Gordon Chan Kum Tong

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Gordon Chan Kum Tong
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Personal information
Full nameGordon Chan Kum Tong
Born (2002-01-03) 3 January 2002 (age 23)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Height173 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Weight92 kg (203 lb; 14 st 7 lb)
Playing information
Position Hooker
Club
YearsTeamPldTGFGP
2023– Manly Sea Eagles 141106
Representative
YearsTeamPldTGFGP
2023–24 Samoa 41004
Source: [1]
As of 27 July 2025

Gordon Chan Kum Tong (born 3 January 2002) is an Australian international rugby league footballer who plays as a hooker for the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles in the NRL and for Samoa at international level.

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Playing career

Early career

Chan was originally a Canterbury junior from the Bankstown Bulls junior club. He then joined the Manly Harold Matthews Cup junior representative team. He later played for the Blacktown Workers Sea Eagles NSW Cup side. He also has a nickname of GCKT. He is of Samoan and Chinese descent.

Manly Warringah Sea Eagles (2023–present)

Chan made his first grade debut on round 26 of the 2023 NRL season, and converted a penalty kick for the Manly club in their 42–24 win against Canterbury. [2]

2024

In July 2024, Chan re-signed with the club until the end of the 2025 season. [3] He played ten games for Manly in the 2024 NRL season as they finished 7th on the table and qualified for the finals. Manly would be eliminated in the second week of the finals by the Sydney Roosters. [4]

2025

During the Sea Eagles round 2 loss against the Warriors, the NRL announced that it was investigating an incident between Sea Eagles player Chan and a member of the public from the Warriors after a video came out with Chan confronting the fan. [5] Chan was later cleared of any wrongdoing.

Statistics

YearTeamGamesTriesGoalsPts
2023 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly Warringah Sea Eagles 2116
202410
20251
Totals13116

References

  1. ↑ "Gordon Chan Kum Tong – Rugby League Project". Rugby League Project. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  2. ↑ "NRL Round 26 2023 Manly vs Canterbury". www.nrl.com.
  3. ↑ "Sea Eagles re-sign hooker Gordon Chan Kum Tong". Manly Warringah Sea Eagles. 1 July 2024. Retrieved 2 July 2024.
  4. ↑ "The Mole's season review: Luke Brooks 'revels' at Manly Sea Eagles but 30 seconds of horror luck ends season". www.nine.com.au.
  5. ↑ Proszenko, Christian Nicolussi, Adrian (15 March 2025). "Sea Eagles have 'no real concerns' about DCE, Trbojevic as NRL investigates sideline incident". Brisbane Times. Retrieved 16 March 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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