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Pedro Miguel Marques da Costa Filipe (born 14 December 1980), known as Pepa, is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a forward, currently manager of Saudi club Al-Tai.

Pepa

Personal information
Full name	Pedro Miguel Marques da Costa Filipe
Date of birth	(1980-12-14) 14 December 1980 (age 41)
Place of birth	Torres Novas, Portugal
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Club information
Current team	Al-Tai (manager)
Youth career
1991–1994	CADE
1994–1999	Benfica
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1999–2002	Benfica	5	(1)
1999–2002	Benfica B	29	(1)
2000–2001	→ Lierse (loan)	14	(1)
2002–2003	Varzim	50	(10)
2004–2005	Paços Ferreira	1	(0)
2005–2006	Olhanense	12	(3)
Total		111	(16)
National team
1996	Portugal U16	2	(0)
1997	Portugal U17	3	(0)
1999	Portugal U18	9	(1)
Teams managed
2010–2011	Tondela (assistant)
2011–2013	Benfica (youth)
2013–2015	Sanjoanense
2015–2016	Feirense
2016	Moreirense
2017–2019	Tondela
2019–2021	Paços Ferreira
2021–2022	Vitória Guimarães
2022–	Al-Tai
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Formed at Benfica, where he made seven first-team appearances, he spent most of his career in his country's second tier, making 63 appearances and scoring 13 goals for three clubs. He also played on loan at Lierse in the Belgian top flight and earned 14 youth caps for Portugal.

Pepa began working as a manager in 2013, leading four Primeira Liga sides.

Playing career

Born in Torres Novas, Santarém District, Pepa joined S.L. Benfica's youth system in 1994, aged 13. He made his competitive debut with the main squad on 23 January 1999, scoring in a Primeira Liga 3–1 home win against Rio Ave FC.[1] After being touted as an early promise, he went on to appear mainly for the reserve team,[2] also being loaned in March 2000 to Lierse S.K. in Belgium[3] for a fee of 50 million Portuguese escudos.[4]

In 2002, Pepa terminated his contract with Benfica which had four years remaining, following in the footsteps of fellow youth graduates Rui Baião and Jorge Ribeiro and signing with Varzim SC, a decision he later claimed as the worst mistake in his life.[5] He ended his career in late 2007 at only 26, due to several knee injuries.[6][7]

Coaching career

In summer 2013, after two years working with Benfica's youth sides,[8] Pepa had his first head coaching experience, being appointed at A.D. Sanjoanense in the regional leagues[9] and helping the club promote to the third division at the first attempt.[10] In 2015–16 he achieved the same feat with C.D. Feirense of the LigaPro, even though he did not finished the season after being replaced by José Mota for the final two months.[11]

Pepa continued to work in the Portuguese top tier in the following years, with Moreirense F.C.[12][13] and C.D. Tondela.[14] During his two-year stint at the latter he successfully avoided relegation, but was not retained.[15]

Having started the 2019–20 campaign without a club, Pepa replaced Filó at the helm of F.C. Paços de Ferreira after the fourth matchday, with the team last in the standings.[16] In May 2021, after having led them to the fifth place and qualification to the inaugural edition of the UEFA Europa Conference League, he left the Estádio da Mata Real.[17][18]

Days after leaving Paços, Pepa signed a three-year contract to manage Vitória de Guimarães.[19] He led the team to sixth place in his only season, but he and his coaching staff were dismissed on 12 July 2022, days before the new campaign was due to open against Puskás Akadémia FC in the UEFA Europa Conference League.[20]

On 19 July 2022, Pepa was handed his first foreign management job, at Al-Tai FC in the Saudi Professional League.[21]

Career statistics

[22]

Club	Season	League			Cup		Continental		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Benfica	1998–99	Primeira Liga	2	1	0	0	—		—		2	1
	1999–2000		0	0	2	0	—		—		2	0
	2000–01		0	0	0	0	—		—		0	0
	2001–02		3	0	0	0	—		—		3	0
	Subtotal		5	1	2	0	—		—		7	1
Benfica B	1999–2000	Segunda Divisão	12	0	—		—		—		12	0
	2000–01		0	0	—		—		—		0	0
	2001–02		17	1	—		—		—		17	1
	Subtotal		29	1	—		—		—		29	1
Lierse (loan)	2000–01	Belgian First Division	14	1	—		—		—		14	1
Varzim	2002–03	Segunda Liga	29	5	1	0	—		—		30	5
	2003–04		21	5	1	1	—		—		22	6
	Subtotal		50	10	2	1	—		—		52	11
Paços de Ferreira	2004–05	Segunda Liga	1	0	—		—		—		1	0
Olhanense	2005–06	Liga de Honra	11	3	2	0	—		—		13	3
	2006–07		1	0	—		—		—		1	0
	Subtotal		12	3	2	0	—		—		14	3
Career total			111	16	6	1	0	0	0	0	117	17

Managerial statistics

As of match played 15 October 2022[23][24]

Managerial record by team and tenure

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Sanjoanense		28 June 2013	25 May 2015	71	40	16	15	122	68	+54	056.34
Feirense		1 July 2015	24 March 2016	46	22	13	11	53	39	+14	047.83
Moreirense		20 May 2016	21 November 2016	12	3	2	7	9	15	−6	025.00
Tondela		10 January 2017	24 May 2019	95	29	22	44	116	140	−24	030.53
Paços Ferreira		2 September 2019	19 May 2021	74	31	14	29	90	98	−8	041.89
Vitória Guimarães		21 May 2021	12 July 2022	40	17	10	13	63	48	+15	042.50
Al-Tai		19 July 2022	Present	8	5	0	3	11	10	+1	062.50
Total				345	146	77	122	464	419	+45	042.32

References

External links

• Pepa at ForaDeJogo (archived)
• Pepa manager stats at ForaDeJogo
• National team data (in Portuguese)

На других языках

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- [en] Pepa (footballer)

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[it] Pepa (calciatore)

Pepa, pseudonimo di Pedro Miguel Marques da Costa Filipe (Torres Novas, 14 dicembre 1980), è un allenatore di calcio ed ex calciatore portoghese di ruolo attaccante, tecnico del Vitória Guimarães.

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