Ernesto Figueiredo

Ernesto Figueiredo
Personal information
Full name Ernesto de Figueiredo Cordeiro[1]
Date of birth (1937-07-06)6 July 1937[1]
Place of birth Tomar, Portugal[1]
Date of death 13 December 2025(2025-12-13) (aged 88)
Place of death Alcobaça, Portugal
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1955–1956 Matrena
1956–1959 União Tomar
1959–1960 Cernache
1960–1968 Sporting CP 155 (100)
1968–1970 Vitória Setúbal 41 (14)
International career
1966–1969 Portugal 6 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ernesto de Figueiredo Cordeiro (6 July 1937 – 13 December 2025) was a Portuguese footballer. He played as a striker, and was an amateur player until he was 23, when he joined Sporting CP in 1960.[2] With Sporting CP, he scored 147 goals in 232 matches, and helped them win the 1963–64 European Cup Winners' Cup against MTK Budapest.[3] He would join Vitória de Setúbal in 1968, and played there until he retired in 1970.[4]

Figueiredo was capped six for Portugal,[5] and made his debut on 21 June 1966, in a friendly match against Denmark. He was part of Portugal's team at the 1966 FIFA World Cup, although he did not play at the tournament.[6]

After retiring from football, he worked as a taxi driver.[7] Figueiredo died on 13 December 2025, at the age of 88.[8]

Honours

Sporting CP
Portugal

References

  1. 1 2 3 Ernesto Figueiredo at WorldFootball.net
  2. ↑ "Viação Sernache" (in Portuguese). Instituto Vaz Serra. 19 March 2010. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 November 2010.
  3. 1 2 "1963/64: Sporting at the second attempt". UEFA. 17 August 2001. Archived from the original on 19 May 2008. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
  4. ↑ Balreira, Filipe (13 December 2025). "Sporting de luto por um dos 'heróis de 64': um adeus ao goleador Figueiredo" [Sporting mourn one of the 'heroes of 64': a farewell to scorer Figueiredo] (in Portuguese). SAPO. Retrieved 13 December 2025.
  5. ↑ "Lista completa dos internacionais portugueses" [Complete list of Portuguese internationals] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. 18 February 2004. Archived from the original on 1 February 2021. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  6. 1 2 Paixão, Paulo; Castanheira, José Pedro (13 July 2016). "A lenda dos Magriços começou há 50 anos" [The legend of the Magriços started 50 years ago]. Expresso (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 2 March 2017. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  7. ↑ Pereira, Sérgio (21 November 2014). "Memórias de um grande leão com Eusébio e Coluna à mistura" [Memoirs of a great lion with Eusébio and Coluna in the mix] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. Archived from the original on 23 October 2018. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  8. 1 2 3 Forte, Hugo (13 December 2025). "Morreu Ernesto Figueiredo" [Ernesto Figueiredo has died]. A Bola (in Portuguese). Retrieved 13 December 2025.

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