Augusto Sérgio "Guto" Ferreira (born 7 September 1965) is a Brazilian professional

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, currently the head coach of

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Career

Born in

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, Ferreira began his career with hometown side

XV de Piracicaba Esporte Clube XV de Novembro, commonly referred to as XV de Piracicaba, is a professional association football club based in Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil. The club competes in the Série D, the fourth tier of the Brazilian football league sys ...

. After a quick spell at Guarani as a performance analyst, he joined

's youth sides in 1995. In 2000, after spending three years with the youth teams, Ferreira was named assistant coach of

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; in 2002, he was named interim after the dismissal of Ivo Wortmann. He won that year's

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and was permanently appointed as head coach on 4 June 2002, but was still sacked on 26 August. On 15 May 2003, Ferreira was appointed head coach of Noroeste. The following 17 August he moved abroad, joining Segunda Liga side F.C. Penafiel. On 4 February 2004, Ferreira was dismissed. He was appointed at the helm of

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on 4 March, but was relieved of his duties on 12 September. In 2005 Ferreira returned to Brazil, being appointed at Corinthians Alagoano. After a spell at 15 de Novembro-RS, he returned to Internacional in 2008, again as an assistant; he was also an interim in June 2008, after the departure of

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. In the following two years, Ferreira managed

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(two stints),

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and

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. On 24 September 2012, he was appointed head coach of Ponte Preta. Ferreira was dismissed on 6 June 2013, and on 28 July he was named Portuguesa head coach, with the side seriously threatened with relegation. He managed to finish 12th with the club, but the side ultimately suffered relegation due to irregularly fielding in a player; in the following February, he resigned. On 24 July 2014, immediately after leaving

Figueirense Figueirense Futebol Clube, commonly referred to as Figueirense, is a Brazilian professional club based in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina founded on 12 June 1921. It competes in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série C, the third tier of Brazilian fo ...

, Ferreira returned to Ponte. He was sacked on 3 August 2015, and was appointed head coach of Chapecoense on 14 September. On 24 June 2016, Ferreira left ''Chape'' after agreeing to a deal with

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. He left the club in the same manner the following 30 May, after returning to Inter, now in the first team. On 11 November 2017, after a 1–1 draw against Vila Nova and thus losing the leadership of

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, Ferreira was relieved from his duties. On 26 December, he returned to Bahia, but was sacked the following 3 June. Guto Ferreira

On 7 August 2018, Ferreira was appointed head coach of ''Chape'' for the second time, but was dismissed on 15 October. On 20 February of the following year, he took over

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, helping in their promotion to the first division at the end of the season but being dismissed on 13 February 2020 after a poor start of the campaign. On 18 March 2020, Ferreira was named

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head coach in the place of

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. He was sacked by the club on 29 August of the following year, after nearly 100 matches in charge. On 6 October 2021, Ferreira returned to Bahia for a third spell, replacing

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. He was kept in charge of the club despite their

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, but was dismissed on 26 June 2022. On 16 August 2022, Ferreira returned to the top tier after being announced as head coach of

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. On 9 December, despite avoiding relegation, he was sacked, and was announced in charge of fellow top tier side

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the following day. On 10 April 2023, after losing the 2023 Campeonato Goiano, Ferreira was sacked by Goiás, and returned to Ceará on 29 June. On 29 August, he was dismissed by the latter club. Ferreira returned to ''Coxa'' on 27 November 2023, with their

already confirmed. He was sacked the following 3 May, after a poor start in the 2024 Série B, and returned to Sport on 26 July 2024, where he was also dismissed after just five matches. On 21 February 2025, Ferreira replaced sacked Bernardo Franco as head coach of

Coaching statistics

Honours

;Internacional *

: 2002 *

Copa São Paulo de Futebol Júnior The Copa São Paulo de Futebol Júnior (or ''São Paulo Youth Football Cup'', in English), also known as Copa São Paulo de Juniores (''São Paulo Youth Cup'') and Copinha (''Little Cup''), is a cup competition played by Brazilian under-20 assoc ...

: 1998 ;Chapecoense *

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2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

;Bahia *

Copa do Nordeste Copa do Nordeste (English: ''Cup of the North-East''), also known as Campeonato do Nordeste (''English: Championship of the North-East'') or Copa Nordeste (English: ''Northeastern Cup'') is a Brazilian football competition among Northeastern re ...

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

Campeonato Baiano The Campeonato Baiano (), also known as the Baianão (), is the top-flight professional state football league in the Brazilian state of Bahia. Run by the Bahia Football Federation (FBF), it is the second-oldest state football championship o ...

: 2018 ;Sport *

Campeonato Pernambucano The Campeonato Pernambucano is the top-flight professional state football league in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco. It is run by the Pernambuco Football Federation (FPF). History The first edition of the Campeonato Pernambucano was played i ...

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

;Ceará *

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