Liu Jiashen 刘佳燊

Liu Jiashen (simplified Chinese: 刘佳燊; traditional Chinese: 劉佳燊; pinyin: Liu Jiashen; born 23 November 1991 in Qingdao) is a Chinese football player who currently plays as a defender for Qingdao Huanghai.

Club Career

In 2011, Liu Jiashen started his professional footballer career with Shanghai Greenland Shenhua in the Chinese Super League. He would eventually make his league debut for Shenhua on 18 June 2011 in a game against Hangzhou Greentown, coming on as a substitute for Feng Renliang in the 86th minute as the match ended in a 1–0 defeat. His time at Shenhua would see him struggle to gain much more playing time and by the 2015 league season he would leave the club to return to his hometown and join second-tier football team Qingdao Huanghai. He would eventually make his debut for Qingdao on 13 April 2016 in a Chinese FA Cup game against Lijiang Jiayunhao that ended in a 2–1 defeat. While he would score in his league debut for the club on 28 October 2017 against Meizhou Hakka in a 2–1 defeat, Liu would still find himself as a peripheral figure within the team until the Head coach Jordi Vinyals decided to hand Liu his first league start on 6 April 2019 against Heilongjiang Lava Spring that ended in a 3–0 victory. After that game Liu would become an integral member of the team that would win the 2019 China League One division and promotion into the top tier.