{{short description|South Korean footballer}} {{for|the South Korean television director and producer|Lee Jang-soo (television director)}} {{family name hatnote|Lee||lang=Korean}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Lee Jang-soo | image =Lee_Jang-Soo.JPG | image_size = | height = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1956|10|15}} | birth_place = [[Haman County|Haman]], [[Gyeongsangnam-do|Gyeongnam]], [[South Korea]] | currentclub = [[Khon Kaen Mordindang F.C.|Khonkaen Mordindang]] (technical director) | position = [[Defender (association football)|Defender]] | youthyears1 = 1976–1979 | youthclubs1 = [[Yonsei University]] | years1 = 1980–1981 | clubs1 = [[Busan IPark|Saehan Motors / Daewoo]] (Semi-professional) | caps1 = | goals1 = | years2 = 1981–1983 | clubs2 = [[Sangju Sangmu FC|Sangmu FC]] (Military service) | caps2 = | goals2 = | years3 = 1983–1986 | clubs3 = [[Jeju United FC|Yukong Elephants]] | caps3 = 53 | goals3 = 8 | nationalyears1 = 1978 | nationalteam1 = [[South Korea national football B team|South Korea B]] | nationalcaps1 = | nationalgoals1 = | nationalyears2 = 1979–1980 | nationalteam2 = [[South Korea national football team|South Korea]] | nationalcaps2 = 10 | nationalgoals2 = 1 | manageryears1 = 1987 | managerclubs1 = [[Honam University]] (Coach) | manageryears2 = 1988–1991 | managerclubs2 = [[Seongnam FC|Ilhwa Chunma]] (Junior Coach) | manageryears3 = 1992–1995 | managerclubs3 = [[Seongnam FC|Ilhwa Chunma]] (Coach) | manageryears4 = 1996 | managerclubs4 = [[Seongnam FC|Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma]] | manageryears5 = 1998–2001 | managerclubs5 = [[Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic F.C.|Chongqing Lifan]] | manageryears6 = 2001–2003 | managerclubs6 = [[Qingdao Hainiu F.C.|Qingdao Etsone Hainiu]] | manageryears7 = 2003–2004 | managerclubs7 = [[Chunnam Dragons]] | manageryears8 = 2005–2006 | managerclubs8 = [[FC Seoul]] | manageryears9 = 2007–2009 | managerclubs9 = [[Beijing Guoan F.C.|Beijing Guoan]] | manageryears10 = 2010–2012 | managerclubs10 = [[Guangzhou F.C.|Guangzhou Evergrande]] | manageryears11 = 2014 | managerclubs11 = [[Chengdu Tiancheng F.C.|Chengdu Tiancheng]] | manageryears12 = 2016–2017 | managerclubs12 = [[Changchun Yatai F.C.|Changchun Yatai]] | manageryears13 = 2022 | managerclubs13 = [[Shenzhen F.C.|Shenzhen FC]] | manageryears14 = 2025– | managerclubs14 = [[Khon Kaen Mordindang F.C.|Khonkaen Mordindang]] (technical director) | club-update = | nationalteam-update = | module = {{Infobox Korean name/auto|hangul=%이장수|hanja=李章洙|child=yes}} }}
'''Lee Jang-soo''' ({{Korean|hangul=이장수}}; born October 15, 1956) is a South Korean [[association football]] [[Coach (sport)|manager]] and a former player. he is the current technical director of [[Thai League 3]] club [[Khon Kaen Mordindang F.C.|Khonkaen Mordindang]]. 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 K-League|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 F.C.|Chongqing Lifan]] and [[Qingdao Jonoon|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 F.C.|Guangzhou Evergrande]] whose appointment also makes him the longest serving foreign coach within [[Football in China#Association football|Chinese football]].
