Zheng Zhi

**Zheng Zhi** (; born 20 August 1980) is a Chinese professional football manager and former player. As a player, Zheng played most of his career for Chinese Super League club Guangzhou, becoming their captain and serving also as their caretaker manager in two stints.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|National cup|colspan="2"|League cup|colspan="2"|Continental|colspan="2"|Other|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="4"|Liaoning Liaoqing|1998|rowspan="3"|China League Two|||–|–|–|–||||||
|1999|4|0|–|–|–|–|4|0||||||||
|2000|0|0|–|–|–|–|0|0||||||||
|rowspan="5"|Shenzhen Jianlibao|2001|rowspan="3"|Chinese Jia-A League|23|2|3|0|–|–|–|26|2|||
|2002|27|6|2|0|–|–|–|29|6|||||||
|2003|16|3|3|0|–|–|–|19|3|||||||
|2004|Chinese Super League|16|2|4|4|2|1|–|–|22|7|||||
|rowspan="4"|Shandong Luneng Taishan|2005|rowspan="3"|Chinese Super League|18|10|4|2|4|4|6|5|–|32|21|
|2006|26|21|6|1|–|–|–|32|22|||||||
|2007|1|0|–|–|–|3|2|4|2|||||||
|Charlton Athletic (loan)|2006–07|Premier League|12|1|0|0|0|0|–|–|12|1||||
|rowspan="3"|Charlton Athletic|2007–08|rowspan="2"|Championship|42|7|2|1|1|1|–|–|45|9||
|2008–09|13|1|0|0|0|0|–|–|13|1||||||
|Celtic|2009–10|Scottish Premier League|16|1|2|0|1|0|0|0|–|19|1|||
|rowspan="12"|Guangzhou|2010|China League One|11|5|–|–|–|–|11|5|||||
|2011|rowspan="10"|Chinese Super League|25|5|2|0|–|–|–|27|5|||||
|2012|24|1|3|1|–|9|0|0|0|36|2|||||
|2013|24|2|4|0|–|14|1|4|0|46|3|||||
|2014|20|0|0|0|–|8|0|0|0|28|0|||||
|2015|22|1|0|0|–|13|1|4|0|39|2|||||
|2016|26|1|8|0|–|5|0|1|0|40|1|||||
|2017|17|0|1|1|–|10|0|1|0|29|1|||||
|2018|17|0|0|0|–|4|0|0|0|21|0|||||
|2019|16|0|1|0|–|8|0|–|25|0||||||
|2020|13|0|0|0|–|0|0|–|13|0||||||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="18"|China|2002|3|0|
|2003|4|0|||
|2004|21|9|||
|2005|3|1|||
|2006|5|1|||
|2007|3|0|||
|2008|6|1|||
|2009|4|0|||
|2010|0|0|||
|2011|10|1|||
|2012|5|0|||
|2013|11|0|||
|2014|5|2|||
|2015|12|0|||
|2016|2|0|||
|2017|4|0|||
|2018|6|0|||
|2019|4|0|||

- _Scores and results list China's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Zhang goal._

|scope="col"|No.|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"|Opponent|scope="col"|Score|scope="col"|Result|scope="col"|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|29 January 2004|Suzhou Sports Center, Suzhou, China||1–0|1–0|Friendly||||||||
|2|7 February 2004|Shenzhen Stadium, Shenzhen, China||2–1|2–1|Friendly||||||||
|3|17 March 2004|Huangpu Sports Center, Guangzhou, China||1–0|2–0|Friendly||||||||
|4|1 June 2004|TEDA Football Stadium, Tianjin, China||2–1|2–1|Friendly||||||||
|5|10 July 2004|Hohhot People's Stadium, Hohhot, China|rowspan="2"|style="text-align:center"|1–2|2–2|Friendly||||||||
|6|2–2|||||||||||||
|7|17 July 2004|Workers Stadium, Beijing, China||1–1|2–2|2004 AFC Asian Cup||||||||
|8|30 July 2004|Workers Stadium, Beijing, China|rowspan="2"|style="text-align:center"|2–0|3–0|2004 AFC Asian Cup||||||||
|9|3–0|||||||||||||
|10|22 June 2005|Tianhe Stadium, Guangzhou, China||1–0|2–0|Friendly||||||||
|11|7 June 2006|Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Étienne, France||1–1|1–3|Friendly||||||||
|12|6 February 2008|Al-Rashid Stadium, Dubai, United Arab Emirates||1–1|1–1|2010 FIFA World Cup qualifier||||||||
|13|2 September 2011|Tuodong Stadium, Kunming, China||1–1|2–1|2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier||||||||
|14|14 October 2014|Helong Stadium, Changsha, China||1–0|2–1|Friendly||||||||
|15|14 November 2014|Jiangxi Olympic Sports Center, Nanchang, China||1–0|1–1|Friendly||||||||

