Ming-yang Yang

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Ming-yang Yang
Personal information
Date of birth (1995-07-11) 11 July 1995 (age 26)
Place of birth Basel, Switzerland
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Grasshoppers
Youth career
2001–2010 Fribourg
2011–2012 Neuchâtel Xamax
2012–2013 Lausanne-Sport
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2017 Lausanne-Sport 81 (1)
2017 FC Winterthur 3 (0)
2017–2020 Wolverhampton Wanderers 0 (0)
2018–2019 → FC Jumilla (Loan) 29 (0)
2020–2021 Grasshoppers 0 (0)
2021– Nantong Zhiyun 25 (7)
National team‡
2010 Switzerland U16 4 (0)
2012 Switzerland U18 3 (0)
2013–2014 Switzerland U19 8 (0)
2014–2016 Switzerland U20 5 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 31 December 2020
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 17 August 2020

Ming-yang Yang (born 11 July 1995) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Nantong Zhiyun.

Early life[]

Yang was born in Basel, Switzerland to father Yang Zhihong, a professor of physiology at Fribourg University. His father originates from Wuhan, China and emigrated to Switzerland after he received a medical doctor's degree from Basel University in the 1990s.[1] Yang began his football career with FC Fribourg youth team in 2001. He transferred to Neuchâtel Xamax in 2011 and moved to Lausanne-Sport in 2012.

Club career[]

Yang was promoted to Lausanne-Sport's first team squad in the summer of 2013. On 14 July 2013, he made his senior debut in a 2–0 away defeat against FC Luzern.[2]

After a short spell with FC Winterthur, on 31 August 2017, Yang joined English Championship club Wolverhampton Wanderers on a three-year deal for an undisclosed fee.[3]

Career statistics[]

Statistics accurate as of match played 31 December 2020.[4]

Club Season League National Cup Continental Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Lausanne-Sport 2013–14 Swiss Super League 18 0 2 1 - - 20 1
2014–15 Swiss Challenge League 27 0 1 0 - - 28 0
2015–16 Swiss Challenge League 32 1 2 0 - - 33 1
2016–17 Swiss Super League 4 0 1 0 - - 5 0
Total 81 1 6 1 0 0 0 0 87 2
Team Vaud U21 2013–14 2. Liga Interregional 2 0 - - - 11 0
2016–17 Swiss 1. Liga 13 0 - - - 13 0
Total 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 0
FC Winterthur 2017–18 Swiss Challenge League 3 0 1 0 - - 4 0
FC Winterthur U21 2017–18 Swiss 1. Liga 1 0 - - - 1 0
Wolverhampton Wanderers U23s 2017–18 PL 2, Div 2 3 0 - - 0[a] 0 3 0
2018–19 PL 2, Div 2 1 0 - - 0[a] 0 1 0
2019–20 PL 2, Div 1 2 0 - - 0[a] 0 2 0
Total 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
FC Jumilla (Loan) 2018–19 Segunda División B 29 0 0 0 - 1[b] 0 30 0
Grasshoppers 2020–21 Swiss Challenge League 0 0 1 0 - - 1 0
Grasshoppers U21 2020–21 Swiss 1. Liga 4 1 - - - 4 1
Career total 139 2 8 1 0 0 1 0 148 3
  1. ^ a b c Appearance(s) in EFL Trophy
  2. ^ Appearance(s) in Segunda División B Relegation play-off

References[]

  1. ^ Tang, Jallo (2013). 瑞士国青武汉伢. 足球周刊（Soccer Weekly） (in Chinese) (587): 26–28.
  2. ^ "Défaite du Lausanne-Sport". FC Lausanne-Sport. lausanne-sport.ch. 14 July 2013. Archived from the original on 1 July 2014. Retrieved 12 August 2013.
  3. ^ "Young Players Signed". Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. 1 September 2017.
  4. ^ YANG MINGYANG at soccerway.com
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