Jeong Chung-geun (born 1 March 1995) is a South Korean professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who plays for K League 1 club Gyeongnam.

Career

After playing for various youth teams in his native South Korea, Jeong moved to the

Nantes Nantes (, , ; Gallo: or ; ) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 314,138 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabita ...

academy in France in 2010. Between 2013 and 2016, he would compete for the reserve team in the fourth-tier Championnat National 2. Jeong Chung-geun joined

J2 League The or simply J2 is the second division of the and the second level of the Japanese association football league system. The top tier is represented by the J1 League. It (along with the rest of the J.League) is currently sponsored by Meiji Yas ...

club Yokohama FC on 20 December 2016. He made 52 appearances for the club, scoring three goals. From July 2018 to December 2018, he was loaned to league rivals

Fagiano Okayama is a Japanese football club based in Okayama, the capital of Okayama Prefecture. They play in the J2 League, the second tier of the country's football league system. Their home stadium is City Light Stadium, in Okayama City, though some home ma ...

. In 2019, he signed with

Machida Zelvia is a Japanese football club based in Machida, Tokyo. History Machida is known as "Brazil of Tokyo" due to the popularity of football in the city; it has, in fact, produced the second-largest number of J. League players though its football scho ...

, who also competed in the second division. After 52 second division games, he returned to South Korea in early 2021. There, he signed a contract with

Suwon Suwon (, ) is the capital and largest city of Gyeonggi-do, South Korea's most populous province which surrounds Seoul, the national capital. Suwon lies about south of Seoul. It is traditionally known as "The City of Filial Piety". With a populati ...

in the K League 1. Ahead of the 2022 season, Jeong joined Gyeongnam after being part of a swap deal involving

Chang Hyuk-jin Chang Hyuk-jin (; born 6 December 1989) is a South Korean professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for K League 2 club Chungbuk Cheongju. Club career Chang joined Gangwon FC for the 2011 K League season, having previously turned ou ...

Club statistics

''Updated as of 2022 season''.Nippon Sports Kikaku Publishing inc./日本スポーツ企画出版社
"J1&J2&J3選手名鑑ハンディ版 2018 (NSK MOOK)"
7 February 2018, Japan, (p. 192 out of 289)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jeong, Chung-geun 1995 births Living people Sportspeople from Pohang South Korean men's footballers Pohang Steelers players FC Nantes players Championnat National 2 players J2 League players K League 1 players K League 2 players Yokohama FC players Fagiano Okayama players FC Machida Zelvia players Suwon FC players Gyeongnam FC players Men's association football midfielders Expatriate men's footballers in France South Korean expatriates in France South Korean expatriate sportspeople in France Expatriate men's footballers in Japan South Korean expatriates in Japan South Korean expatriate sportspeople in Japan Footballers from North Gyeongsang Province