Cho Jae-jin

**Cho Jae-Jin** (born 9 July 1981) is a former South Korean football player.

### Club

|rowspan=2|Club|rowspan=2|Season|colspan=3|League|colspan=2|National cup|colspan=2|League cup|colspan=2|Continental|colspan=2|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=4|Suwon Samsung Bluewings|2000|K League|5|0|?|?|0|0|?|?|5|0|
|2001|K League|3|0|?|?|0|0|?|?|3|0|||
|2004|K League|8|1|0|0|0|0|—|8|1||||
|rowspan=3|Gwangju Sangmu Bulsajo (draft)|2002|Semipro League|?|?|?|?|?|?|—|?|?||
|2003|K League|31|3|2|1|—|—|33|4|||||
|rowspan=5|Shimizu S-Pulse|2004|J1 League|12|7|1|0|1|1|—|14|8||
|2005|J1 League|29|9|3|2|7|3|—|39|14||||
|2006|J1 League|32|16|2|1|3|0|—|37|17||||
|2007|J1 League|28|13|1|0|3|1|—|32|14||||
|Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors|2008|K League|26|8|2|1|5|2|—|33|11|||
|rowspan=3|Gamba Osaka|2009|J1 League|25|10|3|0|1|0|6|1|35|11|
|2010|J1 League|10|0|1|2|1|0|4|0|16|2|||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=6|South Korea|2003|7|2|
|2004|3|1|||
|2005|3|0|||
|2006|14|5|||
|2007|10|2|||
|2008|3|0|||

- _Results list South Korea's goal tally first._
|No.|Date|Venue|Opponent|Score|Result|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|25 September 2003|Incheon, South Korea||2–0|5–0|2004 AFC Asian Cup qualification|
|2|24 October 2003|Muscat, Oman||1–0|7–0|2004 AFC Asian Cup qualification|
|3|19 December 2004|Busan, South Korea||3–1|3–1|Friendly|
|4|1 February 2006|Hong Kong||1–0|1–3|2006 Lunar New Year Cup|
|5|26 May 2006|Seoul, South Korea||2–0|2–0|Friendly|
|6|6 September 2006|Suwon, South Korea||5–0|8–0|2007 AFC Asian Cup qualification|
|7|7–0||||||
|8|11 October 2006|Seoul, South Korea||1–0|1–1|2007 AFC Asian Cup qualification|
|9|5 July 2007|Seoul, South Korea||1–0|2–1|Friendly|
|10|2–0||||||

### Television

|scope="col"|Year|scope="col"|Title|scope="col"|Role|scope="col" class="unsortable"|Note(s)|scope="col" class="unsortable"||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|scope="row"|2021|_Kick A Goal Season 1_|Himself|||||||
|2021–2022|_Kick A Goal Season 2_|Himself||||||||
|2022–2023|_Kick A Goal Season 3_|Himself||||||||
|2022|_The Fishermen and the City Season 4_|Himself|Episode 12|||||||

### Player

**Suwon Samsung Bluewings**
- Korean League Cup: 2000, 2001
- Korean Super Cup: 2000
- Asian Club Championship: 2000–01
- Asian Super Cup: 2001

**Gwangju Sangmu Bulsajo**
- Korean Semi-professional League (Spring): 2002
- Korean Semi-professional Championship runner-up: 2002

**Shimizu S-Pulse**
- Emperor's Cup runner-up: 2005

**Gamba Osaka**
- Emperor's Cup: 2009

**South Korea**
- AFC Asian Cup third place: 2007

### Television personality

|scope="col"|Award ceremony|scope="col"|Year|scope="col"|Category|scope="col"|Nominated work|scope="col"|Result|scope="col" class="unsortable"||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="1"|SBS Entertainment Awards|style="text-align:center"|2022|Leader of the Year Award|_Kick A Goal_||style="text-align:center" rowspan="1"|||||

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Cho Jae-jin
- **fullname**: Cho Jae-jin
- **birth place**: Paju, Gyeonggi-do, Gyeonggi, South Korea
- **position**: Forward (association football)#Striker, Striker
- **youthyears1**: 1997–1999
- **youthclubs1**: Daeshin High School
- **years1**: 2000–2004
- **clubs1**: Suwon Samsung Bluewings
- **caps1**: 16
- **goals1**: 0
- **years2**: 2002–2003
- **clubs2**: → Gimcheon Sangmu FC, Gwangju Sangmu Bulsajo (Conscription in South Korea, draft)
- **caps2**: 31
- **goals2**: 3
- **years4**: 2004–2007
- **clubs4**: Shimizu S-Pulse
- **caps4**: 101
- **goals4**: 45
- **years5**: 2008
- **clubs5**: Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
- **caps5**: 26
- **goals5**: 8
- **years6**: 2009–2010
- **clubs6**: Gamba Osaka
- **caps6**: 35
- **goals6**: 10
- **totalcaps**: 209
- **totalgoals**: 67
- **nationalyears1**: 1999–2000
- **nationalteam1**: South Korea national under-20 football team, South Korea U20
- **nationalcaps1**: 5
- **nationalgoals1**: 3
- **nationalyears2**: 2003–2004
- **nationalteam2**: South Korea national under-23 football team, South Korea U23
- **nationalcaps2**: 28
- **nationalgoals2**: 11
- **nationalyears3**: 2003–2008
- **nationalteam3**: South Korea national football team, South Korea
- **nationalcaps3**: 40
- **nationalgoals3**: 10