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The Wuhan Gators are a professional
arena football Indoor American football, or arena football, is a variation of gridiron football played at ice hockey-sized indoor arenas. While varying in details from league to league, the rules of indoor football are designed to allow for play in a smaller ...
team based in
Wuhan Wuhan (, ; ; ) is the capital of Hubei Province in the People's Republic of China. It is the largest city in Hubei and the most populous city in Central China, with a population of over eleven million, the ninth-most populous Chinese city an ...
,
Hubei Hubei (; ; alternately Hupeh) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the Central China region. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Dongting Lake. The ...
. They are members of the
China Arena Football League The China Arena Football League (), often abbreviated as the CAFL, was a professional arena football league that played its games in the People's Republic of China. It featured players from the now-defunct Arena Football League (AFL) and other ...
(CAFL). They were originally called the Shenzhen Naja and were based in
Shenzhen Shenzhen (; ; ; ), also historically known as Sham Chun, is a major sub-provincial city and one of the special economic zones of China. The city is located on the east bank of the Pearl River estuary on the central coast of southern province ...
,
Guangdong Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020) ...
. They were named after the species of cobra that lives in the region. Their home stadium was the
Shenzhen Dayun Arena The Shenzhen Dayun Arena is an arena located in Shenzhen, China. It was completed in 2011 for the 2011 Summer Universiade. It is used for the basketball, ice hockey and gymnastics Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercise ...
. In 2017, the Naja relocated to become the Wuhan Gators.


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China Arena Football League official website
China Arena Football League teams American football teams established in 2016 2016 establishments in China Sport in Shenzhen {{Amfoot-team-stub