Kwon Chang-hoon

Kwon Chang-hoon (Korean: 권창훈; born 30 June 1994) is a South Korean professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for K League 1 club Suwon Samsung Bluewings and the South Korea national team.

Kwon Chang-hoon
Kwon with Gimcheon Sangmu in 2022
Personal information
Full name Kwon Chang-hoon[1]
Date of birth (1994-06-30) 30 June 1994
Place of birth Seoul, South Korea
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Attacking midfielder, winger
Team information
Current team
 Suwon Samsung Bluewings
Number 22
Youth career
2007–2009 Joongdong Middle School
2010–2012 Suwon Samsung Bluewings[note 1]
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2016 Suwon Samsung Bluewings 90 (18)
2017 Dijon II 3 (2)
2017–2019 Dijon 62 (14)
2019–2021 SC Freiburg 35 (2)
2021 SC Freiburg II 1 (0)
2021– Suwon Samsung Bluewings 11 (1)
2022–2023 → Gimcheon Sangmu (draft) 41 (2)
International career‡
2009–2010 South Korea U17 10[lower-greek 1] (2)
2011–2013 South Korea U20 18[lower-greek 2] (6)
2015–2021 South Korea U23 25[lower-greek 3] (11)
2015– South Korea 43 (12)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  South Korea
AFC U-23 Championship
Runner-up2016 QatarTeam
AFC U-19 Championship
Winner2012 United Arab EmiratesTeam
EAFF Championship
Winner2015 ChinaTeam
Runner-up2022 JapanTeam
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22 April 2023 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 28 November 2022
In this Korean name, the family name is Kwon.
Kwon Chang-hoon
Hangul
권창훈
Hanja
權昶勳
Revised RomanizationGwon Changhun
McCune–ReischauerKwon Ch'anghun
IPA[kwʌn.tɕʰaŋ.ɦun]

Early life

Kwon started playing football when he was in YangJeon Elementary School in Seoul. After he graduated from Joongdong Middle School, he went to Maetan High School to join the under-18 team of Suwon Samsung Bluewings.

Club career

Suwon Samsung Bluewings
Kwon in a match against Mexico during the 2016 Olympics

Suwon Samsung Bluewings signed Kwon under homegrown player rule during the 2012 K League draft. He made his senior debut as a substitute in the 79th minute in an AFC Champions League match against Kashiwa Reysol on 3 April 2013. He also made his K League debut against Daegu FC on 6 April, playing as a substitute for 25 minutes. He was selected for the K League 1 Best XI in 2015 and 2016 while playing for Suwon. He challenged France's Ligue 1 after growing as one of the top midfielders in the K League.

Dijon

In January 2017, Kwon joined Dijon on a 3.5-year deal. The transfer fee paid to Suwon was estimated at €1.5 million.[2] In the 2017–18 Ligue 1, Kwon quickly established himself as an ace player for Dijon, finishing joint Dijon's top scorer with 11 goals in 34 league appearances. However, he injured his Achilles tendon during the last league match, and failed to show his former performance since then.

SC Freiburg

On 28 June 2019, Kwon joined Bundesliga side SC Freiburg.[3][4] He usually played as a substitute during two years in Freiburg. However, he had to stop his challenge in the Bundesliga to do mandatory military service in South Korea. He returned to his former club Suwon Samsung Bluewings, and prepared to enlist in military football club Gimcheon Sangmu.[5]

International career

Kwon was named in the South Korean under-19 squad for the 2012 AFC U-19 Championship in the United Arab Emirates.[6] After winning the AFC Championship, Kwon was called up to under-20 team for the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup.[7]

Kwon was called up to the senior national team for the 2015 East Asian Cup. He made his international debut in an East Asian Cup match against China. On 3 September 2015, at the Hwaseong Stadium, he scored his first senior goals, a brace, in an 8–0 home win over Laos in the second round of qualification for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.[8]

Kwon participated in the 2016 Summer Olympics, and scored a crucial goal in a 1–0 win over Mexico to advance to the quarter-finals.

