Jiangsu Football Club was a professional football club that participated in the Chinese Super League under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team was based in Nanjing, Jiangsu, and their home stadium was the Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre which has a seating capacity of 61,443. Their owners were Suning Appliance Group, a sister company of Suning.com; the name Suning derives from Sū, a nickname for Jiangsu province, and Níng, a nickname for Nanjing.