Li Wei (footballer, born 1985)

Li Wei (Chinese: 李微; pinyin: Lǐ Wēi; born 18 March 1985 in Beijing) is a Chinese former football player who played as a midfielder.

Li Wei
李微
Personal information
Full name Li Wei
Date of birth (1985-03-18) March 18, 1985
Place of birth Beijing, China
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
2001–2004 Shandong Luneng
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2019 Shandong Luneng 118 (6)
2013 → Wuhan Zall (loan) 25 (4)
2019 Zibo Cuju 15 (2)
2020–2021 Zhejiang 15 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 27 April 2022
In this Chinese name, the family name is Li.

Club career

Li Wei was born in Beijing. He moved to Shandong to begin his football career, where he would play for the Shandong Luneng under-19 youth team. With Shandong Luneng comfortably winning the 2006 Chinese Super League title the club's manager Ljubiša Tumbaković allowed Li Wei to graduate to the senior team on October 5, 2006, which he came onto as a substitute against Shanghai Shenhua in a 2-1 defeat.[1] This was his only appearance in the season. It was not until the 2007 league season that saw Li Wei establish himself as a regular member of the Shandong team when he played in seventeen league games for them, which also included his first senior goal on May 9, 2007 in an AFC Champions League group game vs Adelaide United at Jinan.[2] This was followed by his first league goal against Wuhan Guanggu on September 5, 2007 in a 2-0 win.[3] The following season, however, would see Li Wei struggle to remain as a first choice player. Despite winning the 2008 Chinese Super League title with the club he was mainly used as a peripheral squad player within the team. He would continue to be used as a substitute until the introduction of Branko Ivanković as the club's new manager in the 2010 league season. Wei's ability to play in numerous midfield positions saw him gain significantly more playing time under Ivanković's reign and aid Shandong to win another league title.

Li retired from professional football after 2021 season.[4]

Career statistics
As of 31 December 2020.[5]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup League Cup Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Shandong Luneng2005Chinese Super League00000--00
20061000---10
2007173--11-184
2008130----130
2009110--40-150
2010183--11-183
201121010-50-270
20125000---50
20148040-10-130
20159010-301[lower-alpha 1]0140
20168021-60-161
20176020---80
20181000---10
Total 118610100212101509
Wuhan Zall (Loan)2013China League One25400---254
Zibo Cuju2019China League Two15200---152
Zhejiang Greentown2020China League One9000--0[lower-alpha 2]090
Career total 16712101002121019915
  1. Appearances in Chinese FA Super Cup
  2. Appearance(s) in CSL Relegation play-offs

Honours

Club

Shandong Luneng

References
  1. "2-1 - 比赛结果-中超数据库-搜狐". csldata.sports.sohu.com. 2006-10-05. Retrieved 2012-08-03.
  2. "Match: Shandong Luneng Taishan v Adelaide United - AFC - Soccer". soccernet.espn.go.com. May 9, 2007. Retrieved 2012-08-03.
  3. "2-0 - 比赛结果-中超数据库-搜狐". csldata.sports.sohu.com. 2007-09-05. Retrieved 2012-08-03.
  4. "浙江队谈杨、吴昊一、李微、孙昊晟退役，转型教练". Dongqiudi. 15 April 2022. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
  5. 李微 at sodasoccer.com 2019-10-31 Retrieved 2019-10-31 (in Chinese) Archived 2018-11-05 at the Wayback Machine
  6. "足协杯-麦克格文压哨绝杀 鲁能5-4舜天夺冠". Sports.sina.com.cn. 2014-11-22. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
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