Wen Jiabao (footballer)
Chinese footballer
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Wen Jiabao (Chinese: 温家宝; pinyin: Wēn Jiābǎo; Mandarin pronunciation: [wə́n tɕjá pàʊ]; born 2 January 1999) is a Chinese professional footballer who plays for Chinese football club Dalian Yingbo.
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Wen Jiabao in August 2024 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Wen Jiabao | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 2 January 1999 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Liaoyang, Liaoning, China | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Dalian Yingbo | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 15 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2015 | Dalian Aerbin | ||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2019 | Guangzhou Evergrande | 8 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2019 | → Tianjin Tianhai (loan) | 10 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2020–2024 | Shanghai Shenhua | 56 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2025– | Dalian Yingbo | 23 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2015 | China U17 | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018 | China U20 | 11 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018–2023 | China U23 | 6 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022– | China | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 1 January 2026 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 27 July 2022 | |||||||||||||||||
Club career
Wen Jiabao joined Chinese Super League club Guangzhou Evergrande from Dalian Aerbin on 29 January 2016 on a free transfer.[1] On 30 August 2016, Dalian Aerbin (now known as Dalian Yifang) would claim that they still had a valid contract with Wen Jiabao and that Guangzhou Evergrande acted fraudulently.[2][3] The contract dispute would be settled and Wen was promoted to Guangzhou Evergrande's first team squad in time for the start of the 2017 Chinese Super League season.[4] He made his senior debut on 8 August 2017 in a 2–2 home draw against city rivals Guangzhou R&F as the benefactor of the new rule of the league that at least one Under-23 player must be in the starting line-up.[5] He was substituted off by Zheng Long in the 20th minute.[6] After playing several further games Wen was demoted to the reserve squad in the 2018 season.
On 7 February 2019, Wen was loaned to fellow first-tier club Tianjin Tianhai for the 2019 season.[7] He would go on to make his debut for the club on 31 March 2019 against Shandong Luneng Taishan F.C. in a league game that ended in a 4–2 defeat.[8] The following season Wen would join another top-tier club in Shanghai Shenhua on 6 January 2020 on a permanent basis.[9] He would make his debut against his old club Guangzhou Evergrande on 25 July 2020 in a league game that ended in a 2–0 defeat.[10]
On 31 December 2024, Shanghai Shenhua announced that Wen is released as free agent.[11]
On 11 January 2025, Wen joined Chinese football club Dalian Yingbo.[12]
International career
On 20 July 2022, Wen 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.[13]
Career statistics
- As of 1 January 2026.[14]
| Club | Season | League | National Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Guangzhou Evergrande | 2017 | Chinese Super League | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0[a] | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0[a] | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Total | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | ||
| Tianjin Tianhai (loan) | 2019 | Chinese Super League | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | - | - | 12 | 0 | ||
| Shanghai Shenhua | 2020 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | - | 25 | 0 | ||
| 2021 | 16 | 0 | 5 | 0 | - | - | 21 | 0 | ||||
| 2022 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 16 | 0 | ||||
| 2023 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 5 | 0 | ||||
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0[a] | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Total | 56 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 0 | ||
| Dalian Yingbo | 2025 | Chinese Super League | 23 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 24 | 0 | ||
| Career total | 97 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 112 | 0 | ||
- Appearances in Chinese FA Super Cup