Filipe Cândido

Filipe Cândido
Personal information
Full name Filipe Manuel Nunes Cândido
Date of birth (1979-09-28) 28 September 1979
Place of birth Lisbon, Portugal
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Winger
Team information
Current team
Paços Ferreira (manager)
Youth career
1989–1990 Colégio São João de Brito
1990–1996 Sporting CP
1996–1997 Real Madrid
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1997–1998 Vitória Setúbal 4 (0)
1998–2000 Salgueiros 12 (2)
2000–2002 Felgueiras 31 (3)
2002–2004 Leça 39 (2)
2004–2005 Académico Viseu 26 (3)
2005 Bucheon
2005 Imortal 6 (0)
2006 Lokomotiv Sofia 0 (0)
2006–2007 Kavala 17 (2)
2007–2008 Vila Meã 20 (0)
2008–2010 Lusitânia 58 (8)
2010–2011 Vila Meã 29 (4)
2011–2013 Sousense 48 (2)
Total 290 (26)
International career
1995 Portugal U15 6 (0)
1998–1999 Portugal U20 10 (3)
2000 Portugal U21 1 (0)
Managerial career
2013–2015 Sousense
2016 Paços Ferreira (youth)
2016–2017 Salgueiros
2018–2020 União Leiria
2020–2021 Mafra
2021 União Leiria
2021–2022 B-SAD
2022–2023 Nacional
2023–2024 Boavista-RJ
2024 União Leiria
2025– Paços Ferreira
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Filipe Manuel Nunes Cândido (born 28 September 1979) is a Portuguese football manager and former player who played as a left winger. He is the manager of Liga Portugal 2 club Paços de Ferreira.

Formed at Sporting CP with one year at Real Madrid, he totalled 16 games and two goals in the Primeira Liga for Vitória de Setúbal and Salgueiros, and 42 appearances and three goals in the second tier for Felgueiras and Leça. He spent most of his career in the lower leagues, and also had brief stops in South Korea, Bulgaria and Greece.

A manager since 2013, Cândido led B-SAD in the top division and Mafra, Nacional and União de Leiria in the second.