| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1994-12-14) 14 December 1994 (age 29) | ||
| Place of birth | China | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Right-back | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Shanghai Shenhua | ||
| Number | 16 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 0000–2015 | Tianjin TEDA | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2015–2017 | Tianjin TEDA | 0 | (0) |
| 2017 | → Baoding Yingli ETS (loan) | 29 | (0) |
| 2018 | Dalian Transcendence | 28 | (1) |
| 2019–2020 | Dalian Pro | 0 | (0) |
| 2021– | Shanghai Shenhua | 32 | (1) |
| 2021 | → Chengdu Rongcheng (loan) | 9 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2024– | China | 1 | (0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14:01, 11 June 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 11 June 2024 | |||
Yang Zexiang (Chinese: 杨泽翔; born 14 December 1994) is a Chinese footballer who plays as a right-back for Shanghai Shenhua and the China national team.
Yang Zexiang would play for the Tianjin TEDA youth team before being promoted to the senior team in the 2015 Chinese Super League campaign and would make his debut appearance in a Chinese FA Cup game against Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard on 8 July 2015 in a 1-0 defeat.[1] After several seasons he was loaned out to second tier football club Baoding Yingli ETS to gain some playing time. The following he transferred to Dalian Transcendence.[2]
At the end of the 2018 league campaign Dalian Transcendence quit the professional league and Yang Zexiang was free to transfer to Dalian Pro.[3] He would not make any senior appearances for Dalian Pro and joined another top tier club in Shanghai Shenhua who loaned him out to second tier club Chengdu Rongcheng where he gained promotion with them at the end of the 2021 China League One campaign.[4]
On his return to Shenhua he would make his debut in league game on 5 August 2022 against Changchun Yatai, where he came on as a substitute, but was sent off for a high challenge against Zhang Li in a 0-0 draw.[5] After his suspension he would have to wait until 23 December 2022 to be given another chance within the team, where in a league game against Cangzhou Mighty Lions he repaid the teams faith in him by scoring his first goal for the club in a 3-0 victory.[6]
Yang made his debut for the China national team on 11 June 2024 in a World Cup qualifier against South Korea at the Seoul World Cup Stadium. He played the full game as South Korea won 1–0.[7]
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Tianjin TEDA | 2015 | Chinese Super League | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Baoding Yingli ETS (loan) | 2017 | China League One | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 29 | 0 | ||
| Dalian Transcendence | 2018 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 28 | 1 | |||
| Dalian Pro | 2019 | Chinese Super League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Shanghai Shenhua | 2021 | Chinese Super League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2022 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | – | – | 6 | 2 | ||||
| 2023 | 15 | 0 | 5 | 0 | – | – | 20 | 0 | ||||
| 2024 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1[a] | 0 | 14 | 0 | ||
| Total | 32 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 2 | ||
| Chengdu Rongcheng (loan) | 2021 | China League One | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0[b] | 0 | 9 | 0 | |
| Career total | 98 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 107 | 3 | ||
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