Rui Costa
Rui Manuel César Costa
Portuguese footballer (born 1972) (Wikidata description)
- Nationality
- Portugal
- Born
- 29 March 1972
- Position
- Midfielder
- Preferred foot
- Not verified
- Senior career
- 1990–2008
Clubs S.L. Benfica · AD Fafe · ACF Fiorentina · AC Milan
Career statistics
Club figures here are senior domestic-league matches unless marked otherwise; international figures are full senior caps. Youth, reserve, Olympic, friendly and unofficial matches are excluded from totals. Totals are summed from the individual sourced records below. Where a record is missing, the figure is shown as unavailable — never as zero.
Club league apps
498
Club league goals
66
International caps
94
International goals
26
League goals / match
0.13
International goals / cap
0.28
All official apps
Unavailable
All-competition totals not yet sourced
Goals per 90
Unavailable
Requires minutes for every match
Assists: Unavailable — assists were not recorded consistently before the modern data era.
Club-by-club and international breakdown
| Team | Years | Counts | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AD FafeClub | 1990–1991 | League | 38 | 6 |
| S.L. BenficaClub | 1990–2008 | League | 121 | 18 |
| Portugal men's national football teamNational team | 1993–2004 | Full caps | 94 | 26 |
| ACF FiorentinaClub | 1994–2001 | League | 215 | 38 |
| AC MilanClub | 2001–2006 | League | 124 | 4 |
Season by season
Season-level records are unavailable for this player in the current sources. They will appear here when a licensed season-by-season source is imported.
Team accolades
- ×1
European Cup / UEFA Champions League
Continental club
- 2002–03 · AC Milan
- ×1
Primeira Liga
Domestic
- 1993–94 · S.L. Benfica
- ×1
Serie A
Domestic
- 2003–04 · AC Milan
- ×1
UEFA European Championship
International
- 2004 · Portugal men's national football team
Sourced stated or derived from referenced statementsProvisional inferred from club stint dates — squad membership not individually verifiedVerified checked by an editor
Individual accolades
No dated individual awards from the catalog are recorded for this player in the current sources. This may reflect incomplete source data rather than an absence of awards; editors can add sourced entries.
Career timeline
1990
- Joins AD Fafe (loan) — Until 1991
- Joins S.L. Benfica — Until 1994
1993
- Senior international debut: Portugal men's national football team — Until 2004
1994
- Primeira Liga winner — 1993–94 · S.L. Benfica(provisional)
- Joins ACF Fiorentina — Until 2001
2001
- Joins AC Milan — Until 2006
2003
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League winner — 2002–03 · AC Milan(provisional)
2004
- UEFA European Championship winner — 2004 · Portugal men's national football team
- Serie A winner — 2003–04 · AC Milan(provisional)
2006
- Joins S.L. Benfica — Until 2008
Statistical score explained
Snapshot v2, methodology v1.0.0, published 27 October 2026. Each category is scored 0–100, multiplied by its weight, and summed. Full methodology →
Overall score
36.8
Rank #93
Partially verified5/5 categories with full evidence · 17% of inputs directly sourced
Coverage describes how complete the evidence is. It is not a probability and is separate from the score.
Peak performanceFull evidence21.0+6.30 points
- Best window
- 2000–2004
- Individual award points in window
- 0
- Award availability in window
- 0.946
- Team honor points in window
- 18
- Peak index
- 9
v1 measures peak through documented recognition (awards and titles) in the best rolling window, because season-level performance data is not available consistently across eras.
Career performanceFull evidence73.5+18.39 points
- League goals per match
- 0.133 → 24.76
- International goals per cap
- 0.277 → 70.32
- International caps per year
- 7.83 → 90
Individual accoladesFull evidence0.0+0.00 points
- Contemporary award points
- 0
- Award availability coverage
- 0.891
- Era-adjusted contemporary points
- 0
- Retrospective all-time honors
- 0
Team accomplishmentsFull evidence41.0+6.15 points
- Team honor points
- 20
- Club-league catalog coverage
- 1
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League (2002–03)
- 8
- Serie A (2003–04)
- 3
- Primeira Liga (1993–94)
- 2
- UEFA European Championship (2004)
- 7
Some club titles are inferred from stint dates overlapping a title-winning season (squad membership not individually verified).
LongevityFull evidence60.1+6.01 points
- Senior career length (years)
- 19 → 92.5
- Documented elite seasons
- 3 → 27
- International career length (years)
- 12 → 78
Appearance totals are deliberately not used, so accumulating matches alone does not raise this score.
Editorial biography
No editorial biography has been written yet. Biographies are written by hand with sources; none are generated automatically.
Sources
- Wikidata: Rui Costa (Q190608)CC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikimedia Commons: Rui Costa 2019.pngCC BY 3.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026