Dongguan Dongcheng (

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: 东莞东城) was a football team based in

Dongguan Dongguan (; ) is a prefecture-level city in central Guangdong Province, China. An important industrial city in the Pearl River Delta, Dongguan borders the provincial capital of Guangzhou to the north, Huizhou to the northeast, Shenzhen to the ...

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province, in the

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, that played in the

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. Founded on 18 December 1999, as Gansu Tianma, the club did not get promotion from the Chinese Football Association Yi League. In 2001, however, the club bought a position in the Jia League from

Tianjin Lifei Tianjin Lifei F.C. (天津立飞足球俱乐部) is a defunct Chinese football club based in Tianjin, China. History The club was founded on 20 January 2000. They participated in the 2000 China League Two and won instant promotion to Jia B aft ...

. Former

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international Paul Gascoigne played four games for them in 2003, scoring two goals, before returning to

after falling out with the club. They moved to

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and changed their name to Ningbo Yaoma (

: 宁波耀马) in 2003, then subsequently moved to

and changed their name to Dongguan Dongcheng in 2004, and after that season they were relegated to

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. They were then sold to Lanwa F.C., who moved the club to the

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*1999–2002: Gansu Tianma 甘肃天马 *2003: Ningbo Yaoma 宁波耀马 *2004: Dongguan Dongcheng 东莞东城 *After 2004: ''see

Lanwa FC Lanwa FC (), officially Dongguan Lanwa Football Club () was a Chinese professional association football club located in Dongguan, China. The club was founded in 1999 and played in the Chinese and Hong Kong football systems. History Lanwa was fo ...

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