[5] After his retirement, he moved into management where he guided the national men's football team of the Republic of China (which later played as Taiwan and Chinese Taipei) to win the 1954 Asian Games.

[7] Lee Wai Tong was born in Tai Hang, Hong Kong, just outside the city, as the third child to a construction firm owner before he moved back to his parents home of Ng-Wah County in Mei-Chow, Kwangtung, China at the age of four.

[8] His father was born in Hong Kong while mother was Chen Qiongsheng[clarify], from Hsiang-Shan, Kwangtung Province (now Zhongshan).

[3] Lee left school early initially to help his father's construction company before he joined South China AA, a Hong Kong top division team, as a youth player in 1922.

[14] In May 1923, at the age of 17, Lee was called up to the China national team to represent them in the football tournament of the 1923 Far Eastern Championship Games held in Osaka, Japan.

[3] Despite still being a minor, his prolific goalscoring at club level earned him a place on the team and marked the start of an illustrious career which lasted for the next twenty years.

[4] In the following edition in 1925, Lee scored five goals; a brace against Japan and a hat-trick against the Philippines, thus contributing decisively in China winning its 6th title of the competition.

[3] Lee would, however struggle to see his nation participate in their first truly worldwide tournament when the Chinese government could only give 170,000 from the required 220,000 yuan the team needed to get to the Berlin Olympics.

[3] Lee Wai Tong's first coaching experience came while he was still a player and he took a job with Fudan University while he played for Loh Hwa.