After the dissolution of the Jiangsu Football Club in early 2021 and withdrew from the Chinese Football Premier League, the team from Jiangsu will beat the Chinese Super League stage Kunshan team "Zibo Cuju" on November 11, 4:1 in the history of the Chinese Super League, the first county-level club team, with 24 wins and 5 draws, five rounds ahead of the Super League, to obtain the qualification of the Chinese Super League.
According to Surfing News (www.thepaper.cn) as previously reported, the Kunshan team was formerly known as Zhenjiang Huasa Football Club.It moved to Kunshan, Suzhou, at the end of 2018 and changed its name to Kunshan Football Club. According to industrial and commercial information, the shareholders of Kunshan Football Club Co. include Jiangsu Youmai Sports Development Co. and Kunshan Culture and Business Tourism Group Co. which is a holding company of the Kunshan Municipal Government's State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Office.
Most Chinese Super League clubs have roots in big cities. In the 2022 league, for example, 15 of the 18 teams are from municipalities, provincial capitals or sub-provincial cities, with only Meizhou Hakka, Cangzhou Lions, and Hebei (Langfang) located in prefecture-level cities.
Kunshan has the "strongest county-level city" and is said to have a GDP of over 470 billion yuan by 2021, higher than many prefecture-level cities in China. The Kunshan team started in the second (third) division, entered the first division in 2020, and has now been promoted to the next level.
