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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 25 August 1972 | ||
| Place of birth | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Borneo Samarinda (head coach) | ||
| Managerial career | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| 1996–1998 | Fluminense Women | ||
| 2013 | Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors (caretaker) | ||
| 2021–2023 | Madura United | ||
| 2024–2025 | Persita Tangerang | ||
| 2025– | Borneo Samarinda | ||
Fabio Araujo Lefundes is a Brazilian professional football manager who is the head coach of Liga 1 club Borneo Samarinda. [1]
Lefundes has extensive coaching experience since 1995. He spent two seasons at Al Raed in Saudi Arabia and one season at Mesaimeer in Qatar. At Al Raed, he was assistant coach and fitness coach, and was also interim coach for two months in the 2010–11 season.
Lefundes first came to Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors as a physical coach in January 2011. His influence on the physical aspect of the team resulted in the club being crowned as 2011 K-League champion and runners-up of the 2011 AFC Champions League. [2]
The following year, Lefundes was rewarded with a three-year contract and moved up to the assistant coach position whilst still co-ordinating the club's fitness program. During the first half of the 2013 season, he was interim coach, replacing Choi Kang-Hee who became manager of the South Korea national team.
During his seven years at Jeonbuk Hyundai, Lefundes won four K-League Classics (2011, 2014, 2015, and 2017) and the 2016 AFC Champions League. Jeonbuk were also runners-up in two K-League Classics (2012 and 2016) and the 2011 AFC Champions League.
Lefundes then moved to China's Shandong Luneng Taishan, Lefundes worked at Shandong Taishan for two seasons (2018 and 2019).
His first season at the club was a success, with the team finishing third in the Chinese Super League and runners-up in the Chinese FA Cup, losing to Beijing Guoan.
The following season, Shandong Taishan participated in the AFC Champions League. The club managed to finish top of their group, before being eliminated in the Round of 16 by Guangzhou Evergrande on penalties. However, Shandong Taishan didn't achieve the same sucess in the league as the previous season, finishing fifth. Once again they reached the Chinese FA Cup final, this time losing to Shanghai Greenland Shenhua over two legs.
Lefundes did not renew his contract with the club, and the COVID pandemic directly affected his professional future.
In 2020 he accepted the invitation of head coach Bruno Lazaroni to work at Botafogo in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, the highest level of Brazilian football.
| Team | Nat. | From | To | Record | Ref. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | Win % | |||||
| Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors (caretaker) |  | 20 December 2012 | 1 June 2013 | 22 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 40.91 | |
| Madura United |  | 15 November 2021 | 5 March 2023 | 53 | 21 | 13 | 19 | 39.62 | |
| Persita Tangerang | | 1 July 2024 | 25 May 2025 | 34 | 12 | 7 | 15 | 35.29 | |
| Borneo Samarinda | | 15 June 2025 | Present | 28 | 20 | 3 | 5 | 71.43 | |
| Career Total | 137 | 62 | 30 | 45 | 45.26 | ||||
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