Fernando Couto

Fernando Couto
	Couto in 2011
Personal information
Full name	Fernando Manuel Silva Couto
Date of birth	2 August 1969 (age 54)
Place of birth	Espinho, Portugal
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Centre back
Youth career
1980–1985	Espinho
1985–1986	Lourosa
1986–1988	Porto
Senior career*
Years	Team
1988	Porto
1988–1989	Famalicão
1989–1990	Académica
1990–1994	Porto
1994–1996	Parma
1996–1998	Barcelona
1998–2005	Lazio
2005–2008	Parma
Total
National team
1989	Portugal U20
1989–1990	Portugal U21
1990–2004	Portugal
Teams managed
2012–2014	Braga (assistant)
Honours
Men's football
Representing Portugal
UEFA European Championship
FIFA U-20 World Cup
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Fernando Couto (born 2 August 1969) is a former Portuguese football player. He has played for Portugal national team.

Career statistics

Sources:^[1]^[2]^[3]

Club	Season	League			Cup		Europe		Other^[a]		Total
Club	Season	Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Porto	1987–88	Primeira Divisão	1	0	0	0	—		—		1	0
Famalicão	1988–89						—		—
Académica	1989–90	Segunda Divisão	23	2	1	0	—		—		24	2
Porto	1990–91	Primeira Divisão	24	3	6	0	4	0	0	0	34	3
	1991–92		32	2	5	0	4	0	3	0	44	2
	1992–93		26	4	3	0	7	2	2	0	38	6
	1993–94		23	1	5	0	9	0	2	0	39	1
	Total		105	10	19	0	24	2	7	0	155	12
Parma	1994–95	Serie A	27	4	9	2	8	1	—		44	7
	1995–96	Serie A	12	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	15	0
	Total		39	4	9	2	10	1	1	0	59	7
Barcelona	1996–97	La Liga	26	0	5	1	4	1	0	0	35	2
	1997–98	La Liga	18	0	2	0	5	0	0	0	25	0
	Total		44	0	7	1	9	1	0	0	60	2
Lazio	1998–99	Serie A	22	2	5	0	8	0	1	0	36	2
	1999–00		14	0	5	0	7	0	0	0	26	0
	2000–01		18	0	4	0	8	0	0	0	30	0
	2001–02		29	1	2	0	4	0	—		35	1
	2002–03		15	0	4	0	12	1	—		31	1
	2003–04		23	3	4	1	4	0	—		41	3
	2004–05		24	3	0	0	3	0	1	0	28	3
	Total		145	9	24	1	46	1	2	0	217	11
Parma	2005–06	Serie A	23	0	1	0	—		—		24	0
	2006–07		23	1	1	0	2	0	—		26	1
	2007–08		17	0	1	0	—		—		18	0
	Total		63	1	3	0	2	0	—		68	1
Career total			420	26	62	4	91	5	10	0	583	35

Source:^[4]

Source:^[4]

List of international goals scored by Fernando Couto
#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	24 February 1993	Estádio das Antas, Porto, Portugal	Italy	1–2	1–3	1994 World Cup qualification
2	18 December 1994	Estádio da Luz (1954), Lisbon, Portugal	Liechtenstein	5–0	8–0	Euro 1996 qualifying
3	24 January 1996	Parc des Princes, Paris, France	France	0–1	3–2	Friendly
4	14 June 1996	City Ground, Nottingham, England	Turkey	1–0	1–0	UEFA Euro 1996
5	9 November 1996	Estádio das Antas, Porto, Portugal	Ukraine	1–0	1–0	1998 World Cup qualification
6	18 November 1998	Estádio do Bonfim, Setúbal, Portugal	Israel	1–0	2–0	Friendly
7	10 June 2003	Estádio Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal	Bolivia	2–0	4–0	Friendly
8	5 June 2004	Estádio do Bonfim, Setúbal, Portugal	Lithuania	1–0	4–1	Friendly

Porto

Parma

Barcelona

Lazio

Portugal U20

Portugal

↑ Fernando Couto at ForaDeJogo
↑ "Fernando Couto". Footballdatabase. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
↑ "Fernando Manuel Silva Couto" (in Italian). Lega Serie A. Archived from the original on 2 July 2013. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 "Fernando Couto". European Football. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
↑ Mocciaro, Gaetano (17 May 2018). "17 maggio 1995, il Parma vince la Coppa UEFA battendo in finale la Juve" [17 May 1995, Parma win UEFA Cup beating Juve in the final] (in Italian). Tutto Mercato Web. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
↑ Alvarenga, Vítor Hugo (3 March 2014). "Riade, 25 anos: como foi e onde estão os campeões" [Riyadh, 25 years ago: how did it go and where are the champions] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
↑ Fernandes, Nuno (11 June 2019). "15 anos depois do Euro2004 Ronaldo continua em grande. E os outros 22 onde param?" [15 years after Euro2004 Ronaldo is still at the top. And what of the other 22?]. Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). Retrieved 28 April 2020.