Wang Baoshan got his break in club management with second-tier football club
Foshan Fosti in the 1995 league season and helped guide the club to a fifth-place finish. Wang would take a step back from being a Head coach and take on the assistant management position with the
Chinese national team where he worked under
Vladimir Petrović. The Chinese Football Association would sack Petrović in June 2008 which saw the National team without a Head coach to lead them into important
2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification matches, being the only assistant with top flight management experience there were rumours that Wang would lead the national team on at least a short-term basis, however the Chinese FA decided to bring in experienced coach
Yin Tiesheng in instead. Strangely enough in July 2008 after being sacked from Shenzhen Jianlibao the club took him back but this time as a technical advisor. In May 2009 the Head coach position at top-tier club
Chengdu Blades became available after their previous manager
Li Bing resigned, under Wang results would improve throughout the season and he would go on to lead the team onto a respectable seventh-place finish. Despite this achievement Chengdu Blades were relegated to the second tier before the start of the 2010 league season for match fixing after it was discovered the club had fixed a match several years ago. Wang decided to stay loyal towards the club and remained as manager to aid the club win immediate promotion back into the top tier at the end of the 2010 league season. Despite this achievement the club decided that they needed a new manager and brought in
Lawrie McKinna for the start of the
2011 Chinese Super League season. After over a year out of management Chengdu Blades who had fallen back into the second tier asked for Wang's help half-way through the
2012 China League One season after the previous manager
Niu Hongli had resigned. In 2013, Wang became the head coach of
Chongqing Lifan. On 27 September 2018,
Henan Jianye signed Wang to replace
Chang Woe-ryong. On 20 January 2022, Wang was named as the manager of
Shaanxi Chang'an Athletic. == Managerial statistics==