In 1989, the Foshan Football Team participated in the National League B for the first time. Under the leadership of the first head coach Wang Hangqin, the team won the championship and entered the ranks of the National League A (Group B) the following year.

After the Foshan team became professional, it became a strong team in Class A and B.

The experimental National Football Club Championship in 1993 was equivalent to the Football Association's preliminary training for professionalization in the coming year. They were even invited to participate in Class A Group A, which shows that the Football Association at that time believed that they would be promoted to Class A sooner or later.

Although they have been favorites for promotion every year since then, they have always failed at the last moment.

According to people in the circle, in fact, they have already had the strength of A-A, but several "boss" in the team are unwilling to be promoted to A-A. Once they enter A-A, they will inevitably introduce a large number of star players, which will affect

Their status in the team, and the strength of their opponents after entering Class A, will inevitably be greatly reduced.

So every year we are "just one step away from getting to Rome", and losing is not easy!

In 1996, the motorcycle company Fosti took over the team, but the situation remained the same, and with the rise of domestic bubble football, the team's economic situation became worse and worse: for example, in 1997, although the city government and the municipal football team

The foundation and Fosday Group received a total of 11 million yuan, but for a team like Foshan with increasingly higher income requirements for players, it is obviously beyond their means.

For a whole year, the Foshan team was operating in debt.

As a result, head coach Wang Baoshan left the team and became the general manager of Yunnan Hongtashan Club.

In September 1997, Yunnan Hongta Group was interested in acquiring the Foshan team, but the club wanted to revive itself and declined the offer.

The "brand" of A and B is itself a fortune. A certain municipal government said it intends to buy the Foshan team for 30 million yuan, and the Jialing Group from Chongqing also has the same intention.

After the League One and League B ended in 1997, CCTV revealed that Foshan Football Club had a deficit of more than 2 million yuan (including several months of wages owed to players and coaches) and wanted to auction off the debt.

The Foshan Club is jointly owned by the Foshan Municipal Government, the urban district government, the Football Foundation and local companies, and there has been no trace of the Sports Commission from the beginning.

It is born in economic behavior, operates in economic behavior, and is auctioned in economic behavior.

At the end of 1997, it was sold to Xiamen Football Club.

With the support of Lai Changxing Black Gold, Xiamen Yuanhua won the A-B league championship in 1999 and advanced to A-A under the leadership of Chi Shangbin.

However, at this time, the Xiamen Yuanhua case was under investigation, Lai Changxing absconded, and the club was subsequently ordered to change its name to remove the word "Yuanhua".

In the first A-League in history, Xiamen Football Team started high and went low, and finally ranked second to last with 6 wins, 5 draws, 15 losses and 23 points, and returned to the A-B ranks.

In 2008, Xiamen Football Club was officially dissolved due to no corporate takeover.