Portuguese national soccer team / European championships

Portugal
Portugal

European Championship record scorer:	Cristiano Ronaldo (9)
European Championship record players:	Cristiano Ronaldo (21)
Rank:	5
Organizer:	2004
Balance sheet
35 European Championship games 18 wins 9 draws 8 defeats 49:31 goals
statistics
First European Championship game Portugal 0-0 BRD Strasbourg ( FRA ); June 14, 1984
Biggest European Championship victories Portugal 3-0 Croatia Nottingham ( ENG ); June 19, 1996 Portugal 3-0 Germany Rotterdam ( NED ); June 24, 2000
Biggest European Championship defeat Portugal 0: 2 Switzerland Basel ( CHE ); June 15, 2008
successes
European Championship
Participation in the finals	7 ( first : 1984 )
Best results	European Champion 2016
Best results in the countries where the UEFA European Football Championships are held
(As of November 2019)

The article contains a detailed description of the Portuguese national football team at European championships and their qualifications. The Portuguese team qualified for the finals for the first time in 1984 and has been a regular at the finals since 1996, when the field was increased to 16. Portugal won the title for the first time in 2016 and also reached the final as hosts in 2004, but lost it to outsiders Greece .

Overview

Portugal is the only team that has so far always survived the group stage and made it to the knockout round with a successful qualification for the finals. With Cristiano Ronaldo (2012) Portugal once provided one of the top scorers at a European Championship .

year	Host country	Participation until ...	last opponent	Result	Trainer	Comments and special features
1960	France	not qualified	-	-		failed in the quarter-finals at the later runner-up European champions Yugoslavia
1964	Spain	not qualified	-	-		failed in qualifying after the play-off in Rome to Bulgaria , but they did not reach the finals either
1968	Italy	not qualified	-	-		in the qualifying again Bulgaria failed, the but again the final round did not reach
1972	Belgium	not qualified	-	-		failed in the qualification at the later third Belgium
1976	Yugoslavia	not qualified	-	-		failed in the qualification at the later European champions Czechoslovakia
1980	Italy	not qualified	-	-		failed in qualifying at the eventual European runner-up, Belgium
1984	France	Semifinals	France	-	Fernando Cabrita	Loss after extra time against the eventual European champions
1988	BR Germany	not qualified	-	-		failed in qualification to Italy
1992	Sweden	not qualified	-	-		in the qualification of defending champion Netherlands failed
1996	England	Quarter finals	Czech Republic	-	Antonio Oliveira	Defeat against the eventual finalist
2000	Netherlands Belgium	Semifinals	France	-	Humberto Coelho	Defeat by golden goal by penalty against eventual winners
2004	Portugal	final	Greece	2nd place	Luiz Felipe Scolari	first participation in the final
2008	Austria Switzerland	Quarter finals	Germany	-	Luiz Felipe Scolari	Defeat against the eventual finalist
2012	Poland Ukraine	Semifinals	Spain	-	Paulo Bento	Defeat on penalties against the eventual European champions
2016	France	final	France	European champion	Fernando Santos	Portugal reached the second round with three draws against Iceland, Austria and Hungary and the quarter-finals with a goal in extra time against Croatia. 2-0 win against Wales in the semi-finals and final win against hosts France 1-0 aet
2021	Europe	qualified				Portugal had initially applied to host games with the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon or Estádio do Dragão in Porto , but then withdrew. Portugal qualified on the last day of the group. In the final round, the Portuguese will face Germany, world champions France and a playoff winner.

The tournaments

EM 1960

The Portuguese federation also announced its national team for the 1960 European Football Championship, which was still the “European Cup of Nations”. On June 21, 1959, the Portuguese trained by José Maria Antunes played in East Berlin against the GDR in their first European Championship qualifier and won 2-0, with Matateu scoring the first qualifying goal for the Portuguese. The second leg in Porto was won 3-2 and thus reached the quarter-finals. In this they met Yugoslavia and won the home game 2: 1, but lost the second leg with 1: 5. Portugal was eliminated, Yugoslavia reached the finals in the finals, but lost it to the USSR .

EM 1964

Four years later, more teams than 1960 wanted to participate, so the round of 16 was preceded by a preliminary round . In the preliminary round, the Portuguese faced Bulgaria . With Benfica Lisbon , Portugal had the best European team at the time, which had succeeded Real Madrid as the European champions in 1961 and 1962 . Benfica's captain José Águas had scored 11 goals in 1961, but played his last international match on May 17, 1962. With the 20-year-old Eusébio , however, a successor was in the starting blocks, who also achieved the interim 1-0 lead at 1: 3 in Bulgaria. After a 3-1 win in the second leg, there was a playoff in Rome , which Bulgaria won 1-0. Portugal was eliminated, but qualified for the first time two years later for the 1966 World Cup , in which Eusébio was top scorer and Portugal third.

