Arthur Cabral

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In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Mendonça and the second or paternal family name is Cabral.

Arthur Cabral
File:Arthur Cabral, atacante do Benfica, em promoção ao EAFC 24 (cropped).jpg
Cabral with Benfica in 2023
Personal information
Full name Arthur Mendonça Cabral
Date of birth (1998-04-25) 25 April 1998 (age 28)
Place of birth Campina Grande, Brazil
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position Forward
Team information
Current team
 Botafogo
Number 98
Youth career
2014–2016 Ceará
2015–2016 → Palmeiras (loan)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015–2018 Ceará 61 (22)
2019–2020 Palmeiras 3 (1)
2019–2020 → Basel (loan) 26 (14)
2020–2022 Basel 51 (32)
2022–2023 Fiorentina 42 (10)
2023–2025 Benfica 49 (8)
2025– Botafogo 21 (4)
International career‡
2019 Brazil U23 2 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 03:22, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals as of 9 September 2019

Arthur Mendonça Cabral (born 25 April 1998) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Botafogo.

Club career

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Ceará

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Arthur Cabral, born in Campina Grande, Paraíba, Cabral joined Ceará's youth setup in 2014. He made his first team debut on 22 July 2015, coming on as a late substitute and scoring a last-minute winner in a 2–1 away victory against Tupi, for the year's Copa do Brasil.[1]

In October 2015, Cabral was loaned to Palmeiras and returned to the youth setup.[2] Back to Ceará in the following year, he spent some time in the under-20 squad before being definitely promoted to the first team in the 2017 season.

Cabral contributed with four goals in 16 matches during the 2017 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B, as his side achieved promotion to Série A. On 7 March 2018, he scored a brace in a 3–0 Campeonato Cearense away win against Ferroviário-CE.[3]

Palmeiras

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On 30 November 2018, Palmeiras officially signed Cabral for R$ 5,000,000 from Ceará.[4] Here, he played three league matches, scoring one goal.

Basel

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On 30 September 2019, Cabral was loaned to FC Basel in the Swiss Super League for their 2019–20 season under manager Marcel Koller. He made his team debut in the Swiss Cup match on 15 September in the away game against lower tier FC Meyrin being substituted in after 74 minutes as Basel won 3–0 to progress to the next round.[5] He played his first game in the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League group stage on 19 September as Basel won 5–0 at home in the St. Jakob-Park against Russian team Krasnodar.[6] He then made his domestic league debut on 22 September as Basel played a 1–1 draw with Young Boys in the Stadion Wankdorf.[7] Cabral scored his first goal for his new club in the next league match one week later, on 25 September, as Basel won 4–0 at home against Zürich.[8] During his next match just four days later, on 29 September, he scored two goals as Basel won 3–0 against Luzern.[9]

On 29 June 2020, the club announced that Cabral, whose loan had come to the end, was signed permanently.[10] He scored his first hat-trick for his club on 8 August 2021 against Servette, in fact he scored four goals as Basel won 5–1.[11] He scored his first hat-trick at international level just two weeks later, on 19 August, in the 2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League play-off match as Basel won 3–1 at home against Swedish club Hammarby IF.[12][13]

FCB announced on 29 January 2022 that their top-scorer Cabral had transferred out to Fiorentina.[14] In his two and a half years with the club Cabral had a total of 118 appearances for Basel scoring a total of 75 goals. 77 of these games were in the Super League, 3 in the Swiss Cup, 26 in the European competitions and 12 were test matches. He scored 46 goals in the domestic league, 2 in the cup, 17 in the European competitions and the other 10 were scored during the tests.[15]

Fiorentina

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On 29 January 2022, Cabral joined Serie A side Fiorentina.[16] He scored his first goal on 26 February 2022, in a 2–1 defeat against Sassuolo.[17]

In the 2022–23 edition of the UEFA Conference League, Cabral finished as the top scorer of the competition, alongside Basel's Zeki Amdouni, with 7 goals.[18] Fiorentina reached the tournament's final, where they lost 2–1 to West Ham United.[19] He also finished that season as the top scorer of his club in all competitions with 17 goals.[20]

Benfica

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On 10 August 2023, Primeira Liga club Benfica announced the signing of Cabral on a five-year contract,[21] for a reported fee of €20 million + €5 million in add-ons.[22] The striker's release clause was set at €100 million.[23]

