Ruben Amorim Net Worth, Salary & Estimated Wealth

Rúben Filipe Marques Amorim was born on 27th January 1985 in Lisbon, Portugal.

Growing up in Alverca, a city situated just to the north of the Portuguese capital, Amorim excelled at rollerblade hockey but reserved his principle passion for football, instructing his team-mates where to go and what to do while playing for CEBI Foundation, a private primary school.

Beyond the realms of education, he could also be found bossing friends around when relentlessly playing street football. This included even his older brother Mauro.

In due course his leadership qualities, coupled with a considerable amount of innate ability, attracted the interests of Benfica who recruited the budding midfielder into their youth system.

In due course too, he became captain, a role he retained right through the levels, until the age of 17.

It was at this crucial juncture of his development that the headstrong teenager spied an easier route to a Primeira Liga first-team with Belenenses, a club that was furthermore closer to his family home.

The only problem was that the team nicknamed O Belem insisted on seeing him play in a trial match first and Amorim at the time had a broken arm.

The youngster strapped himself up, dropped to centre-back for the afternoon, and was still the best player on the park.

What’s the betting he bossed his fellow trialists around with his one free arm. 

How Much Is Ruben Amorim Worth?

After paying out £9.25m to secure his services, Manchester United then set about offering Amorim a two-and-a-half year deal worth in excess of £16m. For the 39-year-old it is quite the jump from his Sporting salary, said to be £2.1m per annum.

Factoring in a hefty fortune earned from his playing days, along with bonuses gained from two title successes in Lisbon it is estimated that Ruben Amorim’s present net worth is a touch north of £13m. 

It is reasonable to gauge that will double by 2027.

Playing Career

Less than a year after joining the Belenenses youth ranks, Amorim made his Primeira Liga professional debut, making a late appearances as a sub.

Within 18 months he was a firmly established part of their midfield and this after receiving international recognition, first for the Under 18s, before making ten outings for Portugal’s Under 21s. 

Across five seasons with O Belem, Amorim made close to a hundred appearances, impressing more and more as his influence heightened. 

On the radar of several clubs, it was Benfica who swooped in 2008 and he quickly proved a success with the Eagles, helping them secure a league and cup double in his second campaign, and soon after attaining his first full international cap.

Amorim is one of very few players to make his international debut at a World Cup finals, coming on with minutes to spare as Portugal drew with the Ivory Coast in South Africa. 

Back at club level however things began to turn sour in the capital when first surgery on both knees kept him out of action for several months, and then the ever-headstrong player publicly criticised his coach for not utilising enough homegrown talent.

After refusing to warm-down following another game that saw him on the bench, Amorim was sent to Braga on loan. 

His eventual return was a triumphant one, the box-to-box star guiding Benfica to an unprecedented treble, only then came a seismic setback, Amorim sustaining an ACL injury early into the next season. 

Once recovered, he carried on playing for another two years but in truth was never the same dynamic performer. He retired aged just 32 in 2017.

Coach

Amorim enjoyed a hugely successful playing career, winning ten trophies and experiencing two World Cups, but his destiny was always to coach. That goes right back to organising his school team when merely a child.

Naturally then, his first order of business on hanging up his boots was to earn his coaching license, intriguing spending a week interning under a certain Jose Mourinho.

It was at Casa Pia in the Portuguese third tier where he cut his managerial teeth and settled on playing three at the back after some initial defeats. It’s a system he has retained to enormous success ever since.

Indeed, it was all going swimmingly with the Lisbon-based minnows, that was until it was discovered that he didn’t have the requisite coaching qualifications for professional football. 

His subsequent resignation was a huge step backwards with his career on the sidelines barely begun. 

Regardless, managing Braga’s reserves swiftly led to a big promotion, and with his paperwork now complete Amorim found himself for the first time on a Primeira Liga touchline, orchestrating his former club to a string of highly impressive results and performances. 

During his brief stint in charge at Braga, they lost only twice and lifted the League Cup. That was enough to persuade Sporting to make their move, paying £8.4m to trigger a release clause. 

This giant of European football was not in a good place when the then-35 year old took the helm. They had not won a league title for two decades and moreover rumours were rife of a toxic atmosphere within the club. 

It is therefore to Amorim’s enormous credit that he managed to get everyone on side, and even greater credit of course should go to what he did next.

In his second season with the Lions he led them to a famous title triumph, beating out Porto and Benfica along the way. He repeated the feat in 2023/24.

Inevitably, his heady rise did not go unrecognised down the corridors of power of some of the biggest institutions in world football. 

In November 2024 it was confirmed that Manchester United had appointed Amorim as their sixth permanent coach post-Sir Alex Ferguson, describing him as ‘exciting and highly rated’ in their official club statement. 

The Reds have been on the decline for quite some time now, long-priced in the football betting to win silverware. 

Given Amorim’s track record expect that to change, and soon. 

Family

In 2013, Amorim married Maria Joao Diogo, the couple having a son Miguel three years later.

Though the new United boss strives to keep his personal life private we know that Maria is a telecommunications engineering graduate who went on to found an interior design firm. 

She co-runs the company with Raquel Gomes who is the wife of Amorim’s former team-mate and close friend Hugo Viana.

As of next season, Viana will be Manchester City’s Sporting Director while Amorim will patrolling the touchline at Old Trafford. That should make meals out interesting to say the least!

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