Shanghai Port F.C.

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Shanghai Port Football Club (Chinese: 上海海港足球俱乐部; pinyin: Shànghǎi Hǎigǎng Zúqiú Jùlèbù) is a Chinese professional football club based in Shanghai that competes in the Chinese Super League, the top tier of Chinese football. Shanghai Port plays its home matches at the Pudong Football Stadium, located within Pudong. Their owners are the Chinese group Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG). The club was founded on 25 December 2005 as Shanghai East Asia (Chinese: 上海东亚; pinyin: Shànghǎi Dōngyà) by former Chinese international footballer Xu Genbao. The club used graduates from the Genbao Football Base, a football academy also founded by Xu, to form their first team as they made their debut in the third tier of China's football league pyramid in the 2006 league season. They made it to the top tier in the 2013 season and changed their name to Shanghai SIPG (Chinese: 上海上港; pinyin: Shànghǎi Shànggǎng) after SIPG's takeover in December 2014. They finished as league champions for the first time in...

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