António Oliveira (footballer, born 1952)

António Oliveira

Personal information
Full name	António Luís Alves Ribeiro de Oliveira
Date of birth	(1952-06-10) 10 June 1952
Place of birth	Penafiel, Portugal
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Attacking midfielder
Youth career
1968–1971	Porto
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1971–1979	Porto	187	(71)
1979	Betis	10	(1)
1980	Porto	12	(1)
1980–1981	Penafiel	22	(10)
1981–1985	Sporting CP	67	(27)
1985–1986	Marítimo	7	(0)
Total		305	(110)
International career
1974–1983	Portugal	24	(7)
Managerial career
1980–1981	Penafiel (player-coach)
1982–1983	Sporting CP (player-coach)
1985–1986	Marítimo (player-coach)
1987–1988	Vitória Guimarães
1988	Académica
1991–1992	Gil Vicente
1993–1994	Braga
1994–1996	Portugal
1996–1998	Porto
1998	Betis
2000–2002	Portugal
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

António Luís Alves Ribeiro de Oliveira (born 10 June 1952) is a retired Portuguese football attacking midfielder and manager.

As a player, he notably represented two of the Big Three in his country, Porto and Sporting, amassing totals of 266 games and 99 Primeira Liga goals between the two and also later managing the former with great success.

Having also represented it as a player, Oliveira had two coaching spells with the Portugal national team, leading it in one World Cup and one European Championship.

Playing career

Born in Penafiel, Oliveira made his senior debuts with FC Porto, first appearing in the Primeira Liga at the age of 18. From 1974 onwards, with the exception of one year, he always scored in double digits, netting a career-best 19 in the 1977–78 season as the northerners won the national championship after a 19-year drought.

In the 1979 summer, 27-year-old Oliveira moved to La Liga with Real Betis, but returned to Porto in the following transfer window, being an important first-team element as the side finished second in the league, two points behind Sporting Clube de Portugal.

After helping hometown's F.C. Penafiel retain its top flight status – he left Porto alongside club director Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa and coach José Maria Pedroto following internal disputes– he signed with Sporting, helping them to the double in 1981–82. In 1985, aged 33, Oliveira moved to C.S. Marítimo, retiring at the end of the campaign with Portuguese first division totals of 295 matches and 109 goals; at both Penafiel and Marítimo, he acted as player-coach.

Oliveira earned 24 caps for Portugal during a nine-year spell, which included his player-manager career at Penafiel. He did not take part, however, in any major international tournament.

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition	Ref.
1	15 April 1981	Estádio das Antas, Porto, Portugal	Bulgaria	1–1	1–1	Friendly
2	16 December 1981	Haskovo Stadium, Haskovo, Bulgaria	Bulgaria	0–1	5–2	Friendly
3	16 December 1981	Haskovo Stadium, Haskovo, Bulgaria	Bulgaria	5–2	5–2	Friendly
4	20 January 1982	Nikos Goumas Stadium, Athens, Greece	Greece	1–1	1–2	Friendly
5	20 January 1982	Nikos Goumas Stadium, Athens, Greece	Greece	1–2	1–2	Friendly
6	22 September 1982	Olympic Stadium (Helsinki), Helsinki, Finland	Finland	0–2	0–2	Euro 1984 qualifying
7	21 September 1983	Estádio José Alvalade (1956), Lisbon, Portugal	Finland	5–0	5–0	Euro 1984 qualifying Manager career Oliveira started managing while still an active player. Exclusively a coach from 1987 onwards, his only full season in his beginnings was 1991–92, when he led modest Gil Vicente F.C. to the 13th position in the top flight. After leading Portugal to the quarterfinals in UEFA Euro 1996, Oliveira signed for former side Porto, leading it to back-to-back national championships, with the addition of one Portuguese Cup, won against S.C. Braga. His first season started with a 5–0 demolition of S.L. Benfica in the domestic Supercup, as the club went on to win the league with 85 points – a record which would last until the 2002–03 campaign, broken by José Mourinho's team – also reaching the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League and being eliminated by Manchester United. In the summer of 1998, Oliveira was appointed at another former club, Betis, but left the Andalusians before the season started. Two years later he returned to the national team, helping it qualify to the 2002 FIFA World Cup, the first in 16 years. Several problems occurred during the preparation for the tournament in Japan and South Korea, and the competition itself: Vítor Baía replaced in-form Ricardo in goal, Beto played out of position at right back, Luís Figo was in very poor physical condition and Hugo Viana was called as a last-minute replacement for Daniel Kenedy, who tested positive in a doping control test; after one win and two losses in the group stage, Portugal was eliminated, and the manager was fired. Afterwards, Oliveira was elected chairman of Penafiel Futebol Clube. Honours Player Club Portuguese League: 1977–78, 1978–79, 1981–82 Portuguese Cup: 1976–77, 1981–82; Runner-up 1977–78 Portuguese Supercup: 1982 Individual Portuguese Footballer of the Year: 1978, 1981, 1982 Manager Sporting Portuguese Supercup: 1982 Porto Portuguese League: 1996–97, 1997–98 Portuguese Cup: 1997–98 Portuguese Supercup: 1996; Runner-up 1997 References External links Template:TheFinalBall António Oliveira at ForaDeJogo (archived) António Oliveira manager stats at ForaDeJogo (archived) António Oliveira at BDFutbol António Oliveira at National-Football-Teams.com Portugal stats at Eu-Football