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David Wang
Personal information
Date of birth	12 January 2000 (age 24)
Place of birth	Cuenca, Spain
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Winger
Team information
Current team	Guangxi Lanhang
Number	17
Youth career
2014–2016	Móstoles
2016–2018	Jumilla
2016–2017	→ Murcia (youth loan)
2017–2018	→ Josep Maria Gené (youth loan)
Senior career*
Years	Team
2018	Jumilla
2018	→ Estudiantes (loan)
2019–2021	Wolverhampton Wanderers
2019	→ Sporting (loan)
2019–2020	→ Granollers (loan)
2020	→ Nantong Zhiyun (loan)
2021–2024	Nantong Zhiyun
2024–	Guangxi Lanhang
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15:05, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

David Wang (Chinese: 王佳豪; pinyin: Wáng Jiāháo; born 12 January 2000) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a winger for China League Two club Guangxi Lanhang.

Club career

Wang was born in Cuenca, Spain, and started his career with Móstoles.^[2] He was bought by newly-Chinese-owned Jumilla in 2016, but as they did not have a youth academy set up yet, he was loaned immediately to fellow Spanish side Real Murcia, before joining Josep María Gené on loan the following season.^[3] During this period he was included in The Guardian's "Next Generation 2017".^[4] Wang signed for English Premier League side Wolverhampton Wanderers in January 2019, and was immediately loaned to Portuguese side Sporting.^[2]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9] After failing to secure a place in the Sporting CP youth team, having appeared seven times on the bench, he was recalled from loan. However, he was unable to obtain a UK work visa, and was sent back to Spain with Granollers.^[10]^[11]

Having only made three substitute appearances with Granollers, Wang was again recalled, and this time sent to China to join China League One side Nantong Zhiyun.^[12] After one appearance for Nantong Zhiyun, Wang officially joined the club in February 2021 on a permanent transfer.^[13] He would gradually go on to establish himself within the team and helped the club gain promotion to the top tier at the end of the 2022 China League One season.^[14]

He signed for Guangxi Lanhang for the 2024 season.^[15]

International career

Wang was called up to the China under-16 national football team in 2015, and has expressed his desire to represent his parents' nation at international level.^[12]^[16]^[17] He was seen as a very highly rated young player in China.^[3]^[8]

Career statistics

As of 31 December 2022.^[15]^[18]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club	Season	League			Cup		Other		Total
Club	Season	Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Jumilla	2018–19	Segunda División B	0	0	0	0	–		0	0
Estudiantes (loan)	2018–19	Tercera División	12	0	0	0	–		12	0
Wolverhampton Wanderers	2019–20	Premier League	0	0	0	0	–		0	0
	2020–21	Premier League	0	0	0	0	–		0	0
	Total		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sporting (loan)	2019–20	Primeira Liga	0	0	0	0	–		0	0
Granollers (loan)	2019–20	Tercera División	3	0	0	0	–		3	0
Nantong Zhiyun (loan)	2020	China League One	1	0	0	0	–		1	0
Nantong Zhiyun	2021	China League One	5	0	1	0	–		6	0
	2022	China League One	11	0	1	0	–		12	0
	Total		16	0	2	0	0	0	18	0
Career total			32	0	2	0	0	0	34	0

References

^ ^a ^b "David Wang - Granollers". www.footballdatabase.eu.
^ ^a ^b "Wolves sign youngster David Wang". wolves.co.uk. 1 January 2019. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
^ ^a ^b Dicken, Alex (4 January 2019). "Who is David Wang? Why Wolves wonderkid is 'big news' in China". birminghammail.co.uk. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
^ "Next Generation 2017: 60 of the best young talents in world football". The Guardian. 4 October 2017. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
^ "David Wang: Wolves sign Spanish teenager and loan him to Sporting Lisbon". bbc.co.uk. 1 January 2019. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
^ "18-year-old Wang Jiahao from China joins English Premier League club". chinaplus.cri.cn. 2 January 2019. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
^ "王佳豪转会英超狼队背后的中国资本路径伏脉千里" [The path of Chinese capital behind Wang Jiahao's transfer to the Premier League Wolves]. ppsport.com (in Chinese). 2 January 2019. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
^ ^a ^b White, Jonathan (3 January 2019). "Wolves signing David Wang set to follow English Premier League's Chinese pioneers at Manchester City and Everton". scmp.com. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
^ McNeice, Angus (21 February 2019). "UK club signs talented Chinese footballer". telegraph.co.uk. Archived from the original on 29 February 2020. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
^ Bourgeois, Blaise (13 September 2019). "Wolves' January signing David Wang ineligible for UK work permit". en.onefootball.com. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
^ Dicken, Alex (12 September 2019). "Revealed: Fosun's prodigy has completed this transfer away from Wolves". birminghammail.co.uk. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
^ ^a ^b "官方：狼队中国00后小将王佳豪加盟南通支云" [Official: Wolves Chinese teenager Wang Jiahao joins Nantong Zhiyun]. nb.sportscn.com (in Chinese). 25 February 2020. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
^ Yao, Fan (27 February 2021). "官方：留洋小将王佳豪正式转会加盟南通支云" [Official: Overseas Chinese teenager Wang Jiahao officially transfers to Nantong Zhiyun]. nb.sportscn.com (in Chinese). Retrieved 13 March 2021.
^ 足球报：南通支云冲超计划提前一年实现 (in Chinese). sports.sina.com.cn. 12 December 2022. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
^ ^a ^b David Wang at Soccerway. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
^ "拒绝归化! 中国足球让我心痛, 西班牙新星要入籍中国, 为国足正名" [Refuse naturalization! Chinese football makes me heartbroken, Spanish star wants to naturalize in China, justify the national football name]. sohu.com (in Chinese). 29 July 2019. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
^ "专访王佳豪：他放弃西班牙选择国足曾被教练批评不会踢球" [Interview with Wang Jiahao: He gave up Spain to choose the national football team and was criticized by the coach for not playing]. sports.qq.com (in Chinese). 2 January 2019. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
^ "Statistics" (in Spanish). La Preferente. Retrieved 14 January 2020.