Jordi Vinyals Martori (; born 24 November 1963) is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is currently manager of Chinese Super League club Yunnan Yukun.
Playing career Born in Cardedeu, Barcelona, Catalonia, Vinyals was a youth product of FC Barcelona. He totalled 154 games in La Liga over six seasons, in representation of CE Sabadell FC, Real Oviedo (two spells) and Real Betis. In the 1991–92 UEFA Cup, he played both legs of the first-round exit against Genoa CFC (3–2 on aggregate); in 1989–90's top division, also as a member of Oviedo, he scored a career-best seven of his 16 goals in the competition.
Vinyals was part of a CD Castellón squad that won the Segunda División in the 1988–89 campaign. To this feat, he contributed 34 matches and six goals in more than 3,000 minutes of action.
Vinyals retired at the end of 1998–99 with Segunda División B club UE Figueres, aged 35.
Coaching career Vinyals started his managerial career in 2000, leading Villarreal CF B to promotion from the regional leagues. He repeated the feat in the 2003–04 season, with Gimnàstic de Tarragona in the third tier.
In the following years, Vinyals continued to coach in the lower leagues. In the 2009–10 campaign, his CE L'Hospitalet side promoted to the third division via the playoffs after beating UD Almería B on the away goals rule.
On 8 February 2015 Vinyals, who was in charge of the under-19s, took over from Eusebio Sacristán at the helm of Barcelona's reserves. He only managed two wins in his 18 games in charge, being himself dismissed following second-tier relegation as last.
Vinyals subsequently worked in China, with Qingdao Huanghai and Zhejiang FC. In 2019, he won the League One with the former and thus achieved promotion to the Super League even though he was fired shortly before the end of the season and replaced by his compatriot Juan Manuel Lillo; he repeated the feat in 2021 with the latter, this time through the playoffs where they bested precisely Qingdao.
On 3 January 2026, Vinyals was named head coach of Yunnan Yukun F.C. in the Chinese top flight.
Managerial statistics
+ Managerial record by team and tenure TeamFromToRecord Villarreal B 1 July 200030 June 2001 Palamós1 February 200310 February 2003Gimnàstic1 July 200330 June 2004Algeciras20 December 200430 June 2005Terrassa1 July 200526 February 2006Jaén1 July 200630 June 2007Castelldefels17 December 200730 June 2008Hospitalet 1 July 200930 June 2010Castellón1 July 201025 October 2010Hospitalet1 July 201130 June 2012Barcelona B8 February 201530 June 2015Qingdao Huanghai 28 December 201530 July 2019Zhejiang 1 January 202131 December 2024Total
Honours Player Castellón Segunda División: 1988–89
Manager Qingdao Huanghai China League One: 2019
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References
External links
FC Barcelona profile