Fernando Couto

**Fernando Couto** (born 2 August 1969) is a former Portuguese football player. He has played for Portugal national team.

### Club

- Sources:

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|Cup|colspan="2"|Europe|colspan="2"|Other|colspan="2"|Total||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Porto|1987–88|Primeira Divisão|1|0|0|0|—|—|1|0|||||
|Famalicão|1988–89||||||—|—|||||||
|Académica|1989–90|Segunda Divisão|23|2|1|0|—|—|24|2|||||
|rowspan="5"|Porto|1990–91|rowspan="4"|Primeira Divisão|24|3|6|0|4|0|0|0|34|3|
|1991–92|32|2|5|0|4|0|3|0|44|2|||||
|1992–93|26|4|3|0|7|2|2|0|38|6|||||
|1993–94|23|1|5|0|9|0|2|0|39|1|||||
|rowspan="3"|Parma|1994–95|rowspan="2"|Serie A|27|4|9|2|8|1|—|44|7||
|1995–96|12|0|0|0|2|0|1|0|15|0|||||
|rowspan="3"|Barcelona|1996–97|rowspan="2"|La Liga|26|0|5|1|4|1|0|0|35|2|
||1997–98|18|0|2|0|5|0|0|0|25|0||||
|rowspan="8"|Lazio|1998–99|rowspan="7"|Serie A|22|2|5|0|8|0|1|0|36|2|
||1999–00|14|0|5|0|7|0|0|0|26|0||||
||2000–01|18|0|4|0|8|0|0|0|30|0||||
||2001–02|29|1|2|0|4|0|—|35|1|||||
||2002–03|15|0|4|0|12|1|—|31|1|||||
||2003–04|23|3|4|1|4|0|—|41|3|||||
||2004–05|24|3|0|0|3|0|1|0|28|3||||
|rowspan="4"|Parma|2005–06|rowspan="3"|Serie A|23|0|1|0|—|—|24|0|||
||2006–07|23|1|1|0|2|0|—|26|1|||||
||2007–08|17|0|1|0|—|—|18|0||||||

### International

- Source:

|Year|Apps|Goals|
| --- | --- | --- |
|colspan="3"|Portugal||
|1990|1|0|
|1991|5|0|
|1992|6|0|
|1993|8|1|
|1994|2|1|
|1995|7|0|
|1996|11|3|
|1997|6|0|
|1998|5|1|
|1999|7|0|
|2000|14|0|
|2001|6|0|
|2002|11|0|
|2003|12|1|
|2004|7|1|

### International goals

- Source:

## Honours

**Porto**
- Primeira Divisão: 1987–88, 1991–92, 1992–93
- Taça de Portugal: 1990–91, 1993–94
- Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira: 1991, 1993

**Parma**
- UEFA Cup: 1994–95

**Barcelona**
- La Liga: 1997–98
- Copa del Rey: 1996–97, 1997–98
- Supercopa de España: 1996
- UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1996–97
- UEFA Super Cup: 1997

**Lazio**
- Serie A: 1999–2000
- Coppa Italia: 1999–2000, 2003–04
- Supercoppa Italiana: 1998, 2000
- UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1998–99
- UEFA Super Cup: 1999

**Portugal U20**
- FIFA U-20 World Cup: 1989

**Portugal**
- UEFA European Championship runner-up: 2004

### Orders

- Medal of Merit, Order of the Immaculate Conception of Vila Viçosa (House of Braganza)

## Related pages

- List of doping cases in sport

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Fernando Couto
- **image**: FCouto.JPG
- **image size**: 180px
- **caption**: Couto in 2011
- **fullname**: Fernando Manuel Silva Couto
- **birth place**: Espinho, Portugal
- **height**: 1.84 m
- **position**: Centre back
- **youthyears1**: 1980–1985
- **youthclubs1**: SC Espinho, Espinho
- **youthyears2**: 1985–1986
- **youthclubs2**: Lusitânia F.C., Lourosa
- **years1**: 1988
- **clubs1**: FC Porto, Porto
- **caps1**: 1
- **goals1**: 0
- **years2**: 1988–1989
- **clubs2**: F.C. Famalicão, Famalicão
- **caps2**: 17
- **goals2**: 1
- **years3**: 1989–1990
- **clubs3**: Associação Académica de Coimbra – O.A.F., Académica
- **caps3**: 23
- **goals3**: 2
- **years4**: 1990–1994
- **clubs4**: FC Porto, Porto
- **caps4**: 106
- **goals4**: 19
- **years5**: 1994–1996
- **clubs5**: Parma F.C., Parma
- **caps5**: 39
- **goals5**: 4
- **years6**: 1996–1998
- **clubs6**: FC Barcelona, Barcelona
- **caps6**: 44
- **goals6**: 0
- **years7**: 1998–2005
- **clubs7**: S.S. Lazio, Lazio
- **caps7**: 145
- **goals7**: 9
- **years8**: 2005–2008
- **clubs8**: Parma F.C., Parma
- **caps8**: 63
- **goals8**: 1
- **totalcaps**: 438
- **totalgoals**: 36
- **nationalyears1**: 1989
- **nationalteam1**: Portugal national under-20 football team, Portugal U20
- **nationalcaps1**: 4
- **nationalgoals1**: 0
- **nationalyears2**: 1989–1990
- **nationalteam2**: Portugal national under-21 football team, Portugal U21
- **nationalcaps2**: 7
- **nationalgoals2**: 1
- **nationalyears3**: 1990–2004
- **nationalteam3**: Portugal national football team, Portugal
- **nationalcaps3**: 110
- **nationalgoals3**: 8
- **manageryears1**: 2012–2014
- **managerclubs1**: S.C. Braga, Braga (assistant)
- **youthyears3**: 1986–1988
- **youthclubs3**: FC Porto, Porto