Kwon was named in South Korea's preliminary 28-man squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. In the last game of the 2017–18 French season, however, Kwon injured his Achilles tendon and was ruled out for the World Cup through injury.[9]

Career statistics

Club
As of 22 April 2023[10][11]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup League cup Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Suwon Samsung Bluewings 2013 K League 1 8010—21—111
2014 K League 1 20100———201
2015 K League 1 351010—71—4311
2016 K League 1 27741—41—359
Total 901861—133—10922
Dijon II 2016–17 National 3 32————32
Dijon 2016–17 Ligue 1 800000——80
2017–18 Ligue 1 34111010——3611
2018–19 Ligue 1 2033110——244
Total 62144120——6815
SC Freiburg 2019–20 Bundesliga 23200———232
2020–21 Bundesliga 12021———141
Total 35221———373
SC Freiburg II 2020–21 Regionalliga Südwest 10————10
Suwon Samsung Bluewings 2021 K League 1 111————111
Gimcheon Sangmu (draft) 2022 K League 1 33010——2[lower-alpha 1]0360
2023 K League 2 8210———92
Total 41220——20452
Career total 24339143201332027445
  1. Appearance in K League promotion-relegation playoffs

International
Scores and results list South Korea's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Kwon goal.[12]
List of international goals scored by Kwon Chang-hoon
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
13 September 2015Hwaseong Stadium, Hwaseong, South Korea Laos3–08–02018 FIFA World Cup qualification
26–0
38 September 2015Saida Municipal Stadium, Sidon, Lebanon Lebanon3–03–02018 FIFA World Cup qualification
424 March 2018Windsor Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland Northern Ireland1–01–2Friendly
510 October 2019Hwaseong Stadium, Hwaseong, South Korea Sri Lanka8–08–02022 FIFA World Cup qualification
65 June 2021Goyang Stadium, Goyang, South Korea Turkmenistan4–05–02022 FIFA World Cup qualification
77 September 2021Suwon World Cup Stadium, Suwon, South Korea Lebanon1–01–02022 FIFA World Cup qualification
815 January 2022Mardan Sports Complex, Antalya, Turkey Iceland2–05–1Friendly
921 January 2022Mardan Sports Complex, Antalya, Turkey Moldova3–04–0Friendly
101 February 2022Rashid Stadium, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Syria2–02–02022 FIFA World Cup qualification
1114 June 2022Seoul World Cup Stadium, Seoul, South Korea Egypt4–14–1Friendly
1220 July 2022Toyota Stadium, Toyota, Japan China2–03–02022 EAFF Championship

Honours

Suwon Samsung Bluewings

South Korea U20

South Korea U23

South Korea

Individual

Notes
  1. Played for Maetan High School, which was an academy of Suwon Samsung Bluewings.
  1. Includes one appearance against non-national team.
  2. Includes one appearance against non-national team.
  3. Includes six appearances and one goal as an overage player (four appearances in Summer Olympics, two appearances and one goal in friendlies).

References
  1. "FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 – Squad list: Korea Republic (KOR)" (PDF). FIFA. 15 November 2022. p. 17. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
  2. "Transfert : le Sud-Coréen Kwon Chang-hoon à Dijon (officiel)". L'Équipe (in French). 18 January 2017. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
  3. "Changhoon Kwon wechselt an die Dreisam". SC Freiburg (in German). 28 June 2019. Archived from the original on 17 January 2021. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
  4. "S. Korean midfielder signs with German Bundesliga club Freiburg". Yonhap News Agency. 28 June 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
  5. 권창훈, 수원 복귀…짧은 6개월 ‘친정’에 복덩이 될까 (in Korean). Kyunghyang. 26 May 2021. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
  6. KFA. "남자 U-20 대표팀". Korea Football Association. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  7. Dong Hyun, Oh (12 June 2013). "이광종호, 터키 U-20 월드컵 출전 명단 확정(Lee Kwang-ho to confirm his roster for the U-20 World Cup in Turkey.)". Newsis.
  8. "Son Heung-Min nets hat trick for South Korea, Shinji Kagawa seals Japan win". ESPN. 3 September 2015. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
  9. Duerden, John (20 May 2018). "South Korea's World Cup hopes dented by Kwon Chang-hoon's Achilles injury". ESPN FC. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
  10. "Kwon Chang-Hoon". Soccerway. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
  11. "Chang-hoon KWON - Football : la fiche de Chang-hoon KWON (Dijon)". L'Équipe (in French). Retrieved 10 October 2017.
  12. "Kwon, Chang-Hoon". National Football Teams. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
  13. Stokkermans, Karel; Zlotkowski, Andre (29 November 2018). "South Korea 2015". RSSSF. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
  14. Di Maggio, Roberto (5 November 2014). "Asian U-19 Championship 2012". RSSSF. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
  15. "AFC U-23 Championship 2016 - Finals". AFC. Archived from the original on 31 January 2016. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
  16. Di Maggio, Roberto (14 July 2016). "East Asian Championship 2015". RSSSF. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
  17. K리그 대상 이동국 MVP·이재성 영플레이상 수상. Naver.com (in Korean). SBS. 1 December 2015.
  18. '득점왕' 정조국, K리그 MVP 수상. Naver.com (in Korean). SBS. 8 November 2016. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
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