Gonçalo Paciência

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Gonçalo Paciência

Gonçalo Mendes Paciência (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɡõˈsalu pɐˈsjẽsjɐ]; born 1 August 1994) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a centre-forward for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Sport Recife.

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Gonçalo Paciência
Paciência with Eintracht Frankfurt in 2022
Personal information
Full name Gonçalo Mendes Paciência[1]
Date of birth (1994-08-01) 1 August 1994 (age 30)[1]
Place of birth Porto, Portugal[1]
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Position(s) Centre-forward
Team information
Current team
Sport Recife
Number 7
Youth career
2002–2013 Porto
2009–2010Padroense (loan)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2015 Porto B 35 (14)
2015–2018 Porto 10 (0)
2015–2016Académica (loan) 27 (3)
2016Olympiacos (loan) 1 (0)
2017Rio Ave (loan) 15 (1)
2017–2018Vitória Setúbal (loan) 18 (5)
2018–2022 Eintracht Frankfurt 52 (13)
2020–2021Schalke 04 (loan) 15 (1)
2022–2024 Celta 25 (2)
2023–2024VfL Bochum (loan) 19 (3)
2024–2025 Sanfrecce Hiroshima 8 (2)
2025– Sport Recife 0 (0)
International career
2009–2010 Portugal U16 8 (1)
2010–2011 Portugal U17 17 (5)
2011–2012 Portugal U18 4 (2)
2013 Portugal U19 9 (7)
2013 Portugal U20 2 (0)
2014–2017 Portugal U21 17 (6)
2016 Portugal U23 4 (3)
2017–2019 Portugal 2 (1)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Portugal
UEFA European Under-21 Championship
Runner-up2015 Czech Republic
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16:50, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
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Formed at Porto, he appeared mainly for the reserves during his spell, playing only 16 competitive games with the first team and also being loaned four times. In 2018, he signed with Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt.

A former youth international for Portugal, Paciência made his senior debut in 2017 and scored his only goal in his second match.

Club career

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Porto

Born in Porto, Paciência joined Porto's youth system at the age of only 8. He made his senior debut on 12 January 2014, starting for the B team in a 2–0 home win against Portimonense in the Segunda Liga.[2] He scored his first goals in the competition on 22 March, helping to a 2–2 away draw with Feirense.[3]

Paciência first appeared in competitive games with the main squad on 21 January 2015, again acting as starter in a 1–1 draw at Braga in the Taça da Liga.[4] He netted his first goal in the same competition, in a 4–1 home victory over Académica de Coimbra that took place the following week.[5]

On 29 July 2015, Paciência joined Académica in a season-long loan.[6] On 31 August 2016, still owned by Porto, he moved to Olympiacos.[7] His spell at the latter club, which was undermined by heart problems, was concluded in December.[8][9]

Paciência continued to be loaned the following seasons, to Rio Ave[10] and Vitória de Setúbal.[11] On 25 August 2017, while at the service of the latter club, he scored an own goal in an eventual 1–1 away draw against Belenenses, coached by his father.[12] On 27 January 2018, he netted early in the final of the League Cup and also converted his penalty shootout attempt, in a loss to Sporting CP after a 1–1 draw in regulation time.[13]

Eintracht Frankfurt

On 12 July 2018, deemed surplus to requirements as practically all Portuguese players by manager Sérgio Conceição, Paciência signed a four-year contract with German club Eintracht Frankfurt.[14] He made his debut on 18 August in the first round of the DFB-Pokal, in which he came on as a late substitute and scored a consolation in a 2–1 defeat for the holders at Regionalliga team SSV Ulm,[15] but a month later he suffered a knee injury in training.[16] He returned for his Bundesliga debut the following 17 February, as a last-minute replacement for Sébastien Haller in a 1–1 home draw with Borussia Mönchengladbach;[17] he finished the season with three goals, beginning with the added-time winner against Hoffenheim at the Waldstadion on his first start.[18]

Paciência scored seven league goals in 2019–20 campaign for the ninth-placed side (ten in all competitions),[19] including two on 18 October in a 3–0 home win over Bayer Leverkusen. He played regularly under manager Adi Hütter alongside compatriot André Silva and Dutchman Bas Dost, making up for the sales of Haller, Luka Jović and Ante Rebić;[20] on 25 January he signed a new contract until 2023.[21]

