Duan Liuyu
{{short description|Chinese association football player}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}}
{{family name hatnote|Duan|lang=Chinese}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Duan Liuyu
| image = File:Duan Liuyu 2025-06-17 (2) (cropped).jpg
| fullname = Duan Liuyu in June 2025
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1998|07|24|df=y}}
| birth_place = Chengdu, Sichuan, China
| height = 1.73 m
| currentclub = Qingdao West Coast (on loan from Shandong Taishan)
| clubnumber = 24
| position = Midfielder, Right winger
| youthyears1 = 2015–2018
| youthclubs1 = Shandong Taishan
| youthyears2 = 2015–2017
| youthclubs2 = → São Paulo (youth loan)
| years1 = 2018–
| clubs1 = Shandong Taishan
| caps1 = 64
| goals1 = 8
| years2 = 2023
| clubs2 = → Wuhan Three Towns (loan)
| caps2 = 10
| goals2 = 1
| years3 = 2024–
| clubs3 = → Qingdao West Coast (loan)
| caps3 = 0
| goals3 = 0
| nationalyears1 = 2019
| nationalteam1 = China U-23
| nationalcaps1 = 1
| nationalgoals1 = 1
| club-update = 24 December 2023
| nationalteam-update =
}}
Duan Liuyu ({{zh|s=段刘愚|t=段劉愚|p=Duàn Liúyú}}; born 24 July 1998) is a Chinese footballer currently playing as a midfielder or left-footed right winger for Qingdao West Coast.
Early life
Duan Liuyu started to play football at the age of five and soon joined organised football classes setup by the Shenzhen Football Association before he was admitted to Cuiyuan Middle School ({{lang|zh|翠园中学}}) as a football special student in 2010. In 2013, Duan was selected to participate in the China U-16 national team to play in the 2014 AFC U-16 Championship. After the tournament it was discovered that Duan required glasses and was in the honours class within school, he would soon receive the nick name "Glasses striker" by the Chinese media.{{Cite web|url=https://kuaibao.qq.com/s/20200108A0EYLH00?refer=spider|title=放弃清华为踢中超的学霸球员，要肩负起国奥冲击奥运会的担子|publisher=kuaibao.qq.com|date=2020-01-08|accessdate=2020-04-10|archive-date=2020-04-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200411181901/https://kuaibao.qq.com/s/20200108A0EYLH00%3Frefer%3Dspider|url-status=dead}} Duan Liuyu would graduate from Cuiyuan High School ({{lang|zh|翠园中学高中部}}) in Luohu District, Shenzhen in 2015.{{Cite web|url=https://www.guancha.cn/sports/2015_01_20_306902.shtml|title=深圳16岁高中生百万签鲁能创新纪录 将赴巴西培训|publisher=guancha.cn|date=2015-01-20|accessdate=2020-04-10}}
Club career
On 19 January 2015, Duan Liuyu joined Shandong Taishan as a youth player for a record transfer fee of 1 million RMB, at the time the highest ever paid to a Chinese youth player.{{Cite web|url=http://sports.takungpao.com/photo/q/2015/0120/1409756.html|title=校园足球立功！鲁能百万签下高二学生|publisher=sports.takungpao.com|date=2015-01-20|accessdate=2020-04-10}} Right after the contract signing, Duan Liuyu was sent to São Paulo FC youth training camp for a two year training program.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sohu.com/a/251877258_544832|title=眼镜学霸如何从校园足球迈向百万职业球员|publisher=sohu.com|date=2018-09-04|accessdate=2020-04-10}} On 15 July 2018, Shandong Taishan announced that they had promoted Duan Liuyu to the first team's roaster.{{Cite web|url=http://sports.sina.com.cn/china/j/2018-07-15/doc-ihfhfwmv7619376.shtml|title=鲁能官方宣布12名小将离队 三人正式上调一线队|publisher=sports.sina.com.cn|date=2018-07-15|accessdate=2020-04-10}} On 1 March 2019 in the first league game for Shandong in the 2019 Chinese Super League season, Duan Liuyu would make his professional football debut against Beijing Renhe in a 1-0 victory.{{Cite web|url=https://int.soccerway.com/matches/2019/03/01/china-pr/csl/shandong-luneng/shanxi-baorong/2979871/|title=SHANDONG LUNENG VS. BEIJING RENHE 1 - 0|publisher=soccerway.com|date=2019-03-01|accessdate=2020-04-10}}
