13 Facts About Gao Lin

Gao Lin is a Chinese former professional footballer who played as a forward.

Gao Lin is the all-time top goalscorer for Guangzhou Evergrande with 113 goals, and has made the most appearances for the club.

Gao Lin's contract was up for renewal and his club would transfer list him in early 2009.

On 10 March 2010, Gao Lin transferred to Guangzhou Evergrande, who were newly relegated to China League One in the fallout of a match-fixing scandal.

Guangzhou eventually won the top tier league title for the first time in the club's history as Gao Lin won his first top tier league title with the club.

On 12 November 2012, Gao Lin was fined by the CFA for $200,000 for his actions in the first leg of the final.

Later, Gao Lin took to Weibo to publicly apologize to his millions of followers and said he "deserved to be punished" because it will help him "to not do it again in the future".

Gao Lin was a cog in the engine of Guangzhou as he helped it through its golden year to win its third successive top tier league title.

On 24 February 2020, Gao Lin signed for Shenzhen FC on a free transfer.

Gao Lin was part of the squad in the 2008 Summer Olympics where he played in all three group games and started in the first two games as the Chinese under-23 national team were knocked out in the group stage.

Gao Lin made his debut for the Chinese national team against South Korea on 31 July 2005 in the 2005 East Asian Football Championship where he was sent off mistakenly by referee Yuichi Nishimura; The East Asian Football Federation cancelled Gao Lin's red card and apologized to him the next day.

Gao Lin married Wang Chen, who is a reporter and host for Shenzhen Media Group, on 3 September 2013.

Gao Lin prefers to wear the kit number 18 while playing for the Chinese national team in honour of Klinsmann.