Jordi Vinyals

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.

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.

Player

Castellón

Segunda División: 1988–89

Manager

Qingdao Huanghai

China League One: 2019