Beijing Sport University F.C.

{{for|the university that this football club was named after|Beijing Sport University}}

{{Infobox football club

| clubname = Beijing BSU
Běijīng Běitǐdà
北京北体大

| image = File:Beijing Sport University F.C.svg

| image_size = 150px

| fullname = Beijing Sport University Football Club
北京北体大足球俱乐部

| founded = {{Start date and age|2004}} (as Beijing Baxy&Shengshi F.C.)
2019 (as BSU F.C.)

| dissolved = {{Start date and age|2023|3|29|df=y}}

}}

Beijing Sport University Football Club ({{zh|s=北京北体大|t=北京北体大|p=Běijīng Běitǐdà}}), commonly known as BSU ({{zh|s=北体大|t=北体大|p=Běi Tǐ Dà }}), was a 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.{{cite web|url=https://m.dongqiudi.com/article/3350932.html|title=2023职业联赛准入名单：广州城、昆山、陕西未在列|publisher=Dongqiudi|date=29 March 2023|access-date=30 March 2023|language=zh}}

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.{{cite web |url=http://www.damai.cn/ticket_47452.html |title=2013中国足球协会甲级联赛北京八喜赛区 |publisher=damai.cn |date=2013-03-17 |access-date=2013-03-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130318035043/http://www.damai.cn/ticket_47452.html |archive-date=2013-03-18 }} 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.{{cite web|url=http://sports.sohu.com/20091124/n268429732.shtml |title=中乙-两队上演进球大战北京4–3湖南冲甲稍占优 |publisher=sports.sohu.com |date=2009-11-24 |access-date=2014-09-09}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesc/china09.html |title=China 2009 |date=2010-04-23 |website=RSSSF |access-date=2014-01-07}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://sports.sohu.com/20100202/n270004204.shtml |title=北京宏登队同意转让北京八喜队借"壳"战中甲 |publisher=sports.sohu.com |date=2010-02-02 |access-date=2014-01-07}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://sports.sohu.com/20100408/n271361184.shtml |title=北京八喜收到中国足协罚单联赛积分被扣除6分 |publisher=sports.sohu.com |date=2010-04-08 |access-date=2015-01-12}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://sports.sohu.com/20130226/n367156140.shtml |title=八喜官方宣布新任主帅克罗地亚少帅托米奇掌舵 |publisher=sports.sohu.com |date=2013-02-26 |access-date=2015-01-12}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.fa.org.cn/bulletin/other/2014-12-25/458658.html |title=关于中甲北京八喜联合竞技足球俱乐部有限公司主要股权转让并更名为北京控股足球俱乐部有限公司的公示 |publisher=Chinese Football Association |date=2014-12-25 |access-date=2015-01-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141225163145/http://www.fa.org.cn/bulletin/other/2014-12-25/458658.html |archive-date=2014-12-25 |url-status=dead }} 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.{{cite web|url=http://sports.qq.com/a/20150112/055606.htm |title=斯塔诺出任北控主帅：签约三年任务率队冲超 |publisher=sports.qq.com |date=2015-01-12 |access-date=2015-01-12}}

On 30 December 2016, the team officially sacked Aleksandar Stanojević, and signed Yasen Petrov as their new manager.{{cite web|url=http://sports.qq.com/a/20161230/033403.htm |title=北控官宣斯塔诺下课前永昌主帅亚森正式上任 |publisher=sports.qq.com |date=30 Dec 2016 |access-date=30 Dec 2016}} 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.

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=

{{main|Retired numbers in association football|l1=Retired numbers in football}}

24 – {{flagicon|CIV}} Cheick Tioté, Midfielder, 2017 posthumous. The number was retired in June 2017.{{cite web |url=http://sports.sina.com.cn/china/b/2017-06-24/doc-ifyhmtcf2849397.shtml |title=北京北控官方宣布退役蒂奥特24号球衣:只属于你 |publisher=Sina |date=2017-06-24 |access-date=2017-06-25}}

=Managerial history=

Only League matches are counted.

width=25%\|Name !class="unsortable"\|From !class="unsortable"\|To !{{Tooltip\|Pld\|Matches played}} !{{Tooltip\|W\|Matches won}} !{{Tooltip\|D\|Matches drawn}} !{{Tooltip\|L\|Matches lost}} !class="unsortable"\|Notes
class="wikitable sortable" style=text-align:Left
{{flagicon\|CHN}} Xu Hui \|2009 \|2009	15	8	3	4 \|
{{flagicon\|CHN}} Cao Xiandong \|2010 \|2010	24	10	4	10 \|
{{flagicon\|BEL}} Piet Demol \|2011 \|2011	5	1	1	3 \|
{{flagicon\|CHN}} Cao Xiandong \|2011 \|2011	21	6	8	7 \|
{{flagicon\|CHN}} Cui Enlang \|2012 \|2012	15	3	2	10 \|
{{flagicon\|CHN}} Gai Zengjun \|2012 \|2012	4	1	1	2 \|
{{flagicon\|CHN}} Cao Xiandong {{flagicon\|CHN}} Wang Tao \|2012 \|2012 \|11	4	4	3 \|
{{flagicon\|CRO}} Goran Tomić \|2013 \|2014	60	25	21	14	2014 Chinese League One Manager of the Year
{{flagicon\|SRB}} Aleksandar Stanojević \|2015 \|2016	60	28	13	19 \|
{{flagicon\|BGR}} Yasen Petrov \|2017 \|2017	6	0	1	5 \|
{{flagicon\|CHN}} Gao Hongbo \|2017 \|2019	77	33	19	25 \|
{{flagicon\|CHN}} Su Maozhen \|2019 \|2021	32	8	9	15 \|

