The Portugal women's national football team represents

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in international women's football competition. The team is controlled by the

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(FPF) and competes as a member of

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in various international football tournaments such as the

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, the Summer Olympics, and the

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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 The 2017 UEFA European Women's Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Women's Euro 2017, was the 12th edition of the UEFA Women's Championship, the quadrennial international football championship organised by UEFA for the women's national tea ...

, 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

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behind

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and

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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

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, including beating the heavily favored top seed Scotland both home and away, the team reached the play-off stage where they were drawn against

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. 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

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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. Portugal is placed in group C with

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, the

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and

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as opponents. They were eliminated in the first round, finishing last with a point obtained thanks to a draw against

(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

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title holders after having recovered a two-goal handicap for a while, then a much heavier defeat 0–5 against

Team image

Nicknames

The Portugal women's national football team has been known or nicknamed as the "".

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

2022

2023

Official Portugal results and fixtures

Coaching staff

Current coaching staff

Manager history

* Francisco Neto (2014–)

Players

''Caps and goals may be incorrect.''

Current squad

* The following players were called up to play against on 6 October 2022, for the 2023 World Cup UEFA play-offs. *

Recent call-ups

* The following players were named to a Portugal squad in the last 12 months. ''This list may be incomplete.''

Previous squads

;UEFA European Women's Championship * UEFA Women's Euro 2017 squad ;Algarve Cup * Algarve Cup 2013 squad * Algarve Cup 2014 squad * Algarve Cup 2015 squad * Algarve Cup 2016 squad * Algarve Cup 2017 squad * Algarve Cup 2018 squad * Algarve Cup 2019 squad * Algarve Cup 2020 squad

Records

* Active players in bold, statistics correct as of 2020.

Most capped players

Top goalscorers

Competitive record

FIFA Women's World Cup

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UEFA European Women's Championship

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Algarve Cup

The

is an invitational tournament for national teams in

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hosted by the

(FPF). Held annually in the

Algarve The Algarve (, , ; from ) is the southernmost NUTS II region of continental Portugal. It has an area of with 467,495 permanent inhabitants and incorporates 16 municipalities ( ''concelhos'' or ''municípios'' in Portuguese). The region has it ...

region of

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."

Torneio Internacional de Futebol Feminino

References

External links

Official website

FIFA profile
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