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.包头南郊队再签3名大将 代表鹿城南郊队征战2015年中乙联赛 sports.163.com Retrieved 2016-04-08 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

Players Current squad

Managerial history

Yao Zhiqiang (2014) Xu Hui (2015) David Camhi (2016) Wang Hongwei (2017) Fan Wenlong (caretaker) (2017) Branko Božović （2017–2019） Zoran Maričić （2020–2021）

Results All-time league rankings

As of the end of 2019 season.

YearDivPtsPos.FA CupSuper CupAFCAtt./GStadium 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 2016 3 20 5 4 11 23 36 −13 19 12 R1 DNQ DNQ 1,708 2017 3 24 2 2 20 14 54 −40 8 23 R1 DNQ DNQ 3,202 2018 3 28 5 0 23 30 68 −38 15 25 R2 DNQ DNQ 427 2019 3 30 6 7 17 26 63 −37 25 29 R2 DNQ DNQ

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

Key   China top division   China second division   China third division   China fourth division W  Winners RU  Runners-up 3  Third place   Relegated

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

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