Shijiazhuang Ever Bright F.C.

On February 25, 2011, the club was founded by Smart Hero International Trading Limited (骏豪投资有限公司), Xiamen Dongyuhang Import & Export Co., Ltd. (厦门东屿行进出口有限公司), Xiamen City HS Sheng Industrial Co., Ltd. (厦门协晟工贸有限公司) and Xiamen City Shengxin Metal Products Co., Ltd. (厦门金盛鑫金属制),[1][2] on the basis of local amateur club Xiamen Dongyuhang, which just won the runners-up spot of China Amateur Football League last year, as Fujian Smart Hero F.C. (Chinese: 福建骏豪足球俱乐部). Within their debut season they played in the China League Two division within the 2011 league season where their home uniforms were yellow tops and black shorts. Fujian in their first season would win promotion to the 2012 China League One division via the League One relegation play-off which Fujian beat Guizhou Zhicheng 6–5 in a Penalty shootout.[3]

In the 2012 China League One campaign Xu Hui was appointed as manager and he would lead the club to a third-place finish. This saw Yongchang Real Estate (Chinese: 永昌地产集团) interested in the team and they bought 70% shares of the club, which officially went through on January 18, 2013.[4] The club moved to Hebei Province's capital city Shijiazhuang into the Yutong International Sports Center, changed the club's colors to blue and the team's name into Shijiazhuang Yongchang Junhao F.C. (Chinese: 石家庄永昌骏豪足球俱乐部). On December 27, 2013 Yongchang Real Estate bought the remaining 30% shares of the club and on February 24, 2014 Shijiazhuang Yongchang Junhao F.C. changed their name to Shijiazhuang Yongchang F.C.(Chinese: 石家庄永昌足球俱乐部).[5][6] In the 2014 league season Shijiazhuang Yongchang won promotion to the top tier in the first time in their history when they came runners-up within their division. The club's first act within the top flight was to change their English name to Shijiazhuang Ever Bright F.C. (while their Chinese name still remain as 石家庄永昌) in January 2015.

In the club's debut season within the top tier saw the club's manager Yasen Petrov able to guide the team to seventh in the league and safely away from relegation at the end of the 2015 league season.[7] The following campaign would prove to be considerably more difficult and Yasen Petrov was relieved of his position on 14 July 2016 and replaced by Li Jinyu on a caretaker basis, after a run of bad form saw the club in a relegation battle.[8] The club were relegated at the end of the 2016 Chinese Super League season and on 7 November 2016 brought in Afshin Ghotbi as their new coach for the following season.[9] Fortunately, they remained contenders for promotion in the next few seasons, but despite earning third place in 2017, they failed to win promotion for the next two years.

• 2011–12: Fujian Smart Hero (福建骏豪)
• 2013: Shijiazhuang Yongchang Junhao (石家庄永昌骏豪)
• 2014: Shijiazhuang Yongchang (石家庄永昌)
• 2015–: Shijiazhuang Ever Bright (石家庄永昌)

As of 7 March 2019 [10]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 2 FW Zhang Shuai 3 DF Cao Xuan 4 DF Zhou Jiahao 5 DF Wu Haoran 6 DF Yang Yun 7 MF Zang Yifeng 8 MF Li Chunyu 9 FW Oscar Maritu 10 FW Matheus 11 FW Muriqui 12 GK Shao Puliang 13 MF Feng Shaoshun 14 MF Ci Tian 16 DF Jiao Zhe 17 FW Wang Zihao 20 FW Liu Xinyu 21 MF Tan Xiang 22 MF Zhong Jiyu 23 FW Yang Yiming

No. Position Player 24 DF Lü Jianjun 26 DF An Shuo 27 FW Liu Ziming 28 MF Zhan Minwei 33 MF Piao Shihao 35 MF Guo Sheng 36 DF Li Jinyang 41 MF Zheng Zhiyun 56 MF Chen-Zeng Tailang 58 GK Liu Wei - GK Han Feng - DF Liao Chengjian - DF Stoppila Sunzu - MF Rômulo - MF Wang Hongyu - MF Wang Peng (on loan from Shenzhen F.C.) - MF Deng Yubiao (on loan from Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao) - MF Chen Pu (on loan from Shandong Luneng Taishan)

Reserve squad

As of 7 March 2019

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Wu Chao 25 MF Wang Zhuo 42 MF Zhang Hao 43 GK Zhang Yi 44 MF Guo Yunqi 45 MF Chen Zitong 46 DF Zhou Songtao 47 MF Wu Xiaotian 48 MF Wang Chunkai 49 DF Zhang Hongkui 50 MF Pei Ziqi

No. Position Player 51 DF Li Fengyin 52 FW Li Xun 53 DF Chen Yuhang 54 GK Long Tengyi 57 MF Mao Ziyu 59 DF Lü Hongchen 60 MF Guo Song 61 DF Wang Peng 62 MF Wang shen 63 FW Pan Chaoran 64 DF Zhang Yifeng

All-time League Rankings

As of the end of 2018 season.[14][15]

• ^1 In group stage.

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