Nanchang Hengyuan F.C.

Nanchang Hengyuan F.C.

Shanghai Shenxin Football Club (Simplified Chinese: 上海申鑫足球俱乐部) is a football club who currently play in the 16,000 seater Yuanshen Sports Centre Stadium in Pudong, Shanghai, China. The club was originally founded in 2003 as Shanghai Hengyuan Football Club until the People's Liberation Army dismissed part of its sports branch, including the Bayi Football Team and Shanghai Hengyuan became interested in taking over the entire football team as well as their position in the top tier of the Chinese football pyramid. Shanghai Hengyuan discovered that much of the first team were sold off and decided to change their focus in buying the youth team. On April 2, 2004, a new club named Nanchang Bayi Hengyuan Football Club was established with players who had previously played for the Shanghai Hengyuan Football Club and the Bayi U-19 team. The club would gradually work its way up to the top tier after coming runners-up in the second division during the 2009 league season and promotion to the Chinese Super League. The club name changed to "Nanchang Hengyuan Football Club" at 2010 summer, because the word "Bayi" (means People's Liberation Army) used by enterprise is prohibited from 2009. After almost eight years in Nanchang the club would decide to move back to Shanghai at the beginning of 2012 and renamed themselves Shanghai Shenxin Football Club.