Chen Guokang
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| Date of birth | 23 January 1999 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Leizhou, Guangdong, China | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Foshan Nanshi | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 6 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2014–2020 | Guangzhou Evergrande | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2020–2024 | Meizhou Hakka | 61 | (8) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023 | → Guangzhou FC (loan) | 6 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2024 | → Ganzhou Ruishi (loan) | 23 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2025- | Foshan Nanshi | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2017-2019 | China U19 | 5 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022-2023 | China U22 | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022- | China | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 31 December 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 27 July 2022 | |||||||||||||||||
Chen Guokang (simplified Chinese: 陈国抗; traditional Chinese: 陳國抗; pinyin: Chén Guókàng; born 23 January 1999) is a Chinese professional footballer currently playing as a midfielder for China League One club Foshan Nanshi.
Chen Guokang joined the Guangzhou Evergrande youth team in 2014 as a midfielder, before being selected for Chinese youth teams, where he was shifted into a full-back.[1] On 20 April 2020, Chen joined second tier football club Meizhou Hakka.[2] He would make his debut on 13 September 2020 in a league game against Liaoning Shenyang Urban in a 2-0 victory, where the Head coach Marcelo Rospide pushed Chen back into midfield.[3] Playing as an attacking midfielder, Chen would soon go on to score his first goal against Jiangxi Liansheng on 20 September 2020 in a league game that ended in a 4-0 victory.[4] The following season would see Chen go on to establish himself as a vital member of the team that gained promotion to the top tier after coming second within the division at the end of the 2021 China League One campaign.[5]
International career
On 20 July 2022, Chen made his international debut in a 3-0 defeat against South Korea in the 2022 EAFF E-1 Football Championship, as the Chinese FA decided to field the U-23 national team for this senior competition.[6]
