João Pinto

**João Manuel Vieira Pinto** <small>CvIH</small> (; born 19 August 1971) is a Portuguese retired professional footballer. He played mostly as a forward.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="2"|League|colspan="2"|Cup|colspan="2"|Europe|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="3" valign="center"|Boavista|1988–89|6|0|0|0|0|0|6|0||
|1989–90|11|3|0|0|2|2|13|5||||
|rowspan="2" valign="center"|Atlético Madrid B|1989–90|7|2|0|0|0|0|7|2||
|1990–91|23|7|0|0|0|0|30|9||||
|rowspan="2" valign="center"|Boavista|1991–92|34|8|5|0|4|0|43|8||
|rowspan="9" valign="center"|Benfica|1992–93|21|7|6|1|4|1|31|9||
|1993–94|34|15|2|1|8|2|44|18||||
|1994–95|24|4|5|1|7|1|36|6||||
|1995–96|31|18|6|4|5|1|42|23||||
|1996–97|28|7|6|6|6|3|40|16||||
|1997–98|25|6|3|1|2|0|30|7||||
|1998–99|28|4|1|0|7|3|36|7||||
|1999–2000|29|3|1|0|5|0|35|3||||
|rowspan="5" valign="center"|Sporting CP|2000–01|31|6|5|1|5|0|41|7||
|2001–02|33|9|6|2|5|1|44|12||||
|2002–03|25|8|1|0|0|0|26|8||||
|2003–04|26|5|1|0|4|0|31|5||||
|rowspan="3" valign="center"|Boavista|2004–05|26|2|4|1|0|0|30|3||
|2005–06|31|9|1|1|0|0|32|10||||
|rowspan="3" valign="center"|Braga|2006–07|24|2|0|0|0|0|24|2||
|2007–08|9|1|0|0|0|0|9|1||||

### Club

**Boavista**
- Taça de Portugal: 1991–92

**Benfica**
- Primeira Liga: 1993–94
- Taça de Portugal: 1992–93, 1995–96

**Sporting**
- Primeira Liga: 2001–02
- Taça de Portugal: 2001–02
- Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira: 2002

### International

**Portugal**
- FIFA U-20 World Cup: 1989, 1991
- UEFA European Under-21 Championship runner-up: 1994
- UEFA European Under-18 Championship runner-up: 1988, 1990
- UEFA European Under-16 Championship runner-up: 1988

### Individual

- CNID Footballer of the Year: 1992, 1993, 1994
- Portuguese Golden Ball: 1993, 1996
- SJPF Player of the Month: February 2006

## Other websites

- National team data

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: João Pinto
- **image**: Joao Pinto 2012.JPG
- **caption**: Pinto in 2013
- **fullname**: João Manuel Vieira Pinto
- **birth place**: Porto, Portugal
- **height**: 1.71 m
- **position**: Forward (association football), Forward
- **youthyears1**: 1982–1983
- **youthclubs1**: Águias da Areosa
- **youthyears2**: 1983–1988
- **youthclubs2**: Boavista F.C., Boavista
- **years1**: 1988–1989
- **clubs1**: Boavista F.C., Boavista
- **caps1**: 17
- **goals1**: 4
- **years2**: 1990–1991
- **clubs2**: Atlético Madrid B, Atlético Madrileño
- **caps2**: 30
- **goals2**: 9
- **years3**: 1991–1992
- **clubs3**: Boavista F.C., Boavista
- **caps3**: 34
- **goals3**: 8
- **years4**: 1992–2000
- **clubs4**: S.L. Benfica, Benfica
- **caps4**: 220
- **goals4**: 64
- **years5**: 2000–2004
- **clubs5**: Sporting Clube de Portugal, Sporting CP
- **caps5**: 115
- **goals5**: 28
- **years6**: 2004–2006
- **clubs6**: Boavista F.C., Boavista
- **caps6**: 57
- **goals6**: 11
- **years7**: 2006–2008
- **clubs7**: S.C. Braga, Braga
- **caps7**: 33
- **goals7**: 3
- **totalcaps**: 506
- **totalgoals**: 127
- **nationalyears1**: 1987–1988
- **nationalteam1**: Portugal national under-16 football team, Portugal U16
- **nationalcaps1**: 15
- **nationalgoals1**: 5
- **nationalyears2**: 1988–1989
- **nationalteam2**: Portugal national under-18 football team, Portugal U18
- **nationalcaps2**: 22
- **nationalgoals2**: 11
- **nationalyears3**: 1989–1991
- **nationalteam3**: Portugal national under-20 football team, Portugal U20
- **nationalcaps3**: 18
- **nationalgoals3**: 3
- **nationalyears4**: 1991–1994
- **nationalteam4**: Portugal national under-21 football team, Portugal U21
- **nationalcaps4**: 16
- **nationalgoals4**: 5
- **nationalyears5**: 1991–2002
- **nationalteam5**: Portugal national football team, Portugal
- **nationalcaps5**: 81
- **nationalgoals5**: 23