List of Portugal national football team captains

The first Portugal captain was Cândido de Oliveira, who captained Portugal in the international match against Spain on 18 December 1921. This was his only international appearance. Vítor Gonçalves captained Portugal in their first international on home soil, on 17 December 1922 against the same opponent. The first international captain to win a match was Jorge Vieira against Italy on 18 June 1925.

Cristiano Ronaldo, incumbent captain of Portugal

Since then, Cristiano Ronaldo went on to set the record for most captaincies of his country, with 111. Humberto Coelho, João Domingos Pinto, Vítor Baía, and Fernando Couto have all captained Portugal at least 40 times. This article includes matches in which the Portuguese Football Federation awarded full caps, despite FIFA not listing those matches as full internationals.

List of captains
As of 14 November 2020
# Player Portugal career Caps as captain[note 1] Total caps[note 1] First captaincy Last captaincy Ref(s)
1Cândido de Oliveira19211118 December 192118 December 1921[1]
2Vítor Gonçalves1921–19221217 December 192217 December 1922[2]
3Alberto Rio1922–19231216 December 192316 December 1923[3]
4Jorge Vieira1921–192813 (15)[note 2]15 (17)[note 2]17 May 19254 June 1928[4]
5Augusto Silva1925–1934820 (21)[note 3]17 March 192918 March 1934[5]
6Francisco Serra e Moura1928–19301312 January 193012 January 1930[6]
7Tamanqueiro1925–1930115 (17)[note 2]23 February 193023 February 1930[7]
8António Roquete1926–1933115 (16)[note 3]8 June 19308 June 1930[8]
9João Santos1926–193119 (11)[note 2]30 November 193030 November 1930[9]
10Valdemar Mota1928–193622112 April 193131 May 1931[10]
11Gustavo Teixeira1930–19387 (9)[note 4]8 (10)[note 4]5 May 19356 November 1938[11]
12Adolfo Mourão1934–1942213 (15)[note 4]12 February 193912 January 1941[12]
13Gaspar Pinto1934–194216 (7)[note 5]28 January 194028 January 1940[13]
14Pinga1930–1942219 (21)[note 4]16 March 19411 January 1942[14]
15Álvaro Cardoso1941–1947101311 March 194525 May 1947[15]
16Fernando Peyroteo1938–194912023 November 194723 November 1947[16]
17Francisco Ferreira1940–1951122521 March 194817 June 1951[17]
18Octávio Barrosa1945–19501721 May 195021 May 1950[18]
19José Travassos1947–19582358 April 195118 December 1955[19]
20Serafim Neves1945–195311820 April 195220 April 1952[20]
21Ângelo Carvalho1950–195521523 November 195214 December 1952[21]
22Serafim Baptista1950–19531627 September 195327 September 1953[22]
23Manuel Passos1952–1957151721 November 195324 March 1957[23]
24José Maria Pedroto1952–19574171 May 195716 June 1957[24]
25Virgílio Mendes1949–196093922 December 19578 May 1960[25]
26Fernando Mendes1959–196552121 June 19597 June 1964[26]
27José Águas1952–196272511 November 195917 May 1962[27]
28Hernâni da Silva1953–19641287 November 19627 November 1962[28]
29Mário Coluna1955–1968215716 December 196211 December 1968[29]
30Germano de Figueiredo1953–196692415 November 196416 July 1966[30]
31José Augusto1958–196874525 January 196517 December 1967[31]
32Fernando Peres1964–19722276 April 196910 May 1972[32]
33Hilário da Conceição1959–197154016 April 196917 February 1971[33]
34Eusébio1961–197316644 May 196913 October 1973[34]
35José Carlos1961–197143610 December 196912 May 1971[35]
36Humberto Coelho1968–198340 (41)[note 6]63 (64)[note 6]14 November 197327 April 1983[36]
37Toni1969–1978432 (33)[note 6]19 November 197516 October 1976[37]
38Nené1971–1984665 (66)[note 6]5 December 197628 October 1983[38]
39João Alves1974–1983135 (36)[note 6]24 September 198024 September 1980[39]
40Manuel Bento1976–1986266315 October 19803 June 1986[40]
41Fernando Gomes1975–1988647 (48)[note 6]23 February 198316 November 1988[41]
42Carlos Coelho1982–1983138 June 19838 June 1983[42]
43Manuel Fernandes1975–1987530 (31)[note 6]12 October 198629 March 1987[43]
44Álvaro Magalhães1981–19881204 February 19874 February 1987[44]
45João Domingos Pinto1983–1996447011 November 19879 November 1996[45]
46Dito1981–19871175 December 19875 December 1987[46]
47Frederico Rosa1985–198911820 December 198720 December 1987[47]
48Rui Jordão1972–198924312 October 198825 January 1989[48]
49António Veloso1981–199414029 August 199029 August 1990[49]
50Paulo Futre1983–199544131 March 199310 November 1993[50]
51Oceano1985–199845419 June 199311 October 1997[51]
52Vítor Paneira1988–199614420 April 199420 April 1994[52]
53Nelo1990–19951 (2)[note 7]10 (11)[note 7]26 January 199529 January 1995[53]
54Jorge Costa1992–2002149 (50)[note 7]3 June 19953 June 1995[54]
55Vítor Baía1990–200240803 September 199525 May 2002[55]
56Fernando Couto1990–20044411012 December 199512 June 2004[56]
57Luís Figo1991–2006231272 June 20015 July 2006[57]
58João Vieira Pinto1991–20021816 June 20016 June 2001[58]
59Pauleta1997–20069884 September 20048 July 2006[59]
60Costinha1998–20068538 September 200411 October 2006[60]
61Nuno Gomes1996–201197915 November 200619 June 2008[61]
62Cristiano Ronaldo2003–present1121696 February 200714 November 2020[62]
63Jorge Andrade2001–200745124 March 200722 August 2009[63]
64Deco2003–20102755 June 200731 March 2009[64]
65Fernando Meira2000–200815415 June 200815 June 2008[65]
66Simão Sabrosa1998–201088520 August 20088 June 2010[66]
67Ricardo Carvalho2003–201658910 June 200929 May 2016[67]
68Bruno Alves2007–present69629 March 201116 June 2015[68]
69Pepe2007–present911314 November 201214 October 2020[69]
70Nani2006–present911215 October 20132 July 2017[70]
71Vieirinha2013–present12517 November 201517 November 2015[71]
72João Moutinho2005–present31272 June 201811 November 2020[72]
73Beto2009–present11614 October 201814 October 2018[73]
74Rui Patrício2010–present19017 November 201817 November 2018[74]

