Luís Castro (footballer, born 1961)

Luís Manuel Ribeiro de Castro (born 3 September 1961) is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a right back, and is the current manager of Ukrainian club FC Shakhtar Donetsk.

This name uses Portuguese naming customs: the first or maternal family name is Ribeiro and the second or paternal family name is Castro.
Luís Castro
Castro as manager of Shakhtar Donetsk in 2019
Personal information
Full name Luís Manuel Ribeiro de Castro
Date of birth (1961-09-03) 3 September 1961
Place of birth Mondrões, Portugal
Position(s) Right back
Club information
Current team
 Shakhtar Donetsk (manager)
Youth career
1976–1977 Vieirense
1977–1980 União Leiria
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1980–1981 União Leiria 1 (0)
1981–1982 Vieirense
1982–1985 União Leiria 46 (1)
1985–1987 Vitória Guimarães 1 (0)
1987–1989 Elvas 58 (0)
1989–1990 Fafe 6 (0)
1990–1997 Águeda 147 (3)
Teams managed
1998–2000 Águeda
2000–2001 Mealhada
2001–2003 Estarreja
2003–2004 Sanjoanense
2004–2006 Penafiel
2013–2014 Porto B
2014 Porto
2014–2016 Porto B
2016–2017 Rio Ave
2017–2018 Chaves
2018–2019 Vitória Guimarães
2019– Shakhtar Donetsk
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Early life / Personal

Castro was born in the village of Mondrões, in Vila Real. For much of his childhood and youth he suffered from a debilitating disease,[1] going on to major in physics at the University of Coimbra.[2]

Playing career

Castro spent most of his 17-year professional career in the lower leagues, representing U.D. Leiria, O Elvas CAD, AD Fafe and R.D. Águeda in the Segunda Liga and Vitória S.C. and Elvas in the Primeira Liga.

With the latter, he appeared in 28 matches in the 1987–88 season, but his team ranked in 15th place and suffered relegation.[3]

Coaching career

One year after retiring from professional football, Castro began working as a manager with his final club Águeda, where he would remain for two seasons. He went on to be in charge of lowly G.D. Mealhada, C.D. Estarreja and A.D. Sanjoanense, before being appointed at F.C. Penafiel in the top level in summer 2004[4] and guiding it to the 11th position in his debut campaign,[5] the highlight being a 1–0 home win against S.L. Benfica.[6]

Following Penafiel's relegation in 2006, Castro left the club, joining FC Porto's youth academy and eventually coaching the reserves.[7] On 5 March 2014, following the resignation of Paulo Fonseca at the helm of the main squad, he was named an interim until the end of the season.[8]

Castro led Porto's reserves to the LigaPro title in 2015–16; they were the first B team to win the division and as such ineligible for promotion.[9] He then managed three sides in the Portuguese top flight after leaving for Rio Ave F.C. in November 2016,[10] going on to G.D. Chaves[11] and Vitória de Guimarães.[12] In May 2019, at the end of his only campaign at the Estádio D. Afonso Henriques, he secured for them fifth place and a spot in the UEFA Europa League at the expense of neighbours Moreirense FC.[13]

On 12 June 2019, Castro signed a two-year contract at FC Shakhtar Donetsk as a replacement for compatriot Paulo Fonseca who left for A.S. Roma after winning three Ukrainian Premier League championships in a row.[14] In his first season in Eastern Europe, the team's hopes of a sixth consecutive national cup were thwarted in the last 16 by rivals FC Dynamo Kyiv,[15] but they did win a fourth league title in a row[16] and reached the semi-finals of the Europa League.[17]