EM 1968

For the European Football Championship in 1968, group games were scheduled for the first time in qualifying . The World Cup third Portugal, now coached by José Gomes De Silva , had to play again against Bulgaria and the Nordic neighbors Sweden and Norway . Portugal could not build on the performances at the World Cup and only won the two games against Norway. There was one draw and one defeat against the other two opponents. Eusébio, who appeared in all six games, scored just two goals. This meant that the Portuguese were only second behind the Bulgarians, who did not lose a game in the group stage but failed in the quarter-finals to Italy. Italy was then allowed to host the finals and became European champions. Da Silva initially remained in office, but his successor José Maria Antunes did not manage to lead the Portuguese to the 1970 World Cup in his third term , and so his last term ended before the next European Championship qualification.

European Championship 1972

For the European Championship finals in 1972, the Portuguese , who were now trained by José Gomes da Silva , could not qualify either . In a group with Belgium , Scotland and Denmark they won three games this time, but on the last matchday they lost the group victory with a 1-1 draw against Belgium. This ended da Silva's last tenure as national coach. His successor José Augusto then failed to qualify for the 1974 World Cup . The Belgians surprisingly eliminated defending champions Italy in the quarter-finals and were allowed to host the finals, in which they came third.

EM 1976

In 1976 the final round was held for the last time with four teams, the Portuguese could not qualify again . They were now trained by José Maria Pedroto , who had taken over the post after missing qualification for the 1974 World Cup, after which Eusébio had also resigned from the national team in October 1973. Opponents were Czechoslovakia , England and Cyprus against which the only victories come. So only the third place was occupied. Czechoslovakia then also reached the European Championship finals, where they first eliminated runner-up Netherlands in the semi-finals and then won the title in the final against defending champions and world champions Germany with a penalty shoot-out .

EM 1980

In qualifying for the European Championship in Italy, which was held for the first time with eight teams, the Portuguese, who were trained by Mário Wilson after missing qualification for the 1978 , met Belgium, Austria , Scotland and Norway. Like the Belgians and Austrians placed before them, Portugal won four games, but lost more, so that third place meant that qualification was missed. Belgium surprisingly reached the final in the finals, but lost to Germany, which was the first team to become European champions for the second time.

EM 1984

For the European Championship in France, the Portuguese then qualified for the first time . They went into the qualification after missing qualification for the 1982 World Cup with Otto Glória as national coach, who had led the Portuguese to the 1966 World Cup and third place. Group opponents were the Soviet Union , Poland and Finland . Portugal won five games and lost only one, but 5-0 in the USSR. But since the USSR only scored 1-1 in Poland, the Portuguese had one point more after the 1-0 in the last game against the USSR and were thus qualified for the European Championship finals. Otto Glória had thrown in the towel after a 4-0 draw against Brazil. Fernando Cabrita therefore took over the post for the last three games, which were all won .

At the finals, they met defending champions Germany in their first European Championship match and achieved a 0-0 draw. In the second game against their big neighbor Spain , they took the first goal of the Portuguese, scored by António Sousa in the 52nd minute, and took the lead 1-0. But the Spaniards managed to equalize 19 minutes later, which then remained. In the last group match against the Romanians , who were also participating for the first time , Tamagnini Nené scored the 1-0 winner 14 minutes after being substituted on. So they were in the semi-finals against France . The 1-0 for the French, which had already fallen in the 24th minute, was equalized by Rui Jordão in the 74th minute. Since no more goals were scored in regular time, there was an extension. In this, Jordão took the opening goal in the 98th minute, Jean-François Domergue , who had already scored the 1-0 but equalized 16 minutes later, before Michel Platini scored the winning goal for the hosts with his eighth goal a minute before the end succeeded. Since there was no match for 3rd place for the first time, the European Championship was over for the Portuguese and with it Fernando Cabrita's term of office. France then won a title for the first time in the final against Spain.

EM 1988

For the European Championship in Germany Portugal had to qualify against Italy, Sweden, Switzerland and Malta , which did not win a game. Portugal, which was coached by Ruy Seabra after the qualifying round at the 1986 World Cup , started with three draws, including a 2-2 defeat by Malta and one defeat, whereupon the coach was changed, Júlio Cernadas Pereira came to his third term and the first Game 1-0 in Sweden was won. With a 0-0 win against Switzerland and a 0-3 win in Italy, all chances were wasted, so that the 1-0 win in the last game in Malta couldn't change anything. The Portuguese were eliminated in third place, Italy reached the European Championship as group winners and the semi-finals there, but lost it to the USSR, which was able to take revenge for the Lospech in the semi-finals 20 years earlier.

