Artur Jorge (footballer, born 1946)

Artur Jorge Braga Melo Teixeira (born 13 February 1946), commonly known as Artur Jorge, is a Portuguese football manager and former player, who played as a forward.

This article is about the manager and former footballer. For other people with similar names, see Artur Jorge.

Artur Jorge
Artur Jorge in 1972
Personal information
Full name Artur Jorge Braga de Melo Teixeira
Date of birth (1946-02-13) 13 February 1946
Place of birth Porto, Portugal
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1964–1965 Porto 4 (1)
1965–1969 Académica 96 (72)
1969–1975 Benfica 130 (105)
1975–1978 Belenenses 51 (14)
1977 → Rochester Lancers (loan) 7 (2)
Total 288 (194)
International career
1967–1977 Portugal 16 (1)
Managerial career
1980–1981 Vitória de Guimarães
1981 Belenenses
1981–1983 Portimonense
1984–1987 Porto
1987–1989 Racing Paris
1989–1991 Porto
1991–1994 Paris Saint-Germain
1994–1995 Benfica
1995–1996 Switzerland
1996–1997 Portugal
1997–1998 Tenerife
1998 Vitesse
1998–1999 Paris Saint-Germain
2000–2001 Al-Nassr
2001–2002 Al-Hilal
2002–2003 Académica
2003–2004 CSKA Moscow
2004–2006 Cameroon
2006 Al-Nassr
2006–2007 Créteil
2014–2015 MC Alger
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Club career

As a junior player, Artur Jorge started at the junior team of FC Porto. As professional player, he played for Académica de Coimbra and Benfica, before ending his career at Belenenses in the 1977–78 season, due to a serious injury suffered at a training session in the Estádio Nacional where he broke a leg. He also had a stint in the North American Soccer League with the Rochester Lancers.[1] During his playing days in Coimbra, Jorge was a student at the Faculty of Literature of the University of Coimbra, graduating in Germanic Philology from the University of Lisbon in 1975 during his time at Benfica. As a player, he won four Portuguese league championships, two Taça de Portugal cups and two silver boots for being the best goalscorer. He underwent knee surgery five times during his career, this is attributed as one of the causes of his declining abilities at the end of the career.

International career

Despite having been one of the top scorers at Benfica, the concurrence of other great forwards such as Eusébio, Rui Jordão and Nené largely limited Artur Jorge to only 16 caps for Portugal, earning two caps while at Académica, 13 at Benfica and one while playing for Belenenses, scoring only one goal during his international career. His debut, on 27 March 1967, was a 1–1 draw with Italy, in a friendly match, in Rome. His last match was on 30 March 1977, a 1–0 win over Switzerland in another friendly match, in Funchal, Madeira. He was a member of the squad that reached the Brazil Independence Cup final, in 1972, the highest point of his international career.

Managerial career

After his player career, Artur Jorge went to Leipzig, East Germany, to study football and training methodology. He started his managerial career working with Vitória de Guimarães,[2] moving on to Belenenses,[3] Portimonense and then signing with Porto for the 1984–85 season, where he won three national champion titles and two Taça de Portugal titles. His greatest success was to win the European Cup with Porto over favourites Bayern Munich 2–1. Jorge is known since then as "Rei Artur" ("King Arthur"). He moved to Racing Paris the next season,[4] and returned to Porto in 1989–90. He then moved to Paris Saint-Germain in 1991–92, where he won the national championship in 1993–94.[5]

Artur Jorge moved to Benfica in 1994–95, finishing third with his team, and was replaced at the beginning of the following season. Since then, he has been coach of several other clubs including Académica de Coimbra, Vitesse Arnhem, Tenerife and CSKA Moscow. He managed the Portugal national team, initially while still Porto coach during the 1989–90 and 1990–91 seasons, and again during the 1996–97 season. He also managed the Switzerland team at UEFA Euro 1996, replacing Roy Hodgson under whom they had qualified.[6][7] Since 2004 he managed Cameroon.[8][9] He failed to lead his team to the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He managed Saudi club Al-Nasr for only two cup matches and was sacked following a 4–1 defeat by lowly club Al-Faisaly. He then managed French second division team Créteil in 2006–07.[10]

On 27 November 2014, Artur Jorge joined Algerian club MC Alger, ending a seven-year period without coaching.[11] That appointment ended on 8 October 2015.


Managerial Stats
Team Nation From To Record
G W D L F A GD Win %
FC Porto  Portugal 1 July 1984 31 May 1987 13096181629780+21773.85
Racing Paris  France 1 June 1987 November 1989 762526288498-1432.89
FC Porto  Portugal November 1989 31 June 1991 12591211325571+18472.8
PSG  France 1 July 1991 31 May 1994 14478442221596+11754.17
S.L. Benfica  Portugal 1 June 1994 1 July 1995 512713119044+4652.94
PSG  France October 1998 March 1999 236982122-126.09
Al Hilal  Saudi Arabia 2001 2002 3222827826+5268.75
Total 5813451391001,040437+60359.38
As of 4 June 2023

Career statistics
Scores and results list Portugal's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Artur Jorge goal.
List of international goals scored by Artur Jorge
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
129 March 1972Estádio da Luz (1954), Lisbon, Portugal Cyprus3–04–01974 World Cup qualification

Honours

Player

Benfica

Individual

Manager

Porto

Paris Saint-Germain

Al-Hilal

CSKA Moscow

Individual

References
  1. "NASL Player Profile – Artur Jorge". Retrieved 14 September 2012.
  2. "Blogger". vedetaoumarreta.blogspot.com. 2006.
  3. "Lista de treinadores da equipa principal". Clube de Futebol Os Belenenses. Archived from the original on 26 May 2011.
  4. "France – Trainers of First and Second Division Clubs". Archived from the original on 31 May 2008. Retrieved 17 June 2010.
  5. "PSG". English.
  6. White, Clive (8 June 1996). "Football: Swiss knives out for King Jorge". The Independent. London. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
  7. "Jorge amiss with the Swiss". The Independent. 2 June 1996. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  8. Etonge, Martin (10 January 2005). "Cameroon name new coach". BBC News. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
  9. "RFI – Artur Jorge: dans la tanière des Lions indomptables". Radio France Internationale.
  10. "Foot – L2 – Créteil – Artur Jorge : "Compliqué !"". L'Équipe. France. Archived from the original on 29 June 2007. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  11. "Artur Jorge appointed coach of Mouloudia Alger". BBC Sport. 27 November 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
  12. "Especial 'Tetra'" ['Tetra' special edition]. Mística (in Portuguese). No. 33. Portugal: Impresa Publishing. April–June 2017. p. 94. ISSN 3846-0823.
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