Managerial statistics
As of match played 9 December 2020[18][19][20]
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team Nat From To Record
G W D L GF GA GD Win %
Águeda 2 June 1998 21 February 2000 61 28 14 19 89 73 +16 045.90
Mealhada 17 May 2000 30 June 2001 30 18 9 3 73 18 +55 060.00
Estarreja 30 June 2001 22 May 2003 79 42 13 24 145 99 +46 053.16
Sanjoanense 22 May 2003 16 September 2004 45 22 11 12 67 47 +20 048.89
Penafiel 16 September 2004 4 June 2006 70 17 13 40 71 114 −43 024.29
Porto B 1 July 2013 4 March 2014 32 18 6 8 39 26 +13 056.25
Porto 5 March 2014 10 May 2014 16 9 2 5 25 18 +7 056.25
Porto B 11 May 2014 12 November 2016 106 48 22 36 166 133 +33 045.28
Rio Ave 12 November 2016 1 June 2017 27 13 5 9 34 26 +8 048.15
Chaves 1 June 2017 20 May 2018 37 14 8 15 51 60 −9 037.84
Vitória Guimarães 20 May 2018 12 June 2019 39 18 7 14 56 37 +19 046.15
Shakhtar Donetsk 12 June 2019 Present 65 40 15 10 140 80 +60 061.54
Total 607 287 125 195 956 731 +225 047.28

Honours

Manager

Porto B

Shakhtar Donetsk

References
  1. "Luís Castro: um homem da casa, mas não só" [Luís Castro: a man of the house, but not only that] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. 5 March 2014. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
  2. Rodrigues, Berta (6 March 2014). "Luís Castro: o que podem esperar dele" [Luís Castro: what can be expected of him] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
  3. "Época 1987/88: Primeira Divisão" [1987/88 season: First Division] (in Portuguese). Arquivos da Bola. 15 July 2007. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  4. "Luís Castro sucede a Manuel Fernandes" [Luís Castro succeeds Manuel Fernandes]. Record (in Portuguese). 17 September 2004. Archived from the original on 8 March 2014. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
  5. Lopes, Gonçalo (20 December 2016). "Luís Castro, o ex-aluno de Física, encontrou a fórmula certa em Vila do Conde" [Luís Castro, the former Physics student, found the right formula in Vila do Conde]. Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). Retrieved 12 June 2019.
  6. "Penafiel-Benfica, 1–0. Não foi só aritmética, foi um golpe no sonho" [Penafiel-Benfica, 1–0. It was not only arithmetics, it was a blow to the dream]. Record (in Portuguese). 8 May 2005. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  7. "Luís Castro vai treinar equipa" [Luís Castro is going to manage team]. Record (in Portuguese). 19 June 2013. Archived from the original on 8 March 2014. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
  8. "Porto sack coach Paulo Fonseca after nine months in charge". BBC Sport. 5 March 2014. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
  9. Monteiro, André (12 May 2016). "Equipa B entrega troféu da 2.ª Liga a Pinto da Costa" [B team give 2nd League trophy to Pinto da Costa]. Record (in Portuguese). Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  10. Veloso Gomes, André (14 November 2016). "Luís Castro no Rio Ave: "Obra no FC Porto estava feita"" [Luís Castro in Rio Ave: "Work in FC Porto was done"]. O Jogo (in Portuguese). Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  11. "Luís Castro é o novo treinador do Chaves" [Luís Castro is the new manager of Chaves]. Record (in Portuguese). 1 June 2017. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  12. Pires, Sérgio; Ferreira, Bruno José (20 May 2018). "Luís Castro assina por dois anos pelo Vitória de Guimarães" [Luís Castro signs for two years with Vitória de Guimarães] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  13. "Luís Castro: "Ajudei o nosso Vitória chegar à Liga Europa"" [Luís Castro: "I helped our Vitória to reach the Europa League"] (in Portuguese). Mais Guimarães. 19 May 2019. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  14. "Ucrânia. Luís Castro oficializado no Shakhtar" [Ukraine. Luís Castro made official at Shakhtar]. Sol (in Portuguese). 12 June 2019. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
  15. "Shakhtar de Luís Castro eliminado na Taça da Ucrânia" [Luís Castro's Shakhtar eliminated from the Ukrainian Cup]. Público (in Portuguese). 30 October 2019. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  16. "Shakhtar Donetsk, de Luís Castro, campeão na Ucrânia" [Shakhtar Donetsk, of Luís Castro, Ukrainian champions] (in Portuguese). SIC Notícias. 20 June 2020. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  17. "Castro: 'Inter proved superiority'". Football Italia. 17 August 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  18. "Luís Castro". Zerozero. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
  19. Luís Castro coach profile at Soccerway
  20. "Luís Castro". ForaDeJogo. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
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