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.
Born in Cardedeu, Province of 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 1991âÂÂ92 UEFA Cup, he played both legs of the first-round exit against Genoa CFC (3âÂÂ2 on aggregate); in 1989âÂÂ90'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 1988âÂÂ89 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 1998âÂÂ99 with Segunda División B club UE Figueres, aged 35.
Vinyals started his managerial career in 2000, leading Villarreal CF B to promotion from the regional leagues. He repeated the feat in the 2003âÂÂ04 season, with Gimnàstic de Tarragona in the third tier.
In the following years, Vinyals continued to coach in the lower leagues. In the 2009âÂÂ10 campaign, his CE L'Hospitalet side promoted to the third division via the playoffs after beating UD AlmerÃÂa 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.
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