Current FIFA Ranking: 6
Highest FIFA Ranking: 3 (last, Sept 2017-April 2018)
Lowest FIFA Ranking: 43 (Aug 1998)
Honours:
European Championship (1): 2016
Nations League (2): 2019, 2025
Head coach: Roberto Martinez (since Jan 2023)
Top scorer in qualifying: Cristiano Ronaldo (5)
Star players: Cristiano Ronaldo (Al Nassr), Bruno Fernandes (Man Utd), Vitinha (PSG)
Nations League winners for the second time in 2025, Cristiano Ronaldo and co will be looking to add a first ever World Cup title to the honours list.
Quarter-finalists in 2022, Portugal have never reached a World Cup final and this will be the last chance for Cristiano Ronaldo who is set to feature at a sixth and final tournament, a record he is set to share with Lionel Messi but there’s one difference… CR7 is yet to win it. Although, he will miss at least the first match of the finals following his red card against Republic of Ireland in qualifying.
Roberto Martinez took charge of the team in January 2023 becoming just the third foreign head coach in their history and first non-Portuguese speaker.
Previous World Cup appearances (8):
2022: Quarter-final (0-1 v Morocco)
2018: Round of 16
2014: Group stage
2010: Round of 16
2006: Fourth
2002: Group stage
1986: Group stage
1966: Third
