Some of its players formed a new team called Hubei Luyin and made a return to Chinese Super League in 2013.

[1] The club was formed in 1954 by the local Hubei province sports body to take part in China's national football league tournament.

By the end of the 1963 season the club were relegated to the second division until the Chinese Cultural Revolution saw football in China halted.

[9] Back within the top tier of the rebranded Chinese Super League, the team were led-out by local players such as Li Hao, Zheng Bin and Zhang Xinxin.

Their foreign contingent of Brazilians such as Emerson Roberto Conceicao Aleixo, Gílson Domingos Rezende Agostinho, and Vicente de Paula Neto helped the club to a seven-game winning streak early in the season.

In the following season youngsters Deng Zhuoxiang, Chinese U-23 players Zeng Cheng, Rong Hao and Di You joined the BBC team.

Despite finishing seventh Pei Encai and the club decided to part way s and Chen Fangping was brought back in as a manager at the beginning of the 2008 Chinese Super League.

He decided that the club needed to strengthen their defence and brought in Chinese international Li Weifeng for three million yuan.

Wuhan chairman Shen Liefeng refused to accept the punishment and threatened to quit the Chinese football league and sought legal advice.