{{short description|Chinese footballer and manager}} {{family name hatnote|[[Pei (surname)|Pei]]|lang=Chinese}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Pei Encai | image = Pei Encai.jpg | image_size = 140 | fullname = Pei Encai | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1953|12|1}} | birth_place = [[Tianjin]], China | height = {{height|m=1.79}} | position = | currentclub = | years1 = 1972–1982 | clubs1 = [[Bayi Football Team|Bayi]] | caps1 = | goals1 = | nationalyears1 = | nationalteam1 = | nationalcaps1 = | nationalgoals1 = | manageryears1 = 1983–1988 | manageryears2 = 1990 | manageryears3 = 1996–1998 | manageryears4 = 1997–1998 | manageryears5 = 1998 | manageryears6 = 1999 | manageryears7 = 2003 | manageryears8 = 2003–2005 | manageryears9 = 2005 | manageryears10 = 2006–2007 | manageryears11 = 2007 | manageryears12 = 2008–2010 | manageryears13 = 2011 | manageryears14 = 2013 | manageryears15 = 2018 | manageryears16 = 2019 | manageryears17 = 2021–2022 | managerclubs1 = [[Bayi Football Team|Bayi]] (Youth) | managerclubs2 = [[Beijing Military]] | managerclubs3 = [[Bayi Football Team|Bayi]] (Youth) | managerclubs4 = [[China national under-20 football team|China U-20]] (Assistant) | managerclubs5 = [[Bayi Football Team|Bayi]] (Assistant) | managerclubs6 = [[Huizhou PLA Saonong]] | managerclubs7 = [[Bayi Football Team|Bayi]] | managerclubs8 = [[Wuhan Huanghelou]] | managerclubs9 = [[China women's national football team|China (women)]] | managerclubs10 = [[Wuhan Optics Valley]] | managerclubs11 = [[Henan Construction]] | managerclubs12 = [[Jiangsu Sainty F.C.|Jiangsu Sainty]] | managerclubs13 = [[Chongqing F.C.]] | managerclubs14 = [[Tianjin Songjiang F.C.|Tianjin Songjiang]] | managerclubs15 = [[Hunan Billows]] | managerclubs16 = [[Guangxi Baoyun F.C.|Guangxi Baoyun]] | managerclubs17 = [[Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard F.C.|Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard]] }}
'''Pei Encai''' ({{zh|s=裴恩才|t=裴恩才|p=Péi ēncái}}; born 1 December 1953) is a Chinese [[Association football|football]] manager and a former player.
==Playing career== Pei Encai would spend his youth within the Chinese military where he rose to be a [[Colonel]]. While in the army he would show to be promising midfielder and would work his way up to play for countries top army football team [[Bayi Football Team]] where he spent his whole career for them. At Bayi he would have a successful career where he won several league titles, however despite these trophies he never received an international call-up and unfortunately had to retire early due to injury.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sports.sina.com.cn/c/2005-05-17/03091563587.shtml |script-title=zh:管理注重人性化 执教国家队是一种向往--裴恩才其人 |publisher=sports.sina.com.cn |date=2005-05-17 |accessdate=7 July 2014 | language= Chinese}}</ref>
==Management career== Pei became a coach of the youth team in the [[Bayi Football Team]] in 1983 and won his first title in a national youth league in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sports.sina.com.cn/star/Pei_encai/ |script-title=zh:裴恩才 |publisher=sports.sina.com.cn |date= |accessdate=7 July 2014 | language= Chinese}}</ref> He led [[Huizhou PLA Saonon]] to [[Chinese Football Association Jia League|the second division]] in 1998, and became the [[head coach]] of the Bayi Football Team in 2003. However, the Bayi Football Team, together with several other military-owned teams, were dismantled as part of the reorganization of the [[People's Liberation Army]] in 2003, and Pei left the team.
Pei became the head coach of [[Wuhan Huanghelou]] in June 2003, and led them to the top of the [[Chinese Football Association Jia League]] and the promotion to [[Chinese Super League]] in 2004. After the promotion, the team had an incredible start of seventh consecutive victories in the 2005 season before he was summoned by the [[Chinese Football Association]] (CFA).
Pei was the national coach of the [[China women's national football team]] between May 2005 and November 2005. Pei resigned from women's national football team at November 2005, and is succeeded by [[Ma Liangxing]], the former head coach of the team between 2001 and 2003.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cnhubei.com/200511/ca921292.htm |script-title=zh:裴恩才向足协提出辞职 |publisher=cnhubei.com |date=2005-11-14|accessdate=7 July 2014 | language= Chinese}}</ref> He returned to the Wuhan team afterwards.
On September 25, 2007, Pei resigned from Wuhan. A week later, [[Henan Construction]] announced him as the replacement of the head coach [[Men Wenfeng]]. After finishing the season, he was replaced by [[Jia Xiuquan]] in December.
He was the head coach of Chinese club [[Jiangsu Sainty F.C.|Jiangsu Sainty]] from season 2008 to 2010.
==Honours==
===Player=== '''[[Bayi Football Team]]''' *[[Chinese Jia-A League]]: 1974, 1977, 1981
===Manager=== '''[[Wuhan Huanghelou]]''' *[[Chinese Football Association Jia League]]: 2004
'''[[Jiangsu Sainty F.C.|Jiangsu Sainty]]''' *[[Chinese Football Association Jia League]]: 2008
==See also== *[[Jia Xiuquan]] *[[Hao Haidong]]
== References == {{reflist}}
==External links== *[http://sports.sina.com.cn/star/Pei_encai/ Pen Encai Profile] on [[Sina.com]] *[http://www.china.org.cn/english/NM-e/129357.htm Pei Encai to Be Head Coach of Women's Soccer Team] *[https://archive.today/20110707023402/http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/301/2005/11/14/45@30606.htm Head Coach Pei Encai Resigns]
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