Pak Kwang-ryong

Pak Kwang-Ryong (Hangul: 박광룡; born 27 September 1992) is a North Korean professional footballer who plays as a striker for SKN St. Pölten in the Austrian Football Bundesliga.

Pak Kwang-Ryong
Pak with SKN St. Pölten in 2018
Personal information
Date of birth (1992-09-27) 27 September 1992
Place of birth Pyongyang, DPR Korea
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position(s) Striker
Club information
Current team
 SKN St. Pölten
Number 19
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007–2008 Kigwanch'a ? (?)
2010–2011 Wŏlmido ? (?)
2010–2011 Kigwanch'a ? (?)
2011 Wil 0 (0)
2011–2016 Basel 14 (1)
2012–2016 Basel U-21 12 (6)
2013 → Bellinzona (loan) 17 (7)
2013 → Vaduz (loan) 5 (2)
2014–2015 → Vaduz (loan) 37 (10)
2015–2016 → Biel-Bienne (loan) 26 (10)
2016–2017 Lausanne 39 (10)
2017– SKN St. Pölten 47 (9)
National team‡
2010– North Korea U23 3 (3)
2009– North Korea 39 (14)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16 December 2018
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 15 October 2019
Pak Kwang-ryong
Chosŏn'gŭl
박광룡
Hancha
朴光龍[1]
Revised RomanizationBak Gwangnyong
McCune–ReischauerPak Kwangnyong
This is a Korean name; the family name is Pak.

Club career

Born in Pyongyang, Pak originally played for Kigwanch'a SC of Sinŭiju,[2] before joining FC Wil 1900 in Switzerland. He joined FC Basel on 27 June 2011 from Wil.[3] He played for the club in the Uhrencup during July 2011 and scored a goal in the 2–1 win against West Ham United on 13 July 2011.[4] Pak made his first team league debut as a substitute on 16 July 2011 in the 1–1 away draw against BSC Young Boys.[5]

Because he was born in 1992 he was eligible to play for the newly formed Basel Under-19 team in the 2011–12 NextGen series. He scored his first goal for them during the team's first game against Tottenham Hotspur F.C. on 17 August 2011.[6]

On 14 September 2011 Pak became the first North Korean to play in the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League campaign, coming on the field in the 92nd minute. On his 19th birthday, 27 September 2011, Pak came on as a substitute in the 81st minute of FC Basel's 3–3 away draw against Manchester United at Old Trafford in another UEFA Champions League match. At the end of the 2011–12 season he won the Double, the League Championship title[7] and the Swiss Cup,[8] with Basel.

Pak could not gain a place in the first team during the 2012–13 season but played regularly in their U-21 side, scoring six goals in twelve matches. On 11 January 2013, Basel announced that some of their youngsters would be loaned out to lower league clubs and Pak signed a deal with Bellinzona, so that he could gain playing experience in the Challenge League.[9]

On 20 June 2013, Basel announced that they would loan Pak to the Liechtensteiner club Vaduz in the Swiss Challenge League to gain more playing experience. Following the transfer of Raúl Bobadilla to Augsburg in the Bundesliga, and the injury to Marco Streller, Basel decided to recall the striker to their squad.[10] Pak played just one more game for Basel before he was again loaned to Vaduz from January 2014 until the end of the season. Playing in all 18 games, he scored 9 goals and Vaduz finished the 2013–14 Swiss Challenge League season as winners and were promoted. Pak's loan was renewed for the following Swiss Super League season.

In February 2014, he was named North Korea's Male Footballer of the Year for 2013.[2]

At the end of the 2014–15 season, Basel did not renew Pak's contract. On 1 July 2015, he joined Biel-Bienne as a free agent. On 4 January 2016, Biel-Bienne annulled their contract with Pak who then signed with Lausanne.[11]

