[3] Lin Lefeng would then move to the Shenyang Army football team before he would end his playing career.
After his retirement from playing Lin Lefeng would move to Italy to study for his coaching badges before returning to China when in 1998 he would take the management position offered at second tier club Chongqing Hongyan.
[4] He would take a position as a team leader and coach at the newly formed Zhejiang Green Town for a short period; however, it was when he was offered a position upstairs at Dalian Shide as the deputy general manager did he actually achieve success, winning promotion after promotion until he became the vice president of the club.
At the beginning of 2016, Lin Lefeng became the chairman of Dalian Transcendence, a newly founded club promoted from China League Two.
On July 5, 2016, Lin Lefeng was announced as the new chairman of Dalian Yifang, replacing Shi Xueqing.