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Sao Tome And Principe Nuno Espirito Santo is a Portuguese football manager with a career spanning top clubs in Portugal, Spain, England, and Saudi Arabia, known for achieving promotions and cup successes.
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On 4 May 2019, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Sport by the University of Wolverhampton.
Nuno Herlander Simões Espírito Santo, born on January 25, 1974, in São Tomé, Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe, began his extensive football career as a goalkeeper. After playing for various clubs in Portugal and Spain, including Vitória Guimarães and Deportivo La Coruña, he joined FC Porto in 2002. During his time at Porto, he was part of the squad that won the UEFA Champions League in 2003–04 and the Intercontinental Cup in 2004. His playing career also included spells with Russian club Dynamo Moscow and Portuguese club Aves, before returning to Porto in 2007 where he won the Taça de Portugal in 2009. He retired from playing in 2010.
Espirito Santo transitioned into coaching as a goalkeeping coach for Málaga and Panathinaikos, before taking on his first head coaching role with Rio Ave in May 2012. He led Rio Ave to both domestic cup finals in 2014 and secured their first-ever qualification for the UEFA Europa League. Following this success, he moved to Valencia in Spain’s La Liga, guiding them to a fourth-place finish in his first season (2014-2015) and earning three La Liga Manager of the Month awards. He returned to Porto for the 2016-2017 season, leading them to a second-place finish in Primeira Liga.
His managerial career in England began in May 2017 with Wolverhampton Wanderers, where he achieved promotion to the Premier League in his first season. Under his leadership, Wolves finished seventh in the Premier League for two consecutive seasons (2018-2019 and 2019-2020), qualifying for the Europa League and reaching the quarter-finals. After a brief period at Tottenham Hotspur in 2021, he moved to Al-Ittihad in Saudi Arabia, winning the Saudi Super Cup and the Saudi Pro League title in 2022–2023. He returned to the Premier League in December 2023 to manage Nottingham Forest, successfully avoiding relegation and leading them to a seventh-place finish and Europa League qualification in 2024-2025. In September 2025, he was appointed head coach of West Ham United.
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