Portugal women's national football team

Portugal
Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s)A Selecção das Quinas[1]
AssociationPortuguese Football Federation (FPF)
ConfederationUEFA (Europe)
Head coachFrancisco Neto
CaptainCláudia Neto
Most capsCarla Couto (145)
Top scorerEdite Fernandes (39)
FIFA codePOR
First colours
Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current 21 Increase 1 (24 March 2023)[2]
Highest21 (March 2023)
Lowest47 (March 2007)
First international
 France 0–0 Portugal 
(Le Mans, France; 24 October 1981)
Biggest win
 Armenia 0–8 Portugal 
(Yerevan, Armenia; 17 September 2011)
 Portugal 8–0 Moldova 
(Setúbal, Portugal; 24 November 2017)
Biggest defeat
 Germany 13–0 Portugal 
(Reutlingen, Germany; 15 November 2003)
World Cup
Appearances1 (first in 2023)
Best resultTo be determined
European Championship
Appearances2 (first in 2017)
Best resultGroup stage (2017, 2022)
This article is about the women's team. For the men's team, see Portugal national football team.

The Portugal women's national football team represents Portugal in international women's football competition. The team is controlled by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) and competes as a member of UEFA in various international football tournaments such as the FIFA Women's World Cup, UEFA Women's Euro, the Summer Olympics, and the Algarve Cup.

History

The Portuguese women's team historically was one of the weakest in Western Europe since its formation. In recent years however the team has made major strides, qualifying for the newly expanded UEFA Women's Euro 2017, marking the team's first appearance in a major tournament. Despite ultimately finishing last in their group, the team put in a respectable performance, picking up a win in their second match against a Scottish side which had been favored to beat them, and only losing to England by one goal.

After finishing a distant third in their qualifying group for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup behind Italy and Belgium and failing to qualify, the Portuguese team then looked forward to trying to repeat their achievement of four years prior by qualifying for UEFA Women's Euro 2022, which they eventually did under quite unusual circumstances. After a strong group stage campaign in which Portugal won all its games except for the two games against group winner Finland, including beating the heavily favored top seed Scotland both home and away, the team reached the play-off stage where they were drawn against Russia. The team came agonizingly close as they narrowly lost the first game in Portugal 0–1 before managing a goalless draw in the second leg in Russia. As a result Russia originally qualified for the Euro, but due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine all Russian representative teams were banned from competition by FIFA, thus giving Portugal a reprieve as they took Russia's place in Group C of the Women's Euro.[3] Portugal is placed in group C with Sweden, the Netherlands and Switzerland as opponents. They were eliminated in the first round, finishing last with a point obtained thanks to a draw against Switzerland (2–2 after being 0–2 down and having dominated the game overall), and two defeats against the favorites of the group (a close one 2–3 against the Dutch title holders after having recovered a two-goal handicap for a while, then a much heavier defeat 0–5 against Sweden).

Portugal qualified for their first World Cup at the 2023 edition after beating Cameroon 2–1 at the International playoff Final.

Team image

Nicknames

The Portugal women's national football team has been known or nicknamed as the "A Selecção das Quinas".[4]

Results and fixtures
  • The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.
Legend

  Win   Draw   Lose   Fixture

2022
22 June Friendly Portugal  4–0  Greece Lisbon, Portugal
Stadium: Estadio do Restelo
25 June Friendly Portugal  1–0  Greece Estoril, Portugal
Stadium: Estadio Antonio Coimbra da Mota
28 June Friendly Portugal  1–1  Australia Estoril, Portugal
21:00 UTC+1
  • Encarnação 87'
 Source
Stadium: Estádio António Coimbra da Mota
Referee: Victoria Beyer (France)
9 July UEFA Euro 2022 group stage Portugal  2–2  Switzerland Leigh, England
 Report
Stadium: Leigh Sports Village
Attendance: 5,902
Referee: Jana Adámková (Czech Republic)
13 July UEFA Euro 2022 group stage Netherlands  3–2  Portugal Leigh, England
 Report
Stadium: Leigh Sports Village
Attendance: 6,966
Referee: Ivana Martinčić (Croatia)
17 July UEFA Euro 2022 group stage Sweden  5–0  Portugal Leigh, England
 Report Stadium: Leigh Sports Village
Attendance: 7,118
Referee: Stéphanie Frappart (France)
11 November Friendly Portugal  5–0  Haiti Lisbon, Portugal
 Report Stadium: Estádio Municipal José Martins Vieira
Referee: Monika Mularczyk (Poland)
15 November Friendly Portugal  1–0  Costa Rica Alverca do Ribatejo, Portugal
18:00 UTC±0
Report Stadium: Centro de Formação do Futebol Clube de Alverca
Referee: Abigail Byrne (England)

