Levir Culpi
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 28 February 1953 | ||
| Place of birth | Curitiba, Brazil | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1972 | Coritiba | 20 | (0) |
| 1973 | Botafogo | 1 | (0) |
| 1974–1978 | Santa Cruz | 57 | (0) |
| 1979–1980 | Atlante | 32 | (1) |
| 1980 | Vila Nova | ||
| 1981 | Colorado | 5 | (0) |
| 1982–1983 | Figueirense | ||
| 1984–1985 | Juventude | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| 1986 | Juventude | ||
| 1986 | Caxias | ||
| 1986–1987 | Atlético Paranaense | ||
| 1988 | Marcílio Dias | ||
| 1988–1989 | Inter de Limeira | ||
| 1989–1990 | Criciúma | ||
| 1990 | Internacional | ||
| 1991 | Coritiba | ||
| 1992 | Criciúma | ||
| 1992 | Al-Ittifaq | ||
| 1993 | Paraná Clube | ||
| 1994 | Guarani | ||
| 1994–1995 | Atlético Mineiro | ||
| 1995 | Portuguesa | ||
| 1996 | Cruzeiro | ||
| 1997 | Cerezo Osaka | ||
| 1998–1999 | Cruzeiro | ||
| 2000 | São Paulo | ||
| 2001 | Sport | ||
| 2001 | Atlético Mineiro | ||
| 2002 | Palmeiras | ||
| 2003–2004 | Botafogo | ||
| 2004 | Atlético Paranaense | ||
| 2005 | Cruzeiro | ||
| 2005 | São Caetano | ||
| 2006–2007 | Atlético Mineiro | ||
| 2007–2011 | Cerezo Osaka | ||
| 2012–2013 | Cerezo Osaka | ||
| 2014–2015 | Atlético Mineiro | ||
| 2016– | Fluminense | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Levir Culpi (born 28 February 1953) is a former football player and current coach of Fluminense.
He began his manager career as soon as he retired from football, in 1987, by coaching Esporte Clube Juventude. He really started to show his abilities as a manager when he coached the top Paranaense clubs: Atlético Paranaense, Coritiba, and Paraná Clube.
He had more success leading Atlético Mineiro to the Brazilian Second Division Title of 2006, which he also won in 1988 with Inter de Limeira. In 1996, he had great success winning Copa do Brasil with Cruzeiro. Later he joined São Paulo where he won the Campeonato Paulista in 2000 and finished runner-up in the Copa do Brasil. He took Criciúma to Copa Libertadores in 1992, as the team reached the quarter-finals of the tournament.
Others teams he has managed are Portuguesa, and Cerezo Osaka of Japan in 1997.
In May 2007, J. League Division 2 side Cerezo Osaka sacked Satoshi Tsunami and appointed Levir Culpi as manager. During his spell in charge of the team, he discovered Shinji Kagawa, who then played as a defensive midfielder, and used him as an attacking midfielder. Kagawa combined well with Takashi Inui, another talented young player, and the team under Culpi were promoted to the J. League Division 1 in 2010. He continued to display his ability to develop young players and construct an attacking team. With such players as Kagawa, Inui, Akihiro Ienaga, Hiroshi Kiyotake, Adriano Ferreira Martins, and Luís Fernando Martinez, the team finished 3rd in 2010 and qualified for the AFC Champions League.
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