Wu Lei

Wu Lei (November 19, 1991 -) was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, and his ancestral home is Pingyin, Jinan, Shandong. He is a Chinese football player and a member of the Chinese national football team. He currently plays for the Chinese Super League club Shanghai Harbor as a forward. Wu Lei is the record holder for the youngest player to appear in the Chinese Professional Football League and the second youngest goalscorer in the Chinese Professional Football League. From the 2013 to 2017 season, Wu Lei was elected as the top scorer in the Chinese Super League for five consecutive years. In the 2018 season, he scored 27 goals in the league and broke the ten-year monopoly of foreign players and became the season's top scorer. In 2019, he joined the then La Liga club Espanyol and played for them for three years, scoring a total of 13 goals. In August 2022, Wu Lei returned to Shanghai Haigang and remained the team's main forward. Wu Lei was first selected for the Chinese national football team in 2010. As of August 2025, Wu Lei has played a total of 99 times for the national team and scored 36 goals for the Chinese team in his career. Wu Lei was also recognized as the nominal top scorer by the Chinese Football Association because of this achievement.