Telma Raquel Velosa Encarnação (born 11 October 2001) is a Portuguese

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who plays as a striker for

Campeonato Nacional Feminino The Campeonato Nacional Feminino (English: Women's National Championship), also known as Liga BPI for sponsorship reasons, is the top-tier women's association football league in Portugal and part of the various women's football competitions in ...

club

Sporting CP Sporting Clube de Portugal (), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP or simply Sporting (particularly within Portugal), or as Sporting Lisbon in other countries,

and the Portugal women's national team.

Club career

In May 2018, Encarnação scored in Marítimo's 6–0 win over Clube Condeixa which secured the club's

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to the top-flight

for the first time. After becoming a key player she agreed a new three-year contract with Marítimo in March 2021, prolonging her stay at the

Funchal Funchal () officially Funchal City (), is the capital, largest city and a Municipality (Portugal), municipality in Portugal's Madeira, Autonomous Region of Madeira, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean. The city has a population of 105,795, making it ...

club she joined as a 13-year-old from ADRC Os Xavelhas in nearby

Câmara de Lobos Câmara de Lobos (; or 'Wolves' Chamber') is a municipality and town in the southern coast of the Portuguese island of Madeira, divided in 5 freguesias. A de facto suburb of the much larger capital city of Funchal, it is one of the larger pop ...

. In August 2024, she joined the two-times portuguese champions

Sporting CP Sporting Clube de Portugal (), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP or simply Sporting (particularly within Portugal), or as Sporting Lisbon in other countries,

International career

On 10 November 2018 Encarnação won her first senior

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for

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in a 1–0 friendly win over

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Rio Maior Rio Maior () is a municipality in the Santarém District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 21,192, in an area of 272.76 km². The present mayor is Isaura Morais of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), the first woman to be elected mayor ...

. She entered play as a 59th-minute substitute for fellow Madeiran Laura Luís. On 30 May 2023, she was included in the 23-player squad for the

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. In that World Cup she scored Portugal's first goal in any Women's World Cup, in a match against Vietnam. On 24 June 2025, Encarnação was called up to the Portugal squad for the

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International goals

:''Scores and results list Portugal's goal tally first.

Honours

Marítimo *

Campeonato Nacional II Divisão Feminino The Campeonato Nacional II Divisão de Futebol Feminino ( Portuguese for National Championship II division of Women's Football) is the second-highest division of the Portuguese women's football league system, after the Campeonato Nacional de Futeb ...

: 2018 Sporting CP * Supertaça de Portugal: 2024

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* * 2001 births Living people Portuguese women's footballers Portugal women's international footballers Women's association football defenders Campeonato Nacional Feminino players People from Câmara de Lobos Madeiran footballers Footballers from Funchal Sporting CP (women's football) players Portugal women's youth international footballers UEFA Women's Euro 2022 players 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup players UEFA Women's Euro 2025 players C.S. Marítimo (women) players 21st-century Portuguese sportswomen {{Portugal-women-footy-bio-stub