==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 [[Jeju United FC|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 [[Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma|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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tabless/skor92.html|title = South Korea 1992}}</ref> The next few seasons saw him as part of the coaching team that would establish [[Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma|Ilhwa Chunma]] as a successful team within the [[K-League]] by winning the league for three consecutive seasons.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tabless/skor93.html|title = South Korea 1993}}</ref> In the 1996 league season when [[Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma|Ilhwa Chunma]] decided to rename themselves as [[Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma|Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma]], Lee Jang-soo was again promoted to the Head coach position after the previous manager [[Park Jong-hwan (footballer)|Park Jong-hwan]] left, however after a disappointing season where they were never in the title challenge Lee Jang-soo left.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tabless/skor96.html|title = South Korea 1996}}</ref>
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 F.C.|Chongqing Lifan]] for four seasons.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sports.sina.com.cn/star/lizhangzhu.shtml|title = 李章洙_体坛明星_竞技风暴_新浪网}}</ref> While he was there he managed to twice take [[Chongqing Lifan F.C.|Chongqing Lifan]] to fourth in the league in the 1999 and 2000 league season.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesc/china99.html|title = China 1999}}</ref> However it wasn't until 2002 when Lee Jang-soo had moved to [[Qingdao Jonoon|Qingdao Beilaite]] that he rose to prominace within [[China]] and won the [[Chinese FA Cup]] with them. The following season though [[Qingdao Jonoon|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 F.C.|Beijing Guoan]] who required a manager after [[Shen Xiangfu]] left after a disappointing season. Under Lee Jang-soo, [[Beijing Guoan F.C.|Beijing Guoan]] immediately improved by coming third in the league.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesc/china06.html |title=China 2006 |accessdate=2012-09-17 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120929192532/http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/china06.html |archivedate=2012-09-29 }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://kr.news.yahoo.com/sports/uefa/view?aid=20090918105000210d8 |title=Yahoo! |access-date=2009-09-20 |archive-date=2017-07-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170712042333/http://kr.news.yahoo.com/sports/uefa/view?aid=20090918105000210d8 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
On 25 March 2010, Lee was hired by [[Guangzhou Evergrande F.C.|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 China League One|2010 League One season]] and won promotion back to the top flight at the first attempt. In his [[2011 Guangzhou Evergrande F.C. season|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.<ref>[http://sports.sohu.com/20110919/n319839611.shtml 广州恒大终于输球了 连续44场联赛不败纪录作古]</ref>
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 F.C.|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 F.C.|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.<ref>[http://sports.sina.com.cn/j/2012-05-16/14036063745.shtml 恒大将正式宣布李章洙下课 球员教练微博深情告别]</ref> On 17 May 2012, Guangzhou Evergrande officially announced [[Marcello Lippi]] replacing Lee as the new manager of club.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gzevergrandefc.com/show_content.php?id=4053 |title=关于李章洙指导不再担任广州恒大足球队主教练的公告 |access-date=2012-05-17 |archive-date=2012-05-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523054329/http://www.gzevergrandefc.com/show_content.php?id=4053 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gzevergrandefc.com/show_content.php?id=4054 |title=关于聘任马塞洛•里皮担任广州恒大足球队主教练的公告 |access-date=2012-05-17 |archive-date=2012-12-09 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121209001848/http://www.gzevergrandefc.com/show_content.php?id=4054 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
On 12 February 2022, Lee was appointed as the head coach of [[Chinese Super League]] club [[Shenzhen F.C.|Shenzhen FC]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://m.dongqiudi.com/article/2583110.html|title=公告·李章洙任深圳队主教练|work=Dongqiudi|date=12 February 2022|access-date=12 February 2022|language=zh}}</ref>
On 1 September 2022, Lee was sacked by Shenzhen.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://shenzhenfc.com.cn/Information/Bulletin.aspx?id=10017958 | title=公告｜李章洙先生不再担任深圳队主教练__深圳市足球俱乐部·深圳队·深足·深圳佳兆业队 }}</ref>
==Club career== *1981 [[Busan I'Park|Daewoo]] - amateur *1981–1983 [[Gwangju Sangmu Phoenix|Sangmu]] - army *1983–1986 [[Jeju United FC|Yukong Elephants]]
==Honours==
===Managerial=== '''[[Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma]]''' *[[Asian Super Cup]]: [[Asian Super Cup 1996|1996]] *[[Afro-Asian Club Championship]]: 1996 '''[[Chongqing Lifan]]''' *[[China FA Cup]]: 2000 '''[[Qingdao Jonoon|Qingdao Hademen]]''' *[[China FA Cup]]: 2002 '''[[FC Seoul]]''' *[[Korean League Cup|League Cup]]: [[Korean League Cup 2006|2006]] '''[[Guangzhou Evergrande]]''' *[[China League One]]: [[2010 China League One|2010]] *[[Chinese Super League]]: [[2011 Chinese Super League|2011]] *[[Chinese FA Super Cup]]: [[2012 Chinese FA Super Cup|2012]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{K League player}}
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