Zhang Yonghai () (born March 15, 1979, in

Panjin Panjin () is a coastal prefecture-level city in central Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, situated on the northern shore of the Liaodong Bay. It borders Anshan to the east, Yingkou to the southeast, and Jinzhou to the west and north ...

) is a former Chinese football player who played as a defender.

Club career

Zhang Yonghai started his football career with Liaoning F.C. youth team where he eventually graduated to the senior Liaoning team in 2001. After several seasons with Liaoning FC where he would establish himself as a regular within the team he would join reigning league champions

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in the 2005 league season for a season long loan period. He returned to Liaoning for another season until the beginning of 2007 league season saw him transfer to

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for 4,000,000

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. He would gradually establish himself as a regular in defence and by the 2008 league season he would be named as vice-captain. In the 2009 league season he would go on to aid Beijing to win the

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title. On 28 February 2014, Zhang transferred to

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side

Liaoning Whowin Liaoning Football Club (), officially known as Liaoning Hongyun (), was a professional association football club with a long history in Chinese football. The club can predate their formation to 1953, when Shenyang government sports body joined ex ...

. On 18 July 2014, Zhang transferred to

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side

Chengdu Tiancheng Chengdu Tiancheng F.C. () was a Chinese professional football club based in Chengdu, China who last played in the 26,000 seater Shuangliu Sports Center in the China League One division. The club was founded on 26 February 1996 and was formerly kn ...

International career

Zhang Yonghai would begin his international career on March 26, 2005, when he played in a friendly against

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in a 3-0 defeat. Under the Chinese Head coach

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he would play in several more friendlies and play in the

2005 East Asian Cup The 2005 EAFF East Asian Football Championship was a football competition between teams from East Asian countries and territories held from 31 July to 7 August 2005 in South Korea, with the qualifiers held in Taiwan in March 2005. China PR, So ...

where he would score his first goal. He would, however, be dropped soon afterwards until the next Chinese head coach

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would include him in several further friendlies but would once again drop him soon afterwards.

Career statistics

Club statistics

International goals

Honours

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References

External links

Player profile
at 163.com
Player profile
at Sina.com *
Player stats
at Sohu.com 1979 births Living people People from Panjin Chinese men's footballers Footballers from Liaoning China men's international footballers Liaoning F.C. players Shenzhen F.C. players Beijing Guoan F.C. players Shanghai Shenxin F.C. players Chengdu Tiancheng F.C. players Chinese Super League players China League One players Men's association football defenders {{PRChina-footy-bio-stub