Portugal national futsal team

Portugal
	Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s)	Selecção das Quinas
Association	Federação Portuguesa de Futebol
Confederation	UEFA (Europe)
Head coach	Jorge Braz
Captain	Ricardinho
Most caps	Arnaldo Pereira (208)
Top scorer	Ricardinho (135)
FIFA code	POR
FIFA ranking	5 [1]
Home colours	Away colours
First international
	Spain 4–0 Portugal ; (A Coruña, Spain; 9 February 1987)
Biggest win
	Portugal 56–0 East Timor ; (Macau, China; 9 October 2006)
Biggest defeat
	Portugal 0–8 Brazil ; (Guatemala City, Guatemala; 1 December 2000)
World Cup
Appearances	5 (First in 2000)
Best result	Third place, (2000)
European Championship
Appearances	9 (First in 1999)
Best result	Winners (2018)
World Cup
Appearances	5 (First in 1985)
Best result	Winners (1991)
Grand Prix de Futsal
Appearances	1 (First in 2010)
Best result	6th place, (2010)

The Portugal national futsal team represents Portugal in international futsal competitions such as the FIFA Futsal World Cup and the European Championships and is controlled by the Portuguese Football Federation.

Portugal has played in five FIFA Futsal World Cups. Their best result a third place in 2000 in Guatemala.[2] In the European Championships, they were crowned champions in 2018.

Competitive record

A gold background colour indicates that Portugal won the tournament, a silver background colour indicates the runner-up, and a bronze background colour indicates third place in the tournament. A green border colour indicates that the tournament was hosted in Portugal.

FIFA Futsal World Cup

FIFA World Cup record
Year	Round	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
1989	Did not enter
1992	Did not qualify
1996	Did not qualify
2000	Third place	8	5	0	3	23	23
2004	Second round	6	3	1	2	18	8
2008	First round	4	3	0	1	15	8
2012	Quarter-finals	5	2	1	2	18	14
2016	Fourth place	7	4	2	1	26	11
2020	Qualified
Total	6/9	30	17	4	9	100	64

UEFA European Futsal Championship

European Championship record
Year	Round	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
1996	Did not qualify
1999	First round	3	0	2	1	4	6
2001	Did not qualify
2003	First round	3	1	1	1	10	12
2005	First round	3	1	0	2	9	14
2007	Fourth place	5	2	1	2	13	7
2010	Runners-up	5	1	2	2	12	14
2012	Quarter-finals	3	2	0	1	7	5
2014	Fourth place	5	2	1	2	18	17
2016	Quarter-finals	3	1	0	2	9	11
2018	Champions	5	5	0	0	23	9
2022	To be determined
Total	9/12	35	15	7	13	105	95

FIFUSA/AMF Futsal World Cup

FIFUSA Futsal World Championship record
Year	Round	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
1982	Did not enter
1985	Second round	?	?	?	?	?	?
1988	Fourth place	8	3	2	3	23	18
1991	Champions	?	?	?	?	?	?
1994	Second round	6	3	0	3	13	12
1997	Second round	?	?	?	?	?	?
2000	Did not enter
2003
2007
2011
2015
2019	TBD
Total	5/12	?	?	?	?	?	?

Grand Prix de Futsal

Grand Prix de Futsal record
Year	Round	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
Brazil 2005	Did not enter
Brazil 2006
Brazil 2007
Brazil 2008
Brazil 2009
Brazil 2010	Sixth place	6	3	0	3	10	13
Brazil 2011	Did not enter
Brazil 2013
Brazil 2014
Brazil 2015
Total	1/11	6	3	0	3	10	13

Confederations Cup

Confederations Cup record
Year	Round	Pld	W	D*	L	GS	GA
Libya 2009	Did not enter	-	-	-	-	-	-
Brazil 2013	Did not enter	-	-	-	-	-	-
Kuwait 2014	Did not enter	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	1/3	0	0	0	0	0	0

Futsal Mundialito

Futsal Mundialito record
Year	Round	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
Italy 1994	Did not enter
Brazil 1995
Brazil 1996
Brazil 1998
Brazil 2001	Third place	4	2	1	1	8	6
Italy 2002	Did not enter
Portugal 2006	Champions	4	4	0	0	31	3
Portugal 2007	Champions	4	4	0	0	23	6
Portugal 2008	Champions	4	4	0	0	34	1
Total	4/9	16	14	1	1	96	16

Note: Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

All-time statistics

Appearances

Players in bold are still active for the national team.

