Wu Jingui

Wu Jingui
Wu Jingui
Hanyu Pinyin	Wú Jīnguì
IPA	[ǔ tɕín kwêɪ]

Wu Jingui
吴金贵
Personal information
Full name	Wu Jingui
Date of birth	January 10, 1961 (age 63)
Place of birth	Shanghai, China
Youth career
1973–1977	Shanghai Juvenile
1977–1978	Shanghai Youth
1978–1982	Beijing Sports Institute
Senior career*
Years	Team
1982–1983	Zhejiang Province football team
1985–1986	Zhejiang Workers
1991–1993	SV Deutz 05
Managerial career
2002–2003	Shanghai Shenhua
2006	Shanghai Shenhua
2007–2008	Shanghai Shenhua
2009–2011	Zhejiang Lücheng
2012	Shandong Luneng Taishan (caretaker)
2017–2018	Shanghai Shenhua
2020–2021	Qingdao Huanghai
2022–2023	Shanghai Shenhua
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Wu Jingui (Chinese: 吴金贵; pinyin: Wú Jīnguì; Mandarin pronunciation: [ǔ tɕín kwêɪ]; born January 10, 1961, in Shanghai) is a Chinese football manager.

Playing career

While Wu Jingui played for the Shanghai youth football team, he never graduated to the senior team and only played amateur football with the Zhejiang Province football team for a short period. Instead of football, he would concentrate on achieving a soccer management degree, which saw him study in Beijing and Cologne for several years.^[1] This would see him gain an assistant management position at Shanghai Shenhua F.C., where he stayed with them until July 21, 2002.

Management career

Wu Jingui would replace

Valeri Nepomniachi and coach them to second within the league.^[4]

At the beginning of the

Osvaldo Gimenez.^[5] Wu Jingui was, however, quickly brought back in after Osvaldo Gimenez's disappointing reign to help them salvage their season and would steer them to a respectable fourth within the league.^[6] Wu Jingui's third reign at Shanghai didn't last very longer as after ill health and a disappointing start to the season he was sacked and replaced with Jia Xiuquan.^[7]

On 6 September 2012, Wu was officially appointed as the technical director and interim head coach of

Shandong Luneng Taishan F.C., after Dutch manager Henk ten Cate resigned.^[8]