Inner Mongolia Caoshangfei F.C.

Inner Mongolia Caoshangfei Football Club is a Chinese semi-professional football club based in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, that competes in. Inner Mongolia Caoshangfei plays its home matches at the Baotou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium, located within Jiuyuan District.

History

On 5 May 1998 the club was established as a local amateur football team who took part in the regional Baotou leagues. They gradually worked their way up through the regional leagues until they were able to enter 2012 China Amateur Football League where they finished seventh. The local Baotou Municipal Sports Bureau would become interested supporting the team. By the 2014 league season they would financially invest into the team to take part in the 2014 Chinese FA Cup where they were knocked out in the first official round to Guizhou Zhicheng F.C. in a 3–1 home defeat. They continued to support the team and helped Baotou Nanjiao F.C. to officially establish themselves as a professional unit on 25 January 2015 to allow them to take part in the 2015 China League Two season.
Baotou Nanjiao F.C. changed their name to Inner Mongolia Caoshangfei F.C. in January 2019.

Name history

2015–2018 Baotou Nanjiao F.C. 包头南郊
2019– Inner Mongolia Caoshangfei F.C. 内蒙古草上飞

Managerial history

Yao Zhiqiang
Xu Hui
David Camhi
Wang Hongwei
Fan Wenlong
Branko Božović （2017–2019）
Zoran Maričić （2020–2021）

Results

All-time league rankings
As of the end of 2019 season.

Year	Div								Pts	Pos.	FA Cup	Super Cup	AFC	Att./G	Stadium
2012	4									6	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
2013	4									6	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
2014	4									10	R1	DNQ	DNQ		Baotou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium
2015	3	14	5	5	4	21	13	8	20	6	R2	DNQ	DNQ	6,065	Baotou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium
2016	3	20	5	4	11	23	36	−13	19	12	R1	DNQ	DNQ	1,708	Baotou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium
2017	3	24	2	2	20	14	54	−40	8	23	R1	DNQ	DNQ	3,202	Baotou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium
2018	3	28	5	0	23	30	68	−38	15	25	R2	DNQ	DNQ	427	Baotou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium
2019	3	30	6	7	17	26	63	−37	25	29	R2	DNQ	DNQ		Baotou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium

in North Group.
Chengdu Qbao and Shanghai JuJu Sports withdrew, so Baotou Nanjiao could stay at third level.

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
– = 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