Sérgio Conceição
Portuguese football manager and former player (born 1974) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sérgio Paulo Marceneiro da Conceição (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈsɛɾʒiu kõsɐjˈsɐ̃w]; born 15 November 1974) is a Portuguese professional football manager and former player who mostly played as a right winger. He is the current manager of Porto.
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Full name | Sérgio Paulo Marceneiro da Conceição[1] | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | (1974-11-15) 15 November 1974 (age 49)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Coimbra, Portugal[1] | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Winger | ||||||||||||||||
Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Porto (manager) | ||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
1986–1991 | Académica | ||||||||||||||||
1991–1993 | Porto | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
1993–1998 | Porto | 56 | (9) | ||||||||||||||
1993–1994 | → Penafiel (loan) | 30 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
1994–1995 | → Leça (loan) | 24 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
1995–1996 | → Felgueiras (loan) | 30 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
1998–2000 | Lazio | 63 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
2000–2001 | Parma | 25 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
2001–2003 | Inter Milan | 42 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
2003–2004 | Lazio | 7 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2004 | Porto | 11 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2004–2007 | Standard Liège | 74 | (21) | ||||||||||||||
2007 | Qadsia | 7 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
2008–2010 | PAOK | 41 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
Total | 410 | (61) | |||||||||||||||
International career | |||||||||||||||||
1995–1996 | Portugal U21 | 7 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
1996–2003 | Portugal | 56 | (12) | ||||||||||||||
Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
2010–2011 | Standard Liège (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
2012–2013 | Olhanense | ||||||||||||||||
2013–2014 | Académica | ||||||||||||||||
2014–2015 | Braga | ||||||||||||||||
2015–2016 | Vitória Guimarães | ||||||||||||||||
2016–2017 | Nantes | ||||||||||||||||
2017– | Porto | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Throughout his career, he played for ten teams in five countries. After gaining international recognition with Porto he switched to Italy, where he appeared for three clubs, winning domestic and European honours at Lazio. He amassed Primeira Liga totals of 97 games and 13 goals over four seasons, adding 136 matches and 13 goals in Serie A. Having won 56 caps for Portugal, he represented the nation at Euro 2000 and the 2002 World Cup, reaching the semi-finals of the former.
In 2012, Conceição started working as a manager, leading five teams in his nation's top flight and Nantes in Ligue 1. He set the record for most games as manager of Porto, winning ten honours including three league titles and the double in 2019–20 and 2021–22.