EM 1992

In qualifying for the European Championship in 1992 , the Portuguese faced defending champions Netherlands, Greece , Finland and again Malta. They were trained since 1991 20 coach underground from the previous Carlos Queiroz , of the U-20 team with players of the generation Golden like Rui Costa , Luis Figo and Joao Pinto , the 1991 FIFA World Youth Championship had won. The Portuguese started with a 0-0 win in Finland, but then won 1-0 against the Dutch. With a 2: 3 in Greece and a 0: 1 in the Netherlands, in which Luís Figo made his second A international match, the qualification was missed, although all other games were won. The Dutch reached the finals as group winners and then the semi-finals against Denmark. The Danes were nominated shortly before the start of the final round for the Yugoslavs who were excluded due to UN sanctions as a result of the Yugoslav wars. Most of the Danish players had already started their vacation after the end of the season of the national leagues because they did not expect to participate. The Danes arrived in Sweden without much preparation, but surprisingly reached the semi-finals by winning their last game against France as second in the group, but were considered underdogs. The Danes were then able to win against the Dutch with a penalty shoot-out and were surprisingly in the final, where they caused the next surprise and won 2-0 against world champions Germany. Queiroz initially stayed in office, but then also missed the 1994 World Cup, which ended his first term.

EM 1996

Portugal, the Netherlands, England, Greece and Austria had also applied for the 1996 European Championship. It was not yet clear at the tender that the tournament would be held for the first time with 16 teams. On May 5, 1992, England was awarded the contract and was automatically qualified for the finals. The Portuguese, on the other hand, had to qualify in terms of sport. In the qualification they went with António Oliveira as national coach. In the qualification they met Ireland , Northern Ireland , Austria , Latvia and Liechtenstein . Portugal won the first four games, with the 8-0 win against Liechtenstein the highest international win, and then suffered the only defeat with 0-1 in Ireland. With two more wins and two draws, Portugal became group winners. A total of 12 players scored 29 goals for Portugal. The top scorer was Domingos with six goals.

When the groups were drawn, the Portuguese were drawn to the group with defending champions Denmark, against whom they scored 1-1 in the opening game. The next opponent was Turkey , who had qualified for the first time and won 1-0 against them. From the last group game against Croatia , which also took part for the first time and had already qualified for the quarter-finals after two wins in the first group games, they needed one point to reach the quarter-finals as well. This game was won 3-0 and so they met the Czech Republic , which was also there for the first time after the division of Czechoslovakia . With 0: 1 they lost this game, where they could not use a numerical superiority in the last eight minutes, and were eliminated and the term of office of Oliveira ended. The Czech Republic then also reached the final against Germany, but lost it with a golden goal .

EM 2000

In qualifying for the EM 2000, the Portuguese, who were coached by Humberto Coelho after Portugal missed the qualification for the 1998 World Cup, faced Romania, Slovakia , Hungary , Azerbaijan and Liechtenstein. Portugal only lost the home game against Romania, but played only 1-1 in Azerbaijan as well as in Romania and finished second behind the unbeaten Romanians with seven wins, including an 8-0 against Liechtenstein again.

When the groups were drawn, they were drawn together into one group with defending champions Germany and England . In the opening game against England they were 2-0 down after 18 minutes, but Luís Figo scored the next goal four minutes later and João Pinto equalized before half-time. In the 59th minute, Nuno Gomes turned the game around and it stayed that way. In the second game against Romania it was 0-0 until stoppage time. Then Costinha scored the 1-0 winner in the fourth minute of stoppage time. With that Portugal was already qualified for the quarter-finals. In the last game against the defending champion some regular players, u. a. Goalkeeper and captain Vítor Baía as well as Rui Costa, Luís Figo and Nuno Gomes are spared. Nevertheless, the Portuguese managed their biggest win against Germany to date: 3-0 with three goals from Sérgio Conceição , they sent the German team home, with Lothar Matthäus making his 150th and last international match. However, Portugal was not able to win a game against Germany after that: two European Championship and two World Cup games were lost.

Opponents in the quarter-finals were Turkey's side , who had to play against Alpay Özalan after 30 minutes due to a red card . Portugal took advantage of this and won 2-0 with two goals from Nuno Gomes . In the semifinals, world champions France were the opponents and with Luís Figo and Zinédine Zidane , the two best players of the time faced each other. After 19 minutes, Portugal took the lead thanks to a goal from Nuno Gomes, but the French equalized in the 51st minute. Since it was 1-1 after 90 minutes, the game went into overtime, in which it looked for a long time as if the penalty shoot-out would have to decide. But three minutes before the end, Abel Xavier got the ball in front of his own goal. The Austrian referee Günter Benkö gave a penalty. Zidane transformed this and brought the world champion to the European Championship final - it was the first golden goal that fell through a penalty. Since Nuno Gomes protested too violently against the referee's decision, he received the red card . In the final against Italy, the French won again with a golden goal and were the first world champions to become European champions. Humberto Coelho did not extend his expiring contract, he was succeeded by António Oliveira, who was national coach for the second time and led the team to the 2002 World Cup, but was eliminated in the preliminary round.