2023
17 February Friendly New Zealand  0–5  Portugal Hamilton, New Zealand
19:00 UTC+13 Report
Stadium: Waikato Stadium
22 February 2023 FIFA WWC qualification (inter-confederation play-offs) Portugal  2–1  Cameroon Hamilton, New Zealand
 Report
Stadium: Waikato Stadium
7 April Friendly Portugal  1–2  Japan
11 April Friendly Portugal  1–1  Wales
23 July World Cup GS Netherlands  v  Portugal Dunedin, New Zealand
--:--  Report (FIFA) Stadium: Forsyth Barr Stadium
27 July World Cup GS Portugal  v  Vietnam Hamilton, New Zealand
19:30 UTC+12 Report (FIFA) Stadium: Waikato Stadium
1 August World Cup GS Portugal  v  United States Auckland, New Zealand
Report (FIFA) Stadium: Eden Park

Coaching staff

Current coaching staff
PositionNameRef.
Head coach Portugal Francisco Neto

Manager history

Players

Caps and goals may be incorrect.

Current squad

Updated list on 17 Feb 2023.

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1 1GK Inês Pereira (1999-05-26) 26 May 1999 32 0 Switzerland Servette
12 1GK Patrícia Morais (1992-06-17) 17 June 1992 80 0 Portugal Braga
22 1GK Rute Costa (1994-06-01) 1 June 1994 8 0 Portugal Benfica
5 2DF Joana Marchão (1996-10-24) 24 October 1996 34 1 Italy Parma
17 2DF Lúcia Alves (1997-10-22) 22 October 1997 8 0 Portugal Benfica
15 2DF Carole Costa (1990-05-03) 3 May 1990 151 17 Portugal Benfica
9 2DF Ana Borges (1990-06-15) 15 June 1990 154 11 Portugal Sporting CP
9 2DF Ana Seica (2001-03-25) 25 March 2001 1 0 Portugal Benfica
19 2DF Diana Gomes (1998-07-26) 26 July 1998 31 4 Spain Sevilla
4 2DF Sílvia Rebelo (1989-05-20) 20 May 1989 122 2 Portugal Benfica
2 2DF Catarina Amado (1999-07-21) 21 July 1999 20 0 Portugal Benfica
14 3MF Dolores Silva (1991-08-07) 7 August 1991 146 17 Portugal Braga
13 3MF Fátima Pinto (1996-01-16) 16 January 1996 76 3 Spain Alavés
8 3MF Andreia Norton (1996-08-15) 15 August 1996 69 4 Portugal Benfica
8 3MF Andreia Jacinto (2002-06-08) 8 June 2002 22 0 Spain Real Sociedad
11 3MF Tatiana Pinto (1994-03-28) 28 March 1994 97 5 Spain Levante
7 3MF Vanessa Marques (1996-04-12) 12 April 1996 88 12 Portugal Braga
20 3MF Kika Nazareth (2002-11-17) 17 November 2002 23 6 Portugal Benfica
20 3MF Ana Rute (1998-01-29) 29 January 1998 2 0 Portugal Braga
16 4FW Diana Silva (1995-06-04) 4 June 1995 90 19 Portugal Sporting CP
20 4FW Ana Capeta (1997-12-22) 22 December 1997 21 5 Portugal Sporting CP
20 4FW Kelsey Araujo (1998-04-03) 3 April 1998 2 0 France Le Havre
10 4FW Jéssica Silva (1994-12-11) 11 December 1994 97 14 Portugal Benfica
18 4FW Carolina Mendes (1987-11-27) 27 November 1987 112 23 Portugal Braga
23 4FW Telma Encarnação (2001-10-11) 11 October 2001 19 4 Portugal Marítimo

Recent call-ups
  • The following players were named to a Portugal squad in the last 12 months.

This list may be incomplete.

Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club Latest call-up
DF Alícia Correia (2003-04-29) 29 April 2003 10 0 Portugal Sporting CP 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA play-offs
DF Mariana Azevedo (1995-09-27) 27 September 1995 2 0 Portugal Braga
DF Bruna Lourenço (1999-04-10) 10 April 1999 0 0 Portugal Sporting CP
DF Ágata Filipa (1995-05-17) 17 May 1995 3 0 Switzerland Servette
DF Mónica Mendes (1993-06-16) 16 June 1993 58 3 Switzerland Servette
MF Suzane Pires (1992-08-17) 17 August 1992 28 0 Brazil Ferroviária 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA play-offs
MF Andreia Faria (2000-04-19) 19 April 2000 18 1 Portugal Benfica 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA play-offs
MF Joana Martins (2000-10-04) 4 October 2000 3 0 Portugal Sporting CP
MF Maria Negrão (2003-12-23) 23 December 2003 0 0 Portugal Benfica
MF Beatriz Cameirão (2001-05-19) 19 May 2001 0 0 Portugal Damaiense
FW Laura Luís (1992-08-15) 15 August 1992 53 8 Portugal Braga

Previous squads

Records
  • Active players in bold, statistics correct as of 17 Feb 2023.

