (SSE: 600084) and Shenzhen (SZSE: 000839) listed state-owned enterprise. Also, Chinese governmental departments such as the Beijing Sports Bureau have made subsidies to the club on several occasions, the most recent being for 20 million RMB, announced in January 2009