European Football Championship 1996 / Portugal

This article covers the Portuguese national team at the 1996 European Football Championship .

qualification

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Portugal	10	7th	2	1	29: 07	23
2	Ireland	10	5	2	3	17:11	17th
3	Northern Ireland	10	5	2	3	20:15	17th
4th	Austria	10	5	1	4th	29:14	16
5	Latvia	10	4th	0	6th	11:20	12
6th	Liechtenstein	10	0	1	9	01:40	01

Game results

09/07/1994	Northern Ireland	-	Portugal	1: 2 (0: 1)
10/09/1994	Latvia	-	Portugal	1: 3 (0: 1)
11/13/1994	Portugal	-	Austria	1: 0 (1: 0)
11/15/1994	Liechtenstein	-	Latvia	0: 1 (0: 1)
12/18/1994	Portugal	-	Liechtenstein	8: 0 (3: 0)
04/26/1995	Ireland	-	Portugal	1: 0 (1: 0)
06/03/1995	Portugal	-	Latvia	3: 2 (3: 0)
08/15/1995	Liechtenstein	-	Portugal	0: 7 (0: 3)
10/11/1995	Austria	-	Portugal	1: 1 (1: 0)
11/15/1995	Portugal	-	Ireland	3: 0 (0: 0)

Portuguese contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Vítor Baía	FC Porto	10/15/1969	4th	0	0	0	0
12	Alfredo Castro	Boavista Porto	05.10.1962	0	0	0	0	0
22nd	Rui Correia	Sporting Braga	10/22/1967	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Carlos Secretario	FC Porto	05/12/1970	2	0	0	0	0
5	Fernando Couto	AC Parma	08/02/1969	4th	1	0	0	0
6th	José Tavares	Boavista Porto	04/25/1965	3	0	0	0	0
13	Dimas	Benfica Lisbon	02/16/1969	4th	0	0	0	0
16	Hélder	Benfica Lisbon	10/22/1970	4th	0	0	0	0
21st	Paulo Madeira	Belenenses Lisbon	09/06/1970	0	0	0	0	0
midfield player
3	Paulinho Santos	FC Porto	11/21/1970	2	0	0	0	0
4th	Oceano	Sporting Lisbon	07/29/1962	3	0	0	0	0
7th	Vítor Paneira	Vitória Guimarães	02/16/1966	0	0	0	0	0
10	Rui Costa	AC Florence	March 29, 1972	4th	0	0	0	0
14th	Pedro Barbosa	Sporting Lisbon	08/06/1970	1	0	0	0	0
18th	Antonio Folha	FC Porto	May 21, 1971	3	0	0	0	0
19th	Paulo Sousa	Juventus Turin	08/30/1970	4th	0	0	0	0
20th	Luís Figo	FC Barcelona	04/11/1972	4th	1	0	0	0
striker
8th	João Pinto	Benfica Lisbon	August 19, 1971	4th	1	0	0	0
9	Ricardo Sá Pinto	Sporting Lisbon	10/10/1972	4th	1	0	0	0
11	Jorge Cadete	Celtic Glasgow	08/27/1968	2	0	0	0	0
15th	Domingos	FC Porto	01/02/1969	3	1	0	0	0
17th	Hugo Porfírio	União Leiria	09/28/1973	1	0	0	0	0
Trainer
	Antonio Oliveira		06/10/1952

Portuguese team matches

Preliminary round

rank	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1	Portugal	3	2	1	0	5: 1	+4	7th
2	Croatia	3	2	0	1	4: 3	+1	6th
3	Denmark	3	1	1	1	4: 4	+0	4th
4th	Turkey	3	0	0	3	0: 5	−5	0

09 June 1996 in Sheffield (Hillsborough Stadium)
Denmark	-	Portugal	1: 1 (1: 0)
June 14, 1996 in Nottingham (City Ground)
Portugal	-	Turkey	1: 0 (0: 0)
June 19, 1996 in Nottingham (City Ground)
Portugal	-	Croatia	3: 0 (2: 0)

Quarter finals

June 23, 1996 in Birmingham ( Villa Park )
Czech Republic	-	Portugal	1: 0 (0: 0)