Fernando Augusto Azevedo Pedreira (; born 14 November 1986), commonly known as Fernando, is a professional

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who plays as a

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or a

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. Born in Brazil, he plays for the Hong Kong national team.

Club career

In June 2015, Fernando joined

Kitchee Kitchee Sports Club (; ; ) is a Hong Kong professional Association football, football club based in Kowloon. It was founded in 1931 and currently competes in the Hong Kong Premier League. The club has won 12 List of Hong Kong football champion ...

. He was named Hong Kong's

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award for

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. On 1 July 2020,

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announced the signing of Fernando. He left the club on 9 July 2022. On 25 July 2022, Fernando returned to

International career

On 21 February 2021, Fernando officially announced that he had received a Hong Kong passport, making him eligible to represent

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internationally. This decision forced him to denounce his Brazilian passport in the process. On 17 May 2021, Fernando received his first call-up to the

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to play against Iran, Iraq and Bahrain for the 2022 World Cup qualifiers. However, he withdrew from the squad due to injury on 25 May 2021. On 1 June 2022, Fernando made his international debut for

in the friendly match against

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Career statistics

Club

;Notes

International

International goals

Honours

Kitchee *

Hong Kong Premier League The Hong Kong Premier League () is a Hong Kong professional football league organised by the Football Association of Hong Kong, China. It is currently sponsored by BOC Life and officially known as BOC Life Hong Kong Premier League (). The inau ...

: 2016–17, 2017–18, 2019–20,

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Hong Kong Senior Shield The Hong Kong Senior Challenge Shield (), known commonly as the Senior Shield, is the football knockout inter-club competition held in Hong Kong and the fourth oldest football tournament in Asia. Traditionally, only teams that play in the Hong K ...

: 2016–17, 2018–19,

, 2023–24 *

Hong Kong FA Cup Hong Kong FA Cup () is a knockout cup competition in Hong Kong football, run by and named after The Hong Kong Football Association. The first edition of the competition was held in 1975, before then the cup was known as the Golden Jubilee Cup. T ...

: 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19,

Hong Kong Sapling Cup Hong Kong Sapling Cup (), currently known as JC Sapling Cup () for sponsorship reasons, is a Hong Kong domestic football (soccer), football competition contested by the Hong Kong Premier League teams. The objective of the Cup is to provide more p ...

: 2017–18, 2019–20 *

Hong Kong League Cup Hong Kong Football Association League Cup () was an annual football competition contested by clubs in the top-tier Hong Kong domestic football league. The cup was relaunched for the 2014–15 season after being discontinued in the 2012–13 seaso ...

: 2015–16 * HKPLC Cup: 2023–24 Eastern *

Individual * Hong Kong Footballer of the Year: 2017

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* * 1986 births Living people Brazilian men's footballers Hong Kong men's footballers Hong Kong men's international footballers Naturalised footballers of Hong Kong Men's association football midfielders Citizen AA players Metro Gallery FC players Kitchee SC players Eastern Sports Club footballers Brazilian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Hong Kong Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Hong Kong Brazilian expatriates in Hong Kong Brazilian emigrants to Hong Kong Hong Kong League XI representative players 21st-century Brazilian sportsmen Footballers from Salvador, Bahia Long stubs with short prose {{Brazil-footy-midfielder-1980s-stub