EM 2004

Starting grid in the final

The Portuguese then did not have to qualify for the 2004 European Championship. On October 12, 1999, you were awarded to host the event. They prevailed against Spain and Austria / Hungary, among others. Portugal had offered Spain to host the tournament together, but the Spaniards declined in the hope of winning the bid for an independent organization.

After the end of the preliminary round of the 2002 World Cup , Agostinho Oliveira took over the position of national coach for four games, followed by the Brazilian Luiz Felipe Scolari , who had won the 5th World Cup title with his home country in 2002, but was the association and Fans was dissatisfied with his work shortly after the World Cup had resigned. Up until the European Championship, the Portuguese had played 20 friendly matches under Scolari, 11 of which were won (including a 2-1 win against world champions Brazil, but also 1-0 victories against Macedonia and Kazakhstan), six ended in a draw and three were lost (0-1 and 1: 2 against Italy and 0: 3 against Spain).

In the group draw, hosts Portugal, defending champions France, Sweden and the Czech Republic were all set. The draw was drawn to the Portuguese, who were set as the head of the group that played mainly in Lisbon , as well as neighboring Spain, Russia and Greece, which was qualified again for the first time after 1980. In the opening game, the Portuguese met the Greeks trained by the German Otto Rehhagel in Porto . After just seven minutes, the more defensive Greeks surprisingly took the lead and even extended it in the second half. Portugal only succeeded in stoppage time with the first goal of the 19-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo, who came on as a substitute in the second half . In the second game against Russia, Maniche gave the Portuguese the lead in the seventh minute. Since the Russian goalkeeper received a red card in the 45th minute due to a handball outside the penalty area , the Portuguese were able to play in the majority for the entire second half and exploit it to make the score 2-0. The Russians were eliminated, Portugal had to beat Spain in their last game to get to the quarter-finals. After a goalless first half, Nuno Gomes scored the 1-0 winner in the 57th minute, and Portugal were still group winners as Greece lost to Russia. Nevertheless, the Greeks were also qualified for the quarter-finals as they scored more goals than Spain.

The Portuguese met England in the quarter-finals and fell behind in the third minute. It was only 80 minutes later that Hélder Postiga , who had been substituted eight minutes earlier, was able to equalize, which meant that extra time was needed. In this first Rui Costa managed to take the lead for Portugal, but the English were able to equalize five minutes before the end. Since no further goal was scored, there was a penalty shoot-out. Here David Beckham was the first to shoot over the gate. Since Rui Costa copied him as the third Portuguese, but otherwise hit all shooters, a sixth shooter had to compete. The Portuguese goalkeeper Ricardo then initially held the shot of the sixth Englishman and then converted himself as the sixth Portuguese shooter. Portugal were in the semi-finals against the Netherlands and scored three goals, one of which was for the guests, but they didn't score another goal. This was the first time the Portuguese were in the final, where they met the opponents from the opening game, which means that for the first time the teams that had played the opening game were also in the final. In addition, for the first time since the first European Championship in 1960, there were two teams in the final that had never reached a final before. Greece played as before, the Portuguese trying not to make the mistake of the opening game and trying to avoid falling behind. After a goalless first half with no highlights, the Portuguese increased the pressure in the second half and pushed the Greeks into their own half. The Portuguese could not use the resulting opportunities. Completely surprisingly achieved Angelos Charisteas 's 57th-minute header at a corner a hit by a failure of the Portuguese goalkeeper Ricardo used. It was his only shot on goal in the game. The Portuguese now increased their attack efforts, but failed again and again due to the Greek defense around the cleaner Traianos Dellas . Cristiano Ronaldo and Luís Figo still had some good chances, but either missed them or failed because of the Greek goalkeeper. Despite more than twenty scoring chances for Portugal, it remained 1-0 for Greece and the biggest sensation at an EM to date. The German trainer Otto Rehhagel was the first and to date only foreign trainer to win the European Championship. Luiz Felipe Scolari was the first coach of another confederation to reach the finals at an EM and stayed in office afterwards.

EM 2008

In qualifying group A for the EM 2008, Portugal met Poland , Belgium , Serbia , Finland , Kazakhstan , Armenia and Azerbaijan . The first two teams were qualified for the finals in Switzerland and Austria . Portugal gambled away the group win by beating Finland 0-0 on the last day of the match, but was behind Poland, who qualified as group winners for the first time for the European Championship finals, and also qualified for the European Championship as group runner-up.

