He amassed Primeira Liga totals of 215 games and four goals over the course of eight seasons, mainly with União de Leiria (five years).
Leiria, playing 28 games and scoring one goal but suffering team relegation as second from bottom.
He split the 2003–04 campaign with the last two teams, starting it with the former in division two;[1] in 2005–06 he helped S.C. Beira-Mar promote to the top tier of Portuguese football, as champions.
After one year in the Cypriot First Division, with Olympiakos Nicosia, Vouzela returned to his country, going on to play exclusively in lower league and amateur football.
[2] He retired in 2014 at the age of 40, after one season in the Viseu regional championships with Grupo Desportivo Oliveira de Frades, and returned once again to Académico, where he was given a position in the backroom staff.