Yuan Zheng (; born 18 January 1997) is a Chinese

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 ...

currently playing 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 Gondomar.

Club career

Born and raised in

Nanjing Nanjing (; , Mandarin pronunciation: ), alternately romanized as Nanking, is the capital of Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China. It is a sub-provincial city, a megacity, and the second largest city in the East China region. T ...

, Yuan played for the Jiangsu regional team, before briefly joining

Jiangsu Suning Jiangsu Football Club (), later known as Jiangsu Sainty F.C. (2000–2016) and Jiangsu Suning F.C. (2016–2021), was a professional football club that participated in the Chinese Super League since 2009 until its dissolution in 2021. The te ...

. He played professionally for

Nanjing Shaye Nanjing Shaye Football Club () is a professional Chinese football club that currently participates in the China League Two. The team is based in Nanjing, Jiangsu. History The club was originally a nondescript local amateur team named Nanjing Zho ...

in the 2019 season, and had also represented the team the year before in the

Chinese Champions League The Chinese Football Association Member Association Champions League (Simplified Chinese: 中国足球协会会员协会冠军联赛), or CMCL, former known as Chinese Football Association Bing League (中国足球协会丙级联赛) (before 2006 ...

Career statistics

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References

1997 births Living people Sportspeople from Nanjing Chinese men's footballers Men's association football midfielders China League Two players Jiangsu F.C. players Gondomar S.C. players Chinese expatriate men's footballers Chinese expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal {{PRChina-footy-bio-stub