At the finals, which again took place in two countries, they were drawn into a group with co-hosts Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Turkey, against which they won 2-0 in the opening game, but had to run for a long time. The 1-0 came after an hour, the 2-0 in stoppage time. In the second game they won against the Czech Republic 3-1, with the last goal falling again in stoppage time. This meant that they were qualified for the quarter-finals before the last game and that they could no longer take the group win. In the last game against Switzerland some players, u. a. Cristiano Ronaldo, spared and lost the game 2-0. In the quarter-finals they met Germany, against whom they had lost the game for third place at the 2006 World Cup. Germany were already leading 2-0 after 26 minutes, but an own goal brought the Portuguese back before the break. In an urgent phase of the Portuguese, the 3-1 for Germany fell after just under an hour of play, Portugal could reduce it again, but could not equalize. With that Portugal was eliminated. The Germans then won against Turkey with the same result in the semi-finals, but lost the final against Spain. With the quarter-finals also ended the term of office of Scolari, who moved to Chelsea , but was dismissed there after 223 days.

EM 2012

The team before the opening game against Germany

Scene from the game against Germany with Bastian Schweinsteiger (left), Jérôme Boateng (back right) and Cristiano Ronaldo (front, right)

In the qualifiers for Euro 2012, the Portuguese went with Paulo Bento , who after the 2010 World Cup had taken over the post of national coach. In a group with Denmark , Norway , Iceland and Cyprus , the Portuguese took second place behind Denmark. Portugal scored the most goals, but also conceded many, e.g. B. the 4: 4 against Cyprus and the 5: 3 against Iceland. Portugal had to play in the playoffs of the group runners-up against Bosnia-Herzegovina . After a 0-0 draw in Zenica , the second leg was won 6-2.

At the finals, which again took place in two countries, the Portuguese were drawn into a group of deaths with third place in the World Cup, Germany, who was the only team to have won 10 games in qualifying, the vice world champions Netherlands and Denmark. In the opening game they lost to Germany 0-1, but then Denmark won 3-2, although they had already led 2-0 and had to accept the equalizer in the meantime. So they had to win the last game against the Netherlands to reach the quarter-finals. Although brought Rafael van der Vaart , the Dutch already 11 minutes into the lead, but Cristiano Ronaldo turned with two goals the game. The Dutch were eliminated for the first time without a win in the preliminary round. Portugal met the Czech Republic in the quarter-finals and again it was Ronaldo who scored the decisive goal. In the semifinals against defending champions and world champions Spain, both teams failed to score in 120 minutes, so the penalty shoot-out had to decide. Here Rui Patrício was able to save Xabi Alonso's first shot , but João Moutinho failed at the Spanish goalkeeper. After that, three Spaniards and two Portuguese were successful before Bruno Alves hit the crossbar. The fifth Spaniard then made it 4-2, so that the last Portuguese didn't have to compete. Spain was back in the final and won it confidently against Italy, which eliminated Germany in the semifinals. Paulo Bento initially stayed in office and led Portugal to the 2014 World Cup .

EM 2016

Starting line-ups when winning the European Championship

For the first time, 24 teams will take part in the European Championship. For the draw of the qualifying groups , which took place on February 23, 2014, the Portuguese were placed in pot 1. Portugal was drawn in Group I, the only group of five. From the other pots the following were drawn: Denmark, Albania , Serbia and Armenia again . Since one team in the group of five always has no play, they play a friendly game against the automatically qualified host of the European Championship, France , which is not included in the rating.

The first two in the group qualify directly for the European Championship finals. If the third-placed team is the best third in the group, it is also directly qualified. The remaining third in the group play four other participants in the playoffs.

The Portuguese were still qualifying with Paulo Bento, but after a home defeat in the first qualifying match against Albania, he resigned. Under his successor Fernando Santos , the next three qualifying games were won and thus they were in first place after half of the games. With four wins in the second half, they consolidated first place and qualified ahead of time for the finals on the penultimate matchday.

For the group draw on December 12, 2015, Portugal with the fourth best UEFA coefficient was assigned to Pot 1 and was drawn into Group F. Opponents are EM newcomer Iceland, Austria, which was able to qualify for the first time, and Hungary, which reached the final round for the first time since 1972. Portugal reached the last sixteen with three draws as one of the four best thirds in the group. Cristiano Ronaldo was the record player in the European Championship in the last game and the record Portuguese national player in the second game. In the round of 16, the Portuguese reached overtime after a goalless 90 minutes with a defensive tactic and scored the winning goal through a counterattack to reach the quarter-finals against Poland immediately after the Croatians hit the post. They fell behind in the second minute against Poland, who were in the quarter-finals for the first time, but were able to equalize 30 minutes later with 18-year-old Renato Sanches . After further good scoring opportunities failed to appear on either side, there was first goalless overtime and then a penalty shoot-out, where goalkeeper Rui Patrício was able to save a penalty, while his teammates were able to convert their penalties. In the semifinals, they prevailed against EM newcomer Wales 2-0, with Ronaldo scoring his ninth EM goal.

