European Football Championship 2008 / Portugal

The Portuguese national football team at the 2008 European Football Championship in Austria and Switzerland :

qualification

Cristiano Ronaldo was Portugal's top scorer with eight goals.

Game results

date	Venue	opponent	Result	Goal scorers
09/06/2006	Helsinki	Finland	1: 1 (1: 1)	0: 1 J. Johansson (21st), 1: 1 N. Gomes (42nd)
07/10/2006	postage	Azerbaijan	3: 0 (2: 0)	1: 0, 3: 0 C. Ronaldo (25th, 63rd), 2-0 R. Carvalho (31st)
10/11/2006	Chorzów	Poland	1: 2 (0: 2)	0: 1, 0: 2 E. Smolarek (9th, 18th), 1: 2 N. Gomes (90th)
11/15/2006	Coimbra	Kazakhstan	3: 0 (2: 0)	1-0, 2-0 Simão (8th, 86th), 3-0 C. Ronaldo (30th)
03/24/2007	Lisbon	Belgium	4: 0 (0: 0)	1: 0 N. Gomes (53.), 2: 0, 4: 0 C. Ronaldo (55., 75.), 3: 0 Ricardo Quaresma (69.)
03/28/2007	Belgrade	Serbia	1: 1 (1: 1)	1: 0 Tiago (5th), 1: 1 B. Janković (37th)
06/02/2007	Brussels	Belgium	2: 1 (1: 0)	1: 0 Nani (43.), 1: 1 M. Fellaini (55.), 2: 1 H. Postiga (64.)
08/22/2007	Yerevan	Armenia	1: 1 (1: 1)	0: 1 R. Arzumanyan (11th), 1: 1 C. Ronaldo (37th)
09/08/2007	Lisbon	Poland	2: 2 (0: 1)	0: 1 M. Lewandowski (44.), 1: 1 Maniche (50.), 2: 1 C. Ronaldo (73.), 2: 2 J. Krzynówek (88.)
09/12/2007	Lisbon	Serbia	1: 1 (1: 0)	1: 0 Simão (11th), 1: 1 B. Ivanović (88.)
10/13/2007	Baku	Azerbaijan	2: 0 (2: 0)	1-0 B. Alves (12th), 2-0 H. Almeida
10/17/2007	Almaty	Kazakhstan	2: 1 (0: 0)	1: 0 A. Makukula (84.), 2: 0 C. Ronaldo (90. + 1), 2: 1 D. Byakov (90. + 3)
11/17/2007	Leiria	Armenia	1: 0 (1: 0)	1: 0 H. Almeida (42nd)
11/21/2007	postage	Finland	0-0

table

space	team	Games	Victories	draw	defeat	Gates	difference	Points
1.	Poland	14th	8th	4th	2	24:12	+12	28
2.	Portugal	14th	7th	6th	1	24:10	+14	27
3.	Serbia	14th	6th	6th	2	22:11	+11	24
4th	Finland	14th	6th	6th	2	13: 7	+6	24
5.	Belgium	14th	5	3	6th	14:16	−2	18th
6th	Kazakhstan	14th	2	4th	8th	11:21	−10	10
7th	Armenia	12	2	3	7th	4:13	−9	9
8th.	Azerbaijan	12	1	2	9	6:28	−22	5

The first two teams qualified directly for the EURO 2008 .

Portuguese contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the European Championship	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Ricardo	Betis Seville	02/11/1976	4th	0	0	0	0
12	Nuno 1	FC Porto	01/25/1974	0	0	0	0	0
22nd	Rui Patrício	Sporting Lisbon	02/15/1988	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Paulo Ferreira	Chelsea FC	January 18, 1979	4th	0	1	0	0
3	Bruno Alves	FC Porto	11/27/1981	1	0	0	0	0
4th	José Bosingwa	FC Porto	08/24/1982	3	0	1	0	0
5	Fernando Meira	VfB Stuttgart	06/05/1978	3	0	1	0	0
13	Miguel	Valencia CF	01/04/1980	1	0	1	0	0
14th	Jorge Ribeiro	Boavista Porto	11/09/1981	0	0	0	0	0
15th	Pepe	real Madrid	02/26/1983	4th	1	2	0	0
16	Ricardo Carvalho	Chelsea FC	05/18/1978	3	0	0	0	0
midfield player
6th	Raúl Meireles	FC Porto	03/17/1983	3	1	0	0	0
8th	Petit	Benfica Lisbon	09/25/1976	3	0	2	0	0
10	João Moutinho	Sporting Lisbon	09/08/1986	4th	0	0	0	0
11	Simão	Atlético Madrid	10/31/1979	3	0	0	0	0
18th	Miguel Veloso	Sporting Lisbon	05/11/1986	1	0	0	0	0
19th	Nani	Manchester United	11/17/1986	3	0	0	0	0
20th	Deco	FC Barcelona	08/27/1977	3	1	0	0	0
striker
7th	Cristiano Ronaldo	Manchester United	02/05/1985	3	1	0	0	0
9	Hugo Almeida	SV Werder Bremen	05/23/1984	2	0	0	0	0
17th	Ricardo Quaresma	FC Porto	09/26/1983	2	1	0	0	0
21st	Nuno Gomes	Benfica Lisbon	07/05/1976	3	1	0	0	0
23	Hélder Postiga	Panathinaikos Athens	08/02/1982	2	1	2	0	0
Trainer
	Luiz Felipe Scolari		11/09/1948

¹ Quim injured his hand in training and was replaced by Nuno .

Preliminary round

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Portugal	3	2	0	1	005: 300	+2	06th
2.	Turkey	3	2	0	1	005: 500	± 0	06th
3.	Czech Republic	3	1	0	2	004: 600	−2	03
4th	Switzerland	3	1	0	2	003: 300	± 0	03
For positions 1 and 2 as well as 3 and 4, the direct comparison is decisive (see mode ).

Game results

• Portugal - Turkey 2: 0 (0: 0)
• Czech Republic - Portugal 1: 3 (1: 1)
• Switzerland - Portugal 2: 0 (0: 0)

Quarter finals

Thursday, June 19, 2008, 8:45 p.m., in Basel
Portugal	-	Germany	2: 3 (1: 2)

For details see European Football Championship 2008 / Group A

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Portugal goalkeeper Quim is out with a broken hand