| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Ruan Yang | ||
| Date of birth | 13 December 1993 | ||
| Place of birth | Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China | ||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Right winger | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Nantong Zhiyun | ||
| Number | 44 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2008–2010 | Hangzhou Greentown | ||
| 2011–2012 | Real SC | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2011 | Wenzhou Provenza F.C. | 15 | (5) |
| 2012–2013 | Sporting CP B | 1 | (0) |
| 2013 | → Amora (loan) | 3 | (1) |
| 2013–2017 | Hangzhou Greentown | 0 | (0) |
| 2018–2019 | Hunan Billows | 36 | (7) |
| 2019–2022 | Kunshan FC | 89 | (14) |
| 2023 | Yunnan Yukun | 0 | (0) |
| 2023- | Nantong Zhiyun | 0 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 27 October 2023 | |||
Ruan Yang (Chinese: 阮杨; born 13 December 1993 in Hangzhou, China) is a Chinese footballer who plays as a left-footed right winger for Nantong Zhiyun.
Ruan Yang started his football career when he joined Hangzhou Greentown's youth academy in 2008. After joining the academy, he was sent to the clubs reserve team Wenzhou Provenza F.C. who were allowed to play in the Chinese football pyramid before being one of the players in the football star project and went to Portugal for football training in 2011.[1] He arrived in Portugal on 16 December 2011, he played for Real SC's youth team alongside Li Yuanyi in the 2011-12 season. In the summer of 2012, he trained with Sporting CP B and signed a contract to play for the team. Ruan made his first appearance for Sporting CP B on 6 December 2012, coming on as a substitute in a 2-3 loss against Uniao Madeira. In the winter of 2013, he was loaned to low tier club Amora. He played three games and scored one goal before he returned to China in March 2013.[2] Ruan then signed with Chinese Super League side Hangzhou Greentown on 1 July 2013.
At Hangzhou, Ruan would struggle to gain much playing time and was even dropped to the reserves before he transferred to League Two side Hunan Billows on 9 March 2018.[3] He would transfer to another third tier club in Kunshan FC and be part of the team that gained promotion to the second tier at the end of the 2019 China League Two campaign.[4] He would go on to establish himself as regular within the team and was part of the squad that won the division and promotion to the top tier at the end of the 2022 China League One campaign.[5]
| Club | Season | League | National Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Wenzhou Provenza F.C. | 2011 | China League Two | 15 | 5 | - | - | - | 15 | 5 | |||
| Sporting CP B | 2012–13 | Segunda Liga | 1 | 0 | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | |||
| Amora (loan) | 2013 | Terceira Divisão | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 3 | 1 | ||
| Hangzhou Greentown | 2013 | Chinese Super League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Hunan Billows | 2018 | China League Two | 24 | 2 | 2 | 0 | - | - | 26 | 2 | ||
| 2019 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 0 | - | - | 30 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 36 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 7 | ||
| Kunshan FC | 2019 | China League Two | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 12 | 3 | ||
| 2020 | China League One | 15 | 2 | 2 | 0 | - | - | 17 | 2 | |||
| 2021 | 32 | 5 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 32 | 5 | ||||
| 2022 | 30 | 4 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 30 | 4 | ||||
| Total | 89 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 91 | 14 | ||
| Career total | 144 | 27 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152 | 28 | ||