Zeng Xuelin
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Zeng Xuelin | ||
| Date of birth | 2 December 1929 | ||
| Place of birth | Siam | ||
| Date of death | 11 February 2016 (aged 86) | ||
| Place of death | Shenzhen, Guangdong, China | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1949–1950 | Guangzhou | ||
| 1951–1953 | Southwest Military Region | ||
| 1954–1955 | Bayi Football Team | ||
| 1955–1957 | China PR White | ||
| 1957–1959 | Tianjin | ||
| National team | |||
| 1955–1957 | China PR White | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| 1959–1972 | Tianjin | ||
| 1972 | Beijing Youth | ||
| 1973–1982 | Beijing | ||
| 1983–1985 | China PR | ||
| 1998 | Shenzhen Ping'an (caretaker) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Zeng Xuelin (Chinese: 曾雪麟; 2 December 1929 – 11 February 2016) was a Thailand-born Chinese football manager and former player. As a player he was predominantly remembered for his time at Bayi Football Team and Tianjin, however it was in management where he distinguish himself by having successful reigns at Tianjin and Beijing where he won several league titles before managing the Chinese national football team. After leaving the Chinese national team he would mainly move away from management except for a brief spell when he joined Shenzhen Ping'an on a caretaker bases.
While Zeng Xuelin was born in Siam (now Thailand), he moved back with his family to China and settled in Meixian in the Guangdong Province at the age of seven. After finishing high school, he joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army and played for the Guangzhou Army team where he played amateur football in the regional leagues before going to university where he played for the Southwest Military Region football team while he was studying. As part of the Liberation Army he was selected for their top football club Bayi Football Team and studied football in Hungary. When his time ended with Bayi, he was selected to be a part of the China national white team (as Chinese B national team), which was allowed to participate in the league game during that time. In 1957, the White Team had moved to Tianjin, and eventually became Tianjin F.C.; he was the team captain for two seasons, and helped the team to win second place of the first Chinese National Games in 1959 before he officially retired.
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