Shenzhen F.C.
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Full name
Shenzhen Football Club
深圳市足球俱乐部

Nicknames
Youth Army
Phoenix
International Arms

Founded
26 January 1994

Ground
Shenzhen Stadium, Shenzhen,
Guangdong, China

Capacity
32,500

Chairman
Deng Junjie (邓俊杰)

Manager
Clarence Seedorf

League
China League One

2015
12th

Shenzhen Football Club (simplified Chinese: 深圳市足球俱乐部) is a professional Chinese football club that currently participates in the China League One division under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). 

The team is based in Shenzhen, Guangdong and their home stadium is the Bao'an Stadium that has a seating capacity of 40,000. 

Their current majority shareholder is Deng Junjie (邓俊杰) and the Hong Kong Swan Shenzhen Venture Capital Co., Ltd. who took over the club on 27 October 2015.

The club was founded on January 26, 1994 and was known as Shenzhen FC while they started at the bottom of the Chinese football pyramid in the third tier. 

After successive league title wins in the third and second tier of the professional football leagues, they were promoted to the top tier in the 1996 Chinese Jia-A League season. 

After only one season they were relegated, however they quickly regained promotion and started to establish themselves within the league before they won the rebranded 2004 Chinese Super League title, making them the first club to win all three divisions within the Chinese league pyramid. 

Since this achievement the club have struggled to match the same success and after 14 years experienced relegation to the second tier at the end of 2011 Chinese Super League season.