In the final of the Euro 2016, Cristiano Ronaldo was injured in the 8th minute by the French player Payet in a duel, after which he finally had to leave the field in the 25th minute and Ricardo Quaresma came on for him. In the 109th minute and thus in the second half of extra time, Eder scored 1-0, which was the decisive goal. This was the first time Portugal won the title and the first time a competitive game against France. Portugal thus qualified for the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup .

EM 2021

For the first pan-European European Championship finals, Portugal initially applied to host games with the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon or Estádio do Dragão in Porto , but then withdrew. In the qualifying , had to take part in the final round, the organizers of games, it had the Portuguese with the Ukraine , Serbia, Luxembourg and Lithuania to do. The Portuguese started with a goalless draw against Ukraine and a 1-1 draw against Serbia. This was followed by victories in Serbia (4: 2), in Lithuania (5: 1) and against Luxembourg (3: 0). But then they lost 2-1 in Ukraine, which meant that they qualified early for the finals. With victories against Lithuania (6: 0) and in Luxembourg (2: 0) the second place and thus the direct qualification could be secured. The best goalscorer of the Portuguese and the group was once again Cristiano Ronaldo with eleven goals, who increased his international match yield to 99 goals.

At the draw on November 30, 2019, the two finalists of the last European Championship were drawn into the group with Germany. They also meet a playoff winner.

Player with the most appearances in European championships

Games	player	Year (games)
21st	Cristiano Ronaldo	2004 (6), 2008 (3), 2012 (5), 2016 (7)
15th	Pepe	2008 (4), 2012 (5), 2016 (6)
	João Moutinho	2008 (4), 2012 (5), 2016 (6)
	Nani	2008 (3), 2012, (5), 2016 (7)
14th	Luís Figo	1996 (4), 2000 (4), 2004 (6)
	Nuno Gomes	2000 (5), 2004 (6), 2008 (3)
13	Rui Costa	1996 (4), 2000 (5), 2004 (4)
12	Fernando Couto	1996 (4), 2000 (5), 2004 (3)
	Rui Patrício	2008 (0), 2012 (5), 2016 (7)
11	Ricardo Carvalho	2004 (5), 2008 (3), 2016 (3)
10	Costinha	2000 (4), 2004 (6)
	Ricardo	2004 (6), 2008 (4)
9	Deco	2004 (6), 2008 (3)
	Ricardo Quaresma	2008 (2), 2016 (7)

As of July 10, 2016

Player with the most goals at European championships

Pl.	player	Year (s)	Gates
1.	Cristiano Ronaldo	2004, 2008, 2012, 2016	9
2.	Nuno Gomes	2000, 2004, 2008	6th
3.	Sérgio Conceição	2000	3
	Nani	2016	3
	Hélder Postiga	2004, 2008, 2012	3
6th	Rui Jordão	1984	2
	Luís Figo	1996, 2000, 2004	2
	João Pinto	1996, 2000	2
	Maniche	2004	2
	Rui Costa	1996, 2000, 2004	2
	Pepe	2008, 2012	2
12.	12 players		1

As of July 10, 2016

Players banned from European championships

• In 2000 Nuno Gomes received the red card in the semifinals for protesting . Since Portugal was eliminated, it had no further effect on the tournament, but he was suspended for the World Cup qualifier against Estonia on September 3, 2000. The second yellow cards for Luís Figo and João Pinto in the semifinals also had no further effect.
• In 2004 Pauleta received the second yellow card in the last group match and was suspended for the quarter-finals. Ricardo Carvalho , Costinha and Deco also received the second yellow card, but this had no effect as individual yellow cards from the group phase were forfeited. In the final, Costinha received the third and Nuno Valente the second yellow card, but these also had no effect.
• In 2008, Pepe , Petit and Hélder Postiga received the second yellow card in the quarter-finals, but this had no effect as individual yellow cards from the group stage were forfeited.
• 2012 Fábio Coentrão , João Pereira and Miguel Veloso received the second yellow card in the semifinals , since the Portuguese were eliminated it had no effect.
• In 2016, William Carvalho received the second yellow card in the quarter-finals and was suspended for the semi-finals. In the final he received the third yellow card.

Share of players playing abroad in the EM squad

Legionaries have not yet been appointed to the first squad; in 1996 and 2004 they made up a small contingent; 2000, 2008 and 2012 about half.

