Qiu Li (Chinese: 邱礼, born June 6, 1981, in Shenyang, Liaoning, China) is a naturalised Chinese-Singaporean former professional association football player and is currently the youth coach of Singapore Premier League club Balestier Khalsa.
[1] After the club decided to pull out of the S-league for the 2006 season, he stayed in Singapore and agreed on a contract with the Young Lions where he excelled with 19 goals from 25 matches played.
However, on 24 November 2008, FIFA banned Qiu from playing for Singapore because he did not meet the new criteria stating that a new citizen needs to reside in his new country for five years.
[8][9] On 23 July 2011, Qiu Li scored his first goal for Singapore with a free-kick in the first leg of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Qualifier against Malaysia played at a sold out crowd at Jalan Besar Stadium.
After retirement from professional football in 2015, Qiu returned to his hometown and joined China League Two (3rd division) club, Liaoning Shenyang.