Unofficial captaincies

The following players captained a side in a FIFA-declared unofficial match. Nevertheless, the Portuguese Football Federation has decided to award caps to the intervening footballers and as a result these matches were taken into account in the above table.

# Captain Opponent Score[note 8] Venue Date Ref(s)
1Jorge VieiraCzechoslovakia Amateurs1–1Campo do Ameal, Porto24 January 1926[75]
2Jorge VieiraSpain B0–2Estadio Metropolitano de Madrid, Madrid29 May 1927[76]
3Gustavo TeixeiraSpain Nationalists2–1Balaídos, Vigo28 November 1937[77]
4Gustavo TeixeiraSpain Nationalists1–0Campo das Salésias, Lisbon30 January 1938[78]
5Humberto CoelhoGoiás1–2Estádio Serra Dourada, Goiânia9 March 1975[79]
6NeloDenmark League1–0SkyDome, Toronto29 January 1995[80]

Footnotes
  1. When applicable, the columns sort the number of caps recognized by the Portuguese Football Federation, written in parentheses. The 2007 friendly in Kuwait was in fact against Al-Salmiya although FIFA at the time recognized the team as a legitimate representative of the Kuwait Football Association and sanctioned the game which resulted in being accepted as a full international match and as such FIFA awarded caps.
  2. Includes two caps recognized by the Portuguese Football Federation but not by FIFA, against Czechoslovakia Amateurs and Spain B played in 1926 and 1927 respectively.
  3. Includes one cap recognized by the Portuguese Football Federation but not by FIFA, against Spain B played in 1927.
  4. Includes two caps recognized by the Portuguese Football Federation but not by FIFA, both against Spain Nationalist played in 1937 and 1938.
  5. Includes one cap recognized by the Portuguese Football Federation but not by FIFA, against Spain Nationalist played in 1937.
  6. Includes one cap recognized by the Portuguese Football Federation but not by FIFA, against Goiás played in 1975.
  7. Includes one cap recognized by the Portuguese Football Federation but not by FIFA, against a team representing the Danish league played in 1995 for the SkyDome Cup.
  8. Portugal's score is shown first.

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