Rui Costa

Rui Costa
Rui Costa
	Costa in 2019
34th President of Benfica
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 10 October 2021
Preceded by	Luís Filipe Vieira
Personal details
Born	Rui Manuel César Costa; 29 March 1972 (age 52); Amadora, Portugal
Nationality	Portuguese
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Occupation	Footballer
Position(s)
Position(s)	Attacking midfielder
Youth career
1977–1990	Benfica
Senior career*
Years	Team
1990–1994	Benfica
1990–1991	→ Fafe (loan)
1994–2001	Fiorentina
2001–2006	AC Milan
2006–2008	Benfica
Total
National team
1990	Portugal U18
1991	Portugal U20
1992–1994	Portugal U21
1993–2004	Portugal
Honours
Men's football
Representing Portugal
UEFA European Championship
FIFA U-20 World Cup
UEFA European Under-21 Championship
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Rui Manuel César Costa OIH (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʁuj ˈkɔʃtɐ]; born 29 March 1972) is a Portuguese former professional footballer who is the 34th president of sports club S.L. Benfica.^[2] He also succeeded Luís Filipe Vieira as president of the club's SAD board of directors.

Career statistics

Club

^[3]

Club	Season	League			Cup		Europe		Other		Total
Club	Season	Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Fafe	1990–91	Portuguese Second Division	38	6	0	0	—		—		38	6
Benfica	1991–92	Primeira Liga	21	4	3	0	7	0	1	0	32	4
	1992–93		23	4	4	1	4	0	1	0	32	5
	1993–94		34	5	3	1	8	4	2	0	47	10
	Total		78	13	10	2	19	4	4	0	111	19
Fiorentina	1994–95	Serie A	31	9	4	0	—		—		35	9
	1995–96		34	4	7	2	—		—		41	6
	1996–97		28	2	1	0	8	0	1	0	38	2
	1997–98		32	3	5	2	—		—		37	5
	1998–99		31	10	7	4	1	0	—		39	14
	1999–00		30	4	4	0	14	2	—		48	6
	2000–01		29	6	7	2	2	0	—		38	8
	Total		215	38	35	10	25	2	1	0	276	50
Milan	2001–02	Serie A	22	0	1	0	10	3	—		33	3
	2002–03		25	0	5	1	18	0	—		48	1
	2003–04		28	3	4	0	6	0	3	0	41	3
	2004–05		24	1	4	0	9	0	1	0	38	1
	2005–06		25	0	3	3	4	0	—		32	3
	Total		124	4	17	4	47	3	4	0	192	11
Benfica	2006–07	Primeira Liga	14	0	3	0	5	1	—		22	1
	2007–08	Primeira Liga	29	5	4	3	12	2	—		45	10
	Total		43	5	7	3	17	3	—		67	11
Career total			498	66	69	19	108	12	9	0	684	97

International

Year	Apps	Goals
Portugal^[4]
1993	7	2
1994	5	1
1995	7	3
1996	11	2
1997	4	0
1998	5	3
1999	9	6
2000	13	3
2001	6	0
2002	7	2
2003	11	1
2004	9	3
Total	94	26

Honours

Club

Benfica

Primeira Liga:^[5] 1993–94
Taça de Portugal:^[5] 1992–93
Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira runner-up: 1991, 1993

Fiorentina

Milan

International

Portugal

FIFA U-20 World Cup: 1991
Toulon Tournament: 1992^[6]
UEFA Under-18 Championship runner-up: 1990
UEFA European Under-21 Championship runner-up: 1994
UEFA European Football Championship runner-up: 2004

Individual

Toulon Tournament Best Player: 1992^[6]
Toulon Tournament Top Scorer: 1992^[6]
UEFA European Championship Team of the Tournament: 1996,^[7] 2000^[8]
FIFA XI: 1998^[9]
UEFA Champions League: Top Assists 2002–03^[10]
FIFA 100^[11]
SJPF Player of the Month: September 2007^[12]
Cosme Damião Awards – Footballer of the Year: 2007^[13]
A.C. Milan Hall of Fame
Fiorentina All-time XI^[14]

Orders

Officer of the Order of Prince Henry^[15]

