List of Portugal international footballers born outside Portugal

This list includes all the Portuguese players who played for the Portugal senior national football team who are born outside Portugal. Almost all of this players (81 totally) are born in the former Portuguese colonies, while others (the minority) are naturalized or born abroad.

List by country of birth

Last update on 17 November 2019

Country Total Notes
 Angola 30 Includes 26 players born in the Portuguese Angola
 Mozambique 23 Includes 23 players born in the Portuguese Mozambique
 Guinea-Bissau 9 Includes 4 players born in the Portuguese Guinea
 Cape Verde 8 Includes 6 players born in the Portuguese Cape Verde
 Brazil 7
 France 5
 Canada 2
DR Congo 2 Includes 2 players born in Zaire
Macau 2 Includes 2 players born in the Portuguese Macau
 São Tomé and Príncipe 2 Includes 1 player born in the Portuguese São Tomé
 South Africa 2
 Germany 1
 Morocco 1 Born in the French Morocco
  Switzerland 1
 Venezuela 1

List of players

The players in bold are currently representing Portugal.

Country Birthplace Player Caps Goals Period Notes Ref.
 Angola Port. Angola José Águas 25 11 1952–1962 [1]
 Angola Port. Angola Miguel Arcanjo 9 0 1957–1965 [2]
 Angola William Carvalho 59 4 2013– [3]
 Angola Hélder Costa 1 1 2018– [4]
 Angola Port. Angola Joaquim Dinis 14 5 1970–1973 [5]
 Angola Port. Angola Carlos Duarte 7 1 1952–1962 [6]
 Angola Edgar 1 0 1998 [7]
 Angola Port. Angola Jorge Ferreira 4 0 1989–1990 [8]
 Angola Port. Angola José Ferreira Pinto 2 0 1965 [9]
 Angola Port. Angola Fernando Freitas 9 0 1972–1976 [10]
 Angola Port. Angola Hélder 35 3 1992–2001 [11]
 Angola Port. Angola Jacinto João 10 2 1968–1974 [12]
 Angola Lucas João 2 0 2015 [13]
 Angola Port. Angola Rui Jordão 43 15 1972–1989 [14]
 Angola Port. Angola José Leal 15 1 1990–1992 [15]
 Angola Port. Angola Lito 2 0 1983 [16]
 Angola Port. Angola Paulo Madeira 25 3 1991–1999 [17]
 Angola Port. Angola Amândio Malta da

Silva

 5 0 1971 [18]
 Angola Port. Angola José Maria 4 0 1967–1970 [19]
 Angola Port. Angola Aníbal Paciência 1 0 1941 [20]
 Angola Port. Angola Carlos Parente 2 0 1987 [21]
 Angola Port. Angola Paulinho 1 0 1992 [22]
 Angola Port. Angola Fernando Peyroteo 20 15 1938–1949 [23]
 Angola Port. Angola Jorge Plácido 3 2 1987–1989 [24]
 Angola Port. Angola Filipe Ramos 3 0 1992 [25]
 Angola Port. Angola Santana 5 1 1960–1965 [26]
 Angola Port. Angola Seninho 4 1 1976–1978 [27]
 Angola Port. Angola Mário Torres 5 0 1957–1959 [28]
 Angola Port. Angola Vado 3 0 1989–1995 [29]
 Angola Port. Angola José Luís Vidigal 15 0 2000–2002 [30]
 Brazil Celso 3 0 1976–1978 [31]
 Brazil Deco 75 5 2003–2010 [32]
 Brazil Liédson 15 4 2009–2010 [33]
 Brazil Lúcio 5 0 1960–1962 [34]
 Brazil Rony Lopes 2 0 2017– [35]
 Brazil Pepe 108 7 2007– [36]
 Brazil Dyego Sousa 2 0 2019– [37]
 Canada Daniel Fernandes 2 0 2007–2009 [38]
 Canada Ricardo Ferreira 1 0 2017– [39]
 Cape Verde Port. Cape Verde Carlos Alhinho 15 0 1973–1982 [40]
 Cape Verde Port. Cape Verde Henrique Ben David 6 4 1950–1952 [41]
 Cape Verde Port. Cape Verde Óscar Duarte 1 0 1978 [42]
 Cape Verde Nélson 4 0 2009–2012 [43]
 Cape Verde Port. Cape Verde Neno 9 0 1989–1996 [44]
 Cape Verde Port. Cape Verde Oceano da Cruz 54 8 1985–1998 [45]
 Cape Verde Port. Cape Verde Paris 1 0 1983 [46]
 Cape Verde Rolando 21 0 2009– [47]
DR Congo

