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Santos earned a bachelor's degree as an electrical and telecommunications technical engineer, awarded in 1977 by the Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa. In 1987 he decided to retire from football play and become a coach. He had worked briefly as a maintenance technician at a hotel.
His first club was Estoril-Praia, where he remained until 1994. With Fernando Santos as a coach Estoril climbed up two categories and reached Portugal's top football division.
In 1994 he took over Estrela da Amadora and in 1998 he moved to FC Porto, winning the Championship and Portugal's Super Cup in his first season. He was the last of the coaches to win in FC Porto's run of 5 consecutive championships, the longest ever in Portuguese club history. For that, he is known as "the engineer of the penta". Next season Porto missed the 6th title in the last round to Sporting Portugal but won the Portuguese Football Cup and Super Cup and reached the European Champions League quarter–finals.
In 2001 Santos took over AEK FC, leading the club to the conquest of Greek Football Cup and lost the Championship from Olympiacos due to goal average. His next step was Panathinaikos FC, taking over the reins of hometown Sporting Clube de Portugal for 2003-04. The next season, he returned to AEK in order to continue the work he left behind and the team, based on young players, reached the Greek Cup semi-finals and finished third (only three points behind the first) at Greek First National Division.
On May, 20th of 2006 it was announced that Santos would coach Sport Lisboa e Benfica for the 2006-07 season. That season Benfica finished third, missing the opportunity to be in the Champions League directly, giving just one point to the second place and two to the eventual winners FC Porto. In the following season, he spent the whole pre-season with Benfica, in which he dramatically lost the services of team captain and best goalscorer Simão Sabrosa who was transferred to Spanish team Atlético Madrid. Shortly after, Santos was sacked by Benfica's board on 20th August 2007, after a draw against Leixões S.C.[1] in the first match of the Portuguese Liga 2007-08. He was replaced by Spanish coach and former Benfica manager José Antonio Camacho.
In September 2007, Santos signed for PAOK FC of Thessaloniki in Greece a three year contract.