Portal dos Dragões
·3 September 2025
Check out the FC Porto players' schedules with their national teams

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·3 September 2025
FC Porto has 29 players called up for international duty over the next eight days. Diogo Costa (Portugal), Jan Bednarek and Jakub Kiwior (Poland), Victor Froholdt (Denmark), Deniz Gül (Turkey), and Alan Varela (Argentina) will be participating in the qualification phase for the 2026 World Cup; Stephen Eustáquio and Pablo Rosário will play friendly matches for Canada and the Dominican Republic, respectively; Dominik Prpic (Croatia) and Rodrigo Mora (Portugal) will compete in the U21 European Championship qualifiers.
The B team and youth squads will also be without several players. Trafim Melnichenka (Belarus) will fight for a spot in the World Cup, while Gabriel Brás (Portugal U21), Gonçalo Ribeiro, Luís Gomes, and Gonçalo Sousa (Portugal U20), Martim Cunha (Portugal U19), Bernardo Lima, Francisco Fernandes, Martim Antunes, Yoan Pereira, Duarte Cunha, and Mateus Mide (Portugal U18), Francisco Mendes, Vasco Dinis, Filipe Silva, João Brito, and Gustavo Guerra (Portugal U17), Rayan Demirci (Sweden U18), and Seif Costa (United Arab Emirates U17) have been called up to their respective youth national teams. Here is the schedule for the blue and white ambassadors spread across three continents.
Wednesday, September 32:00 PM, U18 Friendly: Japan – Portugal (Bernardo Lima, Francisco Fernandes, Martim Antunes, Yoan Pereira, Duarte Cunha, and Mateus Mide)
Thursday, September 411:00 AM, U17 Friendly: Portugal – Italy (Francisco Mendes, Vasco Dinis, Filipe Silva, João Brito, and Gustavo Guerra)3:30 PM, U19 Friendly: Portugal – Hungary (Martim Cunha)4:30 PM, U18 Friendly: Sweden – Denmark (Rayan Demirci)5:00 PM, World Cup Qualifier: Georgia – Turkey (Deniz Gül)6:30 PM, U20 Friendly: Portugal – Czechia (Gonçalo Ribeiro, Luís Gomes, and Gonçalo Sousa)7:45 PM, World Cup Qualifier: Netherlands – Poland (Jan Bednarek and Jakub Kiwior)
Friday, September 512:30 AM, World Cup Qualifier: Argentina – Venezuela (Alan Varela)6:00 PM, U18 Friendly: France – Portugal (Bernardo Lima, Francisco Fernandes, Martim Antunes, Yoan Pereira, Duarte Cunha, and Mateus Mide)7:00 PM, Friendly: Romania – Canada (Stephen Eustáquio)7:30 PM, U21 Euro Qualifier: Portugal – Azerbaijan (Gabriel Brás and Rodrigo Mora)7:45 PM, World Cup Qualifier: Denmark – Scotland (Victor Froholdt)7:45 PM, World Cup Qualifier: Greece – Belarus (Trafim Melnichenka)
Saturday, September 611:00 AM, U17 Friendly: Portugal – Scotland (Francisco Mendes, Vasco Dinis, Filipe Silva, João Brito, and Gustavo Guerra)3:00 PM, U18 Friendly: Sweden – Ukraine (Rayan Demirci)4:00 PM, U19 Friendly: Montenegro – Portugal (Martim Cunha)5:00 PM, World Cup Qualifier: Armenia – Portugal (Diogo Costa)
Sunday, September 71:00 PM, U18 Friendly: Portugal – Saudi Arabia (Bernardo Lima, Francisco Fernandes, Martim Antunes, Yoan Pereira, Duarte Cunha, and Mateus Mide)7:45 PM, World Cup Qualifier: Poland – Finland (Jan Bednarek and Jakub Kiwior)7:45 PM, World Cup Qualifier: Turkey – Spain (Deniz Gül)
Monday, September 87:45 PM, World Cup Qualifier: Greece – Denmark (Victor Froholdt)7:45 PM, World Cup Qualifier: Belarus – Scotland (Trafim Melnichenka)
Tuesday, September 911:00 AM, U17 Friendly: Portugal – Serbia (Francisco Mendes, Vasco Dinis, Filipe Silva, João Brito, and Gustavo Guerra)12:30 PM, U20 Elite League: Poland – Portugal (Gonçalo Ribeiro, Luís Gomes, and Gonçalo Sousa)4:00 PM, U19 Friendly: Serbia – Portugal (Martim Cunha)4:30 PM, U18 Friendly: Sweden – Norway (Rayan Demirci)6:00 PM, Friendly: Jordan – Dominican Republic (Pablo Rosario)6:00 PM, U21 Euro Qualifier: Turkey – Croatia (Dominik Prpic)7:00 PM, U21 Euro Qualifier: Scotland – Portugal (Gabriel Brás and Rodrigo Mora)7:45 PM, World Cup Qualifier: Hungary – Portugal (Diogo Costa)7:45 PM, Friendly: Wales – Canada (Stephen Eustáquio)
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