Competitive record

FIFA Women's World Cup
FIFA Women's World Cup record Qualification record
Year Round Position Pld W D* L GF GA Pld W D L GF GA
China 1991 Did not enter UEFA Women's Euro 1991
Sweden 1995 Did not qualify UEFA Women's Euro 1995
United States 1999 6 2 0 4 4 15
United States 2003 6 1 1 4 4 26
China 2007 8 0 0 8 4 31
Germany 2011 8 4 0 4 17 10
Canada 2015 10 4 0 6 19 21
France 2019 8 3 2 3 22 8
AustraliaNew Zealand 2023 Qualified 13 10 1 2 34 12
*Draws include knockout matches decided via penalty shoot-out.

UEFA European Women's Championship
UEFA Women's Championship record Qualification record
Year Round Position Pld W D* L GF GA Pld W D L GF GA
1984 Did not qualify 6 0 2 4 1 10
Norway 1987 Did not enter Did not enter
West Germany 1989
Denmark 1991
Italy 1993
Germany 1995 Did not qualify 6 3 0 3 13 11
NorwaySweden1997 8 2 0 6 5 26
Germany 2001 8 2 1 5 5 17
England 2005 8 1 0 7 5 42
Finland 2009 8 0 2 6 4 18
Sweden 2013 8 2 0 6 16 13
Netherlands 2017 Group stage 14th 3 1 0 2 3 5 10 4 3 3 16 12
England 2022 Group stage[!] 14th 3 0 1 2 4 10 10 6 2 2 10 3
*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.
  1. ^
    Portugal originally failed to qualify after losing to Russia in the play-offs, but Russia was banned from FIFA and UEFA International matches after invading Ukraine (28 February 2022). On 2 May, Portugal was declared as the replacement.

Algarve Cup

The Algarve Cup is an invitational tournament for national teams in women's association football hosted by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF). Held annually in the Algarve region of Portugal since 1994, it is one of the most prestigious and longest-running women's international football events and has been nicknamed the "Mini FIFA Women's World Cup."[7]

Algarve Cup record
Year Result Matches Wins Draws Losses GF GA
19945th/6310228
19958th/84004114
19967th/84103410
19978th/8401308
19988th/8401338
19997th/84112210
20008th/84004117
20018th/84004311
200211th/124103610
200310th/12412155
200410th/12420274
200511th/12410359
200611th/11200207
200712th/12402227
200810th/12421165
20098th/12431063
201010th/12421174
20119th/12422063
201210th/12420263
201311th/12411236
201412th/12410359
201511th/12402259
20168th/8400428
201712th/12401309
20183rd/12431062
201912th/12310248
20208th/8300315
2021Cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic[8]
20224th/5310226
Total–10626185297204

Torneio Internacional de Futebol Feminino
Brazil Torneio Internacional de Futebol Feminino record
Year Result Position Matches Wins Draws Losses GF GA
Brazil 2012Fourth place4th411216
Total1/10 titles411216

References
  1. Selecção das Quinas refers to the five shields ("Team of the Escutcheons") or the five dots inside them ("Team of the Bezants") in the Portuguese flag, used until the 70s as the shirt badge. Refer to Flag of Portugal for symbolism associated with these bezants.
  2. "The FIFA/Coca-Cola Women's World Ranking". FIFA. 24 March 2023. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
  3. "Russia Women To Be Replaced By Portugal At UEFA Women's Euro 2022". Forbes. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  4. Selecção das Quinas refers to the five shields ("Team of the Escutcheons") or the five dots inside them ("Team of the Bezants") in the Portuguese flag, used until the 70s as the shirt badge. Refer to Flag of Portugal for symbolism associated with these bezants.
  5. "WC play-off 2022" (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 5 February 2023 – via Twitter.
  6. UEFA Women's Euro 2017 squad
  7. "Women's game thriving in the Algarve". FIFA. 9 March 2011. Archived from the original on 13 March 2014. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
  8. "Setbacks before the Olympics – Algarve cup canceled". Tellerreport. 26 November 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
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