Fang Hao ( zh, s=方昊, t=, p=; born 3 January 2000) is a Chinese professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club

Beijing Guoan Beijing Guoan Football Club (), known in AFC competitions as Beijing FC, is a Chinese professional football club based in Beijing, that competes in . Beijing Guoan plays its home matches at the Workers' Stadium, located within Chaoyang Distr ...

and the China national team.

Club career

Coming through Shandong Taishan's youth academy, Fang joined

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club Inner Mongolia Zhongyou for the 2020 season and then

club

Wuhan F.C. Wuhan Yangtze River Football Club, formerly Wuhan Zall Football Club (), was a Chinese professional Association football, football club that participated in the Chinese Super League under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The t ...

for the 2021 season on loan respectively. He made his debut for Taishan on 3 June 2022 in a 1-0 win over

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, coming on as an 81st-minute substitute but had to come off less than 10 minutes later as captain

Zheng Zheng Zheng Zheng (; born 11 July 1989) is a Chinese professional footballer who plays as a left-back or centre-back for and captains Chinese Super League club Shandong Taishan. He joined Shandong's youth academy at the age of 10 and has spent his e ...

was sent off and the team needed to bring on another defender.

Beijing Guoan

On 30 March 2023, Fang joined fellow

club

. On 15 April 2024, Fang made his debut for Guoan in a 1-1 home draw against Meizhou Hakka. On 29 June 2023, Fang scored his first Chinese Super League goal as well as first goal for Guoan in a 2-1 home defeat against

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International career

On 26 March 2022, Fang drew widespread attention after scoring 4 goals in a 4-2 victory over Thailand U23 in the 2022 Dubai Cup. On 20 July 2022, Fang made his international debut in a 3-0 defeat against

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in the

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, as the Chinese FA decided to field the U-23 national team for this senior competition.

Career statistics

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