Du Wei (footballer)

Du Wei
杜威
Personal information
Full name Du Wei
Date of birth (1982-02-09) 9 February 1982 (age 42)
Place of birth Luoyang, Henan, China
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 1+12 in)
Position(s) Centre-back
Youth career
1995–2001 Shanghai 02
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002–2010 Shanghai Shenhua 159 (12)
2005–2006Celtic (loan) 0 (0)
2010–2012 Hangzhou Greentown 66 (9)
2012–2014 Shandong Luneng 46 (6)
2015–2017 Hebei China Fortune 48 (3)
2017Guizhou Zhicheng (loan) 12 (1)
2018 Guizhou Hengfeng 8 (2)
International career
2000–2001 China U-20
2002–2003 China U-23
2001–2016 China 71 (4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 11 November 2018
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 25 May 2014

Du Wei (Chinese: 杜威; pinyin: Dù Wēi; Mandarin pronunciation: [tû wéɪ]; born 9 February 1982) is a retired Chinese footballer.

He played for the China national team in their participation in the 2002 FIFA World Cup. This saw foreign interests come from Scottish Premier League side Celtic in the form of a loan, however an extension to the loan was never taken up and he returned to Shanghai Shenhua where he captained them for several seasons before joining Hangzhou Greentown and Shandong Luneng as well as captaining his national team in the 2011 AFC Asian Cup.