Ki Sung-yueng

Ki Sung-yueng (Korean: 기성용) is a Korean national soccer player, and Premier League player.

Ki Sung-yueng

Ki in 2024
Personal information
Full name	Ki Sung-yueng[1]
Date of birth	(1989-01-24) 24 January 1989 (age 36)[2]
Place of birth	Gwangju, South Korea
Height	1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)[3]
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	FC Seoul
Number	6
Youth career
2001–2005	John Paul College
2005	Kumho High School [ko]
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2006–2009	FC Seoul	64	(7)
2010–2012	Celtic	66	(9)
2012–2018	Swansea City	139	(12)
2013–2014	→ Sunderland (loan)	27	(3)
2018–2020	Newcastle United	21	(0)
2020	Mallorca	1	(0)
2020–	FC Seoul	110	(5)
International career
2004	South Korea U17	6	(3)
2006–2007	South Korea U20	16	(2)
2007–2012	South Korea U23	22	(1)
2008–2019	South Korea	110	(10)
Medal record Representing  South Korea Men's football Olympic Games 2012 London Team AFC Asian Cup 2015 Australia Team 2011 Qatar Team AFC Youth Championship 2006 India Team[4]
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 2 December 2023

In this Korean name, the family name is Ki.

Ki Sung-yueng
Hangul	기성용
Hanja	奇誠庸[5]
Revised Romanization	Gi Seong-yong
McCune–Reischauer	Ki Sŏng'yong

Early life

His soccer career cannot be explained without his father. His father was always with Ki. He said he found Ki's talent in elementary school and wanted to continue soccer career. Therefore, his father started to train Ki and he can now use both feet. His father also wanted to develop more to study about soccer. Therefore, Ki moved to Australia at twelve years old to study English and started to playing soccer. Because of this experience in Australia, he could speak in English fluently and it is easy to communicate with other soccer players.^[6]

Club career

He joined Premier League club Swansea City A.F.C in August 2012. In terms of attacking, he appeared 29 matches, shots 27 times but no goals. However, he succeeded in assisting 2 times and 17 times crosses. Among 29 matches which he played, Swansea City A.F.C won 7 games, drew 12 games and lost 10 games. In 13-14 season, he was loaned to Sunderland A.F.C and he did pretty well in Sunderland A.F.C. He appeared 27 games among 38 games and he got scored 3 times among 30 shots and succeeded in one assists and 21 crosses. He did well in 29 games he played but the results of games were not good. Just 6 wins and 6 draw matches and 15 times lost among 29 matches.^[7]

South Korea National Team career

Ki also did well in Korean National Team. He joined Korean National football Team from 2007. Also, he joined 2012 London Olympics, and he and his teammates did well so they finally got bronze medal in Olympics and got benefit from Korean Government to pass military service.^[8]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 25 November 2023^[9][10][11]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			National cup		League cup		Continental		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
FC Seoul	2006	K League	0	0	0	0	0	0	—		0	0
	2007	K League	16	0	3	0	6	0	—		25	0
	2008	K League	21	4	1	0	6	0	—		28	4
	2009	K League	27	3	1	0	4	1	8	1	40	5
	Total		64	7	5	0	16	1	8	1	93	9
Celtic	2009–10	Scottish Premier League	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	0
	2010–11	Scottish Premier League	26	3	4	1	3	0	2	0	35	4
	2011–12	Scottish Premier League	30	6	2	0	3	0	7	1	42	7
	Total		66	9	6	1	6	0	9	1	87	11
Swansea City	2012–13	Premier League	29	0	2	0	7	0	—		38	0
	2013–14	Premier League	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	3	0
	2014–15	Premier League	33	8	0	0	1	0	—		34	8
	2015–16	Premier League	28	2	0	0	2	0	—		30	2
	2016–17	Premier League	23	0	1	0	1	0	—		25	0
	2017–18	Premier League	25	2	6	0	1	0	—		32	2
	Total		139	12	9	0	12	0	2	0	162	12
Sunderland (loan)	2013–14	Premier League	27	3	1	0	6	1	—		34	4
Newcastle United	2018–19	Premier League	18	0	0	0	1	0	—		19	0
	2019–20	Premier League	3	0	1	0	0	0	—		4	0
	Total		21	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	23	0
Mallorca	2019–20	La Liga	1	0	0	0	—		—		1	0
FC Seoul	2020	K League 1	5	0	0	0	—		0	0	5	0
	2021	K League 1	35	3	0	0	—		—		35	3
	2022	K League 1	35	0	4	1	—		—		39	1
	2023	K League 1	35	2	0	0	—		—		35	2
	Total		110	5	4	1	0	0	0	0	114	6
Career total			428	36	26	2	41	2	19	2	514	42

International

Appearances and goals by national team and year^[12]

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
South Korea	2008	6	2
	2009	11	2
	2010	13	0
	2011	14	1
	2012	5	0
	2013	6	0
	2014	11	0
	2015	14	3
	2016	9	1
	2017	8	1
	2018	12	0
	2019	1	0
Career total		110	10

Scores and results list South Korea's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Ki goal.^[12]

List of international goals scored by Ki Sung-yueng

No.	Date	Venue	Caps	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	10 September 2008	Hongkou Football Stadium, Shanghai, China	2	North Korea	1–1	1–1	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification
2	11 October 2008	Suwon World Cup Stadium, Suwon, South Korea	3	Uzbekistan	1–0	3–0	Friendly
3	6 June 2009	Al Maktoum Stadium, Dubai, United Arab Emirates	11	United Arab Emirates	2–0	2–0	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification
4	14 October 2009	Seoul World Cup Stadium, Seoul, South Korea	16	Senegal	1–0	2–0	Friendly
5	25 January 2011	Thani bin Jassim Stadium, Doha, Qatar	35	Japan	1–0	2–2 (aet) (0–3 p)	2011 AFC Asian Cup
6	13 October 2015	Seoul World Cup Stadium, Seoul, South Korea	78	Jamaica	2–0	3–0	Friendly
7	17 November 2015	New Laos National Stadium, Vientiane, Laos	80	Laos	1–0	5–0	2018 FIFA World Cup qualification
8					2–0
9	6 October 2016	Suwon World Cup Stadium, Suwon, South Korea	87	Qatar	1–0	3–2	2018 FIFA World Cup qualification
10	13 June 2017	Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, Doha, Qatar	93	Qatar	1–2	2–3	2018 FIFA World Cup qualification

Honours

Celtic

• Scottish Premier League: 2011–12^[13]
• Scottish Cup: 2010–11^[14]
• Scottish League Cup runner-up: 2011–12^[15]

Swansea City

• Football League Cup: 2012–13^[16]

Sunderland

• Football League Cup runner-up: 2013–14^[17]

FC Seoul

• Korean FA Cup runner-up: 2022

South Korea U20

• AFC Youth Championship third place: 2006^[18]

South Korea U23

• Summer Olympics bronze medal: 2012^[19]

South Korea

• AFC Asian Cup runner-up: 2015^[20]

Individual

• K League 1 Best XI: 2008, 2009^[21][22]
• K League Players' Player of the Year: 2009^[23]
• AFC Youth Player of the Year: 2009^[24]
• Scottish Premier League Young Player of the Month: October 2010^[25]
• Korean FA Player of the Year: 2011, 2012, 2016^[26][27][28]
• Korean FA Fans' Player of the Year: 2011, 2012^[29][30]
• AFC Asian Cup Team of the Tournament: 2015^[31]
• Swansea City Player of the Season: 2014–15^[32]
• K League Player of the Month: March 2021^[33]