Lee Jang-soo

Lee Jang-Soo
이장수
Personal information

Date of birth	(1956-10-05) October 5, 1956
Place of birth	Haman, Gyeongnam, South Korea
Playing position	Manager (Former Defender)
Club information
Current team	Changchun Yatai (Head Coach)
Youth career
1976-1979	Yonsei University
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1980-1981	Saehan Motors / Daewoo (Semi-professional)
1981–1983	Sangmu FC (Military service)
1983–1986	Yukong Elephants	53	(8)
National team
1979–1980	South Korea	9	(1)
Teams managed
1987	Honam University (Coach)
1988–1991	Ilhwa Chunma (Junior Coach)
1992–1995	Ilhwa Chunma (Coach)
1996	Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma
1998–2001	Chongqing Lifan
2001–2003	Qingdao Beilaite
2003–2004	Chunnam Dragons
2005–2006	FC Seoul
2006–2009	Beijing Guoan
2010–2012	Guangzhou Evergrande
2014	Chengdu Tiancheng
2016–	Changchun Yatai
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Lee Jang-soo
Hangul	이장수
Hanja	李章洙
Revised Romanization	Yi Jang-su
McCune–Reischauer	Yi Chang-su

This is a Korean name; the family name is Lee.

Lee Jang-Soo (born October 5, 1956) is a South Korean association football manager and a former player. As a player he had the distinction of being one of the first fully professional footballers to play in the newly formed Korean Super League in the inaugural 1983 league season, however it has been as a manager where he has distinguished himself particularly within China where he has gone on to twice win the Chinese FA Cup with Chongqing Lifan and Qingdao Beilaite. He has also achieved a successful spell back home within South Korea with FC Seoul when he won the K-League Cup, however he has continued to return to China where he was the manager of Chinese club Guangzhou Evergrande whose appointment also makes him the longest serving foreign coach within China.

Playing career

Lee Jang-Soo was one of the first players to play professional football in South Korea when he started his professional football career at Yukong Elephants in 1983 with the formation of the K-League. Despite already being in his late twenties he would eventually play in 53 league games in his professional career which ended in 1986.

Coaching career

After his football career he became a coach at Honam University before being offered the chance to become a trainer with the newly formed Ilhwa Chunma team in the K-League. He was offered a promotion as a coaching in 1992 where he was part of the team that took them second in the league.^[1] The next few seasons saw him as part of the coaching team that would establish Ilhwa Chunma as a successful team within the K-League by winning the league for three consecutive seasons.^[2] In the 1996 league season when Ilhwa Chunma decided to rename themselves as Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma, Lee Jang-Soo was again promoted to the Head coach position after the previous manager Park Jong-Hwan left, however after a disappointing season where they were never in the title challenge Lee Jang-Soo left.^[3]

Throughout 1997 Lee Jang-Soo went to Brazil to study coaching abroad until 1998 when Lee Jang-Soo would move to China and manage Chongqing Lifan for four seasons.^[4] While he was there he managed to twice take Chongqing Lifan to fourth in the league in the 1999 and 2000 league season.^[5] However it wasn't until 2002 when Lee Jang-Soo had moved to Qingdao Beilaite that he rose to prominace within China and won the Chinese FA Cup with them. The following season though Qingdao Beilaite were to have a disappointing season when they finished the league in eleventh and Lee Jang-Soo would return to Korea. Back in South Korea Lee Jang-Soo would quickly find a team to coach with Chunnam Dragons and subsequently FC Seoul where he led them both to a Championship playoffs spot.

At the beginning of the 2006 league season Lee Jang-Soo returned to China with Beijing Guoan who required a manager after Shen Xiangfu left after a disappointing season. Under Lee Jang-Soo, Beijing Guoan immediately improved by coming third in the league.^[6] Despite the team's continued improvement within the league and a successful start in the 2009 Chinese Super League season where the club were currently leading the table on September 16, 2009, Lee was fired by Beijing Guoan for not using particular players that were favored by the club directors.^[7]

On 25 March 2010, Lee was hired by Guangzhou Evergrande, who was newly relegated to China League One for match-fixing scandal, as the team's new manager. He led Guangzhou to finish first place in the 2010 League One season and won promotion back to the top flight at the first attempt. In his second season, Guangzhou Evergrande won the Super League title for the first time in the club's history. He also set the club's record for longest unbeaten streak in the league with 32 wins and 12 draws, which was ended on 18 September after losing to Changchun Yatai 2–1.^[8]