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.chysports.com/ |title=Chaoyang Stadium |publisher=Chaoyang Stadium |access-date=2012-08-20}} 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

As of the end of 2019 season.{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesc/chinachamp.html|title=China – List of Champions|date=10 Oct 2013 |website=RSSSF|access-date=3 February 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.sodasoccer.com/search/club/5/9637/83F684793B2AFD0A.shtml|title=北京八喜|publisher=sodasoccer.com |access-date=3 February 2014}}

class="wikitable sortable" width=100% style=text-align:Center !width=5%\|Year !width=5%\|Tier !width=5%\|{{Tooltip\|Pld\|Matches played}} !width=5%\|{{Tooltip\|W\|Matches won}} !width=5%\|{{Tooltip\|D\|Matches drawn}} !width=5%\|{{Tooltip\|L\|Match(es) lost}} !width=5%\|{{Tooltip\|GF\|Goals for}} !width=5%\|{{Tooltip\|GA\|Goals against}} !width=5%\|{{Tooltip\|GD\|Goal difference}} !width=5%\|{{Tooltip\|Pts\|Points}} !width=5%\|{{Tooltip\|Pos\|Position}} !width=8%\|Cup !width=8%\|Asian !width=7%\|Avg league att !width=25%\|Stadium
2009	3	15	8	3	4	25	22	+3	21{{ref\| 1\| 1}}	bgcolor="#ffa500" \|3	NH	DNQ		Eastern Aojing Sports Centre
2010	bgcolor="#ffffe0" \|2	24	10	4	10	24	24	0	28{{ref\| 2\| 2}}	8	NH	DNQ		style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2" \|Chaoyang Sports Centre
2011	bgcolor="#ffffe0" \|2	26	7	9	10	18	28	−10	30	11	R1	DNQ
2012	bgcolor="#ffffe0" \|2	30	8	7	15	34	46	−12	31	15	R2	DNQ	845	Shijingshan Stadium
2013	bgcolor="#ffffe0" \|2	30	11	8	11	35	42	−7	41	7	R2	DNQ	2,269	style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2" \|Chaoyang Sports Centre
2014	bgcolor="#ffffe0" \|2	30	14	13	3	45	27	18	55	4	R2	DNQ	1,668
2015	bgcolor="#ffffe0" \|2	30	17	5	8	48	29	19	56	4	SF	DNQ	5,435	style="text-align:center;" rowspan="5" \|Olympic Sports Centre (Beijing)
2016	bgcolor="#ffffe0" \|2	30	11	8	11	40	38	2	41	8	R3	DNQ	3,463
2017	bgcolor="#ffffe0" \|2	30	11	4	15	43	50	-7	37	8	R2	DNQ	5,227
2018	bgcolor="#ffffe0" \|2	30	12	11	7	43	34	9	47	5	R3	DNQ	2,083
2019	bgcolor="#ffffe0" \|2	30	13	7	10	51	30	21	46	8	R4	DNQ

{{note|1|1}} in group stage {{note|2|2}}6-point deduction for late payment of wages

Key

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bgcolor="#D0F0C0" width="20" \| \| bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left" \| China top division
bgcolor="#FFFFE0" width="20" \| \| bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left" \| China second division
bgcolor="#ffffff" width="20" \| \| bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left" \| China third division
bgcolor="#FFD700" width="20" \| C \| bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left" \| Champions
bgcolor="#C0C0C0" width="20" \| RU \| bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left" \| Runners-up
bgcolor="#FFA500" width="20" \| 3 \| bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left" \| Third place
bgcolor="#ffcccc" width="20" \| \| bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left" \| Relegated

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bgcolor="#D0F0C0" width="20" |

| bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left" | China top division

bgcolor="#FFFFE0" width="20" |

| bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left" | China second division

bgcolor="#ffffff" width="20" |

| bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left" | China third division

bgcolor="#FFD700" width="20" | C

| bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left" | Champions

bgcolor="#C0C0C0" width="20" | RU

| bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left" | Runners-up

bgcolor="#FFA500" width="20" | 3