| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Vítor Manuel Oliveira | ||
| Date of birth | (1953-11-17)17 November 1953 | ||
| Place of birth | Matosinhos,Portugal | ||
| Date of death | 28 November 2020(2020-11-28) (aged 67) | ||
| Place of death | Matosinhos, Portugal | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1969–1972 | Leixões | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1972–1975 | Leixões | 60 | (5) |
| 1975–1976 | Paredes | ||
| 1976–1979 | Famalicão | ||
| 1979–1981 | Espinho | 39 | (1) |
| 1981–1983 | Braga | 44 | (1) |
| 1983–1985 | Portimonense | 47 | (4) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1979 | Famalicão (player-coach) | ||
| 1985–1987 | Portimonense | ||
| 1987–1988 | Maia | ||
| 1989–1992 | Paços Ferreira | ||
| 1992–1995 | Gil Vicente | ||
| 1995 | Vitória Guimarães | ||
| 1996–1997 | Académica | ||
| 1997–1998 | União Leiria | ||
| 1998 | Braga | ||
| 1998–2000 | Belenenses | ||
| 2000–2001 | Rio Ave | ||
| 2001–2003 | Gil Vicente | ||
| 2003 | Académica | ||
| 2004–2005 | Moreirense | ||
| 2006–2007 | Leixões | ||
| 2007–2008 | União Leiria | ||
| 2009–2010 | Trofense | ||
| 2010–2011 | Aves | ||
| 2011–2013 | Arouca | ||
| 2013–2014 | Moreirense | ||
| 2014–2015 | União Madeira | ||
| 2015–2016 | Chaves | ||
| 2016–2018 | Portimonense | ||
| 2018–2019 | Paços Ferreira | ||
| 2019–2020 | Gil Vicente | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Vítor Manuel Oliveira (17 November 1953 – 28 November 2020) was a Portuguesefootballmidfielder andmanager.
In a managerial career spanning over 30 years, he won 11 promotions to thePrimeira Liga, six as champion.[1][2][3][4][5]
Born inMatosinhos, Oliveira's senior career spanned 13 seasons, ten of which were spent in thePrimeira Liga where he appeared in a total of 218 games, scoring 17 goals; he representedLeixões SC,F.C. Famalicão,S.C. Espinho,S.C. Braga andPortimonense S.C. at that level. In hislast year as a professional, he played 23 matches (one goal) for the latter team as they finished fifth andqualified for theUEFA Cup for the first and only time in their history.[6]
Oliveira retired in June 1985, at the age of 31.[7] In theSegunda Liga, he played forU.S.C. Paredes and Famalicão.
Oliveira wasplayer-manager of Famalicão for their final match of the1978–79 season, after the exit ofMário Imbelloni. The team lost 2–0 atC.F. Os Belenenses on 17 June, and were consequently relegated from the top level.[8]
Afterwards, Oliveira was in charge of Portimonense. His first season yielded the best finish of his entire career as seventh in the1985–86,[8] and he was dismissed midway throughthe following campaign. In the following years he worked almost exclusively withF.C. Paços de Ferreira in division two,achieving promotion in 1991 as champions andretaining league status the next year.
After three full seasons in the top flight withGil Vicente FC, Oliveira coached several clubs in the first and second divisions, promoting from the latter tier withU.D. Leiria, Belenenses and Leixões. Early into2007–08 he replaced firedPaulo Duarte at the helm of Leiria,[9][10] but only managed to lead his team to three wins in his 21 games (14 losses) as the season ended in top-division relegation.