Year (games)	Number (countries)	Players (stakes)
1984 (4)	0
1996 (4)	5 (3 in Italy, 1 in Scotland, 1 in Spain)	Rui Costa (4), Fernando Couto (4), Paulo Sousa (4); Jorge Cadete (2); Luís Figo (4)
2000 (5)	11 (1 in Belgium, 1 in England, 1 in France, 4 in Italy, 4 in Spain)	Dimas (4); Abel Xavier (2), Costinha (4); Sérgio Conceição (5), Rui Costa (5), Fernando Couto (5), Paulo Sousa (2); Paulo Bento (4), Luís Figo (4), Pauleta (1), Ricardo Sá Pinto (3)
2004 (6)	7 (2 in England, 1 in France, 2 in Italy, 2 in Spain)	Hélder Postiga (1), Cristiano Ronaldo (6); Pauleta (5); Rui Costa (4), Fernando Couto (3); Jorge Andrade (6), Luís Figo (6)
2008 (4)	11 (2 in Germany, 4 in England, 1 in Greece, 4 in Spain)	Hugo Almeida (2), Fernando Meira (3); Ricardo Carvalho (3), Paulo Ferreira (4), Nani (3), Cristiano Ronaldo (3); Hélder Postiga (2); Deco (3), Miguel (1), Pepe (4), Simão (3)
2012 (3)	13 (2 in England, 1 in Italy, 1 in Romania, 1 in Russia, 6 in Spain, 2 in Turkey	Raúl Meireles (5), Nani (5); Miguel Veloso (5), Beto (0); Bruno Alves (5); Fábio Coentrão (5), Ricardo Costa (0), Rúben Micael (0), Pepe (5), Hélder Postiga (4), Cristiano Ronaldo (5); Hugo Almeida (2), Ricardo Quaresma (0)
2016 (7)	15 (1 in Germany, 2 in England, 3 in France, 1 in Croatia, 2 in Monaco, 3 in Spain, 3 in Turkey	Vieirinha (3); Cédric (4), José Fonte (4); Éder (3), Raphaël Guerreiro (5), Anthony Lopes ; Eduardo ; Ricardo Carvalho (3), Joao Moutinho (6); André Gomes (5), Pepe (6), Cristiano Ronaldo (7); Bruno Alves (1), Nani (7), Ricardo Quaresma (7)

As of July 10, 2016

Records

• Portugal are the only team with more than one participation that always survived the group stage and made it to the knockout round.
• Cristiano Ronaldo was one of the top scorers in the 2012 finals .
• Cristiano Ronaldo set Michel Platini's 1984 goal record with his 9th European Championship goal in the 2016 semi-finals .
• Cristiano Ronaldo is the record player with 21 games
• Portugal are the first team to become European champions without a win in the preliminary round

• The following countries have the highest victories in European championships.
  •  Germany : Preliminary round 2000 - 3-0
  •  Croatia : Preliminary round 1996 - 3-0 (first game against Croatia)
  •  Czech Republic : preliminary round 2008 - 3-1

• The Portuguese team suffered their biggest defeat at an EM tournament against only one country:
  •  Switzerland : preliminary round 2008 - 0-2

Negative records

• Most yellow cards in a final: 6/2016

Record against the other European champions at European championships

• Germany: 4 games, 1 win, 1 draw, 2 defeats, 5: 4 goals
• Czechoslovakia / Czech Republic: 3 games, 2 wins, 1 loss, 4-2 goals
• Spain: 3 games, 1 win, 2 draws (including 1 game lost on penalties) 2: 1 goals (2: 4 on pens)
• France: 3 games (including 1 final), 1 win, 2 defeats, 4-5 goals
• Netherlands: 2 games, 2 wins, 4-2 goals
• Denmark: 2 games, 1 win, 1 draw, 4: 3 goals
• Greece: 2 games (including 1 final), 2 defeats, 1: 3 goals
• USSR / CIS / Russia: 1 game, 1 win, 2-0 goals
• Italy: no games

Games

Strasbourg Marseille (3) Nantes Sheffield Birmingham Nottingham  (2) Arnhem Amsterdam Rotterdam Eindhoven Brussels postage Lisbon (5) Geneva (2) Basel (2) Lviv (2) Kharkiv Warsaw Donetsk St-Etienne Paris Lyon (2) Lens Saint-Denis Munich Budapest

Venues (green = positive balance, yellow = balanced balance, red = negative balance, number in brackets = number of games, if> 1, bold = final venues)

Portugal has played 35 European Championship games so far, of which 18 have been won, eight lost and nine have ended in a draw. Seven games had to be extended, of which two were won normally and two on penalties and one was lost on normal, golden goal and one on penalties.

Portugal once hosted the opening game of the European Championship in 2004, had six home games so far and played against the hosts three times (1984 in the semifinals, 2008 in the preliminary round, 2016 in the final).

Portugal played four times (1984, 1996 and 2000 in the preliminary round, 2012 in the semi-finals) against the defending champions and four times (2004 in the final, 1984, 2000 and 2012 in the semi-finals) against the eventual European champions and thus most often of all teams. They played against the current world champion twice (2000 and 2012). In both cases, the game went into overtime.

