Lin Liangming (; born 4 June 1997) is a Chinese professional

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who plays as a winger for

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club

Beijing Guoan Beijing Guoan Football Club () is a professional football club that currently participates in the Chinese Super League under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team is based in the Chaoyang District in Beijing and their ho ...

and the China national team.

Club career

Lin Liangming started his football career when he joined

Guangzhou R&F Guangzhou City Football Club (广州城) is a Chinese professional football club that competes in the Chinese Super League under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team is based in Guangzhou, Guangdong, and their home ven ...

's youth academy in 2010. On 22 July 2015, Lin transferred to

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side

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for a transfer fee of €200,000, signing a five-year contract with the club, becoming the first ever

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footballer to sign for Real Madrid. He was placed in

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to play for the under-19 side during the 2015-16 season. In July 2016, Lin was promoted to the club's reserve team

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. He made his debut for the reserve team on 20 August 2016 in a 3–2 win against

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, assisting Sergio Díaz's winning goal in the 90th minute. On 24 August 2017, Lin was loaned out to Segunda División side

UD Almería Unión Deportiva Almería, S.A.D. () is a Spanish professional football club based in Almería, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Founded on 26 July 1989 and known as ''Almería Club de Fútbol'' until 2001, when it was renamed ''Unión D ...

for the 2017-18 season, being initially assigned to Almería B in the

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. He made his debut for the first team on 5 September 2017 in a 1–0 loss against

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in the 2017-18 Copa del Rey. On 29 July 2018, after helping the club gain promotion to

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, Lin's loan was extended for a further year. On 30 August 2019, Lin joined Portuguese

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side

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. He started playing for the club's U23 squad. After negotiating with the Portuguese clubs

and

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(who also owned part of his contract), Lin would return back to China to join top tier club

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on 28 February 2020, initially on loan with the option to make it permanent. He would make his debut in a league game on 26 July 2020 against

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in a 3-2 defeat. This would be followed by his first goal for the club, which was in a league game on 29 August 2020 against Shandong Luneng Taishan where he scored the winner in a 1-0 victory.

International career

After impressing in

's youth academy, Lin was called up to the Chinese national under-17 team for the

2012 AFC U-16 Championship The 2012 AFC U-16 Championship was the 15th edition of the tournament organized by the Asian Football Confederation. The AFC approved Iran as hosts of the championship on 23 November 2011.

. He first played for the Chinese under-20 national team during

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, making three appearances and scoring two goals. On 23 March 2023, Lin made his senior international debut in a 0–0 away draw against

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. On 16 June 2023, Lin scored his first international goal in a 4–0 home win over

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in an international friendly game played in

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, the same city where he also played club football at the time. Lin was named in China's squad for the

2023 AFC Asian Cup The 2023 AFC Asian Cup will be the 18th edition of the AFC Asian Cup, the quadrennial international men's football championship of Asia organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). It will involve 24 national teams after expansion in 20 ...

in Qatar and appeared as a 72nd minute substitute in the team's opening match against

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on 13 January 2024.

Career statistics

Club

International

:''Scores and results list China's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Lin goal.''

References

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