Career
He was predominantly associated with his time at before moving to Guangzhou Pharmaceutical and Anhui Jiufang. Since retiring he would move into goalkeeping coaching where he is now the goalkeeping coach at the Shanghai Shenxin of Chinese Super League. Li Wei began his football career with second tier football club Foshan Fosti who was taken over by in the 1998 league season.
His impressive performances was considered good enough to be called up to the Chinese national team in 2000 by the Head coach Bora Milutinović who gave him his debut appearance on March 25, 2000 against Yugoslavia in a 2-0 defeat, this was to be his only international cap. By the end of the season Xiamen were relegated, despite this Li Wei remained as team's first-choice goalkeeper for the next several seasons and aided the team to another second tier title in 2002 before leaving in 2005 for Guangzhou Sunray Cave in exchange for Han Feng. When the 2008 league season ended Li Wei announced his retirement from football, he decided to stay with Anhui Jiufang to become their goalkeeping coach.
He was appointed as the goalkeeping coach of China women's national team on 29 August 2010. He became the goalkeeping coach of Chinese Super League side Shanghai Shenxin in January 2015.
