Artur Jorge Braga de Melo Teixeira (13 February 1946 – 22 February 2024), commonly known as Artur Jorge, was a Portuguese football player and manager.

As a junior player, Artur Jorge started at the junior team of FC Porto. As professional player, he played for Académica de Coimbra and Benfica, before ending his career at Belenenses in the 1977–78 season, due to a serious injury suffered at a training session in the Estádio Nacional where he broke a leg. He also had a stint in the North American Soccer League with the Rochester Lancers.^[1]

After his player career, Artur Jorge went to Leipzig, East Germany, to study football and training methodology. He started his managerial career working with Vitória de Guimarães,^[2] moving on to Belenenses,^[3] Portimonense and then signing with Porto for the 1984–85 season, where he won three national champion titles and two Taça de Portugal titles. His greatest success was to win the European Cup with Porto over favourites Bayern Munich 2–1. Jorge was known as "Rei Artur" ("King Arthur") from then on. He moved to Racing Paris the next season,^[4] and returned to Porto in 1989–90. He then moved to Paris Saint-Germain in 1991–92, where he won the national championship in 1993–94.^[5]

Artur Jorge moved to Benfica in 1994–95, finishing third with his team, and was replaced at the beginning of the following season. He went to become coach of several other clubs including Académica de Coimbra, Vitesse Arnhem, Tenerife and CSKA Moscow. He managed the Portugal national team, initially while still Porto coach during the 1989–90 and 1990–91 seasons, and again during the 1996–97 season. He also managed the Switzerland team at UEFA Euro 1996, replacing Roy Hodgson under whom they had qualified.^[6][7] From 2004 he managed Cameroon.^[8][9] He failed to lead his team to the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He managed Saudi club Al-Nasr for only two cup matches and was sacked following a 4–1 defeat by lowly club Al-Faisaly. He then managed French second division team Créteil in 2006–07.^[10]

On 27 November 2014, Artur Jorge joined Algerian club MC Alger, ending a seven-year period without coaching.^[11]

Jorge died on 22 February 2024, at the age of 78.^[12]

As of match played 31 March 2024

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Managerial record by team and tenure

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Vitória de Guimarães		1 June 1980	30 May 1981	31	11	9	11	39	32	+7	035.48
Belenenses		1 June 1981	30 September 1981	5	1	3	1	6	5	+1	020.00
Portimonense		30 September 1981	30 May 1983	65	28	16	21	81	54	+27	043.08
FC Porto		18 May 1984	30 May 1987	130	96	18	16	297	80	+217	073.85
Racing		10 June 1987	30 May 1988	41	13	17	11	36	44	−8	031.71
FC Porto		12 November 1988	1 June 1991	125	91	21	13	255	71	+184	072.80
Portugal		1 June 1989	1 June 1990	7	2	2	3	6	10	−4	028.57
PSG		10 June 1991	30 May 1994	144	78	44	22	215	96	+119	054.17
S.L. Benfica		1 July 1994	9 September 1995	54	28	15	11	92	45	+47	051.85
Switzerland		13 March 1996	18 June 1996	7	1	2	4	5	8	−3	014.29
Portugal		1 August 1996	30 November 1997	12	5	5	2	12	6	+6	041.67
Vitesse		June 1998	October 1998	9	6	2	1	19	9	+10	066.67
PSG		October 1998	March 1999	23	6	9	8	21	22	−1	026.09
Al-Nassr		1 June 2000	1 June 2001	26	13	6	7	36	22	+14	050.00
Al-Hilal		1 June 2001	1 June 2002	24	15	7	2	57	21	+36	062.50
FC Porto		26 October 2002	28 August 2003	33	12	10	11	47	46	+1	036.36
CSKA Moscow		23 November 2003	4 June 2004	16	8	7	1	27	14	+13	050.00
Cameroon		10 January 2005	5 February 2006	11	8	3	0	19	6	+13	072.73
Al-Nassr		21 February 2006	4 March 2006	3	0	0	3	4	9	−5	000.00
Créteil		30 May 2006	30 May 2007	41	10	13	18	36	56	−20	024.39
MC Alger		3 January 2014	8 October 2015	24	11	7	6	26	16	+10	045.83
Career total				830	443	216	171	1,329	667	+662	053.37

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