List of Portugal international footballers

This is a list of players who earned 25 or more caps for the Portugal national football team. For all players who have played for Portugal, see Category:Portugal men's international footballers.

Cristiano Ronaldo is Portugal's most capped player.

As of November 2024, 125 players have reached this milestone for Portugal. The record for the most caps is held by Cristiano Ronaldo, with 219 caps since 2003; he overtook Luís Figo's record of 127 caps in June 2016. The only other players with a century of caps are Fernando Couto, Nani, João Moutinho, Pepe, Rui Patrício and Bernardo Silva; Patrício is also the most capped Portuguese goalkeeper, with 108 international matches played since 2010.

The first player to reach 25 caps was Xico, in his final appearance on 17 June 1951. The most recent player to gain their 25th cap was Vitinha, on 18 November 2024.

Players

Appearances and goals are composed of FIFA World Cup and UEFA European Championship matches and each competition's required qualification matches, as well as UEFA Nations League matches, FIFA Confederations Cup matches, and numerous international friendly tournaments and matches. Players are listed by number of caps, then number of goals scored. If number of goals are equal, the players are then listed alphabetically. Statistics correct as of 23 March 2025.

Key

§	Named to the national team in the past year
GK	Goalkeeper
DF	Defender
MF	Midfielder
FW	Forward
Bold	Still playing competitive football

