Ki Sung-yueng

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

## 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.

## 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.

### 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.

### 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="5"|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|||
|rowspan="4"|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|||
|rowspan="7"|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||||
|Sunderland (loan)|2013–14|Premier League|27|3|1|0|6|1|—|34|4|||
|rowspan="3"|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||||
|Mallorca|2019–20|La Liga|1|0|0|0|—|—|1|0||||
|rowspan="5"|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|||||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="12"|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|||

- _Scores and results list South Korea's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Ki goal._
|scope="col"|No.|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"|Caps|scope="col"|Opponent|scope="col"|Score|scope="col"|Result|scope="col"|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|10 September 2008|Hongkou Football Stadium, Shanghai, China|2||1–1|1–1|2010 FIFA World Cup qualification|||||||||
|2|11 October 2008|Suwon World Cup Stadium, Suwon, South Korea|3||1–0|3–0|Friendly|||||||||
|3|6 June 2009|Al Maktoum Stadium, Dubai, United Arab Emirates|11||2–0|2–0|2010 FIFA World Cup qualification|||||||||
|4|14 October 2009|Seoul World Cup Stadium, Seoul, South Korea|16||1–0|2–0|Friendly|||||||||
|5|25 January 2011|Thani bin Jassim Stadium, Doha, Qatar|35||1–0|2–2||2011 AFC Asian Cup||||||||
|6|13 October 2015|Seoul World Cup Stadium, Seoul, South Korea|78||2–0|3–0|Friendly|||||||||
|7|17 November 2015|New Laos National Stadium, Vientiane, Laos|80||1–0|5–0|2018 FIFA World Cup qualification|||||||||
|8|2–0|||||||||||||||
|9|6 October 2016|Suwon World Cup Stadium, Suwon, South Korea|87||1–0|3–2|2018 FIFA World Cup qualification|||||||||
|10|13 June 2017|Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, Doha, Qatar|93||1–2|2–3|2018 FIFA World Cup qualification|||||||||

## Honours

**Celtic**
- Scottish Premier League: 2011–12
- Scottish Cup: 2010–11
- Scottish League Cup runner-up: 2011–12

**Swansea City**
- Football League Cup: 2012–13

**Sunderland**
- Football League Cup runner-up: 2013–14

**FC Seoul**
- Korean FA Cup runner-up: 2022

**South Korea U20**
- AFC Youth Championship third place: 2006

**South Korea U23**
- Summer Olympics bronze medal: 2012

**South Korea**
- AFC Asian Cup runner-up: 2015

**Individual**
- K League 1 Best XI: 2008, 2009
- K League Players' Player of the Year: 2009
- AFC Youth Player of the Year: 2009
- Scottish Premier League Young Player of the Month: October 2010
- Korean FA Player of the Year: 2011, 2012, 2016
- Korean FA Fans' Player of the Year: 2011, 2012
- AFC Asian Cup Team of the Tournament: 2015
- Swansea City Player of the Season: 2014–15
- K League Player of the Month: March 2021

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Ki Sung-yueng
- **image**: 240609 FC 서울 팬사인회 (기성용).jpg
- **caption**: Ki in 2024
- **fullname**: Ki Sung-yueng
- **birth place**: Gwangju, South Korea
- **height**: 1.89 m
- **position**: Midfielder
- **currentclub**: FC Seoul
- **clubnumber**: 6
- **youthyears1**: 2001–2005
- **youthclubs1**: John Paul College (Brisbane), John Paul College
- **youthyears2**: 2005
- **years1**: 2006–2009
- **clubs1**: FC Seoul
- **caps1**: 64
- **goals1**: 7
- **years2**: 2010–2012
- **clubs2**: Celtic F.C., Celtic
- **caps2**: 66
- **goals2**: 9
- **years3**: 2012–2018
- **clubs3**: Swansea City A.F.C., Swansea City
- **caps3**: 139
- **goals3**: 12
- **years4**: 2013–2014
- **clubs4**: → Sunderland A.F.C., Sunderland (loan)
- **caps4**: 27
- **goals4**: 3
- **years5**: 2018–2020
- **clubs5**: Newcastle United F.C., Newcastle United
- **caps5**: 21
- **goals5**: 0
- **years6**: 2020
- **clubs6**: RCD Mallorca, Mallorca
- **caps6**: 1
- **goals6**: 0
- **years7**: 2020–
- **clubs7**: FC Seoul
- **caps7**: 110
- **goals7**: 5
- **nationalyears1**: 2004
- **nationalteam1**: South Korea national under-17 football team, South Korea U17
- **nationalcaps1**: 6
- **nationalgoals1**: 3
- **nationalyears2**: 2006–2007
- **nationalteam2**: South Korea national under-20 football team, South Korea U20
- **nationalcaps2**: 16
- **nationalgoals2**: 2
- **nationalyears3**: 2007–2012
- **nationalteam3**: South Korea national under-23 football team, South Korea U23
- **nationalcaps3**: 22
- **nationalgoals3**: 1
- **nationalyears4**: 2008–2019
- **nationalteam4**: South Korea national football team, South Korea
- **nationalcaps4**: 110
- **nationalgoals4**: 10
- **club-update**: 2 December 2023


## Infobox (korean name)

- **hangul**: 기성용
- **hanja**: 奇誠庸
- **rr**: Gi Seong-yong
- **mr**: Ki Sŏng'yong