Club Career
Du Zhenyu started his career in 2001 with Changchun Yatai where in his first season he made eighteen appearances scoring five goals. Since 2003 he gradually become a team regular for Changchun Yatai until the 2005 league season saw him establish himself within as a first team regular where he helped play a significant part in the promotion of Changchun Yatai into the Chinese Super League by helping Changchun come second in the second tier league. With Changchun now in the top tier Du Zhenyu found it relatively easy to translate his prolific goalscoring record from midfield by scoring seven league goals and helping Changchun to fourth in the league.
The 2007 league season was to prove the most successful for Du Zhenyu as he played a significant part in the title winning Changchun Yatai team, subsequently winning the Footballer of the Year award in the process. The following season saw Changchun play in the AFC Champions League, however despite scoring several goals and a winning start against Bình Dương F.C. Changchun were unable to get out of the group stages. The 2008 league season wasn't to prove much more successful as Changchun ended the season in a disappointing sixth, however Du Zhenyu still continued his prolific goalscoring form by scoring ten league goals.
At the beginning of the 2012 Chinese Super League season Du lost favour within the team to Liu Weidong, which soon saw him decide to move to Tianjin Teda on loan where he would make his debut on July 14, 2012 against Qingdao Jonoon in a league game that ended in a 0-0 draw. After that game he would quickly establish himself as a regular within the team and on July 28, 2012 he scored his first goal for the club in a league game against Beijing Guoan in a 2-1 victory. His productive time at Tianjin was, however halted when he was fined 35,000 yuan and banned for 7 games for pushing and abusing a referee after being being sent off for two bookable offences on October 27, 2012 in a league game against Guizhou Renhe. Despite his suspension carrying on to the following season Tianjin decided to make his move permanent before the start of the 2013 Chinese Super League.
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