Jin Bo (; ; born 20 January 1993 in

Helong Helong (; Chosŏn'gŭl: 화룡; Hangul: 허룽) is a county-level city in southeastern Jilin province, Northeast China. It is under the administration of the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture. In January 2024, several thousand North Korean mi ...

Yanbian The Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture in the east of Jilin Province, China. Yanbian is bordered to the north by Heilongjiang Province, to the west by Jilin's Baishan City and Jilin City, to the south by North K ...

) is a

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footballer of

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descent who plays as

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Club career

Jin Bo went to Portugal following the

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500.com Stars Project and joined

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youth team system in December 2011. He joined

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side Fátima in the summer of 2012. Jin returned to China in 2013 and was promoted to

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side

Yanbian FC Yanbian Funde F.C. () was a Chinese football club. The team was based in Yanji, Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Jilin province where their home stadium is the Yanji Stadium that has a seating capacity of 30,000. The club's predecessor was ...

's first team squad. He made his senior debut on 20 April 2013 in a 0–0 draw against

Shenyang Shenbei Shenyang Zhongze F.C. ( zh, s=沈阳中泽, t=瀋陽中澤, p=Shěnyáng Zhōngzé) was a former professional Chinese football club that participated in the Chinese League One division. History The club was founded in August 2009 as Tianjin Runyu ...

. On 30 May 2015, he scored his first senior goal in a 2–0 home win over

Dalian Aerbin Dalian Professional Football Club (), known as Dalian Pro, was a Chinese professional Association football, football club based in Dalian, Liaoning, which mostly competed in the Chinese Super League. Dalian Pro played its home matches at various ...

. Jin scored two goals in 24 league appearances in the 2015 season, as Yanbian won the title of the league and promoted to the

Chinese Super League The Chinese Football Super League (), commonly known as the Chinese Super League or the CSL (), also known as the China Resources Beverage Chinese Football Super League for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Ch ...

. On 8 April 2016, he made his Super League debut in a 0–0 draw against

Guangzhou R&F Guangzhou City Football Club () was a Chinese professional football club which last competed in the Chinese Super League. The team was based in Guangzhou, Guangdong. The club's name between 2011 and 2020 was Guangzhou R&F, which was short for ' ...

, coming on as a substitute for Sun Jun in the 77th minute. On 5 February 2019, Jin transferred to

side

(now known as

Guangzhou City Guangzhou, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. Located on the Pearl River about northwest of Hong Kong and north of Macau, Guangzhou has a history of over 2, ...

). He would make his debut on 1 May 2019 in a

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game to third tier club Taizhou Yuanda F.C. that ended in a 1-0 defeat. After the game he would struggle to establish himself as a regular within the team and on 12 July 2021 he would be loan out second tier club Zibo Cuju for the

2021 China League One The 2021 China League One ( zh, 2021中国足球协会甲级联赛) is the 18th season of the China League One, the second tier of the Chinese football league pyramid, since its establishment in 2004. Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic The 2021 Chi ...

campaign.

Career statistics

''Statistics accurate as of match played 31 December 2022.''

Honours

Club

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References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jin, Bo 1993 births Living people Chinese men's footballers People from Yanbian C.D. Fátima players Yanbian Funde F.C. players Guangzhou City F.C. players Zibo Cuju F.C. players Chinese Super League players China League One players 21st-century Chinese sportsmen Chinese footballers of Korean descent Chinese expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal Chinese expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Men's association football forwards