Portugal Women Euro 2025 squad: Francisco Neto’s full team

The Portugal Women Euro 2025 squad have already been knocked out of the competition with two losses and a draw in the group stage.

Hopes had been high that Portugal could get out of their group but their opening 5-0 loss against Spain tempered expectations.

They will now refocus towards the 2027 World Cup.

Portugal Women's Euros squad

Portugal Women Euro 2025 squad

The Portugal squad announced for the major tournament is as follows:

• GK: Ines Pereira (Everton)
• GK: Patricia Morais (Braga)
• GK: Sierra Cota-Yarde (Toronto)
• DF: Ana Seica (Tigres)
• DF: Diana Gomes (Sevilla)
• DF: Catarina Amado (Benfica)
• DF: Carole Costa (Benfica)
• DF: Carolina Correia (Torreense)
• DF: Lucia Alves (Benfica)
• DF: Ana Borges (Sporting Lisbon)
• DF: Joana Marchao (Servette)
• MF: Andreia Jacinto (Real Sociedad)
• MF: Tatiana Pinto (Atletico Madrid)
• MF: Andreia Faria (Benfica)
• MF: Andreia Norton (Benfica)
• MF: Fatima Pinto (Sporting Lisbon)
• MF: Beatriz Fonseca (Sporting Lisbon)
• MF: Francisca Nazareth (Barcelona)
• MF: Dolores Silva (Braga)
• FW: Jessica Silva (Gotham)
• FW: Telma Encarnacao (Sporting Lisbon)
• FW: Diana Silva (Sporting Lisbon)
• FW: Ana Capeta (Sporting Lisbon)

Predicted line-up

3-4-1-2: Pereira; Borges, Costa, D. Gomes; Amado, Pinto, Jacinto, Marchao; Norton; D. Silva, J. Silva

Portugal fixtures and results

Euro 2025 qualifiers

5 April: Portugal 3–0 Bosnia and Herzegovina, Leiria, Portugal

9 April: Malta 0–2 Portugal,Ta' Qali, Malta

31 May: Portugal 4–0 Northern Ireland, Leiria, Portugal

4 June: Northern Ireland 1–2 Portugal, Lurgan, Northern Ireland

12 July: Bosnia and Herzegovina 0–0 Portugal, Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina

16 July: Portugal 3–1 Malta, Leiria, Portugal

25 October: Azerbaijan 1–4 Portugal, Baku, Azerbaijan

29 October: Portugal 4–0 (8–1 agg.) Azerbaijan, Vizela, Portugal

29 November: Portugal 1–1 Czech Republic, Porto, Portugal

3 December: Czech Republic 1–2 (2–3 agg.) Portugal, Teplice, Czech Republic

Nations League

21 February: Portugal 1-1 England, Estadio Municipal de Portimao, Portimao, Portugal

28 February: Belgium 0-1 Portugal, Den Dreef, Leuven, Belgium

4 April: Portugal 2-4 Spain, Pacos de Ferreira, Portugal

8 April: Spain 7-1 Portugal, Vigo, Spain

30 May: England 6-0 Portugal, Wembley, London, England

3 June: Portugal 0-3 Belgium, Estadio Algarve, Algarve, Portugal

Euro 2025

3 July: Spain 5-0 Portugal, Bern, Switzerland

7 July: Portugal 1-1 Italy, Geneva, Switzerland

11 July: Portugal 1-2 Belgium, Sion, Switzerland

Everything you need to know about Portugal

They qualified with a 3-2 aggregate play-off win over Czech Republic before Christmas and will have also taken confidence from a Nations League draw in with England in February, before beating Belgium, who they will face at the Euros in Switzerland. Group B looks competitive, alongside Iberian neighbours Spain, Belgium and Italy, but Portugal will have every confidence they can progress.

The longest-serving manager at the finals, Francisco Neto has led Portugal for 11 years. In that spell, he’s guided the team to major tournaments for the first time and improved standards across the country. A first knockout game would be his crowning achievement.

Despite Neto’s rotation policy, Tatiana Pinto is a fixture. The 31-year-old has excelled in her first season at Atletico Madrid and can give any opposing midfielder in the world a run around. The former Brighton star has 100-plus caps and her experience will be essential.

Can Portugal realise their potential at a major tournament? A hard-working, organised outfit aim to progress from a Euros or World Cup group for the first time at the fourth attempt. Unbeaten in 14 (admittedly winnable) games until back-to-back Nations League defeats by Spain in April, Francisco Neto’s side have also held England and given France a scare over the past two years. Time to step up.

LESSON FROM QUALIFYING

Don’t make a meal out of it. There was far too much jeopardy for a team of Portugal’s quality in the nervy play-off decider against the Czech Republic, winning 3-2 on aggregate. As Navegadoras have made solid progress since Nations League relegation in 2023, but had they missed out on the Euros it could have set them back years.

STRENGTHS

Cohesion, even with Neto’s love of rotation – he deployed 28 different players in qualifying. Portugal are tough to break down because the players know each other and their system extremely well. Barcelona’s Kika Nazareth doesn’t always start but the 22-year-old is a sinuous dribbler with an eye for the divine, as her February solo goal against England exhibited.

WEAKNESSES

Will they turn up on the big stage? World Cup and Nations League draws with USA and England show Portugal can compete with the best, but they remain inconsistent. Two years ago, they conceded two goals in the first five minutes of their Euro 2022 opener, while this April they lost 7-1 to Spain days after running the world champions pretty close in a 4-2 home defeat.

MOST LIKELY TO….

Have Cristiano Ronaldo’s support, via superficial social media posts.

LEAST LIKELY TO….

Beat Spain. Portugal have lost all five meetings since 2015 by an aggregate of 19-4. First up? Yep...

WHAT THEY HOPE WILL HAPPEN

Momentum delivers a semi-final.

WHAT WILL HAPPEN

Semis? Maybe. Quarters? Probably. They can compete with the very best but lack consistency.

Portugal Manager: Francisco Neto

Portugal manager for over a decade now, Neto has led the team to three major tournaments – including maiden European Championships and World Cups. Prior this he coached in India, leading Goa for a season, before returning to Portugal to coach the women’s national side.

The qualification for the 2023 World Cup finals, in particular, led to a boom in media interest and attendances at women’s matches across the country.

Neto knows the importance of success to the future of developing the women’s game in Portugal. Before the Euro 25 play-off qualification win over Czech Republic, he said: “I hope that people do not wait for this result to continue developing women's football.

“We really want to be there; I am not shying away from the pressure, and we will do everything we can to achieve it. We know and accept the responsibility of being in a finals."

Portugal's star player

Portugal Star Player: Tatiana Pinto

Portugal have plenty of top-class internationals in their ranks, with the likes of Diana Silva, Jéssica Silva, Carolina Mendes and Ana Borges all key to their chances of success and playing in some of the best leagues in the world.

But Pinto remains the heartbeat of the team. Although she is now north of 30, Pinto is capable of dictating the play and driving her team forward. Like many of her generation, Pinto had to play against boys during her teens as there were no female youth teams.

After spells at Sand in Germany, she spent time in England with Bristol City, before five seasons at Sporting back in her own country. In 2021 she moved to Levante, before returning to the WSL with Brighton for one season.

Pinto was then part of Atletico Madrid’s heavy recruitment drive last summer and has already looked at home in Liga F, where they are pushing to qualify for the Champions League.