2022 Beijing Guoan F.C. season

A whole host of action came in the first month of the pre-season. On 8 January 2022, Beijing Guoan parted ways with head coach Slaven Bilić after one season.[1] On 14 January 2022, Xie Feng, a club legend and three-time interim coach for Guoan, was named as the new head coach.[2] Wang Ziming and Yu Yang signed contract extensions until the end of 2025 and 2022 respectively on 29 January.[3] The next day, Guoan announced the return of Zhang Chengdong.[4]

In early February, Guoan began its winter training camp in Kunming with the goal of improving player fitness.[5] The team played a training match against Beijing Sports University on 26 February with Guoan winning 6–1. Wang Ziming and Liu Guobo each scored a double, with Li Boxi and Liang Shaowen adding to Guoan's tally.[6] March 8, Guoan players relocated to Shanghai to continue their preseason preparation, but the training camp was disrupted after Shanghai suffered an intense wave of COVID-19 outbreak. The team scrambled and relocated to Haikou to continue their training on March 18, which lasted until March 31.[7] On March 28 during an interview with the Beijing-based television network BTV, manager Xie Feng confirmed the signing of defender Kang Sang-Woo, midfielder Samir Memišević and winger Samuel Adegbenro, and that the team hopes to bring in another attacker and midfielder respectively before the end of the transfer window.[8] The other attacker turned on to be Marko Dabro as the club officially announced his transfer to Guoan along with the other aforementioned players on 15 and 16 April respectively.[9][10] Later on 22 April, Guoan announced the singing of young striker Tian Yuda. He was given the number 29 shirt.[11]