 Zaire José Bosingwa 27 0 2007–2015 [48]
DR Congo  Zaire Ariza Makukula 4 1 2007–2008 [49]
 France Raphaël Guerreiro 39 2 2014– [50]
 France Anthony Lopes 7 0 2015– [51]
 France Petit 57 4 2001–2008 [52]
 France Kévin Rodrigues 3 0 2017– He previously has been a France youth
international.[53]		 [54]
 France Adrien Silva 26 1 2014– [55]
 Germany Cédric 33 1 2014– [56]
 Guinea-Bissau Bruma 9 1 2017– [57]
 Guinea-Bissau Yannick Djaló 1 0 2010 [58]
 Guinea-Bissau Eder 35 5 2012– He scored the winning goal for Portugal in the Euro
2016 Final against France.[59]		 [60]
 Guinea-Bissau Edgar Ié 1 0 2017– [61]
 Guinea-Bissau Port. Guinea Alberto Fonseca 9 2 1978–1986 [62]
 Guinea-Bissau Danilo Pereira 37 2 2015– [63]
 Guinea-Bissau Port. Guinea Reinaldo 6 1 1979–1983 [64]
 Guinea-Bissau Port. Guinea Samuel 5 0 1991–1992 [65]
 Guinea-Bissau Port. Guinea Arnaldo Silva 1 0 1974 [66]
 Macau Port. Macau Joaquim Pacheco 1 0 1957 [67]
 Macau Port. Macau Augusto Rocha 7 0 1958–1963 [68]
 Morocco French Morocco Jacques Pereira 1 0 1981 [69]
 Mozambique Port. Mozambique Abel 4 0 1972–1973 [70]
 Mozambique Port. Mozambique Acúrsio 8 0 1959–1960 [71]
 Mozambique Port. Mozambique Jorge Cadete 33 5 1990–1998 [72]
 Mozambique Port. Mozambique Mário Coluna 57 8 1955–1968 [73]
 Mozambique Port. Mozambique Alberto Costa Pereira 22 0 1955–1965 [74]
 Mozambique Port. Mozambique Djão 1 0 1981 [75]
 Mozambique Port. Mozambique Eusébio 64 41 1961–1973 [76]
 Mozambique Port. Mozambique Hilário 40 0 1959–1971 [77]
 Mozambique Port. Mozambique Joaquim Jorge 2 0 1969 [78]
 Mozambique Port. Mozambique Juca 6 0 1952–1956 [79]
 Mozambique Port. Mozambique Armando Manhiça 2 0 1968 [80]
 Mozambique Port. Mozambique Matateu 27 13 1952–1960 [81]
 Mozambique Port. Mozambique Augusto Matine 9 0 1970–1973 [82]
 Mozambique Port. Mozambique Messias 6 0 1972 [83]
 Mozambique Port. Mozambique Perdigão 1 0 1957 [84]
 Mozambique Port. Mozambique José Pérides 2 0 1961 [85]
 Mozambique Port. Mozambique Rui Rodrigues 12 3 1967–1976 [86]
 Mozambique Port. Mozambique Vítor Santos 1 0 1983 [87]
 Mozambique Port. Mozambique Shéu 24 1 1976–1986 [88]
 Mozambique Port. Mozambique Vicente 20 0 1959–1966 [89]
 Mozambique Port. Mozambique Abel Xavier 20 2 1993–2002 [90]
 Mozambique Port. Mozambique Carlos Xavier 10 0 1981–1993 [91]
 Mozambique Port. Mozambique Pedro Xavier 4 0 1985–1989 [92]
 São Tomé and Príncipe Gedson Fernandes 2 0 2018– [93]
 São Tomé and Príncipe Port. São Tomé Vítor Guilhar 2 0 1941 [94]
 South Africa Dimas 44 0 1995–2002 [95]
 South Africa David Júlio 4 0 1960–1961 [96]
  Switzerland Pedro Mendes 1 0 2018– [97]
 Venezuela Danny 38 4 2008–2016 [98]

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