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.
Personal information | |||
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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.
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]
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]
Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
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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 |
Team | Nat | From | To | Record | |||||||
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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 |
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