After making his debut Duan Liuyu would immediately establish himself into the team and scored his first goal in the Chinese Super League in a 3–2 defeat against Henan Jianye on 12 July 2019.{{Cite web|url=https://int.soccerway.com/matches/2019/07/12/china-pr/csl/henan-jianye/shandong-luneng/2980001/|title=HENAN SSLM VS. SHANDONG TAISHAN 3 - 2|publisher=soccerway.com|date=2019-07-12|access-date=2023-01-31}} A consistent regular within the team, he would gain his first Chinese FA Cup by winning the 2020 Chinese FA Cup against Jiangsu Suning F.C. in a 2-0 victory.{{Cite web|url=https://sports.sina.com.cn/china/cfacup/2020-12-19/doc-iiznezxs7799388.shtml|title=足协杯-王彤惊天内切佩莱头球 鲁能2-0胜江苏夺冠|publisher=sports.sina.com.cn|date=2020-12-19|access-date=2021-01-29|language=}} This would be followed by his first league title with the club when he was part of the team that won the 2021 Chinese Super League title.{{Cite web|url=https://k.sina.com.cn/article_7517400647_1c0126e47059025t1f.html|title=山东泰山队获得2021赛季中超联赛冠军|publisher=k.sina.com.cn|date=2021-12-27|access-date=2023-01-31}} Another Chinese FA Cup would be followed up by him winning the 2022 Chinese FA Cup with them.{{Cite web|url=http://ent.people.com.cn/n1/2023/0116/c1012-32607606.html|title=山东泰山队第八次夺足协杯冠军 创足协杯三连冠纪录|publisher=ent.people.com.cn|date=2023-01-16|access-date=2023-01-31}}
Career statistics
{{updated|31 January 2023.}}{{Soccerway|liuyu-duan/555741|accessdate=1 March 2019}}
| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center" | |||||||||
| rowspan="2"|Club
!rowspan="2"|Season !colspan="3"|League !colspan="2"|National Cup !colspan="2"|Continental !colspan="2"|Other !colspan="2"|Total | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division
!Apps !Goals !Apps !Goals !Apps !Goals !Apps !Goals !Apps !Goals | |||||||||
| rowspan="6" |Shandong Taishan
|2018 | rowspan="5" |Chinese Super League |0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | colspan="2" | |||||
| |colspan="2" | |||||||||
| |0 | 0 | ||||||||
| 2019
|19 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | colspan="2" | |||
| |23 | 2 | ||||||||
| 2020
|20 | 3 | 5 | 1 | colspan="2" | |||||
| |colspan="2" | |||||||||
| |25 | 4 | ||||||||
| 2021
|15 | 3 | 7 | 0 | colspan="2" | |||||
| |colspan="2" | |||||||||
| |22 | 3 | ||||||||
| 2022
|10 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | colspan="2" | |||
| |13 | 0 | ||||||||
| colspan="2" | Total
!64 | 8 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 83 | 9 |
| colspan="3" | Career total
!64 | 8 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 83 | 9 |
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Honours
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References
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External links
- {{WorldFootball.net|liuyu-duan}}
{{Qingdao West Coast F.C. squad}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Duan, Liuyu}}
Category:Chinese men's footballers
Category:Chinese expatriate men's footballers
Category:Men's association football midfielders
Category:Chinese Super League players
Category:21st-century Chinese sportsmen
Category:Shandong Taishan F.C. players
Category:Wuhan Three Towns F.C. players
Category:Qingdao West Coast F.C. players