Jefferson Encada

{{short description|Bissau-Guinean professional footballer|bot=PearBOT 5}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Jefferson Encada

| image = Joueur ivoirien et guinéen 21 (Jefferson Encada).jpg

| caption = Encada in 2024

| fullname = Jefferson Anilson Silva Encada

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1998|4|17|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Bissau, Guinea-Bissau

| height = 1.88 m

| position = Forward

| currentclub = Pharco

| clubnumber = 17

| youthyears1 = 2013–2017 | youthclubs1 = Sporting CP

| years1 = 2017–2018 | clubs1 = Olhanense | caps1 = 20 | goals1 = 3

| years2 = 2018–2020 | clubs2 = Vitória Guimarães B | caps2 = 28 | goals2 = 4

| years3 = 2019–2020 | clubs3 = Vitória Guimarães | caps3 = 1 | goals3 = 0

| years4 = 2020–2022 | clubs4 = Leixões | caps4 = 30 | goals4 = 5

| years5 = 2022– | clubs5 = Pharco | caps5 = 33 | goals5 = 0

| nationalyears1 = 2021– | nationalteam1 = Guinea-Bissau | nationalcaps1 = 29 | nationalgoals1 = 0

| pcupdate = 11 February 2023

| ntupdate = 27 March 2025

}}

Jefferson Anilson Silva Encada (born 17 April 1998) is a Bissau-Guinean professional footballer who plays for Egyptian club Pharco as a forward.

Club career

On 28 October 2018, Encada made his professional debut with Vitória Guimarães B in a 2018–19 LigaPro match against

Paços Ferreira.{{cite news | date=2018-10-28 | title=Vitória Guimarães B 0-1 Paços de Ferreira| url=https://www.foradejogo.net/match.php?match=201915400110701| publisher=ForaDeJogo| accessdate=2018-11-24}}

He made his Primeira Liga debut for Vitória Guimarães on 8 September 2019 in a game against Rio Ave.{{cite web|publisher=Soccerway|url=https://int.soccerway.com/matches/2019/09/08/portugal/portuguese-liga-/rio-ave-fc/vitoria-guimaraes/3064652/|title=Rio Ave v Vitória Guimarães game report|date=8 September 2019}}

International career

He made his debut for Guinea-Bissau national football team on 26 March 2021 in an AFCON 2021 qualifier against Eswatini.{{cite web|publisher=Besoccer|url=https://www.besoccer.com/match/suazilandia-seleccion/seleccion-guinea-bisau|title=Eswatini v Guinea-Bissau game report|date=26 March 2021}}{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Career Statistics

=International=

National team	Year	Apps
class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" \|+ Appearances and goals by national team and year
rowspan="5"\|Guinea-Bissau \|2021	4	0
2022	7	0
2023	5	0
2024	12	0
2025	1	0
colspan="2"\|Total !29	0