Fábio Miguel Rico Lopes (born 10 January 1993) is a Portuguese professional

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who plays as a

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Club career

Born in

Lisbon Lisbon ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131, as of 2023, within its administrative limits and 3,028,000 within the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, metropolis, as of 2025. Lisbon is mainlan ...

, Lopes played youth football for a host of clubs, including

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from Spain where he won the junior national championship. He made his senior debut with C.D. Tondela, his first game in the Segunda Liga taking place on 4 March 2013 when he came on as a late substitute in a 2–0 away loss against

C.F. União Clube de Futebol União, commonly known as União da Madeira, was a Portuguese association football, football club based in Funchal, Madeira, notable for its six season in the Portuguese top-flight Primeira Liga, between the 1989–90 Primeira D ...

. Lopes signed with

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team

Boavista F.C. Boavista Futebol Clube (), commonly known as Boavista, is a Portuguese professional sports club from the of Porto that competes in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football league system, Portuguese football, at the Estádio do B ...

in June 2014. He never appeared in any competitive matches for them, being successively loaned to

S.C. Farense Sporting Clube Farense, simply known as Farense, is a Portuguese professional association football, football club based in Faro, Portugal, Faro in the Faro District, district of the same name and the region of Algarve. Founded in 1910, the club ha ...

and

S.C. Salgueiros 08 Sport Clube Salgueiros, commonly known as simply Salgueiros, was a Portuguese club from the city of Porto, in the northern region of the country. It was founded in 2008, to fill the void left by Sport Comércio e Salgueiros collapse, returning to ...

. On 28 February 2017, after nearly two years of inactivity, Lopes joined

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from the Lithuanian

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. In his first season, he won the domestic cup.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lopes, Fabio 1993 births Living people Portuguese men's footballers Footballers from Lisbon Men's association football midfielders Liga Portugal 2 players Campeonato de Portugal (league) players C.D. Tondela players F.C. Famalicão players Boavista F.C. players S.C. Farense players S.C. Salgueiros players C.F. União players A.R.C. Oleiros players Sertanense F.C. players A Lyga players FC Stumbras players Portuguese expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Spain Expatriate men's footballers in Lithuania Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Spain Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Lithuania 21st-century Portuguese sportsmen