Kim Do-heon

Kim played for Suwon Samsung Bluewings and Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma before joining West Bromwich Albion. He led each team's K League title, and his technical abilities was likened to Paul Scholes in South Korea.^[1]

Kim spent a few days on trial at West Brom in December 2007,^[2] and could be loaned to the club from February with an option for a permanent switch at the end of the season.^[3] He scored his first goal for West Brom in the final match of the season against Queens Park Rangers, eight minutes after coming on as a second-half substitute. West Brom went on to win 2–0, securing them the Football League Championship title and promotion to the Premier League.^[4]

On 28 May, he completed the move to West Brom for £550,000.^[5] Kim made his Premier League debut on 16 August 2008 against Arsenal, where they lost the match 1–0. He scored once after the permanent move, in a 2–2 draw with Burnley in the FA Cup on 24 January 2009.^[6] After one and a half years in West Bromwich, he returned to South Korea.^[7]

Near the end of his playing career, he played for Malaysia Super League side Negeri Sembilan,^[8] and USL Championship side Indy Eleven.^[9]

Kim played as a main playmaker for the national under-23 team in 2004 Summer Olympics, 2002 and 2006 Asian Games, whereas he was criticised for his unstable performance in senior team.^[10] It was his biggest desire to play in the FIFA World Cup, but he finally could not appear in a World Cup match.^[11] While he was a member of South Korea's squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup,^[12] he had to watch his team's matches on the bench.

On 14 June 2008, Kim accomplished his first international hat-trick in a World Cup qualifier against Turkmenistan.^[13]

Kim is married to Jung Hye-won, who gave birth to their son on 12 August 2008. He delayed his return to Korea to visit his son for the first time, in order to participate in the opening games of the 2008–09 Premier League season.^[14]

Club

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Appearances and goals by club, season and competition^[15][16]

Club	Season	League			National cup		League cup		Continental		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Suwon Samsung Bluewings	2001	K League	12	0	?	?	3	0	?	?	—		15	0
	2002	K League	16	2	?	?	4	0	?	?	—		20	2
	2003	K League	34	4	1	0	—		—		—		35	4
	2004	K League	22	1	0	0	0	0	—		—		22	1
	2005	K League	1	0	0	0	8	1	6	1	4[a]	0	19	2
	Total		85	7	1	0	15	1	6	1	4	0	111	9
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	2005	K League	20	2	1	0	0	0	—		—		21	2
	2006	K League	25	6	0	0	5	2	—		—		30	8
	2007	K League	25	7	0	0	1	0	10	1	2[b]	0	38	8
	Total		70	15	1	0	6	2	10	1	2	0	89	18
West Bromwich Albion (loan)	2007–08	Championship	4	1	3	0	0	0	—		—		7	1
West Bromwich Albion	2008–09	Premier League	16	0	3	1	0	0	—		—		19	1
Suwon Samsung Bluewings	2009	K League	12	4	2	1	0	0	0	0	—		14	5
	2010	K League	16	2	3	0	3	1	4	0	—		26	3
	2012	K League	8	1	0	0	0	0	—		—		8	1
	2013	K League 1	6	1	0	0	—		2	0	—		8	1
	2014	K League 1	31	3	0	0	—		—		—		31	3
	Total		73	11	5	1	3	1	6	0	—		87	13
Korean Police (draft)	2011	—	—		—		?[c]	?	—		—		?	?
	2012	—	—		—		?[c]	?	—		—		?	?
	Total		—		—		?	?	—		—		?	?
Seongnam FC	2015	K League 1	35	7	2	0	—		8	2	—		45	9
	2016	K League 1	28	4	2	0	—		—		2[d]	0	32	4
	2017	K League 2	25	3	2	0	—		—		—		27	3
	Total		88	14	6	0	0	0	8	2	2	0	104	16
Negeri Sembilan	2018	Malaysia Super League	18	0	1	0	—		—		5[e]	0	24	0
Indy Eleven	2019	USL Championship	7	1	0	0	—		—		0	0	7	1
Career total			361	49	20	2	24	4	30	4	13	0	448	59

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1. [a]

   Three appearances in A3 Champions Cup, one appearance in Korean Super Cup
2. [b]

   Appearances in A3 Champions Cup
3. [c]

   Appearance(s) in Korea National League Championship
4. [d]

   Appearances in the K League relegation playoffs
5. [e]

   Appearances in the Malaysia Challenge Cup

International

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Appearances and goals by national team and year^[17]

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
South Korea	2003	4	1
	2004	8	2
	2005	11	0
	2006	14	4
	2007	7	1
	2008	7	3
	2009	2	0
	2010	5	0
	2012	4	1
Career total		62	12

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List of international goals scored by Kim Do-heon

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	4 December 2003	National Stadium, Tokyo, Japan	Hong Kong	1–0	3–1	2003 EAFF Championship
2	9 June 2004	Daejeon World Cup Stadium, Daejeon, South Korea	Vietnam	2–0	2–0	2006 FIFA World Cup qualification
3	17 November 2004	Seoul World Cup Stadium, Seoul, South Korea	Maldives	1–0	2–0	2006 FIFA World Cup qualification
4	22 February 2006	Al-Hamadaniah Stadium, Aleppo, Syria	Syria	1–0	2–1	2007 AFC Asian Cup qualification
5	23 May 2006	Seoul World Cup Stadium, Seoul, South Korea	Senegal	1–0	1–1	Friendly
6	16 August 2006	Zhongshan Soccer Stadium, Taipei, Chinese Taipei	Chinese Taipei	3–0	3–0	2007 AFC Asian Cup qualification
7	6 September 2006	Suwon World Cup Stadium, Suwon, South Korea	Chinese Taipei	6–0	8–0	2007 AFC Asian Cup qualification
8	15 July 2007	Gelora Bung Karno Stadium, Jakarta, Indonesia	Bahrain	1–0	1–2	2007 AFC Asian Cup
9	14 June 2008	Saparmurat Turkmenbashi Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan	Turkmenistan	1–0	3–1	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification
10				2–1
11				3–1
12	30 May 2012	Stade de Suisse, Bern, Switzerland	Spain	1–1	1–4	Friendly

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Suwon Samsung Bluewings

• K League 1: 2004^[18]
• Korean FA Cup: 2002, 2009^[19]
• Korean League Cup: 2001, 2005^[19]
• Korean Super Cup: 2005^[19]
• Asian Club Championship: 2000–01, 2001–02^[20]
• Asian Super Cup: 2001, 2002^[21]
• A3 Champions Cup: 2005^[22]
• Pan-Pacific Championship: 2009^[23]

Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma

• K League 1: 2006^[18]
• Korean League Cup runner-up: 2006^[19]

West Bromwich Albion

• Football League Championship: 2007–08

South Korea U23

• Asian Games bronze medal: 2002^[24]

South Korea

• AFC Asian Cup third place: 2007^[25]
• EAFF Championship: 2003^[26]

Individual

• K League All-Star: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2014, 2015^{[27][28][29][30][31][32][33]}
• K League 1 Best XI: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007^{[34][35][36][37]}
• K League 1 Most Valuable Player: 2006^[36]
• Korean FA Goal of the Year: 2006^[38]
• K League Players' Player of the Year: 2007^[39]