Portugal national football team players with at least 25 appearances

Rank	Player	Position	Caps	Goals	Date of debut	Debut against	Date of final match	Final match against	Ref.
1	Cristiano Ronaldo §	FW	219	136	20 August 2003	Kazakhstan	—	—	[1]
2	João Moutinho	MF	146	7	17 August 2005	Egypt	9 June 2022	Czech Republic	[2]
3	Pepe §	DF	141	8	21 November 2007	Finland	5 July 2024	France	[3]
4	Luís Figo	MF	127	32	12 October 1991	Luxembourg	8 July 2006	Germany	[4]
5	Nani	MF	112	24	1 September 2006	Denmark	2 July 2017	Mexico	[5]
6	Fernando Couto	DF	110	8	19 December 1990	United States	30 June 2004	Netherlands	[6]
7	Rui Patrício §	GK	108	0	17 November 2010	Spain	—	—	[7]
8	Bernardo Silva §	MF	100	13	31 March 2015	Cape Verde	—	—	[8]
9	Bruno Alves	DF	96	11	5 June 2007	Kuwait	7 June 2018	Algeria	[9]
10	Rui Costa	MF	94	26	31 March 1993	Switzerland	4 July 2004	Greece	[10]
11	Ricardo Carvalho	DF	89	5	11 October 2003	Albania	22 June 2016	Hungary	[11]
12	Pauleta	FW	88	47	20 August 1997	Armenia	8 July 2006	Germany	[12]
13	Simão	MF	85	22	18 November 1998	Israel	29 June 2010	Spain	[13]
14	João Pinto	FW	81	23	12 October 1991	Luxembourg	14 June 2002	South Korea	[14]
15	Ricardo Quaresma	MF	80	10	10 June 2003	Bolivia	30 June 2018	Uruguay	[15]
	William Carvalho	MF	80	5	19 November 2013	Sweden	—	—	[16]
	Vítor Baía	GK	80	0	19 December 1990	United States	7 September 2002	England	[17]
18	Nuno Gomes	FW	79	29	24 January 1996	France	11 October 2011	Denmark	[18]
	Ricardo	GK	79	0	2 June 2001	Republic of Ireland	19 June 2008	Germany	[19]
20	Bruno Fernandes §	MF	78	25	10 November 2017	Saudi Arabia	—	—	[20]
21	Raul Meireles	MF	76	10	15 November 2006	Kazakhstan	22 June 2014	United States	[21]
22	Deco	MF	75	5	29 March 2003	Brazil	15 June 2010	Ivory Coast	[22]
23	Danilo Pereira §	MF	74	2	31 March 2015	Cape Verde	—	—	[23]
24	Hélder Postiga	FW	71	27	12 February 2003	Italy	14 November 2014	Armenia	[24]
25	João Pinto	DF	70	1	16 February 1983	France	9 November 1996	Ukraine	[25]
26	Nené	FW	66	22	21 April 1971	Scotland	23 June 1984	France	[26]
	Rúben Dias §	DF	66	3	28 May 2018	Tunisia	—	—	[27]
	Tiago	MF	66	3	20 November 2002	Scotland	8 October 2015	Denmark	[28]
29	Raphaël Guerreiro	DF	65	4	14 November 2014	Armenia	—	—	[29]
30	Eusébio	FW	64	41	8 October 1961	Luxembourg	13 October 1973	Bulgaria	[30]
	Humberto Coelho	DF	64	6	27 October 1968	Romania	27 April 1983	Soviet Union	[31]
32	Manuel Bento	GK	63	0	16 October 1976	Poland	3 June 1986	England	[32]
33	Paulo Ferreira	DF	62	0	7 September 2002	England	15 June 2010	Ivory Coast	[33]
34	João Cancelo §	DF	60	10	1 September 2016	Gibraltar	—	—	[34]
35	Miguel	DF	59	1	12 February 2003	Italy	3 September 2010	Cyprus	[35]
36	Hugo Almeida	FW	57	19	18 February 2004	England	31 March 2015	Cape Verde	[36]
	Mário Coluna	MF	57	8	4 May 1955	Scotland	11 December 1968	Greece	[37]
	Petit	MF	57	4	2 June 2001	Republic of Ireland	19 June 2008	Germany	[38]
39	Sérgio Conceição	MF	56	12	9 November 1996	Ukraine	6 June 2003	Spain	[39]
	João Mário	MF	56	3	11 October 2014	France	23 March 2023	Liechtenstein	[40]
	Miguel Veloso	MF	56	3	13 October 2007	Azerbaijan	11 October 2015	Serbia	[41]
	Rúben Neves §	MF	56	0	14 November 2015	Russia	—	—	[42]
43	Oceano	MF	54	8	30 January 1985	Romania	22 April 1998	England	[43]
	Fernando Meira	DF	54	2	11 October 2000	Netherlands	11 October 2008	Sweden	[44]
45	André Silva	FW	53	19	1 September 2016	Gibraltar	—	—	[45]
	Costinha	MF	53	2	14 October 1998	Slovakia	11 October 2006	Poland	[46]
47	Maniche	MF	52	7	29 March 2003	Brazil	31 March 2009	South Africa	[47]
	Fábio Coentrão	DF	52	5	14 November 2009	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3 September 2017	Hungary	[48]
49	Jorge Andrade	DF	51	3	25 April 2001	France	22 August 2007	Armenia	[49]
	Paulo Sousa	MF	51	0	16 January 1991	Spain	25 May 2002	China	[50]
51	Jorge Costa	DF	50	2	11 November 1992	Bulgaria	14 June 2002	South Korea	[51]
	José Fonte	DF	50	1	18 November 2014	Argentina	24 March 2022	Turkey	[52]
53	Fernando Gomes	FW	48	11	9 March 1975	Goiás	16 November 1988	Luxembourg	[53]
54	Diogo Jota §	FW	47	14	14 November 2019	Lithuania	—	—	[54]
55	António Simões	MF	46	3	6 May 1962	Brazil	13 October 1973	Bulgaria	[55]
56	José Augusto	MF	45	9	7 May 1958	England	11 December 1968	Greece	[56]
	João Félix §	FW	45	9	5 June 2019	Switzerland	—	—	[57]
	Ricardo Sá Pinto	FW	45	9	7 September 1994	Northern Ireland	6 June 2001	Cyprus	[58]
	Rui Jorge	DF	45	1	20 April 1994	Norway	8 September 2004	Estonia	[59]
60	Vítor Paneira	MF	44	4	12 October 1988	Sweden	29 May 1996	Republic of Ireland	[60]
	Dimas	DF	44	0	15 August 1995	Liechtenstein	13 February 2002	Spain	[61]