References

↑ "Rui Costa". S.L. Benfica. Archived from the original on 24 June 2007.
↑ "Rui Costa eleito o 34.º presidente do Benfica com 84,48% dos votos". TSF Rádio Notícias. 10 October 2021.
↑ "Matches in European Cups". RSSSF. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
↑ "Rui Manuel César Costa - Goals in International Matches". RSSSF. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 "Bicampeões para a história" [Back-to-back champions for the ages]. Visão (in Portuguese). Portugal: Impresa Publishing. May 2015. p. 59. ISSN 0872-3540.
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 "Tournoi Espoirs de Toulon – Official Player Awards". 18 June 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
↑ "UEFA Euro report" (PDF). UEFA.
↑ "UEFA Euro report" (PDF). UEFA.
↑ FIFA XI´s Matches - Full Info Archived 17 November 2015 at the Wayback Machine
↑ "UEFA Champions League Player's Statistics". UEFA.com. Archived from the original on 27 August 2003. Retrieved 27 March 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
↑ "Pele's list of the greatest". BBC Sport. 4 March 2004. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
↑ "Rui Costa venceu o prémio KIA / Jogador do Mês". sjpf.sapo.pt. Archived from the original on 9 October 2011. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
↑ "Gala do Benfica: Aimar distinguido como o melhor de 2010/11" [Benfica's gala: Aimar distinguished as the best of 2010–11]. Maisfutebol (in Portuguese). 29 February 2012. Archived from the original on 1 March 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2016. Rui Costa (2007)
↑ Matteo Magrini (23 August 2016). "Festa al Franchi, presenti e assenti. No eccellenti da Rui Costa, Baggio e Batistuta" [Celebration at the Franchi, for both present and absent. Excellent absentees from Rui Costa, to Baggio and Batistuta] (in Italian). Fiorentina.it. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
↑ "Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas" [Portuguese Honorary Orders] (in Portuguese). Presidency of the Portuguese Republic. Retrieved 10 March 2015.

Other websites

National team data (in Portuguese)

[1] "Rui Costa". S.L. Benfica. Archived from the original on 24 June 2007.

[2] "Rui Costa eleito o 34.º presidente do Benfica com 84,48% dos votos". TSF Rádio Notícias. 10 October 2021.

[3] "Matches in European Cups". RSSSF. Retrieved 8 July 2012.

[4] "Rui Manuel César Costa - Goals in International Matches". RSSSF. Retrieved 8 July 2018.

[bi-5] 5.0 ^5.1 "Bicampeões para a história" [Back-to-back champions for the ages]. Visão (in Portuguese). Portugal: Impresa Publishing. May 2015. p. 59. ISSN 0872-3540.

[RSSSF-6] 6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 "Tournoi Espoirs de Toulon – Official Player Awards". 18 June 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2016.

[7] "UEFA Euro report" (PDF). UEFA.

[8] "UEFA Euro report" (PDF). UEFA.

[9] FIFA XI´s Matches - Full Info Archived 17 November 2015 at the Wayback Machine

[10] "UEFA Champions League Player's Statistics". UEFA.com. Archived from the original on 27 August 2003. Retrieved 27 March 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

[Pele-11] "Pele's list of the greatest". BBC Sport. 4 March 2004. Retrieved 15 June 2013.

[12] "Rui Costa venceu o prémio KIA / Jogador do Mês". sjpf.sapo.pt. Archived from the original on 9 October 2011. Retrieved 2 April 2016.

[13] "Gala do Benfica: Aimar distinguido como o melhor de 2010/11" [Benfica's gala: Aimar distinguished as the best of 2010–11]. Maisfutebol (in Portuguese). 29 February 2012. Archived from the original on 1 March 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2016. Rui Costa (2007)

[14] Matteo Magrini (23 August 2016). "Festa al Franchi, presenti e assenti. No eccellenti da Rui Costa, Baggio e Batistuta" [Celebration at the Franchi, for both present and absent. Excellent absentees from Rui Costa, to Baggio and Batistuta] (in Italian). Fiorentina.it. Retrieved 24 August 2016.

[15] "Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas" [Portuguese Honorary Orders] (in Portuguese). Presidency of the Portuguese Republic. Retrieved 10 March 2015.

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