Cheng Chin Lung
Cheng Chin Lung (Chinese: 鄭展龍; Jyutping: Zeng6 Zin2lung4; born 7 January 1998) is a Hong Kong professional footballer who currently plays for Hong Kong Premier League club Kitchee.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Cheng Chin Lung | ||
| Date of birth | 7 January 1998 | ||
| Place of birth | Hong Kong | ||
| Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Attacking midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Kitchee | ||
| Number | 28 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2008–2015 | Kitchee | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2015– | Kitchee | 28 | (5) |
| 2017–2018 | → Dreams FC (loan) | 8 | (0) |
| 2021–2022 | → Southern (loan) | 4 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2013–2014 | Hong Kong U-16 | 7 | (2) |
| 2015 | Hong Kong U-19 | 3 | (1) |
| 2017–2019 | Hong Kong U-23 | 3 | (0) |
| 2017– | Hong Kong | 4 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 3 March 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 19 July 2022 | |||
Youth career Edit
A fan of both basketball and football, Cheng applied to join the Kitchee academy at age 9 but was turned down. Not wanting to waste his son's talent, Cheng's father sought out academy coach Chu Chi Kwong personally to ask him to give his son another chance. Cheng was granted another trial and was accepted into the academy at age 10. He later became part of the first class of players to graduate from the Kitchee academy and into the first team when he signed a professional contract in 2015.[1]
Club career Edit
During Kitchee's 2015 AFC Cup quarter final match on 16 September 2015, Cheng was handed his first team debut as a substitute late in the match.[2] On 23 April 2016, Cheng scored his first professional goal in a 4-2 win over Hong Kong Pegasus.[3]
In June 2016, Cheng tore his anterior cruciate ligament in a HKFA Youth Cup match and was sidelined for nine months following surgery and rehabilitation.[4] Cheng missed the entire 2016-17 season as a result of the injury.
In July 2017, new Dreams FC manager Leung Chi Wing persuaded Cheng to join his club on loan. On 26 August, he played his first professional match in over a year, starting the game and playing 65 minutes against Tai Po.[5] On 9 January 2018, Cheng was recalled by Kitchee ahead of their 2018 AFC Champions League campaign.[6]
On 14 March 2018, Cheng scored a stunning left-footed curler at the edge of the penalty box in the 92nd minute to give Kitchee a historic 1-0 win in the 2018 AFC Champions League Group stage match over Japanese side Kashiwa Reysol, making him the first ever Hong Kong-born player to receive Man of the Match and Kitchee the first ever team from Hong Kong to win a game in the Champions League.[7]
On 16 August 2021, Cheng joined Southern on loan.
On 3 March 2022, Cheng returned to Kitchee from loan.
International career Edit
On 9 November 2017, Cheng made his senior national team debut in a friendly against Bahrain at the age of 19.
Career statistics Edit
Club Edit
- As of 23 February 2020.
| Club | Season | League | FA Cup | Senior Shield | Continental | Other | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Kitchee | 2014–15 | Hong Kong Premier League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1[a] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2015–16 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4[a] | 1 | 3[b] | 0 | 9 | 2 | ||
| 2016–17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Total | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 2 | ||
| Dreams FC (loan) | 2017–18 | Hong Kong Premier League | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 2[c] | 2 | 12 | 2 | |
| Kitchee | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4[d] | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | ||
| 2018–19 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7[e] | 2 | 4[c] | 0 | 16 | 3 | ||
| 2019–20 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8[c] | 0 | 15 | 1 | ||
| Total | 14 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 39 | 7 | ||
| Career total | 24 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 4 | 17 | 2 | 61 | 11 | ||
- Notes
- ^ a b Appearances in the AFC Cup
- ^ Appearances in the Hong Kong Sapling Cup & 2015–16 Hong Kong season play-off
- ^ a b c Appearances in the Hong Kong Sapling Cup
- ^ Appearances in the AFC Champions League
- ^ Appearances in the AFC Champions League qualification & AFC Cup
International Edit
- As of matches played 19 July 2022.
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hong Kong | 2017 | 1 | 0 |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 4 | 0 | |
Honours Edit
Club Edit
- Kitchee
- Hong Kong Premier League: 2016–17, 2017–18, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2022–23
- Hong Kong Senior Shield: 2016–17, 2018–19, 2022–23
- Hong Kong FA Cup: 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2022–23
- Hong Kong Sapling Cup: 2017–18, 2019–20
- Hong Kong League Cup: 2015–16
Individual Edit
- Best Young Player: 2018
References Edit
- ^ . Yan Chai Hospital Tung Chi Ying Memorial Secondary School. Archived from the original on 13 September 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2015. (in Chinese)
- ^ "加西亞：傑志球員！你們打得很好". on.cc. Retrieved 16 September 2015. (in Chinese)
- ^ "辛祖入兩粒！傑志4比2贏香港飛馬". on.cc. Retrieved 23 April 2016. (in Chinese)
- ^ "東網直播青少年聯賽足總盃決賽 明日之星決一高下". on.cc. Retrieved 10 July 2016. (in Chinese)
- ^ . HKFA. Archived from the original on 25 August 2017. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
- ^ "傑志主場首戰對手欲組國腳級防線 全北汽車向江蘇蘇寧提出借洪正好". Upower. Retrieved 9 January 2018. (in Chinese)
- ^ "History made as Kitchee become first Hong Kong club to earn victory in the AFC Champions League".