Cecilio Lopes: Career Stats, Clubs, Age & Nationality

Cecilio Lopes: profile

Cecilio Lopes (born 18 March 1979 in Rotterdam, Netherlands) is a retired Cape Verdean footballer who played as a forward.

Lopes's senior club career began in 1999 at Excelsior Rotterdam. He played for 7 clubs since 1999. The busiest spell of his career was at Excelsior Rotterdam (1999–2005): 101 appearances and 27 goals. Across all recorded club spells he totals 278 appearances and 109 goals.

At international level, Lopes represented Cape Verde (2008), earning 2 caps and scoring 0 goals.

Rotterdam has produced 24 footballers in our database, including Zakaria Aboukhlal, Garry Mendes Rodrigues and Mounir El Hamdaoui.

Eligibility explained: Why does Cecilio Lopes play for Cape Verde?

Key facts

Senior international debut: 2008 (aged about 29)
Club goals per game: 0.39 (109 in 278)
Height: 184 cm — taller than 61% of Cape Verdean internationals on record
Latest move: VV Capelle (2014)
Shares a birthday with: Ferjani Sassi, Mantorras and Bennett Mnguni (more)

Club career

Years	Club	League	Apps	Goals
1999–2005	Excelsior Rotterdam	Eredivisie	101	27
2005–2007	FC Dordrecht	Eerste Divisie	58	35
2007–2008	Sparta Rotterdam	Eredivisie	9	2
2007–2010	SC Heerenveen	Eredivisie	0	0
2008	FC Volendam	Eerste Divisie	4	0
2009	FC Dordrecht	Eerste Divisie	17	12
2009–2010	PEC Zwolle	Eredivisie	27	8
2010–2012	FC Dordrecht	Eerste Divisie	62	25
2014–	VV Capelle	Derde Divisie	–	–
	Total		278	109