{{short description|Chinese footballer (born 1993)}} {{family name hatnote|Yang|lang=Chinese}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2026}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Ruan Yang<br />阮杨 | image = Ruan Yang 2025-05-11 (2) (cropped).jpg | caption = Ruan in 2025 | full_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1993|12|13|df=y}} | birth_place = Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China | height = 1.70 m | position = Right winger | currentclub = Nantong Zhiyun | clubnumber = | youthyears1 = 2008–2010 | youthclubs1 = Hangzhou Greentown | youthyears2 = 2011–2012 | youthclubs2 = Real SC | years1 = 2011 | clubs1 = Wenzhou Provenza | caps1 = 15 | goals1 = 5 | years2 = 2012–2013 | clubs2 = Sporting CP B | caps2 = 1 | goals2 = 0 | years3 = 2013 | clubs3 = → Amora (loan) | caps3 = 3 | goals3 = 1 | years4 = 2013–2017 | clubs4 = Hangzhou Greentown | caps4 = 0 | goals4 = 0 | years5 = 2018–2019 | clubs5 = Hunan Billows | caps5 = 36 | goals5 = 7 | years6 = 2019–2022 | clubs6 = Kunshan FC | caps6 = 89 | goals6 = 14 | years7 = 2023 | clubs7 = Yunnan Yukun | caps7 = 8 | goals7 = 0 | years8 = 2023 | clubs8 = Nantong Zhiyun | caps8 = 10 | goals8 = 1 | years9 = 2024 | clubs9 = Shenzhen Peng City | caps9 = 11 | goals9 = 0 | years10 = 2025 | clubs10 = Tianjin Jinmen Tiger | caps10 = 9 | goals10 = 0 | years11 = 2026– | clubs11 = Nantong Zhiyun | caps11 = 0 | goals11 = 0 | club-update = 26 August 2025 }}
'''Ruan Yang''' (Chinese: 阮杨; born 13 December 1993) is a Chinese footballer who plays as a right winger for Nantong Zhiyun.
==Career== Ruan Yang was born in Hangzhou, China. He 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 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fa.org.cn/bulletin/young/2011-08-30/360561.html |title=关于公布中国青少年球员赴葡萄牙培训名单的通知 |publisher=fa.org.cn |date=30 August 2011 |accessdate=21 May 2013}}</ref> 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 3–2 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.{{citation needed|date=January 2026}} 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.<ref>[https://sports.sina.com.cn/china/b/2018-03-09/doc-ifxpwyhw2577528.shtml 官宣!苑维玮等8将正式加盟湘涛] at sports.sina.com 9 March 2018 Retrieved 2018-03-09 {{in lang|zh}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.people.com.cn/n1/2020/0523/c22134-31720644.html|title=足协公布三级联赛准入名单：深足递补天海进入中超|work=sports.people.com.cn|date=23 May 2020|access-date=15 December 2022|language=zh}}</ref> 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.<ref name="CL1 2022">{{cite web|url=https://sports.sina.com.cn/china/b/2022-12-08/doc-imqqsmrp9040041.shtml|title=2022中甲联赛圆满落幕 昆山强势打破两项记录|work=sports.sina.com.cn|date=8 December 2022|access-date=15 December 2022|language=zh}}</ref>
On 1 March 2026, Yuan returned to Nantong Zhiyun for the 2026 season.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://m.dongqiudi.com/article/5690251.html|title=官方：前锋阮杨重返南通支云，上赛季球员效力于天津津门虎|work=dongqiudi.com|date=1 March 2026|access-date=3 March 2026|language=zh}}</ref> ==Career statistics== {{updated|25 December 2022}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/-/257344/|title=RUAN YANG|website=Soccerway|accessdate=15 July 2020|language=}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center" |+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competition |- !rowspan="2"|Club !rowspan="2"|Season !colspan="3"|League !colspan="2"|National cup !colspan="2"|Continental !colspan="2"|Other !colspan="2"|Total |- !Division!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals |- |Wenzhou Provenza||2011||China League Two||15||5||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||15||5 |- |Sporting CP B||2012–13||Segunda Liga||1||0||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||1||0 |- |Amora (loan)||2013||Terceira Divisão||3||1||0||0||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||3||1 |- |rowspan="4"|Hangzhou Greentown||2013||rowspan="3"|Chinese Super League||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||0||0 |- |2014||0||0||1||1||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||1||1 |- |2015||0||0||1||0||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||1||0 |- !colspan="2"|Total !0!!0!!2!!1!!0!!0!!0!!0!!2!!1 |- |rowspan="3"|Hunan Billows||2018||rowspan="2"|China League Two||24||2||2||0||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||26||2 |- |2019||12||5||2||0||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||30||0 |- !colspan="2"|Total !36!!7!!4!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!40!!7 |- |rowspan="5"|Kunshan FC||2019||China League Two||12||3||0||0||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||12||3 |- |2020||rowspan="3"|China League One||15||2||2||0||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||17||2 |- |2021||32||5||0||0||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||32||5 |- |2022||30||4||0||0||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||30||4 |- !colspan="2"|Total !89!!14!!2!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!91!!14 |- !colspan="3"|Career total !144!!27!!8!!1!!0!!0!!0!!0!!152!!28 |}
==Honours== '''Kunshan FC''' * China League One: 2022<ref name="CL1 2022"/>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{Soccerway|257344}}
{{Nantong Zhiyun F.C. squad}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ruan, Yang}} Category:1993 births Category:Living people Category:Chinese men's footballers Category:Sportspeople from Hangzhou Category:Footballers from Zhejiang Category:Zhejiang Professional F.C. players Category:Real Sport Clube players Category:Wenzhou Provenza F.C. players Category:Sporting CP B players Category:Amora F.C. players Category:Hunan Billows F.C. players Category:Kunshan F.C. players Category:Yunnan Yukun F.C. players Category:Nantong Zhiyun F.C. players Category:Shenzhen Peng City F.C. players Category:Tianjin Jinmen Tiger F.C. players Category:Chinese Super League players Category:China League One players Category:China League Two players Category:Liga Portugal 2 players Category:21st-century Chinese sportsmen Category:Chinese expatriate men's footballers Category:Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal Category:Chinese expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Category:Men's association football wingers