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{{short description|Chinese footballer}}
{{family name hatnote|Yeap|lang=Chinese}}
{{EngvarB|date=September 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}
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|birth_date     = 1914
|birth_place    = [[British Malaya]]
|death_date     = 1994
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|position       = [[Winger (association football)|Left winger]]
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{{Infobox Chinese
| t           = 葉清榮
| s           = 叶清荣
| p           = Yè Qīngróng
| poj         = Ia̍p Chheng-êng
|j=Jip6 Cing1 Wing4
|tl=Ia̍p Tshing-îng
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'''Yeap Cheng Eng''' (1915 &ndash; 14 January 1994)<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FK9UAAAAIBAJ&sjid=C5ADAAAAIBAJ&pg=6698%2C3715639 One Enchanted Moment]. ''New Straits Times''. 30 December 1992.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thestar.com.my/story.aspx?file=%2f2012%2f7%2f27%2ffocus%2f11742605&sec=focus |title=The forgotten Olympians {{!}} The Star |access-date=27 September 2013 |archive-date=17 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140117050518/http://www.thestar.com.my/story.aspx/?file=%2f2012%2f7%2f27%2ffocus%2f11742605&sec=focus |url-status=dead }}</ref> was a Chinese footballer. He was the first [[Malay Peninsula|Malayan]] ever to participate in the [[Olympic Games]], when he was a member of the [[football (soccer)|football]] team which represented the [[Republic of China (1912–49)|China]] as a guest players in the [[1948 Summer Olympics|1948 Olympic Games]] in London.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/701363 |title=Yeap Cheng Eng |work=Olympedia |access-date=17 October 2021}}</ref>

In Malayan domestic football, he represented [[Penang FA|Penang]] for a record 24 years and was their captain for many years, winning the [[Malaysia Cup|Malaya Cup]] in 1953, 1954, and 1958 (at the age of 42).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://malaysiafootballmuseum.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-27th-hms-malaya-cup-final-1953.html?m=1|title=The 27th HMS Malaya Cup Final 1953|publisher=Malaysia Football Museum|accessdate=27 January 2022|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127162020/http://malaysiafootballmuseum.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-27th-hms-malaya-cup-final-1953.html?m=1|archivedate=27 January 2022|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://legasilagenda.com/2021/09/11/piala-malaya-1954-pulau-pinang-v-singapura/|title=Meraikan 100 Tahun Piala Malaysia – Final 1954 – Pulau Pinang V. Singapura|language=Malay|publisher=Legasi Lagenda|accessdate=24 January 2022|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210911033025/https://legasilagenda.com/2021/09/11/piala-malaya-1954-pulau-pinang-v-singapura/|archivedate=11 September 2021|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://legasilagenda.com/2021/09/24/piala-malaya-1958-pulau-pinang-v-singapura/|title=Meraikan 100 Tahun Piala Malaysia – Final 1958 – Pulau Pinang V. Singapura|language=Malay|publisher=Legasi Lagenda|accessdate=27 January 2022|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210924144120/https://legasilagenda.com/2021/09/24/piala-malaya-1958-pulau-pinang-v-singapura/|archivedate=24 September 2021|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.penang.gov.my/index.php?ch=16&pg=99&ac=70&lang=eng&format= Profile at the Penang State Government] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150123120804/http://www.penang.gov.my/index.php?ch=16&pg=99&ac=70&lang=eng&format= |date=23 January 2015 }}

{{China football squad 1948 Summer Olympics}}

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[[Category:Footballers from Penang]]
[[Category:Malaysian sportspeople of Chinese descent]]
[[Category:Footballers at the 1948 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Malaysian men's footballers]]
[[Category:Olympic footballers for China]]
[[Category:Chinese men's footballers]]
[[Category:China men's international footballers]]
[[Category:1915 births]]
[[Category:1994 deaths]]
[[Category:Men's association football forwards]]
[[Category:20th-century Chinese sportsmen]]

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