On 15 September 2020, Paciência joined Schalke 04 on a year-long loan with an option to make the move permanent.[22] His maiden league appearance took place three days later, when he started in the 8–0 away loss to Bayern Munich;[23] on 18 October he scored his only goal for the eventually relegated team to gain a home draw against Union Berlin, their first point in the eighth game of the season.[24] From November to April, he was sidelined with another knee injury.[25]

Paciência scored twice in Eintracht's run to the 2022 UEFA Europa League Final, earning a win and a draw against Royal Antwerp.[26][27] He was unused for the decisive match at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium, a penalty shootout defeat of Rangers.[28]

Celta

On 6 August 2022, Paciência moved to Spain after agreeing to a three-year deal at Celta.[29] He scored on his La Liga debut a week later, in a 2–2 home draw with Espanyol.[30] He did not hold down a regular place in the team during his first season, particularly after the arrival of compatriot Carlos Carvalhal as manager, and his minutes dried up further after the signing of Haris Seferovic in January.[31]

On 1 September 2023, Paciência returned to Germany after agreeing to a one-year loan deal at VfL Bochum.[32] He terminated his contract with the Galicians on 19 August 2024.[33]

Sanfrecce Hiroshima

On 2 September 2024, Paciência moved to Sanfrecce Hiroshima on a one-and-a-half-year deal.[34] Twelve days later, he scored on his J1 League debut, in a 2–2 away draw against Kashima Antlers.[35] He repeated the feat in his first appearance in the AFC Champions League Two, helping to a 3–0 home win over Kaya–Iloilo in the group phase.[36]

Later career

Paciência moved clubs and countries again in January 2025, joining his compatriot manager Pepa at Sport Recife, recently promoted to the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A; he signed a contract until the end of the year.[37]

International career

Paciência earned 57 caps for Portugal at youth level, scoring 21 goals. His first game for the under-21 team was on 5 March 2014 at the age of 19, when he started and missed a second-half penalty in a 2–0 home win over North Macedonia in the 2015 UEFA European Championship qualifiers.[38] Selected for the finals in the Czech Republic, he collected three substitute appearances for the runners-up, scoring in the 1–1 group stage draw with Sweden and converting his shootout attempt in the final against the same opponent.[39][40][41]

Paciência was part of the squad at the 2016 Summer Olympics, netting three times in the group phase[42][43][44] in an eventual quarter-final exit. He first appeared with the full side on 14 November 2017, coming on as a 46th-minute substitute for Gelson Martins in a 1–1 friendly draw against the United States.[45] In his second match, exactly two years later, he played the entire 6–0 rout of Lithuania in the Algarve in the UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying stage, scoring the fourth goal.[46]

Personal life

Paciência's father, Domingos, was also a footballer and a forward. He too was developed at Porto.[47][48]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 27 May 2024[49][50]
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Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup League Cup Europe Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Porto B 2013–14 Segunda Liga 195195
2014–15 Segunda Liga 169169
Total 35143514
Porto 2014–15 Primeira Liga 1000310041
2017–18 Primeira Liga 90100020120
Total 100103120161
Académica (loan) 2015–16 Primeira Liga 2732110304
Olympiacos (loan) 2016–17 Super League Greece 10000010
Rio Ave (loan) 2016–17 Primeira Liga 15100151
Vitória Setúbal (loan) 2017–18 Primeira Liga 18521552410
Eintracht Frankfurt 2018–19 Bundesliga 113116100185
2019–20 Bundesliga 237401634310
2021–22 Bundesliga 1831062255
Total 521361286008620
Schalke 04 (loan) 2020–21 Bundesliga 15110161
Celta 2022–23 La Liga 25231283
2024–25 La Liga 000000
Total 25231283
VfL Bochum (loan) 2023–24 Bundesliga 193002[a]0213
Career total 21742154963062027358
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  1. Appearances in Bundesliga relegation playoffs

International

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Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
Portugal[51] 201710
201911
Total21
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Scores and results list Portugal's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Paciência goal.[51]
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List of international goals scored by Gonçalo Paciência
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 14 November 2019Estádio Algarve, São João da Venda, Portugal Lithuania4–06–0UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying
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Honours

Olympiacos

Porto

Eintracht Frankfurt

Individual

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