## Honours

**Shenzhen Jianlibao**
- Chinese Super League: 2004

**Shandong Luneng Taishan**
- Chinese Super League: 2006
- Chinese FA Cup: 2006

**Guangzhou**
- Chinese Super League: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019
- China League One: 2010
- AFC Champions League: 2013, 2015
- Chinese FA Cup: 2012, 2016
- Chinese FA Super Cup: 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018
**Individual**
- AFC Asian Cup All-Star Team: 2004
- Asian Footballer of the Year: 2013
- AFC Champions League Dream Team: 2013, 2015
- Chinese Football Association Player of the Year: 2002, 2006
- Chinese Super League Team of the Year: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Zheng Zhi
 郑智
- **image**: China PR & Iran pre-match conference 10.jpg
- **caption**: Zheng with China national football team, China at the 2019 AFC Asian Cup
- **upright**: 1.1
- **birth place**: Shenyang, Liaoning, China
- **height**: 1.80 m
- **position**: Midfielder
- **youthyears1**: 1990–2000
- **youthclubs1**: Liaoning F.C.
- **years1**: 1998–2000
- **clubs1**: Liaoning Liaoqing
- **caps1**: 4
- **goals1**: 0
- **years2**: 2001–2004
- **clubs2**: Shenzhen Jianlibao
- **caps2**: 82
- **goals2**: 13
- **years3**: 2005–2007
- **clubs3**: Shandong Luneng Taishan F.C., Shandong Luneng Taishan
- **caps3**: 45
- **goals3**: 31
- **years4**: 2007
- **clubs4**: → Charlton Athletic F.C., Charlton Athletic (loan)
- **caps4**: 12
- **goals4**: 1
- **years5**: 2007–2009
- **clubs5**: Charlton Athletic F.C., Charlton Athletic
- **caps5**: 55
- **goals5**: 8
- **years6**: 2009–2010
- **clubs6**: Celtic F.C., Celtic
- **caps6**: 16
- **goals6**: 1
- **years7**: 2010–2022
- **clubs7**: Guangzhou F.C., Guangzhou FC
- **caps7**: 215
- **goals7**: 15
- **totalcaps**: 429
- **totalgoals**: 69
- **nationalyears1**: 2008
- **nationalteam1**: China national under-23 football team, China U23
- **nationalcaps1**: 2
- **nationalgoals1**: 0
- **nationalyears2**: 2002–2019
- **nationalteam2**: China national football team, China
- **nationalcaps2**: 108
- **nationalgoals2**: 15
- **managerclubs1**: Guangzhou Evergrande F.C., Guangzhou Evergrande (Caretaker)
- **manageryears1**: 2019
- **managerclubs2**: Guangzhou F.C., Guangzhou FC (Caretaker)
- **manageryears2**: 2021
- **managerclubs3**: Guangzhou F.C., Guangzhou FC
- **manageryears3**: 2022–2023
- **managerclubs4**: China national football team, China (assistant coach)
- **manageryears4**: 2023–


## Infobox (chinese)

- **order**: st
- **p**: Zhèng Zhì