Nine days later, Cabral made his debut for the Lisbon-based club, starting in a league match at home to Estrela da Amadora; with the game tied 0–0, Cabral was replaced in the 78th minute by Casper Tengstedt, who scored the opener just one minute later; Benfica went on to win by 2–0.[24] Cabral made his UEFA Champions League debut on 3 October 2023, coming on as a substitute in the 79th minute of a 1–0 loss away at Inter Milan, in the competition's group stage.[25] Cabral scored his first goal for Benfica on 20 October, in a 4–1 victory away at Campeonato de Portugal (Portuguese 4th division) side Lusitânia, in the 3rd round of the Taça de Portugal.[26] Eleven days later, he came on as a second-half substitute and scored in a 2–0 victory away at Arouca, in the group stage of the Taça da Liga.[27]

On 8 December, after a 1–1 league draw to Farense at the Estádio da Luz, Cabral was filmed showing his middle finger to Benfica fans while driving out of the stadium.[28] He apologized the following day.[29] Four days after the incident, in Benfica's last Champions League group stage match, away at Red Bull Salzburg, Cabral came off the bench during the injury time period and, one minute later, scored an essential back-heel goal to seal a 3–1 victory which qualified the Eagles to the UEFA Europa League knock-out round play-offs.[30] On 29 December 2023, Cabral scored his first Primeira Liga goal, the opener in a 3–0 home victory over Famalicão.[31] A month later, he scored a bicycle kick goal in a 4–1 league victory away at Estrela da Amadora.[32]

Botafogo

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On 8 June 2025, Cabral returned to his native Brazil, signing a deal with reigning Série A and Copa Libertadores champions Botafogo until the end of 2028.[33][34] The striker scored his first goal for Botafogo on his debut, in the 2-0 victory over Vasco in the classic, in Brasília, in the 13th round of the Brazilian Championship.[35]

International career

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Youth

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Cabral has represented Brazil at the U-23 level,[36] playing in two friendly matches against Colombia[37] and Chile in September 2019.[38][39]

Senior

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In October 2021, Cabral received his first call-up to the Brazilian senior team for 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification matches as an injury replacement for Matheus Cunha.[40]

Career statistics

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As of match played 7 December 2025[41][citation needed]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League State league[a] National cup[b] League cup[c] Continental Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Ceará 2015 Série B 1 0 0 0 2 1 — — — 3 1
2016 Série B 0 0 0 0 0 0 — — — 0 0
2017 Série B 16 4 1 0 1 0 — — 1[d] 0 19 4
2018 Série A 31 7 12 11 4 1 — — 8[e] 5 55 24
Total 48 11 13 11 7 2 — — 9 5 77 29
Palmeiras 2019 Série A 1 0 2 1 1 0 — 1[f] 0 — 5 1
Basel (loan) 2019–20 Swiss Super League 26 14 — 2 2 — 11[g] 2 — 39 18
Basel 2020–21 Swiss Super League 33 18 — 0 0 — 3[g] 2 — 36 20
2021–22 Swiss Super League 18 14 — 1 0 — 12[h] 13 — 31 27
Total 77 46 — 3 2 — 26 17 — 106 65
Fiorentina 2021–22 Serie A 14 2 — 2 0 — — — 16 2
2022–23 Serie A 28 8 — 4 1 — 16[h] 8 — 48 17
Total 42 10 — 6 1 — 16 8 — 64 19
Benfica 2023–24 Primeira Liga 28 6 — 4 3 3 1 8[i] 1 — 43 11
2024–25 Primeira Liga 21 2 — 5 4 2 0 6[j] 1 — 34 7
Total 49 8 — 9 7 5 1 14 2 — 77 18
Botafogo 2025 Série A 21 4 — 3 1 — 2[f] 0 2[k] 0 28 5
Career total 238 79 15 12 29 13 5 1 59 27 11 5 357 137
  1. ^ Includes Campeonato Cearense, Campeonato Paulista
  2. ^ Includes Copa do Brasil, Swiss Cup, Coppa Italia, Taça de Portugal
  3. ^ Includes Taça da Liga
  4. ^ Appearance in Primeira Liga
  5. ^ Appearances in Copa do Nordeste
  6. ^ a b Appearance in Copa Libertadores
  7. ^ a b Appearances in UEFA Europa League
  8. ^ a b Appearances in UEFA Europa Conference League
  9. ^ Four appearances and one goal in UEFA Champions League, four appearances in UEFA Europa League
  10. ^ Appearances in UEFA Champions League
  11. ^ Appearances in FIFA Club World Cup

Honours

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Ceará

Fiorentina

Benfica

Individual

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