Lei Cheng Lam
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 24 January 2005 | ||
| Place of birth | Freguesia da Sé, Macau | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Shao Jiang | ||
| Number | 21 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2020–2024 | Monte Carlo | 54 | (17) |
| 2024–2025 | MUST IPO | 17 | (7) |
| 2025–2026 | University of Macau | 15 | (4) |
| 2026– | Shao Jiang | 3 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2023– | Macau | 7 | (1) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals ‡ National team caps and goals as of 19:59, 21 March 2026 (UTC) | |||
Lei Cheng Lam (Chinese: 林雷成) is a Macanese international footballer who currently plays for Liga de Elite club Shao Jiang and the Macau national team.
Lam began playing football at age six.[1] He played for his school team at St. John's Secondary School and the Youth Soccer School. In 2015, he was invited to Portugal for a two-week training camp at Benfica.[2] He then trained with Sporting CP. Lam joined the academy of Liga de Elite club C.D. Monte Carlo at age fifteen, a move the player considers critical to his development.[1]
Lam was named the Best Under-23 player in the Liga de Elite as a member of Monte Carlo following the 2022 season, receiving 80% of the votes.[2] He started and played the full ninety minutes of Monte Carlo's 1–2 defeat to Taichung Futuro of Taiwan in 2023–24 AFC Cup qualifying.[3] After several highly successful seasons with Monte Carlo, Lam became a student at the Macau University of Science and Technology and joined its football team, MUST IPO, for the 2024 season.[1] Lam was named to the League Best XI following his first season with the club.[4]
The next year, he transferred to the University of Macau and joined its football club. The player cited the team's ability to hold more frequent training sessions on its own full-size pitch as one of the main reasons for the transfer. Lam traveled to Hong Kong with Macau national team head coach Kwok Kar Lok in January 2025. There, he had a one-week training stint with Eastern Sports Club of the Hong Kong Premier League. At that time, the player expressed a desire to play abroad, beginning in Hong Kong, following graduation from university.[4]