After working with former club Leixões asdirector of football in2008–09, Oliveira resumed his career in the second level, withC.D. Trofense,C.D. Aves,F.C. Arouca[11] andMoreirense FC. On 19 May 2016, he returned to Portimonense nearly three decades after his first spell, on a one-year contract with the aim of winning promotion.[12] Afterdoing so as champions – his fifth consecutive promotion – he decided to remain in theAlgarve;[13] having taken the team totenth place on their return to the top flight, he left theEstádio Municipal de Portimão in May 2018.[14]
On 22 May 2018, Oliveira replacedJoão Henriques as manager of another former side, Paços de Ferreira.[15] In May 2019, havingsealed his eleventh promotion and sixth as champion, he left for yet another former employer Gil Vicente – who had been restored to the top tier in a court decision.[16] On 10 August, in their first game ofthe season, they beatFC Porto 2–1 at home;[17] they finished in tenth, after which he left.[18]
Oliveira died while going for a walk in his hometown of Matosinhos on 28 November 2020, at the age of 67;[19] early reports, which were later confirmed, stated that he felt unwell and died of a heart attack.[20] He had been working as apundit forCanal 11 a few weeks prior to the event.[21][22]
Afterwards, theLiga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional decided to name the monthly and yearly Best Manager Award in his honour.[23]
| Team | Nat | From | To | Record | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | Win % | |||||||
| Famalicão (caretaker) |  | 11 June 1979 | 18 June 1979 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 000.00 | |||
| Portimonense | | 8 June 1985 | 5 February 1987 | 58 | 23 | 11 | 24 | 039.66 | |||
| Maia | | 1 July 1987 | 31 December 1988 | 59 | 32 | 14 | 13 | 054.24 | |||
| Paços Ferreira | | 17 January 1989 | 20 March 1992 | 134 | 66 | 28 | 40 | 049.25 | |||
| Gil Vicente | | 20 May 1992 | 30 May 1995 | 105 | 29 | 31 | 45 | 027.62 | |||
| Vitória Guimarães | | 31 May 1995 | 18 December 1995 | 19 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 042.11 | |||
| Académica | | 11 January 1996 | 17 May 1997 | 56 | 27 | 11 | 18 | 048.21 | |||
| União Leiria | | 17 May 1997 | 18 May 1998 | 40 | 24 | 11 | 5 | 060.00 | |||
| Braga | | 26 May 1998 | 28 October 1998 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 023.08 | |||
| Belenenses | | 3 December 1998 | 16 May 2000 | 56 | 20 | 19 | 17 | 035.71 | |||
| Rio Ave | | 16 May 2000 | 2 December 2001 | 52 | 21 | 13 | 18 | 040.38 | |||
| Gil Vicente | | 23 December 2001 | 3 June 2003 | 55 | 20 | 10 | 25 | 036.36 | |||
| Académica | | 29 August 2003 | 18 December 2003 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 028.57 | |||
| Moreirense | | 7 June 2004 | 4 April 2005 | 29 | 6 | 10 | 13 | 020.69 | |||
| Leixões | | 23 February 2006 | 22 May 2007 | 44 | 27 | 10 | 7 | 061.36 | |||
| União Leiria | | 6 November 2007 | 12 May 2008 | 23 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 017.39 | |||
| Trofense | | 15 June 2009 | 8 February 2010 | 26 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 038.46 | |||
| Aves | | 25 October 2010 | 30 May 2011 | 30 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 036.67 | |||
| Arouca | | 21 September 2011 | 19 May 2013 | 76 | 32 | 22 | 22 | 042.11 | |||
| Moreirense | | 21 May 2013 | 10 March 2014 | 41 | 18 | 16 | 7 | 043.90 | |||
| União Madeira | | 27 May 2014 | 25 May 2015 | 56 | 27 | 15 | 14 | 048.21 | |||
| Chaves | | 10 June 2015 | 15 May 2016 | 50 | 22 | 20 | 8 | 044.00 | |||
| Portimonense | | 19 May 2016 | 15 May 2018 | 84 | 36 | 20 | 28 | 042.86 | |||
| Paços Ferreira | | 22 May 2018 | 20 May 2019 | 42 | 27 | 8 | 7 | 064.29 | |||
| Gil Vicente | | 20 May 2019 | 25 July 2020 | 40 | 14 | 10 | 16 | 035.00 | |||
| Career totals | 1,203 | 511 | 310 | 382 | 042.48 | ||||||
Paços Ferreira
União Leiria
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