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| Full name | António Luís Alves Ribeiro de Oliveira | ||
| Date of birth | (1952-06-10)10 June 1952 (age 73) | ||
| Place of birth | Penafiel, Portugal | ||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
| Position | Attacking midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1968–1971 | Porto | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1971–1979 | Porto | 188 | (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 | 306 | (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 | ||
| 2015 | Al Faisaly | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
António Luís Alves Ribeiro de Oliveira (born 10 June 1952) is a Portuguese formerfootballattacking midfielder and a formermanager.
As a player, he notably represented two of theBig Three in his country,Porto andSporting, amassing totals of 267 matches and 99Primeira Liga goals between the two and also later managing the former club with great success.
Also an international player, Oliveira had two coaching spells with thePortugal national team, leading them in oneWorld Cup and oneEuropean Championship.
Born inPenafiel,Porto District, Oliveira made his senior debut withFC Porto, first appearing in thePrimeira 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 the1977–78 season as thenortherners won the national championship after a 19-year drought.
In the summer of 1979, 27-year-old Oliveira moved toLa Liga withReal Betis. He returned to Porto the followingtransfer window due tohomesickness, being an important first-team element as the latter sidefinished second in the league, two points behindSporting CP.[1]
After helping hometown'sF.C. Penafielretain top-flight status – he left Porto alongside club directorJorge Nuno Pinto da Costa and coachJosé Maria Pedroto following internal disputes[2]– Oliveira signed with Sporting, helping them tothe double in1981–82.[3] In 1985, aged 33, he moved toC.S. Marítimo, retiring at the end ofthe campaign with Portuguese top division totals of 296 matches and 109 goals; at both Penafiel and Marítimo, he acted asplayer-coach.[1]
Oliveira earned 24caps forPortugal over a nine-year spell, which included his player-manager career at Penafiel. He did not take part, however, in any major international tournament.
Oliveira started managing while still an active player. Exclusively a coach from 1987 onwards, his only full season in his beginnings was1991–92, when he led modestGil Vicente F.C. to the 13th position in the top flight.
After helping Portugal to the quarter-finals inUEFA Euro 1996,[4] Oliveira signed for former club Porto, leading it to back-to-back national championships with the addition of onePortuguese Cup, won againstS.C. Braga.His first season started with a5–0 demolition ofS.L. Benfica in thedomestic Supercup, as the team went on to win the league with 85 points – a record which would last until the2002–03 campaign, broken byJosé Mourinho's team[5]– alsoreaching the quarter-finals of theUEFA Champions League and being eliminated byManchester United.[6]
In summer 1998, Oliveira was appointed at another former club, Betis, but left theAndalusians before the season started.[7] He returned to the national side two years later,[8]qualifying to the2002 FIFA World Cup, the first time in 16 years.
Several problems occurred during the preparation for the tournament in Japan andSouth Korea, and the competition itself:Vítor Baía replaced in-formRicardo ingoalkeeper,Beto played out of position atright back,Luís Figo was in very poor physical condition andHugo Viana was called as a last-minute replacement forDaniel Kenedy, who tested positive in adoping control test;[9][10][11] after one win and two losses in the group stage, Portugal were eliminated and the manager was fired.[12]
Afterwards, Oliveira was elected chairman of Penafiel Futebol Clube.[13] He also majored in law, at the age of 54.[1]
He was married to Ivete Oliveira, a former teacher and a businesswoman owner of a well-known auction house in the city of Porto, who revealed in 2025 that she was battling cancer for the second time when she discovered she was being cheated on by her ex-husband, to whom she was married for 22 years.[14] The couple divorced in 2015.[15][16]
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition[17] |
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| 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 |
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