All EM games
No.	date	opponent	Result	occasion	AH/*	venue	Remarks
1	06/14/1984	BRD (TV)	0-0	Preliminary round	*	Strasbourg ( FRA )
2	06/17/1984	Spain	1: 1	Preliminary round	*	Marseille ( FRA )
3	06/20/1984	Romania	1-0	Preliminary round	*	Nantes ( FRA )
4th	06/23/1984	France	2: 3 a.d.	Semifinals	A.	Marseille ( FRA )	Last game under Fernando Cabrita
5	06/09/1996	Denmark (TV)	1: 1	Preliminary round	*	Sheffield ( ENG )
6th	06/14/1996	Turkey	1-0	Preliminary round	*	Nottingham ( ENG )
7th	06/19/1996	Croatia	3-0	Preliminary round	*	Nottingham ( ENG )	First international match against Croatia
8th	06/23/1996	Czech Republic	0: 1	Quarter finals	*	Birmingham ( ENG )	First international match against the Czech Republic, last game in António Oliveira's first term
9	06/12/2000	England	3: 2	Preliminary round	*	Eindhoven ( NED )
10	06/17/2000	Romania	1-0	Preliminary round	*	Arnhem ( NED )
11	06/20/2000	Germany (TV)	3-0	Preliminary round	*	Rotterdam ( NED )	Biggest win against Germany
12	06/24/2000	Turkey	2-0	Quarter finals	*	Amsterdam ( NED )
13	06/28/2000	France	1: 2 a.d.	Semifinals	*	Brussels ( BEL )	Golden Goal defeat , last game under Humberto Coelho
14th	06/12/2004	Greece	1: 2	Opening game	H	postage
15th	06/16/2004	Russia	2-0	Preliminary round	H	Lisbon	First international match against Russia
16	06/20/2004	Spain	1-0	Preliminary round	H	Lisbon
17th	06/24/2004	England	2: 2 n.V .; 6: 5 i. E.	Quarter finals	H	Lisbon
18th	06/30/2004	Netherlands	2: 1	Semifinals	H	Lisbon	110th and last international match by Fernando Couto
19th	07/04/2004	Greece	0: 1	final	H	Lisbon
20th	06/07/2008	Turkey	2-0	EM preliminary round	*	Geneva ( SUI )
21st	06/11/2008	Czech Republic	3: 1	Preliminary round	*	Geneva ( SUI )
22nd	06/15/2008	Switzerland	0: 2	Preliminary round	A.	Basel ( SUI )
23	06/19/2008	Germany	2: 3	Quarter finals	*	Basel ( SUI )	Last game under Luiz Felipe Scolari
24	06/09/2012	Germany	0: 1	Preliminary round	*	Arena Lviv , Lviv ( UKR )
25th	06/13/2012	Denmark	3: 2	Preliminary round	*	Arena Lviv , Lviv ( UKR )
26th	06/17/2012	Netherlands	2: 1	Preliminary round	*	Metalist Stadium , Kharkiv ( UKR )
27	06/21/2012	Czech Republic	1-0	Quarter finals	*	Narodowy Stadium , Warsaw ( POL )
28	06/27/2012	Spain (TV)	0: 0 n.V .; 2: 4 i. E.	Semifinals	*	Donbass Arena , Donetsk ( UKR )
29	06/14/2016	Iceland	1: 1	Preliminary round	*	Saint-Etienne ( FRA )	Cristiano Ronaldo sets Luis Figo's record with his 127th international match .
30th	06/18/2016	Austria	0-0	Preliminary round	*	Paris ( FRA )	Cristiano Ronaldo becomes the only Portuguese national player with his 128th international match
31	06/22/2016	Hungary	3: 3	Preliminary round	*	Décines-Charpieu ( Lyon ) ( FRA )
32	06/25/2016	Croatia	1: 0 a.d.	Round of 16	*	Lens ( FRA )
33	06/30/2016	Poland	1: 1 a.d., 5: 3 in E.	Quarter finals	*	Marseille ( FRA )
34	07/06/2016	Wales	2-0	Semifinals	*	Lyon ( FRA )
35	07/11/2016	France	1: 0 a.d.	final	A.	Saint-Denis ( FRA )
	June 15, 2021	Playoff winners A / D		Preliminary round	A / *	Budapest ( HUN )
	06/19/2021	Germany		Preliminary round	A.	Munich ( DEU )
	June 23, 2021	France		Preliminary round	*	Budapest ( HUN )

See also

• Portuguese national soccer team at world championships

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Incl. two games decided on penalties (1 win, 1 loss)
2. ^ GDR 0-2 Portugal
3. ↑ Bulgaria 3-1 Portugal
4. ^ Portugal-France Euro 2000 Golden Goal
5. ↑ Draw for the EURO qualification: Pot 1 in focus. In: uefa.com. UEFA , February 20, 2014, accessed March 11, 2014 . 
6. ↑ In the French 1st division