Zhaoqing Hengtai Football Club () is an amateur Chinese
football
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club that currently participates in the
Chinese Champions League
The Chinese Football Association Member Association Champions League (Simplified Chinese: 中国足球协会会员协会冠军联赛), or CMCL, former known as Chinese Football Association Bing League (中国足球协会丙级联赛) (before 2006 ...
. The team is based in
Zhaoqing and currently uses
Century Lotus Stadium of
Foshan
Foshan (, ), alternately romanized as Fatshan, is a prefecture-level city in central Guangdong Province, China. The entire prefecture covers and had a population of 9,498,863 as of the 2020 census. The city is part of the western side of the ...
as their home stadium.
History
Zhaoqing Hengtai was founded in 2012 by retired footballer and college students of Guangdong. They advanced to the
Chinese FA Cup for the first time in 2014 and were knocked out in the second round when they lost to
China League One club
Hunan Billows in the penalty shoot-out. On 1 October 2017, Zhaoqing Hengtai won promotion to
China League Two after which they advanced to semi-finals of the
2017 China Amateur Football League
The 2017 China Amateur Football League season, also known as Shan Lin Financial China Amateur Football League for sponsorship reasons, was the 16th season since its establishment in 2002. It is the highest amateur association football league in P ...
by beating
Qinghai Zhuangbo
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in the penalty shoot-out.
However, they gave up the opportunity to turn professional and remained at the amateur league.
Results
All-time league rankings
''As of the end of 2017 season.''
Key
* Pld = Played
* W = Games won
* D = Games drawn
* L = Games lost
* F = Goals for
* A = Goals against
* Pts = Points
* Pos = Final position
* DNQ = Did not qualify
* DNE = Did not enter
* NH = Not Held
* WD = Withdrawal
* – = Does Not Exist
* R1 = Round 1
* R2 = Round 2
* R3 = Round 3
* R4 = Round 4
* F = Final
* SF = Semi-finals
* QF = Quarter-finals
* R16 = Round of 16
* Group = Group stage
* GS2 = Second Group stage
* QR1 = First Qualifying Round
* QR2 = Second Qualifying Round
* QR3 = Third Qualifying Round
References
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Football clubs in China
Association football clubs established in 2012
Football clubs in Guangdong
Zhaoqing
2012 establishments in China