Shijiazhuang Ever Bright F.C.
Shijiazhuang Ever Bright Football Club (simplified Chinese: 石家庄永昌; traditional Chinese: 石家莊永昌; pinyin: Shíjiāzhuāng Yǒngchāng) is a professional football club that currently participates in the Chinese Super League under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team is based in Shijiazhuang, Hebei and their home stadium is the Hebei Olympic Sports Centre Stadium that has a seating capacity of 60,000. Their majority shareholder is the Yongchang Real Estate who own 70% of the shares of the club.
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| Full name | Shijiazhuang Ever Bright Football Club | |
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| Founded | 25 February 2011 | |
| Ground | Yutong International Sports Center | |
| Capacity | 60,000 | |
| Owner | Zhang Huafang | |
| Chairman | Li Xiaopeng | |
| Manager | Afshin Ghotbi | |
| League | Chinese Super League | |
| 2019 | China League One, 2nd (promoted) | |
| Website | Club website | |
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History
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.
Name history
- 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)
Current squad
First team squad
- As of 20 July 2020[10]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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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.
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Unregistered players
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Out on loan
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Coaching staff
| Position | Staff |
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| Conditioning coach |  |
| Technical analyst |  |
Source: sina.com
Managerial history
Managers who have coached the club since they became a completely professional unit on February 25, 2011.[11][12]
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Honours
Results
All-time League Rankings
As of the end of 2019 season.[14][15]
| Year | Div | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Pos. | FA Cup | Super Cup | AFC | Att./G | Stadium |
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| 2011 | 3 | 26 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 32 | 16 | 16 | 39 1 | 3 | DNE | DNQ | DNQ | Longyan Sports Center | |
| 2012 | 2 | 30 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 41 | 32 | 9 | 46 | 3 | R2 | DNQ | DNQ | 4,142 | Fuzhou Stadium / Jinjiang Sports Center Stadium |
| 2013 | 2 | 30 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 26 | 25 | 1 | 40 | 8 | R3 | DNQ | DNQ | 10,053 | Yutong International Sports Center |
| 2014 | 2 | 30 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 42 | 25 | 17 | 57 | RU | R2 | DNQ | DNQ | 11,208 | |
| 2015 | 1 | 30 | 8 | 15 | 7 | 34 | 31 | 3 | 39 | 7 | R3 | DNQ | DNQ | 25,070 | |
| 2016 | 1 | 30 | 7 | 9 | 14 | 28 | 53 | -25 | 30 | 16 | R4 | DNQ | DNQ | 22,523 | |
| 2017 | 2 | 30 | 14 | 12 | 4 | 48 | 34 | 14 | 54 | 3 | R3 | DNQ | DNQ | 16,219 | |
| 2018 | 2 | 30 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 43 | 38 | 5 | 45 | 6 | R3 | DNQ | DNQ | 12,405 | |
| 2019 | 2 | 30 | 18 | 2 | 10 | 59 | 42 | 17 | 56 | RU | R4 | DNQ | DNQ | 17,488 |
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