Footballer, Born 1971 Li Ming

Li Ming
李明

Personal information
Date of birth	(1971-01-26) 26 January 1971 (age 53)
Place of birth	Jinan, Shandong, China
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1989–2005	Dalian Wanda	244	(36)
International career‡
1992–2004	China	86	(8)
Managerial career
2013	Dalian Aerbin (caretaker)
2015–2018	China U-20
Medal record Men's football Representing  China Asian Games 1994 Hiroshima Football
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 7 February 2009 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 7 February 2009

As a footballer, he played as a midfielder and spent his whole career with Dalian Wanda FC where he won eight league titles and three Chinese FA Cups. His international career saw him play for the Chinese national team gathering 86 international appearances between 1992 and 2004, scoring 8 goals. He represented his nation at four editions of the AFC Asian Cup, helping his team to a third-place finish in 1992, the quarter-finals in 1996, a fourth-place finish in 2000 and a second-place finish in 2004, which China hosted.

Li Ming was born in Jinan, Shandong. Starting his football career in 1989, Li Ming would spend his entire football career with Dalian Wanda FC. He soon established himself as the club's first choice right-midfielder, however it was not until the 1994 league season that Dalian would win their first professional league title. With the help of Li Ming, the club soon established themselves as the dominant team within China for severals seasons. From 1994 to 2002 Dalian would win a staggering eight league titles; Li Ming was one of the stars of the Dalian Wanda team that went the entire 1996 league season without losing a single domestic league game. Li missed out on China's maiden appearance at the 2002 FIFA World Cup due to an injury during the qualification campaign.

His son, Li Sirong, also went on to be a footballer.

International goals

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	23 February 1997	Malaysia	Finland	2–1	Won	1997 Dunhill Cup Malaysia
2.	28 February 1997	Malaysia	Zimbabwe	3–1	Won	1997 Dunhill Cup Malaysia
3.	13 September 1997	Dalian, China PR	Iran	2–4	Lost	1998 FIFA World Cup qualification
4.	16 October 2000	Tripoli, Lebanon	Indonesia	4–0	Won	2000 AFC Asian Cup Group Stages
5.	23 October 2000	Sidon, Lebanon	Qatar	3–1	Won	2000 AFC Asian Cup Quarter-finals
6.	3 July 2004	China	Lebanon	6–0	Won	Friendly
7.	21 July 2004	Beijing, China PR	Indonesia	5–0	Won	2004 AFC Asian Cup Group Stages
8.	7 August 2004	Beijing, China PR	Japan	1–3	Lost	2004 AFC Asian Cup Finals

Player

Dalian Wanda

• Chinese Jia-A League/Chinese Super League: 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005
• Chinese FA Cup: 1992, 2001, 2005

Individual

• Golden Foot: 2017, as a legend