Abel Ferreira

Not to be confused with Abel Ferrara.

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Moreira and the second or paternal family name is Ferreira.
Abel Ferreira
ComIH
Ferreira in 2022
Personal information
Full name Abel Fernando Moreira Ferreira[1]
Date of birth (1978-12-22) 22 December 1978 (age 45)[1]
Place of birth Penafiel, Portugal
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Position(s) Right-back
Team information
Current team
 Palmeiras (head coach)
Youth career
1989–1997 Penafiel
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1997–2000 Penafiel 62 (4)
2000–2004 Vitória Guimarães 80 (1)
2004–2005 Braga 43 (0)
2006–2011 Sporting CP 111 (2)
Total 296 (7)
International career
2002–2005 Portugal B 2 (0)
Managerial career
2011–2013 Sporting CP (juniors)
2013–2014 Sporting CP B
2015–2017 Braga B
2016 Braga (interim)
2017–2019 Braga
2019–2020 PAOK
2020– Palmeiras
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Abel Fernando Moreira Ferreira ComIH (born 22 December 1978), known simply as Abel as a player, is a Portuguese football manager and former player who is the current head coach of Brazilian club Palmeiras.

As a right-back, he played 234 Primeira Liga matches over 11 seasons (three goals), with Vitória de Guimarães, Braga and Sporting CP. With Sporting, he won two Taça de Portugal and as many Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, in a 14-year professional career.[2]

Ferreira started working as a manager in 2013, being in charge of Sporting CP B, Braga B, Braga, PAOK and Palmeiras. With the latter club, he won the Copa do Brasil in 2020, two successive Copa Libertadores in 2020 and 2021 and the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A in 2022 and 2023.

  1. ^ a b c Abel Ferreira at WorldFootball.net
  2. ^ "Abel Ferreira recorda único título que conquistou na Europa ao serviço do Sporting: "Nunca tinha sido campeão"" [Abel Ferreira remembers the only title he conquered in Europe in service of Sporting: "I had never been a champion before"] (in Portuguese). One Football. 9 July 2023. Retrieved 7 December 2023.