He had given Jiangsu 207 league matches by the night of 12 November 2020, when they beat Guangzhou Evergrande over two legs for the only championship the club would ever hold, and three months later Jiangsu no longer existed. That 2020 Chinese Super League title, three Team of the Year selections in 2015, 2016 and 2019, 90 caps and nine goals for China, and the armband at the 2023 Asian Cup.
China legends whose careers overlapped Xi's
One rank above: Sun Xiang at #25.
One rank below: Zeng Cheng at #27.
China's editorial top five: Sun Jihai · Zheng Zhi · Fan Zhiyi · Hao Haidong · Gu Guangming.