Huang Yang (, born 30 October 1983) is a

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-born

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ese professional

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who currently plays as a

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for

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club

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and

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the Hong Kong national team. He was the

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in 2013.

Early career

Huang played for

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's youth academy when he was 15. He was a member of the team that trained in Brazil with

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and Portuguesa. He played for China as captain at the 2005 Summer Universiade. and was loaned by Shenhua to Shanghai Qunying.

University

Huang attended

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and played football at the same time. When he graduated he gave up professional football to start work. A year later, Donghua's football team re-called him as an alumnus when

Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is a public research university located in Hung Hom, Hong Kong near Hung Hom station. The University is one of the eight government-funded degree-granting tertiary institutions in Hong Kong. Founded ...

(HKPU) arrived in Shanghai for a friendly. At the time, the HKPU wanted to recruit Chinese students with football talent and Huang thus joined to study at HKPU. In the three years since he joined, Hong Kong Polytechnic University won the University Sports Federation of Hong Kong's football competition twice, including in 2011 when Huang was captain and scored the winning penalty. After that, Huang completed his second degree and decided to join

to complete his unfinished dream.

Club career

Kitchee

He finished his studies in summer 2011 and

recruited him for the 2011–12 Hong Kong First Division League season. As he has already spent 3 years in Hong Kong as a student, he could be registered as a local player. The first game he played for

was against

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in the 2011 Barclays Asia Trophy. He was the player who managed

's only shot at the Chelsea goal. He then played in the third place play-off against

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. He received good reviews from the fans despite the 0–3 loss. On 18 September 2011, he scored his first goal in Hong Kong in his club's 4–2 win over

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. On 4 January 2020, Huang made his 250th appearance for the club in the

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match against Rangers.

International career

On 2 February 2012, Huang was called up to the

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for the friendly against

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.黃洋梁子成首入港足
''Ta Kung Pao''. 3 February 2012. On 29 February 2012, he made his debut for

against

. On 11 October 2016, Huang scored his first international goal for

in the friendly against

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. Starting from the 2019 EAFF E-1 Football Championship Round 2 in November 2018, Huang has become the captain of

Career statistics

Club

;Notes

International

Honours

Club

;Kitchee *

: 2014–15, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2019–20 * Hong Kong First Division: 2011–12, 2013–14 *

Hong Kong Senior Shield The Hong Kong Senior Challenge Shield (), known commonly as the Senior Shield, is the football knockout inter-club competition held in Hong Kong and the fourth oldest football tournament in Asia. Traditionally, only the teams in the Hong Kong ...

: 2016–17, 2018–19 *

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: 2011–12, 2012–13, 2014–15, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19 *

Hong Kong Sapling Cup Hong Kong Football Association Sapling Cup (), more commonly known as Sapling Cup (), is a Hong Kong domestic football competition contested by all the teams in the Hong Kong Premier League. The objective of the Cup is to provide more playing opp ...

: 2017–18, 2019–20 *

Hong Kong League Cup Hong Kong Football Association League Cup () is an annual football competition contested by clubs in the top-tier Hong Kong domestic football league (currently Hong Kong Premier League). The cup was relaunched for the 2014–15 season after being ...

: 2011–12, 2014–15, 2015–16 *

Hong Kong Community Cup Hong Kong Community Cup (), formerly known as Hong Kong Community Shield (), is the football super cup competition in Hong Kong played between the winners of the Hong Kong Premier League (previously the Hong Kong First Division League) and the ...

: 2016–17, 2017–18 *Hong Kong AFC Play-Off: 2015–16

Individual

* Hong Kong Footballer of the Year: 2013

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Huang, Yang 1983 births Living people Hong Kong footballers Hong Kong international footballers Association football midfielders Hong Kong First Division League players Hong Kong Premier League players Kitchee SC players Donghua University alumni