Filipe Çelikkaya

Filipe Engin Neves Çelikkaya (born 19 January 1985) is a Portuguese football manager. He is the current manager of Hungarian club Zalaegerszegi TE. He spent four years as manager of Sporting CP B, while Ruben Amorim was manager of the first team.

Early life and playing career Çelikkaya was born in Lisbon. His father, from Eskişehir, Turkey, was on a European tour of over two years when he met his mother in Portugal. He grew up mostly in Almada, apart from a brief spell in Estarreja through his father's work. He played college soccer for the Sacred Heart Pioneers in Connecticut.

Managerial career Çelikkaya's father once gave him a book called The Theory of Collective Sport, which shaped his coaching philosophy. He assisted Luís Castro at G.D. Chaves, Vitória de Guimarães and FC Shakhtar Donetsk. On 8 January 2025, he was hired as an assistant to Gregg Berhalter at Chicago Fire FC in Major League Soccer.