Shijiazhuang Yongchang F.C.
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| Full name | Shijiazhuang Ever Bright Football Club |
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| Founded | 4 January 2001 (amateur) 25 February 2011 (professional) |
| Ground | Yutong International Sports Center |
| Capacity | 29,000 |
| Owner | Zhang Huafang |
| Chairman | Li Xiaopeng |
| Manager | Afshin Ghotbi |
| League | China League One |
| 2016 | Super League, 16th (relegated) |
| Website | Club home page |
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 China League One under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team is based in Shijiazhuang, Hebei and their home stadium is the Yutong International Sports Center that has a seating capacity of 38,500. Their majority shareholder is the Yongchang Real Estate who own 70% of the shares of the club.
The club was established as an amateur club named Xiamen Dongyuhang (Simplified Chinese: 厦门东屿行) on January 4, 2001 and initially played in Xiamen within the Fujian province. The club would play within the amateur leagues for several seasons until they established themselves as champions of Fujian Province in 2009. This would then lead to the club playing in the China Amateur Football League where in 2010 they claimed a runners-up spot. After this result on February 25, 2011 the club was reorganized as a professional football club when 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) invested 10 million Yuan into the club. The name of the club was changed into Fujian Smart Hero, they moved away from the Xiamen Sports Center Stadium into the Longyan Sports Center and appointed Zhao Tuqiang as their manager. Within their debut professional 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.
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