Ruan Yang
_(cropped).jpg) Ruan in 2025 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 13 December 1993 | ||
| Place of birth | Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China | ||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
| Position | Right winger | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Nantong Zhiyun | ||
| Number | 11 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2008–2010 | Hangzhou Greentown | ||
| 2011–2012 | Real SC | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2011 | Wenzhou Provenza | 15 | (5) |
| 2012–2013 | Sporting CP B | 1 | (0) |
| 2013 | → Amora (loan) | 3 | (1) |
| 2013–2017 | Hangzhou Greentown | 0 | (0) |
| 2018–2019 | Hunan Billows | 36 | (7) |
| 2019–2022 | Kunshan FC | 89 | (14) |
| 2023 | Yunnan Yukun | 8 | (0) |
| 2023 | Nantong Zhiyun | 10 | (1) |
| 2024 | Shenzhen Peng City | 11 | (0) |
| 2025 | Tianjin Jinmen Tiger | 9 | (0) |
| 2026– | Nantong Zhiyun | 0 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 26 August 2025 | |||
Ruan Yang (Chinese: 阮杨; born 13 December 1993) is a Chinese footballer who plays as a right winger for Nantong Zhiyun.
Career
[edit]Ruan Yang was born in Hangzhou, China. He started his football career when he joined Hangzhou Greentown's youth academy in 2008. After joining the academy, he was sent to the clubs reserve team Wenzhou Provenza who were allowed to play in the Chinese football pyramid before being one of the players in the football star project and went to Portugal for football training in 2011.[1] He arrived in Portugal on 16 December 2011, he played for Real SC's youth team alongside Li Yuanyi in the 2011–12 season. In the summer of 2012, he trained with Sporting CP B and signed a contract to play for the team. Ruan made his first appearance for Sporting CP B on 6 December 2012, coming on as a substitute in a 3–2 loss against Uniao Madeira. In the winter of 2013, he was loaned to low tier club Amora. He played three games and scored one goal before he returned to China in March 2013.[citation needed] Ruan then signed with Chinese Super League side Hangzhou Greentown on 1 July 2013.
At Hangzhou, Ruan would struggle to gain much playing time and was even dropped to the reserves before he transferred to League Two side Hunan Billows on 9 March 2018.[2] He would transfer to another third tier club in Kunshan FC and be part of the team that gained promotion to the second tier at the end of the 2019 China League Two campaign.[3] He would go on to establish himself as regular within the team and was part of the squad that won the division and promotion to the top tier at the end of the 2022 China League One campaign.[4]
On 1 March 2026, Yuan returned to Nantong Zhiyun for the 2026 season.[5]
Career statistics
[edit]- As of 25 December 2022.[6]
| Club | Season | League | National cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Wenzhou Provenza | 2011 | China League Two | 15 | 5 | – | – | – | 15 | 5 | |||
| Sporting CP B | 2012–13 | Segunda Liga | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | |||
| Amora (loan) | 2013 | Terceira Divisão | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 3 | 1 | ||
| Hangzhou Greentown | 2013 | Chinese Super League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | – | – | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Hunan Billows | 2018 | China League Two | 24 | 2 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 26 | 2 | ||
| 2019 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 30 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 36 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 7 | ||
| Kunshan FC | 2019 | China League Two | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 12 | 3 | ||
| 2020 | China League One | 15 | 2 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 17 | 2 | |||
| 2021 | 32 | 5 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 32 | 5 | ||||
| 2022 | 30 | 4 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 30 | 4 | ||||
| Total | 89 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 91 | 14 | ||
| Career total | 144 | 27 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152 | 28 | ||
Honours
[edit]Kunshan FC
References
[edit]- ↑ "关于公布中国青少年球员赴葡萄牙培训名单的通知". fa.org.cn. 30 August 2011. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
- ↑ 官宣!苑维玮等8将正式加盟湘涛 at sports.sina.com 9 March 2018 Retrieved 2018-03-09 (in Chinese)
- ↑ "足协公布三级联赛准入名单：深足递补天海进入中超". sports.people.com.cn (in Chinese). 23 May 2020. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
- 1 2 "2022中甲联赛圆满落幕 昆山强势打破两项记录". sports.sina.com.cn (in Chinese). 8 December 2022. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
- ↑ "官方：前锋阮杨重返南通支云，上赛季球员效力于天津津门虎". dongqiudi.com (in Chinese). 1 March 2026. Retrieved 3 March 2026.
- ↑ "RUAN YANG". Soccerway. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
External links
[edit]- Ruan Yang at Soccerway
- 1993 births
- Living people
- Chinese men's footballers
- Sportspeople from Hangzhou
- Footballers from Zhejiang
- Zhejiang Professional F.C. players
- Real Sport Clube players
- Wenzhou Provenza F.C. players
- Sporting CP B players
- Amora F.C. players
- Hunan Billows F.C. players
- Kunshan F.C. players
- Yunnan Yukun F.C. players
- Nantong Zhiyun F.C. players
- Shenzhen Peng City F.C. players
- Tianjin Jinmen Tiger F.C. players
- Chinese Super League players
- China League One players
- China League Two players
- Liga Portugal 2 players
- 21st-century Chinese sportsmen
- Chinese expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal
- Chinese expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
- Men's association football wingers