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| Full name | Yunnan Yukun Football Club 云南玉昆足球俱乐部 | ||
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| Founded | 31 July 2021 | ||
| Ground | Yuxi Plateau Sports Center Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 25,000 | ||
| Owner | Yukun Steel Group Co., Ltd. | ||
| Chairman | Guo Guangqi | ||
| Head coach | Jørn Andersen | ||
| League | Chinese Super League | ||
| 2024 | China League One, 1st of 16 (promoted) | ||
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Yunnan Yukun Football Club (Chinese: 云南玉昆足球俱乐部; pinyin: Yúnnán Yùkūn Zúqiú Jùlèbù) is a Chinese professional football club based in Yuxi, Yunnan, that competes in the Chinese Super League, the top tier of Chinese football. Yunnan Yukun plays its home matches at the Yuxi Plateau Sports Center Stadium, located within Hongta District.
Founded in 2021 as Yunnan Yukun Steel Football Club, the club briefly changed their name to Yuxi Yukun Steel Football Club in 2022 before settling with their current name in 2023. The club gained three successive promotions, going from the fourth-tier of Chinese football to the top-flight between 2022 and 2024. With their promotion to the Chinese Super League in 2024, they became the first club from Yunnan to play in the CSL since its inception in 2004, and became the first club from Yunnan to play in the Chinese top-flight since Yunnan Hongta twenty-one years prior.