Tianjin Jinmen Tiger plays its home matches at the TEDA Soccer Stadium, located within Binhai.

The founding owners of the team were TEDA Holding (the sponsorship name was derived from the initials of Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area), a state-owned conglomerate of China.

[6] By 1959, the club would hire from within and promoted former team captain Zeng Xuelin as their manager, who would return this good faith by winning the 1960 league title as well as the Chinese FA Cup.

While his first few seasons were not particularly eventful, he would go on to assemble a team built-up of young local players such as Lü Hongxiang, Zuo Shusheng, and Chen Jingang.

[12] With the Chinese football leagues fully professional by 1994, Tianjin brought in Lin Xinjiang to manage the club, where he guided them to a runners-up position and promotion back into the top tier at the end of the season.

It was discovered that the result was too good to be true and that the general manager Yang Yifeng bribed the Shanghai COSCO Sanlin players Shen Si, Qi Hong, Jiang Jin, and Li Ming to forfeit the game.

TEDA also became the first team in CSL history to suffer a winless season (excluding specialized playoffs in 2020 due to the occurrence of COVID-19).

Plenty of them went on social media such as Weibo to criticize the team and expressed their deep dissatisfaction towards the players, the coach, as well as the club officials.

Nevertheless, they won two matches out of six relegation playoffs, which eventually earned them a surprising tenth place as their final position.

[30] Then on 23 March, the day when the CFA was supposed to publish the entry list for the 2021 season, sources claimed that Tianjin Jinmen Tiger would re-submit necessary files for participation,[31] while the publication was actually postponed.

The stadium is located in the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA), and was designed by Peddle Thorp, an Australian architecture firm.

Also, Tianjin Tianhai was considered their rival and developed during recent years due to the separation of some Tianjinese fans.

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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply.