[1] The club was created to include Chinese players under Portuguese coaching, with the goal of them eventually returning to China and improving the quality of that country's league and national team.

[3] The club initially was composed exclusively of Chinese footballers between 15 and 19 years in 2014, after creating their own U21 youth league called the Future Stars league as some of the players were too young to play in the official leagues due to being under 18 and included clubs from the Lisbon and Setúbal football associations which they funded and required each team to field at least one Chinese player.

[8] The club officially began play in the Portuguese football league system during the 2015–16 season in the fifth-tier Setúbal FA Second Division,[3] finishing eighth with nine Chinese players on the roster.

In 2019–20, they won the Setúbal FA First Division, at the time of its cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 11 points ahead of the second-place club F.C.

Barreirense, earning promotion to the third-tier Campeonato de Portugal at the national level.