Bayi Kylin

Bayi Kylin
League	Women's Chinese Basketball Association
Arena	Nanchang International Sport Center (since 2017)
Capacity	8000
Location	Nanchang, Jiangxi (since 2017)
Affiliation(s)	People's Liberation Army
Championships	5 (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008)

Bayi Kylin (Chinese: 八一麒麟; pinyin: Bāyī Qílín) is a Chinese women's professional basketball club in the Women's Chinese Basketball Association, owned by the People's Liberation Army. The team has been based in Honggutan New District, Nanchang, Jiangxi since 2017.

The kylin (also spelled qilin) is a mythical animal in Chinese culture.

Season-by-season records

Season	Corporate Sponsor	Home City	Final Rank	Record (including playoffs)[1]			Head coach
				W	L	%
2002	Suzhou Zhong'an Plastic Industry	Suzhou, Jiangsu	Champion	16	1	94.1	Shan Ruirong
2002–03	Virjoy Box Tissue[2]		Champion	21	1	95.5
2004	China Unicom	Changsha, Hunan	Champion	13	3	81.3
2004–05			Champion	20	2	90.9
2005–06	Zhejiang Guangbo Group (Guangbo Stationery)	Ningbo, Zhejiang	3rd[3]	22	4	84.6
2007			2nd	15	2	88.2	Fan Bin
2007–08			Champion	21	2	91.3
2008–09			2nd	22	9	71.0	Wu Xinci
2009–10			3rd[4]	19	7	73.1	Sui Feifei
2010–11			3rd	18	8	69.2
2011–12			10th	6	16	27.3
2012–13			10th[5]	7	15	31.8	Ma Yuenan
2013–14			8th[6]	9	15	37.5	Sui Feifei
2014–15			4th[7]	16	20	44.4	Ma Yuenan
2015–16			6th[8]	19	17	52.8
2016–17			2nd[9]	25	20	55.6
2017–18	Honggutan New District	Nanchang, Jiangxi	10th[10]	10	16	38.5
2018–19							Zhan Shuping

Current roster

2018–19 Bayi Kylin roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Wt. Age PG 5 Jia Qiujiao 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) 68 kg (150 lb) G 6 Cai Xiaoyu 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) 64 kg (141 lb) SF 8 Wang Xuemeng 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) 75 kg (165 lb) SF 9 Li Meng 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) 83 kg (183 lb) F 10 Lu Wen 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 77 kg (170 lb) C 11 Zhang Liting 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 88 kg (194 lb) F 14 Mi Fengying 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 77 kg (170 lb) SF 15 Jia Saiqi 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) 78 kg (172 lb) C 16 Liu Shuai 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) 87 kg (192 lb) C 18 Niu Jia 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) 93 kg (205 lb) SF 19 Zhao Shuang 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) 66 kg (146 lb) PF 21 Sun Mengran 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) 85 kg (187 lb) SG 22 Jin Jiabao 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) 80 kg (176 lb) C 24 Pan Zhenqi 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 86 kg (190 lb)	Head coach Zhan Shuping Assistant coach(es) Shen Li Hu Yun Legend (C) Team captain Injured

Notable former players

• Sui Feifei (2002–09)
• Ren Lei (2002–08, 2009–10)
• Zhang Xiaoni (2002–10)
• Chen Nan (2002–14, 2016–17)
• Shao Tingting (2005–08, 2010–11)
• Song Xiaoyun (2010–13)
• Sun Mengxin (2012–18)
• Wang Siyu (2014–15)
• Zhao Zhifang (2016–17)

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