Beijing Guoan Football Club is a Chinese Super League team, and is part of CITIC Group (China International Trust and Investment Corporation). Their current home stadium is Workers Stadium. The current head coach is Lee Jang-Soo and the club’s general manager is Li Xiaoming.

Beijing Guoan is one of the most noticeable Chinese football clubs with a significant holding by the Chinese government or its subsidiaries. Not only that its main source of investment since its inception, the CITIC Guoan Group, is a government-owned corporation, governmental departments such as the Beijing Sports Bureau has on several occasions made significant investment into the club, the most recent being for 20 million RMB, announced in January 2009.

Beijing Guoan Football Club was formed in December 31,1992, as a result of the Chinese football reform. The club was set up by the CITIC Guoan Group and the Beijing Municipal Sports Committee.[4] In 2003, the club signed an endorsement contract with Beijing Hyundai Motor Company and the adult men’s football team of the club changed its name to Beijing Hyundai Motor Football Team. The contract ended in early 2006 and the team’s original name was restored.

Their predecessor was the Beijing Football Club which was found in 1955, Beijing was one of the powerhouse in Chinese League history, they’ve won the league 7 times in the old Chinese National Football League. in 1992, the club realised professionalism.

The Team finished in second place of the Jia A (Top Chinese Football League before the forming of Chinese Super League) in 1995 and third place in 1997, 1998 and 2002. The team also entered the final game of China FA Cup 5 times and won the tournament 3 times. The team produced a number of star players of Chinese football including the current Energie Cottbus forward Shao Jiayi and former Eintracht Frankfurt striker Yang Chen. The team hired Liobu Petrovic, former head coach of Red Star Belgrade, as head coach during the 2002 and 2003 seasons.

The club sold a part of its ownership to Real Madrid in 2006, hoping to achieve better popularity and results. Due to renovation for the 2008 Summer Olympics, Beijing Guoan moved to new home stadium, the Fengtai Sports Center for three years. In 2009, the club is coming back to its previous home stadium, Workers Stadium.

The club entered a car in Superleague Formula in 2008, winning the inaugural motor racing championship.

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