Caio_Lucas_Fernandes
Caio Lucas
Brazilian footballer (born 1994)
Caio Lucas Fernandes (born 19 April 1994), known as Caio Lucas or just Caio [ˈkajju], is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Emirati Club Sharjah.
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Caio Lucas playing for Benfica in 2019 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Caio Lucas Fernandes[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1994-04-19) 19 April 1994 (age 30)[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Araçatuba, São Paulo, Brazil | ||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)[2] | ||
| Position(s) | Winger | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Sharjah | ||
| Number | 7 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2002–2005 | América-SP | ||
| 2005–2009 | São Paulo | ||
| 2009–2011 | América-SP | ||
| 2011–2013 | Chiba Kokusai High School | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2014–2016 | Kashima Antlers | 78 | (23) |
| 2016–2019 | Al Ain | 62 | (23) |
| 2019–2021 | Benfica | 4 | (1) |
| 2020–2021 | → Sharjah (loan) | 27 | (8) |
| 2021– | Sharjah | 54 | (31) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 25 February 2024 | |||
Born in Araçatuba, São Paulo,[3] Caio Lucas started playing football in 2002, aged 8, at local clubs SMER Bosque Araçatuba and América-SP. He then played for São Paulo's youth teams from 2005 to 2009 but could not become professional, so he left the club and unsuccessfully tried to join rivals Santos and Palmeiras before returning to América. In 2011, when he was prepared to give up on football, he was discovered by a Japanese university that was playing in Birigui, Brazil.[4] Almost aged 17, he moved to Japan that year to enroll in Chiba Kokusai High School in Kimitsu, where he played for three years.[3][5]
After his graduation, Caio Lucas joined the J1 League club, the Kashima Antlers in 2014. In his first professional season, under the coaching of Toninho Cerezo, Caio scored eight goals as Kashima Antlers qualified for the AFC Champions League. Moreover, he was named J. League's Young Player of the Year in 2014 and won the 2016 J1 League and 2015 J.League Cup.[6] In 2019, following a three-year spell with Emirati club Al Ain, with whom he reached the 2018 FIFA Club World Cup Final, Caio signed a four-year contract with Portuguese club Benfica.[7][8]
On 23 January 2020, Sharjah signed Caio Lucas from Benfica on loan for 18 months.[9]
Club
- As of match played 25 February 2024[10]
| Club | Season | League | National Cup[lower-alpha 1] | League Cup[lower-alpha 2] | Continental | Other | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Kashima Antlers | 2014 | J1 League | 30 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 | — | — | 37 | 9 | ||
| 2015 | 32 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6[lower-alpha 3] | 0 | — | 42 | 12 | |||
| 2016 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | — | — | 21 | 6 | ||||
| Total | 78 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 0 | — | 100 | 27 | |||
| Al Ain | 2016–17 | UAE Pro-League | 24 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 14[lower-alpha 4] | 5 | — | 45 | 18 | |
| 2017–18 | 19 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 9[lower-alpha 5] | 1 | — | 36 | 13 | |||
| 2018–19 | 22 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 3[lower-alpha 3] | 0 | 5[lower-alpha 6] | 2 | 37 | 17 | ||
| Total | 65 | 24 | 6 | 4 | 16 | 12 | 26 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 118 | 51 | ||
| Benfica | 2019–20 | Primeira Liga | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3[lower-alpha 7] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 |
| Sharjah | 2019–20 | UAE Pro-League | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6[lower-alpha 3] | 2 | — | 13 | 5 | |
| 2020–21 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5[lower-alpha 3] | 1 | — | 31 | 8 | |||
| 2021–22 | 20 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 7[lower-alpha 3] | 2 | 1 | 0 | 37 | 20 | ||
| 2022–23 | 22 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | 29 | 12 | |||
| 2023–24 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8[lower-alpha 3] | 2 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 10 | ||
| Total | 81 | 39 | 15 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 26 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 137 | 55 | ||
| Career total | 228 | 87 | 24 | 12 | 45 | 17 | 61 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 366 | 134 | ||
- Appearances in Emperor's Cup, UAE President's Cup, and Taça de Portugal
- Appearances in J.League Cup, UAE League Cup, and Taça da Liga
- Appearances in AFC Champions League
- Six appearances and two goals in 2016 AFC Champions League, Eight appearances and three goals in 2017 AFC Champions League
- Two appearances in 2017 AFC Champions League, Seven appearances and one goal in 2018 AFC Champions League
- One appearance and one goal in UAE Super Cup, four appearances and one goal in FIFA Club World Cup
- Appearances in UEFA Champions League
Kashima Antlers
Al Ain
Sharjah
Individual
- "FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2018: List of Players: Al Ain FC" (PDF). FIFA. 6 December 2018. p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 December 2018.
- "Caio Lucas". UAE Pro League. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
- Rodrigues, Alexander (21 December 2018). "Araçatuba terá representante na Final do Mundial de Clubes deste sábado" [Araçatuba will have a representative in the Club World Cup final this Saturday]. Folha da Região (in Portuguese). Retrieved 27 June 2019.
- "J-League Preview: 8 Players to Watch in the Campaign to Come". Tokyo Weekender. 6 March 2015. Archived from the original on 18 June 2018. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
- "Yasuhito Endo Pickedas 2014 J.LEAGUE Player of the Year December". J. League. 9 December 2014. Archived from the original on 4 February 2015. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
- "Reforço do Benfica despede-se do Al Ain" [Benfica signing says goodbye to Al Ain] (in Portuguese). 27 May 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
- Rebelo, Marco (27 June 2019). "Bem-vindo, Caio Lucas!" [Welcome, Caio Lucas!]. S.L. Benfica (in Portuguese). Retrieved 27 June 2019.
- "Sharjah signs Brazilian Caio Lucas Fernández from the Portuguese club Benfica on loan for 18 months". Twitter (in Arabic). 23 January 2020.
- "Bale, Caio and Borre sweep awards". FIFA. 22 December 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
- Caio Lucas at ForaDeJogo (archived)
- Caio Lucas at J.League (archive) (in Japanese)
