Ju Yingzhi (; born ) is a former Chinese-born

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

professional

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who played as an

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. He is currently the assistant coach of

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 Southern. Ju represented

on the international level. He was also a member of the Hong Kong Asian Games football team in 2010.

Club career

Citizen

Ju Yingzhi scored the winning goal to help Citizen beat

Sun Hei Sun Hei Sports Club () is a Hong Kong professional football club which currently competes in the Hong Kong Second Division. The club has a long history in playing in the top flight, but decided to self-relegate in the 2013–14 season after de ...

5–4 in a league game.

Pegasus

Ju Yingzhi signed to join

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for the 2011–12 Hong Kong First Division League season. He is reported to have earned a huge pay rise for the move. But it was revealed that he had to go through surgery to cure a problem with his knee. He will therefore miss the first two to three months of the 2011–12 season.

Kitchee

On 15 June 2018, it was confirmed that Ju had signed with fellow

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 ...

Southern

On 10 August 2021, it was announced that Ju had signed for Southern. On 8 May 2025, Ju announced his retirement from professional football after the season.

International career

On 9 October 2010, Ju made his international debut for

in a

2010 Long Teng Cup The 2010 Long Teng Cup () was an international football competition held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan from 8 October 2010 to 12 October 2010. The edition featured three senior national teams and Hong Kong national under-23 football team which was prep ...

match against

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. On 11 November 2010, Ju scored one of the goals in the 4–0 win over Bangladesh U-23 in the group stage of the

2010 Asian Games The 2010 Asian Games (), officially known as the XVI Asian Games () and also known as Guangzhou 2010 (), were a regional multi-sport event held from November 12 to 27, 2010 in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China (although several events commenced ear ...

in Guangzhou. On 26 December 2023, Ju was named in

's squad for the

2023 AFC Asian Cup The 2023 AFC Asian Cup was the 18th edition of the AFC Asian Cup, the quadrennial international Association football, football tournament organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). It involved 24 national teams after its expansion in 20 ...

. On 24 January 2024, Ju announced his retirement from international football.

Career statistics

International

Hong Kong

Hong Kong U-23

Honours

Club

;Dalian Shide *

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 ...

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

*China U19 Champions Cup: 2006 ;Citizen *

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 ...

: 2007–08 *

Hong Kong Senior Challenge Shield The Hong Kong Senior Challenge Shield (), known commonly as the Senior Shield, is the Association football, football Single-elimination tournament, knockout inter-club competition held in Hong Kong and the List of oldest football competitions, fo ...

2010–11 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sp ...

;Pegasus *

Hong Kong League Cup Hong Kong Football Association League Cup () was an annual football competition contested by clubs in the top-tier Hong Kong domestic football league. The cup was relaunched for the 2014–15 season after being discontinued in the 2012–13 seaso ...

: 2011–12 ;Eastern *

: 2015–16 * Hong Kong Senior Shield: 2015–16 ;Kitchee *

: 2019–20, 2020–21 * Hong Kong Senior Shield: 2018–19 *

: 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 ...

: 2019–20 ;Southern *

: 2022–23, 2024–25

International

Hong Kong * Long Teng Cup:

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 ...

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ju, Yingzhi 1987 births Living people Hong Kong men's footballers Hong Kong men's international footballers Chinese men's footballers 21st-century Chinese sportsmen Men's association football midfielders Chinese Super League players Hong Kong First Division League players Hong Kong Premier League players Dalian Shide F.C. players Citizen AA players Hong Kong Pegasus FC players Eastern Sports Club footballers Kitchee SC players Southern District FC players Expatriate men's footballers in Hong Kong Chinese expatriate sportspeople in Hong Kong Footballers at the 2010 Asian Games Footballers at the 2014 Asian Games 2023 AFC Asian Cup players Asian Games footballers for China Naturalised footballers of Hong Kong Footballers from Dalian