Francisco Alexandre Lacerda Chaló (born 10 February 1964) is a Portuguese

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and former

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Career

Born in Ermesinde,

Porto Metropolitan Area The Porto Metropolitan Area (; abbreviated as AMP) is a metropolitan area in northern Portugal centered on the City of Porto, Portugal's second largest city.Fernanda Paula Oliveira (2009), The metropolitan area, covering 17 municipalities, is th ...

, Chaló began managing at the district level with A.C. Alfenense and F.C. Pedras Rubras. After taking the latter to the third tier, he had three years with

C.D. Feirense Clube Desportivo Feirense, commonly known as CD Feirense or just Feirense, is a Portuguese association football, football club based in Santa Maria da Feira. Founded on 18 March 1918, Feirense play in the LigaPro, the second tier of football in ...

in the Segunda Liga. On 30 May 2007, he moved up to the

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, succeeding Fernando Mira at

Associação Naval 1º de Maio Associação Naval 1º de Maio or Associação Naval 1893, commonly known as Naval, was a Portuguese Association football, football club based in Figueira da Foz, Coimbra District. Founded on 1 May 1893, it last played in the Division of Honour i ...

. He was dismissed on 16 September, having taken two points from four games. Chaló then returned to Feirense in the second division for 18 months, being shown the door in December 2009 when they were fourth. On 8 March 2011, he signed with F.C. Penafiel for the rest of the season, tasked with avoiding relegation. In March 2013, Chaló was appointed as the manager of

S.C. Covilhã Sporting Clube da Covilhã, commonly known as just Sporting da Covilhã or Sp. Covilhã, is a Portuguese association football, football club from the city of Covilhã that plays in the third-tier Liga 3 (Portugal), Liga 3. The club was founded on ...

following Fanã's departure. After guiding them to safety, he achieved a mid-table finish in the following season. Despite interest from clubs to acquire his services, he remained with the ''Leões da Serra'', and guided them to fourth – their best finish since the Segunda Liga's formation – in the 2014–15 season, missing out on promotion to the

on goal difference. Going into the 2015–16 season, Covilhã were tipped as one of the favorites in the race for promotion, but due a run of poor results during the first half the season, his side only managed to finish in fourteenth place, 22 points less than their previous season, and he departed. In December 2016, Chaló returned to management by signing a one-year deal with Académico de Viseu FC. He left in February 2018 after a run of seven games without a win, and took the job at

Leixões S.C. Leixões Sport Club (), commonly known as Leixões, is a Portuguese sports club from Matosinhos. It is organised into several departments for many sports, such as athletics, boxing, football, futsal, handball, karate, swimming, volleyball, wat ...

of the same league days later. In June 2018, with a year left on his contract with the club from

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, he rescinded it and joined

Paradou AC Paradou Athletic Club (), known as Paradou AC or simply PAC for short, is an Algerian football club based in Algiers. The club was founded in 1994 by members of the Hydra AC junior team, the club colours are blue and yellow. Their home stadium, A ...

of the

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. He left the club in August 2020. In 2022, he returned to

. He left after a run of poor results during the first half the season. On 18 September 2023, Chaló was appointed as manager of

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club

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. Three months later, he was sacked.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Chalo, Francisco 1964 births Living people People from Valongo Footballers from Porto District Men's association football midfielders Portuguese men's footballers Segunda Divisão players C.D. Feirense players CD Candal players Portuguese football managers Primeira Liga managers Liga Portugal 2 managers Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 managers Kuwait Premier League managers C.D. Feirense managers Associação Naval 1º de Maio managers F.C. Penafiel managers S.C. Covilhã managers Académico de Viseu F.C. managers Leixões S.C. managers Paradou AC managers C.D. Trofense managers Kazma SC managers Portuguese expatriate football managers Expatriate football managers in Algeria Expatriate football managers in Kuwait Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Kuwait 20th-century Portuguese sportsmen