As professional player, he played for Académica de Coimbra and Benfica, before ending his career at Belenenses in the 1977–78 season, due to a serious injury suffered at a training session in the Estádio Nacional where he broke a leg.

[1] After his player career, Artur Jorge went to Leipzig, East Germany, to study football and training methodology.

[5] Artur Jorge moved to Benfica in 1994–95, finishing third with his team, and was replaced at the beginning of the following season.

He went to become coach of several other clubs including Académica de Coimbra, Vitesse Arnhem, Tenerife and CSKA Moscow.

[10] On 27 November 2014, Artur Jorge joined Algerian club MC Alger, ending a seven-year period without coaching.