Dongguan New Century Leopards (东莞新世纪烈豹) or Dongguan Leopards or Dongguan New Century are a basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 team in the South Division of the Chinese Basketball Association

Chinese Basketball Association

The Chinese Basketball Association , often abbreviated to the CBA, is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in China.The league is commonly known as the CBA, and this acronym is often used even in Chinese...

, who take their name from Dongguan

Dongguan

Dongguan is a prefecture-level city in central Guangdong province, People's Republic of China.An important industrial city located in the Pearl River Delta, Dongguan borders the provincial capital of Guangzhou to the north, Huizhou to the northeast, Shenzhen to the south, and the Pearl River to...

, Guangdong

Guangdong

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 and play home games at Dalang (大朗).

They were runners-up in the 2004 CBL

Chinese Basketball League

The National Basketball League is a semi-professional basketball minor league in China, called Chinese Basketball League before 2005...

championship and were promoted to the CBA for the 2005–2006 season.

In their first season in the CBA in 2005–2006, Dongguan New Century finished in seventh and last place in the South Division, out of the playoffs.

External links

Dongguan Leopards at Sina.com