Lei Cheng Lam

Lei Cheng Lam is a Macanese international footballer who currently plays for Liga de Elite club Shao Jiang and the Macau national team.

Club career Lam began playing football at age six. He played for his school team at St. John's Secondary School and the Youth Soccer School. In 2015, he was invited to Portugal for a two-week training camp at Benfica. He then trained with Sporting CP. Lam joined the academy of Liga de Elite club C.D. Monte Carlo at age fifteen, a move the player considers critical to his development. After several highly successful seasons with Monte Carlo, Lam became a student at the Macau University of Science and Technology and joined its football team, MUST IPO, for the 2024 season.

The next year, he transferred to the University of Macau and joined its football club. The player cited the team's ability to hold more frequent training sessions on its own full-size pitch as one of the main reasons for the transfer. Lam traveled to Hong Kong with Macau national team head coach Kwok Kar Lok in January 2025. There, he had a one-week training stint with Eastern Sports Club of the Hong Kong Premier League. At that time, the player expressed a desire to play abroad, beginning in Hong Kong, following graduation from university.

Lam received his first senior call-up in March 2023 for a friendly against Singapore. He went on to make his debut in the match, an eventual 0–1 defeat. Local media noted that Lam created, "many offensive opportunities in the match." He scored his first senior international goal on 14 December 2024 in a 2025 EAFF E-1 Football Championship qualification match against Guam. Despite the goal, Macau fell 1–2 and failed to qualify for the final tournament.

In February 2026, Lam scored in a Guangdong-Macao Cup match against the representative team from neighboring Guangdong province. Despite winning the match 3–2, the Guangdong XI won the cup on aggregate after winning the first match 2–0.

International goals Scores and results list Macau's goal tally first. No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition 1. 14 December 2024 Kai Tak Sports Park, Kowloon, Hong Kong 1–1 1–2 2025 EAFF E-1 Football Championship qualificationLast updated 9 April 2024

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