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{{short description|Chinese footballer and coach}}
{{family name hatnote|[[Ou (surname)]]|Chu|lang=Chinese}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2024}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Ou Chuliang <br> 区楚良
| fullname = 
| image = Ou Chuliang.JPG
| image_size = 240
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1968|8|26|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Guangzhou]], [[Guangdong]], [[China]]
| height = {{height|m=1.80}}
| position = [[Goalkeeper (association football)|Goalkeeper]] 
| currentclub = [[China national football team|China]] (Assistant)
| youthclubs1 = Guangdong Youth
| youthyears1 = 
| clubs1 = [[Guangdong Hongyuan F.C.]]
| clubs2 = [[Shanghai Shenhua]]
| years1 = 1988–1997
| years2 = 1998–1999
| caps1 = 63
| caps2 = 45
| goals1 = 0
| goals2 = 0
| nationalteam1 = [[China national football team|China]]
| nationalyears1 = 1992–2002
| nationalcaps1 = 75
| nationalgoals1 = 0
| managerclubs1 = [[China national under-23 football team|China U-23]] (Assistant)
| managerclubs2 = [[Shanghai Shenhua]] (Assistant)
| manageryears1 = 2005
| manageryears2 = 2006–2008
| medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Men's [[association football|football]]}}
                   {{MedalCountry | {{CHN}} }}
                   {{MedalCompetition|[[Asian Games]]}}
                   {{MedalSilver|[[1994 Asian Games|1994 Hiroshima]]|[[Football at the 1994 Asian Games|Football]]}}
| years3 = 2000–2003
| years4 = 2004
| clubs3 = [[Yunnan Hongta]]
| clubs4 = [[Chongqing Qiche]]
| caps3 = 102
| caps4 = 1
| goals3 = 0
| goals4 = 0
| totalcaps  = 211 | totalgoals  = 0
| manageryears3 = 2008–2016
| manageryears4 = 2012
| managerclubs3 = [[China national football team|China]] (Goalkeeper Coach)
| managerclubs4 = [[Henan Construction]] (Goalkeeper Coach)
}}

'''Ou Chuliang''' ({{zh|s=区楚良|t=區楚良|p=Oū Chǔliáng|j=Au1 Cho2 Leung4}}; born 26 August 1968 in [[Guangzhou]], [[Guangdong]]) is an assistant coach and former [[China|Chinese]] international [[association football|football]] [[goalkeeper (association football)|goalkeeper]]. As a player, he was goalkeeper for [[Guangdong Hongyuan F.C.|Guangdong Hongyuan]], [[Shanghai Shenhua]], [[Yunnan Hongta]] and [[Chongqing Qiche]] while internationally he was a participant of the [[China national football team|Chinese football team]] that took part in the [[2002 FIFA World Cup]].

== Club career ==
Ou started his football career with [[Guangdong Hongyuan F.C.]] during the 1988 football league season. With them Ou would see Guangdong establish themselves as a professional football club in the Chinese league system and also help them come second in the 1993 league season.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesc/china93.html|title=China 1993
|date=6 November 2009|publisher=[[Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation]]|access-date=8 August 2012}}</ref> Guangdong, however were relegated in the 1997 league season and Ou Chuliang was transferred to [[Shanghai Shenhua]] at the beginning of the 1998 league season.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesc/china97.html|title=China League 1997|date=21 June 2003|publisher=[[Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation]]|access-date=8 August 2012}}</ref> With Shanghai Ou Chuliang would make an immediate impact by helping them come second within the league as well as aiding them in their [[Chinese FA Cup]] win. [[Yunnan Hongta]] who were a newly promoted football team wanted to take Ou Chuliang in their attempt to establish themselves within the top tier and Ou would help them do this by quickly establish himself in the team by playing in 26 league games and aiding Yunnan Hongta avoid relegation.<ref name="Oū, Chǔliáng">{{NFT player|id=18239|name=Oū, Chǔliáng|accessdate=8 August 2012}}</ref> Qu would spend several more seasons with Yunnan before being transferred to [[Chongqing Lifan F.C.]] in 2004 eventually ending his career with them.

==International career==
Ou made his international debut in a friendly match against [[Canada men's national soccer team|Canada]] on 2 April 1992 in a 5–2 defeat.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://teamchina.freehostia.com/player.php?id=ouchuliang|title=区楚良|publisher=teamchina.freehostia.com|access-date=8 August 2012}}</ref> Despite the defeat, Ou would be given the chance to play in several other friendlies which were enough to be called up to the Chinese squad that took part in the [[1992 AFC Asian Cup]] where he played understudy to [[Fu Yubin]]. Ou would rise to prominence when he replaced Fu Yubin as the first choice goalkeeper for China in the [[1996 AFC Asian Cup]] by starting the first game of the tournament against [[Uzbekistan national football team|Uzbekistan]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.weltfussball.de/spielbericht/asian-cup-1996-in-den-va-emiraten-gruppe-c-china-usbekistan/|title=Asian Cup 1996 VA Emirate .:. Gruppe C|publisher=weltfussball.de|date=6 December 1996|access-date=8 August 2012}}</ref> After a disappointing [[1998 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC)|1998 World Cup qualifying]] performance, Ou found himself increasingly replaced by [[Jiang Jin]] leading up to the [[2000 AFC Asian Cup]]. Jiang eventually cemented his position at the [[2002 FIFA World Cup]].

==Management career==
After he retired he would move to the United Kingdom and Germany to study for and achieve a [[FIFA]] coaching licence. When he returned in 2005 he was offered an assistant goalkeeping position for the [[China national under-23 football team|Chinese U-23]] football team to help them prepare for the [[Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics]]. Ou would only stay for a short period before he returned to Shanghai Shenhua to become their goalkeeping coach. By 2008 he was offered another assistant position, this time with the Chinese senior team as their new goalkeeping coach.

==Personal life==
Ou Chuliang's grandfather Ou Shounian ({{zh|s=区寿年}}) was a general of the [[National Revolutionary Army]] of the [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic of China]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ycwb.com/gb/content/2005-07/28/content_949316.htm|title=十九路军淞沪抗日七十八师师长区寿年|publisher=Yangcheng Evening News|date=2005-07-28|access-date=2016-06-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308112026/http://www.ycwb.com/gb/content/2005-07/28/content_949316.htm|archive-date=8 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Honours==
===Player===

'''[[Shanghai Shenhua]]'''<ref name="Oū, Chǔliáng"/>

*[[Chinese FA Cup]]: 1998

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{NFT player|id=18239}}
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport3/worldcup2002/hi/team_pages/china/squad/newsid_1950000/1950602.stm 2002 World Cup profile] at BBC Sport

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