{{Short description|Chinese footballer (born 1959)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2026}} {{family name hatnote|[[Yang (surname)|Yang]]|lang=Chinese}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Yang Anli<br>杨安利 | image = | upright = | caption = | full_name = Yang Anli | birth_date = May 7, 1950 | birth_place = [[Qingdao]], [[Shandong]], China | death_date = | death_place = | height = 1.8 m | position = [[Full-back]]<br>[[Central defender]] | youthyears1 = 1964–1967 | youthclubs1 = Qingdao No. 10 Middle School | years1 = 1967–1970 | clubs1 = [[Qingdao Paint Factory F.C.|Qingdao Paint Factory]] | caps1 = | goals1 = | years2 = 1971–1982 | clubs2 = [[Bayi Football Team|Bayi]] | caps2 = | goals2 = | totalcaps = | totalgoals = | nationalyears1 = 1976–1978 | nationalteam1 = [[China national football team|China]] | nationalcaps1 = | nationalgoals1 = | manageryears1 = 1983–2003 | managerclubs1 = [[Bayi Football Team|Bayi]] | manageryears2 = 2005–2020 | managerclubs2 = [[Renmin University of China|Renmin University]] |medaltemplates= {{MedalSport | Men's [[Association football|football]]}} {{MedalCountry | {{CHN}} }} {{MedalCompetition | [[AFC Asian Cup]]}} {{MedalBronze | [[1976 AFC Asian Cup|1976 Iran]] | [[1976 AFC Asian Cup squads#China|Team]]}} {{MedalSport | Men's [[Football at the 1978 Asian Games|football]]}} {{MedalCompetition | [[Asian Games]]}} {{MedalBronze | [[1978 Asian Games|Bangkok 1978]] | [[Football at the 1978 Asian Games – Men's team squads#China|Team]]}} }} {{Infobox Chinese | s = 杨安利 | t = 楊安利 | order = st | p = Yáng ānlì | w = Yáng<sup>1</sup> ān<sup>1</sup>lì<sup>2</sup> }}
'''Yang Anli''' ({{zh|s=杨安利|p=Yáng ānlì}}; born May 5, 1950) is a retired Chinese footballer. He primarily played for [[Bayi Football Team|Bayi]] as a [[central defender]] throughout the 1970s, being part of the winning squad for the [[1974 National Football League]] as well as captaining the team around the later half of the decade and into the early 1980s. He also represented [[China national football team|China]] internationally for the [[1976 AFC Asian Cup]] as well as the [[1978 Asian Games]], winning bronze in both tournaments.
==Club career== Yang was born on May 5, 1950 in [[Qingdao]] as the third son of [[Yang Chang]] who was a footballer throughout the 1940s and currently served as a junior sports school coach. He began his footballing career at the age of 7 as his father was the coach of the Municipal Youth Amateur Sports School. He enrolled in Qingdao No. 10 Middle School in 1964 and under the tutoring of coach [[Jin Tianmin]], who was also a teammate of his father, his skills improved significantly. After graduating from high school in 1968, Yang and his second brother, Yang Ansheng had opted for differing paths as whilst the latter went for the countryside in Liaocheng Linqing, Yang joined the Qingdao Paint Factory where he would later play for their football team. Throughout this era, he was primarily guided by [[Wu Shengtai]] who played for [[Cangkou Bank FC|Cangkou Bank]] throughout his career as a player. In 1971, [[Liu Guojiang]], another footballer who emerged from Qingdao, was looking for younger footballers to train within the [[Beijing Institute of Physical Education]] which had been undergoing a recovery process the year prior. Two [[Bayi Football Team|Bayi]] players, [[Liu Jinhai]] and [[Yang Chenshu]] would both nominate Yang to participate and despite initial hesitation towards the idea due to Yang's father also being his own tutor, Liu eventually agreed after discovering Yang's talents.<ref name="Dazhong">{{Cite web|last1=Li|first1=Zhibo|last2=Pan|first2=Lichao|last3=Chu|first3=Naijian|date=October 6, 2025|title=青岛足球百年史话㊺丨杨安利：铆焊工蝶变绿茵硬汉，老国脚闪耀亚洲赛场|url=https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1845199788587113650&wfr=spider&for=pc|publisher={{illm|Dazhong Daily|zh|大众日报}}|language=zh|access-date=14 January 2025}}</ref><ref name="People's Information">{{Cite web|date=November 18, 2021|last=Li|first=Jiajia|title=杨安利，从工人到八一足球队队长|url=https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1716727554541378494&wfr=spider&for=pc|publisher=People's Information|language=zh|access-date=14 January 2025}}</ref>
On July 11, 1971, he and another fellow Shandong player [[Cai Jun]] boarded a train bounded for [[Beijing]] with this notably being the first time Yang would travel far from his parents and home city. Throughout his training period, he, [[Pei Encai]] and others would improve exponentially to the point of playing for Bayi full-time for the [[1973 National Football League]]. His role as the club's new central defender would help contribute greatly to the club winning the following [[1974 National Football League]]. During the [[1976 National Football League]], Yang was promoted to the club's [[captain (association football)|captain]] and would maintain a leadership role for the remainder of the decade and into the early 1980s with the club winning the [[1978 National Football League|1977]] and the [[1981 National Football League]]. Around the end of his career, he met a young [[Jia Xiuquan]] as he was made a [[player-manager]] by his final season in 1982.<ref name="Dazhong"/><ref name="People's Information"/>
==International career== Yang was first called up to represent [[China national football team|China]] for the upcoming [[1976 AFC Asian Cup]]. He formed the central defensive formation with [[Qi Wusheng]] within the starting XI as the Chinese Dragons later going on to achieve third place following defeating [[Iraq national football team|Iraq]] 1–0 in the third-place playoffs.<ref>{{Cite web|date=June 26, 2025|title=回忆1976年中国男足对外比赛成绩，第六届亚洲杯获季军！|url=https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1835593642958627018&wfr=spider&for=pc|publisher=随言杂谈体育历史文化|language=zh|access-date=14 January 2025}}</ref> He was later called up to represent China once more for the [[Football at the 1978 Asian Games|1978 Asian Games]] where they again, achieved third place.<ref name="Dazhong"/><ref name="People's Information"/><ref>{{Cite web|author=高傲的猫|title=看看1976年中国男足队员都有谁，现状如何？李富胜开始把守国门！|url=https://news.sohu.com/a/837483198_121395525|website=[[Sohu.com]]|language=zh|access-date=14 January 2025}}</ref>
==Coaching career== Beginning in 1983, he served as a full-time manager of either the first or youth team of Bayi and would continue until the club ceased operations in 2003. Throughout this era, he trained many players that would later go on to also play for the senior and youth sectors of China as well as for the Olympic Games. In 2005, he was invited to serve within the football sector of [[Renmin University of China]] to develop campus football there as he would spend the next fifteen years training the club including winning an edition of the [[Beijing Revitalize China Cup]] until his retirement from coaching in 2020.<ref name="Dazhong"/> Throughout this era, on May 18, 2015, he was hired as a football development consultant for Tsinghua Primary School which resulted in the club improving substantially in results.<ref name="People's Information"/>
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