Rank	Player	Caps	First Cap	Last Cap
1	Arnaldo Pereira	208	23-12-1999	08-02-2016
2	João Benedito	181	18-11-2000	08-02-2014
3	Gonçalo Alves	171	22-10-2001	08-02-2014
4	Ricardinho	161	26-06-2003	01-02-2019
5	Pedro Cary	149	22-01-2008	23-06-2019
6	Joel Queirós	143	24-04-2002	28-10-2014
7	João Matos	136	25-11-2008	23-06-2019
8	Bebé	121	22-11-2005	01-02-2019
9	Pedro Costa	119	18-11-2000	08-02-2014
10	André Lima	111	04-11-1997	08-07-2007
10	Fernando Cardinal	111	25-03-2008	05-12-2018

Goals

Rank	Player	Goals	Caps	Avg
1	Ricardinho	135	161	0.84
2	André Lima	107	111	0.96
2	Joel Queirós	107	143	0.75
4	Arnaldo Pereira	98	208	0.47
5	Fernando Cardinal	84	111	0.76
6	Gonçalo Alves	75	171	0.44
7	Israel Alves	60	104	0.58
8	Pedro Costa	53	119	0.45
9	Ivan Dias	46	106	0.43
10	Pedro Cary	36	149	0.24

Current squad

The following players were called up to the Portugal squad for the fixtures against Poland on January and February 2021.
Caps and goals are correct as of 5 July 2019.

Head coach: Jorge Braz

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1GK	Vítor Hugo	(1982-11-30) 30 November 1982	61	1	Braga/AAUM
1GK	Eduardo Sousa	(1996-08-19) 19 August 1996	0	0	F.S. Valdepeñas

2DF	João Matos	(1987-02-21) 21 February 1987	136	18	Sporting CP
2DF	Fábio Cecílio	(1993-04-30) 30 April 1993	69	17	SL Benfica
2DF	André Coelho	(1993-10-30) 30 October 1993	43	12	FC Barcelona
2DF	Afonso Jesus	(1998-01-06) 6 January 1998	0	0	SL Benfica

3MF	Ricardinho	(1985-09-03) 3 September 1985	161	135	ACCS Paris
3MF	Pedro Cary	(1984-05-10) 10 May 1984	149	36	Leões de Porto Salvo
3MF	Erick Mendonça	(1987-08-01) 1 August 1987	2	0	Sporting CP
3MF	Tiago Brito	(1991-07-22) 22 July 1991	70	18	ACCS Paris
3MF	Pany Varela	(1989-02-25) 25 February 1989	37	4	Sporting CP
3MF	Miguel Ângelo	(1994-02-02) 2 February 1994	27	6	Braga/AAUM
3MF	Pauleta	(1994-06-12) 12 June 1994	0	0	Sporting CP

4FW	Fernando Cardinal	(1985-06-26) 26 June 1985	120	87	Sporting CP

Recent call-ups

The following players have also been called up to the Portugal squad within the last 12 months.

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club	Latest call-up
MF	Bruno Coelho	(1987-08-01) 1 August 1987	102	30	ACCS Paris	Injury INJ
^INJ Player withdrew from the squad due to an injury. ^PRE Preliminary squad. ^RET Retired from international football.

Results and fixtures

10 December 2015 2016 FIFA World Cup Q GS	Portugal	6–2	Poland	Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal
19:00 CET	Cecílio 3' Brito 9' Cardinal 10', 19' Djô 28' Ricardinho 34'	Report	Kriezel 14' Zastawnik 28'	Stadium: Pavilhão da Póvoa Referee: Ondřej Černý (Czech Republic)

11 December 2015 2016 FIFA World Cup Q GS	Portugal	6–1	Norway	Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal
19:30 CET	Cecílio 6', 20' Lima 14' Cardinal 29', 33' Djô 39'	Report	Fonstad 25' (pen.)	Stadium: Pavilhão da Póvoa Referee: Moshe Bohbot (Israel

13 December 2015 2016 FIFA World Cup Q GS	Romania	0–5	Portugal	Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal
17:30 CET		Report	Cardinal 1', 13' Ricardinho 3', 40' Cecílio 27'	Stadium: Pavilhão da Póvoa Referee: Ondřej Černý (Czech Republic)

