Yu Jinyong
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_(cropped).jpg) Yu Jinyong in August 2024 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Yu Jinyong | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 6 July 2004 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Shenyang, Liaoning, China | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Goalkeeper | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Shandong Taishan | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| –2021 | Shandong Taishan | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021– | Shandong Taishan | 8 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2023– | China U23 | 11 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 12 November 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 12 November 2025 | |||||||||||||||||
Yu Jinyong (Chinese: 于金永; pinyin: Yú Jīnyǒng; born 6 July 2004) is a Chinese professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Chinese Super League club Shandong Taishan, and the China under-23 national team.
Yu Jinyong was born on 6 July 2004 in Shenyang, Liaoning,[2] and went through the Shandong Taishan youth academy.[3]
In 2021, as a 16-year-old,[3] Yu Jinyong was named in Shandong Taishan's 35-man squad for the upcoming 2021 Chinese Super League season.[4] He failed to make a single appearance during the season,[5] but followed the team to a Chinese Super League title, the club's first in eleven years.[6]
In August 2023, Yu Jinyong went on trial to Belgian club Royal Charleroi under the recommendation of then-teammate Marouane Fellaini, who dubbed him as a "little Courtois", but he had since returned to China.[7]
On 17 July 2024, Yu Jinyong made his professional and senior debut in a 2024 Chinese FA Cup tie against Qingdao West Coast.[8] On 13 September, he made his Chinese Super League debut, starting in the 1−0 home loss against Qingdao West Coast.[9]
International career
Yu Jinyong was part of the China U20 squad that competed in the 2023 AFC U-20 Asian Cup, where his role had been a back-up goalkeeper.[10]
On 5 April 2024, he was named in China's final squad of the 2024 AFC U-23 Asian Cup.[11] On 16 April 2024, in China's first group stage match against Japan, he came on as a substitute for Duan Dezhi in the 88th minute of the game, as a striker.[12] In a post-match interview, China U23 head coach Cheng Yaodong claimed that the substitution had previously been envisioned in his tactics.[13]