Lee achieved the Chinese FA Super Cup winner in 2012 for his third time to pursue this trophy. He led the team to beat Tianjin Teda 2–1 at Guangzhou University City Stadium. On 16 May 2012, after sealing a place in the 2012 AFC Champions League knockout stage for Guangzhou by beating Buriram United on the previous day, it was reported that Guangzhou Evergrande held several talks with Lee and announced Lee's dismissal within the club.^[9] On 17 May 2012, Guangzhou Evergrande officially announced Marcello Lippi replacing Lee as the new manager of club.^[10]^[11]

Club career

1981 Daewoo - amateur
1981-1983 Sangmu - army
1983-1986 Yukong Elephants

Honours

Managerial

Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma

Chongqing Lifan

China FA Cup: 2000

Qingdao Beilaite

China FA Cup: 2002

FC Seoul

League Cup: 2006

Guangzhou Evergrande

References

External links

Lee Jang-soo – K League stats at kleague.com

Changchun Yatai F.C. – current squad

Chinese Super League managers

Chinese Football Association Coach of the Year

1994: Zhang Honggen 1995: Xu Genbao 1996: Chi Shangbin 1997: Chi Shangbin 1998: Xu Genbao 1999: Santrač 2000: Lee Jang-soo 2001: Kosanović 2002: Zhu Guanghu 2003: Wu Jingui 2004: Zhu Guanghu 2005: Petrović 2006: Tumbaković 2007: Gao Hongbo 2008: Tumbaković 2009: Tang Yaodong 2010: Ivanković 2011: Ma Lin 2012: Okuka 2013: Lippi 2014: Manzano 2015: Scolari 2016: Scolari

Seongnam FC – managers

Park Jong-hwan (1989–95) Lee Jang-soo (1996) Desaeyere (1997–98) Cha Kyung-bok (1998–04) Kim Hak-bum (2005–08) Shin Tae-yong (2009–12) An Ik-soo (2013) Park Jong-hwan (2014) Kim Hak-bum (2014–)

Qingdao Jonoon F.C. – managers

Wang Shouye (1990–91)
Liu Guojiang (1992)
Wang Shouye (1993–94)
Xu Yonglai (1995)
Wu Hongyue (1996)
Liu Guojiang (1997)
Li Yingfa (1998)
Kim Jung-nam (1999)
Guo Zuojin^c (1999)
Wang Shouye^c (1999)
Yang Weijian^c (1999)
Ostojić (2000)
Guo Zuojin (2000–01)
Lee Jang-soo (2002–03)
Tang Lepu (2004)
Wang Weiman^c (2004)
Yin Tiesheng (2005–07)
Guo Kanfeng (2008–09)
Santrač (2009)
Jovanovič^F (2010)
Ji Yujie^F (2010)
Chang Woe-ryong (2011)
Slišković (2012)
Yang Weijian^c (2012)
Chang Woe-ryong (2012–13)
Li Yingfa^c (2013)
Stevanović (2013)
Li Xiaopeng (2014)
Kavčič (2014–15)
Stančić^c (2015)
Su Maozhen (2016)
Yin Tiesheng (2016–)

Jeonnam Dragons – managers

Jung Byung-tak (1995–96) Huh Jung-moo (1996–98) Lee Hoe-taik (1998–2003) Lee Jang-soo (2004) Huh Jung-moo (2005–07) Park Hang-seo (2008–10) Jung Hae-seong (2011–12) Ha Seok-ju (2012–)

FC Seoul – managers

Park Se-hak (1984–1987) Ko Jae-wook^c (1988) Ko Jae-wook (1989–1993) Cho Young-jeung (1994–1996) Park Byung-joo (1997–1998) Cho Kwang-rae (1999–2004) Lee Jang-soo (2005–2006) Şenol Güneş (2007–2009) Nelo Vingada (2010) Hwangbo Kwan (2011) Choi Yong-soo^c (2011) Choi Yong-soo (2012–2016) Kim Seong-jae^c (2016) Hwang Sun-hong (2016–) (c) = caretaker manager

Guangzhou Evergrande – managers

Zhou Suian (1994–95)
Zhang Jingtian (1995)
Xie Zhiguang (1996)
Xian Dixiong (1996)
Chen Yiming (1997)
Mai Chao (1997–98)
Chen Xirong (1998–99)
Zhao Dayu (1999)
Rodrigues (2000)
Zhou Suian (2000)
Tavares (a.i.) (2000)
Liu Kang (2000–01)
Zhou Suian (2001–02)
Wu Qunli (2002)
Zhou Suian (2002–03)
Mai Chao (2003–05)
Mamić (a.i.) (2005–06)
Qi Wusheng (2006)
Shen Xiangfu (2007–09)
Peng Weiguo (a.i.) (2009–10)
Lee Jang-soo (2010–12)
Lippi (2012–14)
Cannavaro (2014–15)
Scolari (2015–)

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