62	Rui Jordão	FW	43	15	29 March 1972	Cyprus	25 January 1989	Greece	[62]
63	Carlos Manuel	MF	42	8	26 March 1980	Scotland	11 June 1986	Morocco	[63]
	Nélson Semedo §	DF	42	0	11 October 2015	Serbia	—	—	[64]
65	Paulo Futre	MF	41	6	21 September 1983	Finland	3 June 1995	Latvia	[65]
66	Hilário	DF	40	0	11 November 1959	France	17 February 1971	Belgium	[66]
	João Pereira	DF	40	0	8 October 2010	Denmark	7 September 2014	Albania	[67]
	António Veloso	DF	40	0	18 November 1981	Scotland	19 January 1984	Scotland	[68]
69	Rafael Leão §	FW	39	5	9 October 2021	Qatar	—	—	[69]
	Virgílio	DF	39	0	27 February 1949	Italy	22 May 1960	Yugoslavia	[70]
71	Danny	MF	38	4	20 August 2008	Faroe Islands	29 March 2016	Belgium	[71]
	Eurico	DF	38	3	20 September 1978	Italy	3 April 1985	Italy	[72]
73	Rui Barros	MF	36	4	29 March 1987	Malta	14 December 1996	Germany	[73]
	Jaime Graça	MF	36	4	24 January 1965	Turkey	9 July 1972	Brazil	[74]
	João Alves	MF	36	3	13 November 1974	Switzerland	27 April 1983	Soviet Union	[75]
	Eduardo	GK	36	0	11 February 2009	Finland	1 September 2016	Gibraltar	[76]
	José Carlos	DF	36	0	12 March 1961	Luxembourg	12 May 1971	Denmark	[77]
78	José Travassos	FW	35	6	5 January 1947	Switzerland	7 May 1958	England	[78]
	Eder	FW	35	5	11 September 2012	Azerbaijan	20 November 2018	Poland	[79]
	Hélder Cristóvão	DF	35	3	12 February 1992	Netherlands	25 April 2001	France	[80]
	Artur Correia	DF	35	1	10 May 1972	Cyprus	21 November 1979	Austria	[81]
	Carlos Secretário	DF	35	1	18 December 1994	Liechtenstein	28 March 2001	Netherlands	[82]
	Paulo Bento	DF	35	0	15 January 1992	Spain	14 June 2002	South Korea	[83]
	Nuno Mendes §	DF	35	0	24 March 2021	Azerbaijan	—	—	[84]
85	Domingos	FW	34	9	29 March 1989	Angola	19 August 1998	Mozambique	[85]
	Capucho	MF	34	2	21 February 1996	Germany	16 October 2002	Sweden	[86]
	Cédric Soares	DF	34	1	11 October 2014	France	27 March 2021	Serbia	[87]
	Diogo Costa §	GK	34	0	9 October 2021	Qatar	—	—	[88]
89	José Augusto Torres	FW	33	14	23 January 1963	Bulgaria	13 October 1973	Bulgaria	[89]
	Jorge Cadete	FW	33	5	29 August 1990	West Germany	22 April 1998	England	[90]
	João Palhinha §	MF	33	2	24 March 2021	Azerbaijan	—	—	[91]
	Toni	MF	33	1	12 October 1969	Romania	8 March 1978	France	[92]
	Nuno Valente	DF	33	1	7 September 2002	England	11 October 2006	Poland	[93]
94	Gonçalo Guedes	FW	32	7	14 November 2015	Russia	12 June 2022	Switzerland	[94]
	Renato Sanches	MF	32	3	25 March 2016	Bulgaria	14 November 2021	Serbia	[95]
	Quim	GK	32	0	18 August 1999	Andorra	19 November 2008	Brazil	[96]
97	Rui Águas	FW	31	10	3 April 1985	Italy	17 November 1993	Italy	[97]
	Manuel Fernandes	FW	31	7	9 March 1975	Goiás	29 March 1987	Malta	[98]
	Beto	DF	31	2	6 September 1997	Germany	5 June 2004	Lithuania	[99]
100	Paulinho Santos	MF	30	2	19 January 1994	Spain	10 February 1999	Netherlands	[100]
101	Diogo Dalot §	DF	29	3	23 June 2021	France	—	—	[101]
	Eliseu	MF	29	1	10 June 2009	Estonia	10 October 2017	Switzerland	[102]
	Hugo Viana	MF	29	1	14 November 2001	Angola	14 November 2012	Gabon	[103]
	Damas	GK	29	0	6 April 1969	Mexico	11 June 1986	Morocco	[104]
	André Gomes	MF	29	0	7 September 2014	Albania	26 March 2018	Netherlands	[105]
106	Hernâni	MF	28	5	21 November 1953	South Africa	7 June 1964	Brazil	[106]
	Luís Boa Morte	MF	28	1	25 April 2001	France	10 June 2009	Estonia	[107]
108	Matateu	MF	27	13	23 November 1952	Austria	22 May 1960	Yugoslavia	[108]
	Fernando Peres	MF	27	4	4 June 1964	England	9 July 1972	Brazil	[109]
	Silvestre Varela	MF	27	4	3 March 2010	China	16 June 2015	Italy	[110]
	Fernando Chalana	MF	27	2	17 November 1976	Denmark	12 October 1988	Sweden	[111]
	Minervino Pietra	DF	27	1	14 November 1973	Northern Ireland	21 September 1983	Finland	[112]
	António Sousa	MF	27	1	15 April 1981	Bulgaria	15 November 1989	Czechoslovakia	[113]
	José Bosingwa	DF	27	0	2 June 2007	Belgium	29 March 2015	Serbia	[114]
	Vitinha §	MF	27	0	29 March 2022	North Macedonia	—	—	[115]
116	Manuel Vasques	FW	26	8	21 March 1948	Spain	16 June 1957	Brazil	[116]
	António Folha	MF	26	5	5 September 1993	Estonia	9 November 1996	Ukraine	[117]
	Adrien Silva	MF	26	1	18 November 2014	Argentina	30 June 2018	Uruguay	[118]
119	José Águas	FW	25	11	23 November 1952	Austria	17 May 1962	Belgium	[119]
	Vieirinha	DF	25	1	22 March 2013	Israel	22 June 2016	Hungary	[120]
	Marco Caneira	DF	25	0	27 March 2002	Finland	26 March 2008	Greece	[121]
	Francisco Ferreira	MF	25	0	28 January 1940	France	17 June 1951	Belgium	[122]
	Augusto Inácio	DF	25	0	5 December 1976	Cyprus	11 June 1986	Morocco	[123]
	Jaime Pacheco	MF	25	0	23 February 1983	West Germany	12 September 1990	Finland	[124]
	Rafa Silva	FW	25	0	5 March 2014	Cameroon	4 September 2021	Qatar	[125]