Yeo Min-ji (; born 27 April 1993) is a South Korean

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who plays as a forward.

Early life

Yeo attended Ulsan College, where she was part of the winning team at the Korea Women's Football Championship.

Club career

Following her performance at the 2010 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, Yeo was one of the most highly anticipated rookie players entering the WK League ahead of the 2014 season. She was the third selection at the 2014 WK League new player draft, signing a three year contract with Chungbuk Sportstoto. In the 2018 season she made 23 appearances, scoring seven goals. After five years with Sportstoto, she transferred to Suwon FMC. From 2021 to 2024, she played for Gyeongju KHNP, where she was club captain from 2023-2024. In March 2025, Korean media reported that Yeo's management had reached a deal with Norwegian club

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, pending a medical test.

International career

Youth teams

Yeo played for South Korea at the 2009 AFC U-16 Women's Championship in Thailand, scoring two goals in the final against North Korea, which ended in a 4–0 victory and South Korea's first victory in this tournament. She was the top goal scorer at the 2010 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, scoring eight goals and earning the nickname 'Yeo Messi', a reference to Lionel Messi.

Senior team

She was named in the squad for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada but was unable to play in the finals following a knee injury in training.

Honours

International

FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup The FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup is an annual (biennial until 2024) international women's association football tournament for female players under the age of 17. It is organized by ''Fédération Internationale de Football Association'' (FIFA) ...

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 ...

AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup The AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup, founded as the AFC U-17 Women's Championship and later the AFC U-16 Women's Championship, before changing to its current name after the 2019 edition, is a biennial women's football tournament for youth teams organis ...

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

Individual

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Yeo Min-ji
at the Korea Women's Football Federation (KWFF) * 1993 births Living people Sportspeople from Gimhae Footballers from South Gyeongsang Province South Korean women's footballers Women's association football forwards South Korea women's youth international footballers South Korea women's under-20 international footballers South Korea women's international footballers WK League players 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players 21st-century South Korean sportswomen {{SouthKorea-women-footy-bio-stub