Career statistics

Club
As of matches played on 16 December 2018.
ClubSeasonLeagueCup[lower-alpha 1]ContinentalTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Basel2011–12Super League131123[lower-alpha 2]0173
2012–1300001[lower-alpha 3]010
2013–1410000010
Totals1411240193
Bellinzona (loan)2012–13Challenge League17700—177
Vaduz (loan)2013–142311002[lower-alpha 3]02511
2014–15Super League191004[lower-alpha 3]0231
Totals591900606519
Biel-Bienne2015–16Challenge League17410—184
Lausanne2015–16960096
2016–1730411314
Totals561421—5815
St. Pölten2017–18Austrian Bundesliga15100—151
2018–1918410194
Totals33510—345
Career totals162394310017642
Reference:[12]
  1. Appearances in the Swiss Cup and Austrian Cup.
  2. Appearances in the UEFA Champions League.
  3. Appearances in the UEFA Europa League.

International
Scores and results list North Korea's goal tally first.[13]
GoalDateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.19 February 2010Sugathadasa Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka Kyrgyzstan2–04–02010 AFC Challenge Cup
2.16 March 2012Dasarath Rangasala Stadium, Kathmandu, Nepal Palestine1–02–02012 AFC Challenge Cup
3.2–0
4.16 June 2015Kim Il-sung Stadium, Pyongyang, North Korea Uzbekistan1–04–22018 FIFA World Cup qualification
5.17 November 2015Kim Il-sung Stadium, Pyongyang, North Korea Bahrain1–02–02018 FIFA World Cup qualification
6.6 October 2016Thống Nhất Stadium, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Vietnam1–02–5Friendly
7.2–2
8.10 October 2016Rizal Memorial Stadium, Manila, Philippines Philippines1–03–1Friendly
9.9 November 2016Mong Kok Stadium, Mong Kok, Hong Kong Guam2–02–02017 EAFF E-1 Football Championship qualification
10.6 June 2017Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, Doha, Qatar Qatar1–22–2Friendly
11.10 November 2017New I-Mobile Stadium, Buriram, Thailand Malaysia1–04–12019 AFC Asian Cup qualification
12.13 November 20174–0
13.27 March 2018Kim Il-sung Stadium, Pyongyang, North Korea Hong Kong2–02–02019 AFC Asian Cup qualification
14.17 January 2019Sharjah Stadium, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Lebanon1–01–42019 AFC Asian Cup

Honours

North Korea

Basel

Vaduz

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References
  1. "瑞士超级联赛冠军签下朝鲜18岁妖人朴光龙". People's Daily. 29 June 2011. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
  2. http://naenara.com.kp/en/society/?sport+1+523
  3. FC Basel 1893 (2011). "Stürmer aus Nordkorea für den FCB" (in German). FC Basel 1893. Archived from the original on 24 September 2012. Retrieved 27 June 2011.
  4. Meister, Remo (2011). "Der FCB gewinnt den Uhrencup" (in German). FC Basel 1893. Archived from the original on 24 September 2012. Retrieved 13 July 2011.
  5. Meister, Remo (2011). "Ein Unentschieden zum Auftakt" (in German). FC Basel 1893. Archived from the original on 24 September 2012. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
  6. Marti, Caspar (2011). "Punkteteilung im ersten Spiel der "Nachwuchs-Champions League"" (in German). FC Basel 1893. Archived from the original on 25 September 2012. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
  7. Meister, Remo (2012). "Der 15. Meistertitel für den FCB – die Bilanz einer grandiosen Saison". football.ch. Archived from the original on 16 October 2013. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
  8. "Matchtelegram FC Basel 1893 5:3 FC Luzern". football.ch. 2012. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
  9. FC Basel 1893 (2013). "Kwang Ryong Pak leihweise zu Bellinzona" (in German). FC Basel 1893. Archived from the original on 2 December 2013. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
  10. FC Basel 1893 (2013). "Kwang Ryong Pak zurück zum FC Basel 1893 / Marco Streller fällt aus" (in German). FC Basel 1893. Retrieved 19 August 2013.
  11. Scahffner, Philippe (2016). "Pak wechselt zum FC Lausanne-Sport" (in German). Fussball Club Biel-Bienne. Archived from the original on 24 January 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  12. "Kwang-Ryong Pak » Club matches". World Football. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
  13. "Pak, Kwang-Ryong". National Football Teams. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
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