Kim Jin-gyu (; born 24 February 1997) is a South Korean

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 as a

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

for

Gimcheon Sangmu Gimcheon Sangmu FC (Hangul: 김천 상무 프로축구단; Hanja: 金泉尚武 프로蹴球團) is a South Korean professional association football club based in Gimcheon that competes in the K League 2, the second tier of South Korean football. ...

and the South Korea national team.

Career

Kim signed a professional contract with

Busan IPark Busan IPark ( ko, 부산 아이파크) is a South Korean professional football club based in Busan that competes in K League 2, the second tier of the South Korean football pyramid. Its current home ground is Busan Gudeok Stadium. The club was o ...

in January 2015. Kim made his debut for the club on 4 July 2015 in a 1–0 defeat to

Seongnam FC Seongnam () is the fourth largest city in South Korea's Gyeonggi Province after Suwon and the 10th largest city in the country. Its population is approximately one million. Seongnam is a satellite city of Seoul. It is largely a residential cit ...

. He scored his professional debut goal on 27 July against Daejeon Citizens to become the youngest goal scorer in the

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. Under

Choi Yun-kyum Choi Yun-kyum is a South Korean football manager at K League 2 side joining recently from K3 League, Chungbuk Cheongju FC. He played in the K-League for Yukong Elephants from 1985 to 1992. After he retired, he moved into coaching, firstly as an ...

in 2018, Kim featured regularly on the left side of a front three. However, Choi's replacement

Cho Deok-je Cho Deok-je (, born October 26, 1965) is a former South Korea football player and manager current assistant coach of Malaysia. Playing career After playing for Ajou University in his youth career, Cho signed for Daewoo Royals in 1988. The mid ...

preferred to use Kim in central midfield. Under Cho, Kim was a regular for the side that went on to gain promotion to the K League 1. In January 2020, Kim played for the South Korea U-23 team at the AFC U23 Championship. The team won the tournament to qualify for the

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...

. In July 2021, Kim was named in the final squad for the

. He made three appearances in South Korea's run to the quarter finals. On 17 March 2022,

Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors ( ko, 전북 현대 모터스) is a South Korean professional football club based in Jeonju, North Jeolla Province that competes in the K League 1, the top tier of South Korean football. Playing at the Jeonju World Cup S ...

announced the official signing of Kim. He made his debut game for

Jeonbuk Hyundai Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors ( ko, 전북 현대 모터스) is a South Korean professional football club based in Jeonju, North Jeolla Province that competes in the K League 1, the top tier of South Korean football. Playing at the Jeonju World Cup St ...

on 19 March 2022 in a draw against

Club career statistics

''As of 4 March 2023''

¹Includes

K League Promotion-Relegation Playoffs K League (Hangul: K리그) is South Korea's professional football league. It includes first division K League 1 and second division K League 2. History Until the 1970s, South Korean football operated two major football leagues, the National S ...

and

AFC Champions League The AFC Champions League (abbreviated as ACL) is an annual continental club football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation, and contested by Asia's top-division football clubs. It is the most prestigious club competition ...

International goals

:''Scores and results list South Korea's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Kim goal''.

Honours

Club

;

Korean FA Cup The Korean FA Cup is a national football cup knockout competition of South Korea, held annually by the Korea Football Association (KFA). Before the FA Cup was established in 1996, two predecessor competitions named All Joseon Football Tournament ...

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International

South Korea U23 *

AFC U-23 Championship The AFC U-23 Asian Cup, previously the AFC U-22 Championship (in 2013) and AFC U-23 Championship (between 2016 and 2020), is a biennial international football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the men's under-23 ...

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References

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* 1997 births Living people People from Pohang Association football midfielders South Korean footballers Busan IPark players Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors players K League 1 players K League 2 players Footballers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers of South Korea Sportspeople from North Gyeongsang Province {{SouthKorea-footy-midfielder-stub