Jared Christopher Lum (; born 19 July 1992) is an

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professional

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player who plays as a

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and is currently a free agent. He last played for Hong Kong side

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Club career

In 2010, Lum joined

Marconi Stallions Marconi Stallions Football Club is an Australian semi-professional association football club based in Fairfield, Sydney, New South Wales. The club has been crowned Australian champion four times. The Stallions are the soccer team of Club Marc ...

, where he was earmarked as one of the club's most promising players, after graduating from the

Australian Institute of Sport The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) is a high performance sports training institution in Australia. The institute's headquarters were opened in 1981 and are situated in the northern suburb of Bruce, Canberra. The AIS is a division of the ...

. Lum signed for

Hong Kong Premier League The Hong Kong Premier League () is a Hong Kong professional football league organised by the Football Association of Hong Kong, China. It is currently sponsored by BOC Life and officially known as BOC Life Hong Kong Premier League (). The inau ...

club

Kitchee Kitchee Sports Club (; ; ) is a Hong Kong professional Association football, football club based in Kowloon. It was founded in 1931 and currently competes in the Hong Kong Premier League. The club has won 12 List of Hong Kong football champion ...

on 11 January 2016. On 26 May 2018, Lum revealed that he had re-signed for another two years. On 25 June 2020, it was revealed that Lum would leave

after 4.5 years and would sign for another HKPL club R&F. On 14 October 2020, Lum left the club after his club's withdrawal from the HKPL in the new season. On 19 November 2020, Lum joined

. He left the club on 9 July 2022.

International career

In May 2017, Lum was called up to the

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to play

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. However, there remained some doubt at the time as to whether he was eligible to play on the basis of his Fijian ancestry. In a later interview, Lum revealed that he was not interested in playing for Fiji as he thought that the football in Fiji was not professional enough. In March 2020, Lum said in an interview that one of his goals was to represent

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Personal life

Lum's paternal grandmother is a

Hongkonger Hongkongers (), Hong Kongers, Hong Kong citizens and Hong Kong people are demonyms that refer to a resident of Hong Kong, although they may also refer to others who were born and/or raised in the territory. The earliest inhabitants of Ho ...

who grew up in Happy Valley and moved to Fiji at age 10, where she met his paternal grandfather who is also ethnically Chinese. His father was born in Fiji and the family emigrated to Sydney when he was two. On his mother's side, his maternal grandparents are

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and moved to Australia in 1969. Lum's parents met when they were attending high school together in Sydney. Lum married his wife Nelly in 2016 and has two sons.

Honours

Club

;Marconi Stallions *

Waratah Cup The Waratah Cup is a knockout cup competition in New South Wales, run by the governing body of football in NSW, Football NSW. Teams competing in the Waratah Cup come from the National Premier Leagues NSW, NSW League One, NSW League Two, and n ...

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

;Kitchee *

: 2016–17, 2017–18 *

Hong Kong Senior Shield The Hong Kong Senior Challenge Shield (), known commonly as the Senior Shield, is the football knockout inter-club competition held in Hong Kong and the fourth oldest football tournament in Asia. Traditionally, only teams that play in the Hong K ...

: 2016–17, 2018–19 *

Hong Kong FA Cup Hong Kong FA Cup () is a knockout cup competition in Hong Kong football, run by and named after The Hong Kong Football Association. The first edition of the competition was held in 1975, before then the cup was known as the Golden Jubilee Cup. T ...

: 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19 *

Hong Kong Sapling Cup Hong Kong Sapling Cup (), currently known as JC Sapling Cup () for sponsorship reasons, is a Hong Kong domestic football (soccer), football competition contested by the Hong Kong Premier League teams. The objective of the Cup is to provide more p ...

: 2017–18 * HKFA League Cup: 2015–16

International

;Australia *

AFF U-16 Youth Championship The ASEAN U-16 Boys' Championship (formerly AFF U-16 Youth Championship) is an annual international football competition contested by the national teams of the members of the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) and occasionally invited nations from ...

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lum, Jared 1992 births Living people Sydney FC players Kitchee SC players R&F (Hong Kong) players Eastern Sports Club footballers Soccer players from Sydney Australian expatriate men's soccer players Australian expatriate sportspeople in Hong Kong Expatriate men's footballers in Hong Kong National Premier Leagues players Hong Kong Premier League players Men's association football midfielders Australian people of Fijian descent Australian people of Scottish descent Australian men's soccer players Sydney United 58 FC players Bonnyrigg White Eagles FC players 21st-century Australian sportsmen