4 February 2016 2016 UEFA Euro GS	Slovenia	2–6	Portugal	Belgrade, Serbia
18:30 CET	Čujec 3' Vrhovec 20'	Report	Cecílio 5', 40' Ricardinho 16', 24', 33' Cary 31'	Stadium: Belgrade Arena Attendance: 3,476 Referee: Ivan Shabanov (Russia)

6 February 2016 2016 UEFA Euro GS	Portugal	1–3	Serbia	Belgrade, Serbia
21:00 CET	Ricardinho 15'	Report	Kocić 8' Rajčević 37' Simić 40'	Stadium: Belgrade Arena Attendance: 11,161 Referee: Fernando Gutiérrez Lumbreras (Spain)

8 February 2016 2016 UEFA Euro QF	Portugal	2–6	Spain	Belgrade, Serbia
21:00 CET	Ricardinho 23', 26'	Report	Miguelín 13' (pen.) Rivillos 15', 40' Álex 18', 35' Raúl Campos 23'	Stadium: Belgrade Arena Attendance: 10,013 Referee: Gábor Kovács (Hungary)

22 March 2016 2016 FIFA World Cup Q PO	Serbia	1–2	Portugal	Belgrade, Serbia
20:15 CET	Perić 26'	Report	Matos 12' Cardinal 15'	Stadium: Kombank Arena Referee: Saša Tomić (Croatia)

12 April 2016 2016 FIFA World Cup Q PO	Portugal	2–1 (4–2 agg.)	Serbia	Odivelas, Portugal
20:30 CEST	Cardinal 24' Brito 31'	Report	Ristić 26'	Stadium: Pavilhão Multiusos Odivelas Attendance: 2,254 Referee: Gábor Kovács (Hungary)

10 September 2016 2016 FIFA World Cup GS	Colombia	1–1	Portugal	Cali, Colombia
20:00 COT	Angellot 1'	Report	Cardinal 40'	Stadium: Coliseo El Pueblo Attendance: 10,084 Referee: Fernando Gutiérrez Lumbreras (Spain)

13 September 2016 2016 FIFA World Cup GS	Panama	0–9	Portugal	Cali, Colombia
18:00 COT		Report	Ricardinho 1', 8', 11', 17', 17', 22' Cardinal 5', 10' Miguel Ângelo 18'	Stadium: Coliseo El Pueblo Attendance: 2,774 Referee: Cédric Pelissier (France)

16 September 2016 2016 FIFA World Cup GS	Portugal	5–1	Uzbekistan	Medellín, Colombia
20:00 COT	Ricardinho 10', 14', 22' André Coelho 26' Djô 35'	Report	Ricardinho 11' (o.g.)	Stadium: Medellín Sports Coliseum Attendance: 2,032 Referee: Daniel Rodríguez (Uruguay)

21 September 2016 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup R16	Portugal	4–0	Costa Rica	Cali, Colombia
20:00 COT	Ricardinho 5', 22' A. Coelho 26' Brito 27'	Report		Stadium: Coliseo El Pueblo Attendance: 1,072 Referee: Khalid Hnich (Morocco)

25 September 2016 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup QF	Azerbaijan	2–3	Portugal	Cali, Colombia
18:00 COT	Bolinha 13' Eduardo 35'	Report	Djô 8' João Matos 18' Ricardinho 28'	Stadium: Coliseo El Pueblo Attendance: 2,974 Referee: Sergio Cabrera (Cuba)

28 September 2016 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup SF	Argentina	5–2	Portugal	Cali, Colombia
19:00 COT	Borruto 5' Stazzone 11' A. Vaporaki 12' Brandi 13' Cuzzolino 36'	Report	Ré 9' Tiago Brito 37'	Stadium: Coliseo El Pueblo Attendance: 7,610 Referee: Ondřej Černý (Czech Republic)

1 October 2016 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup 3rd place	Iran	2–2 (4–3 p)	Portugal	Cali, Colombia
12:00 COT	Kazemi 26' Javid 36' (pen.)	Report	Cardinal 21', 21'	Stadium: Coliseo El Pueblo Attendance: 4,018 Referee: Alessandro Malfer (Italy)
	Penalties
	Hassanzadeh Taheri Tayyebi Kazemi Ahmadi Javid		Cardinal Tiago Brito Ricardinho Bruno Coelho André Coelho João Matos

References

Futsal World Ranking
"FIFA Futsal World Cup 2000". RSSSF. Retrieved 17 November 2006.

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[1] Futsal World Ranking

[2] "FIFA Futsal World Cup 2000". RSSSF. Retrieved 17 November 2006.