Pei Encai

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Pei Encai (Simplified Chinese: 裴恩才, 1953-) born in Tianjin, is a former football player and manager most recently with Henan Jianye.

[edit] Coaching 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. He lead the Bayi Youth Team to 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 Bayi teams, were dismantled as part of the reorgnization of the People's Liberation Army in 2003, and Pei left the team.

Pei became the head coach of Wuhan Huanghelou in June 2003. He led Wuhan Huanghelou 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. He returned to the Wuhan football club afterwards.

On September 25, 2007, Pei resigned from the Wuhan football club. A week later, Henan Jianye announced him as the replacement of the head coach Men Wenfeng. After finishing the season, he was replaced by Jia Xiuquan in December.