João Palhinha

PlayerPlays for S.L. BenficaNationality PortugalAge 31 (born 9 Jul 1995)Position defensive midfielder

Sources Wikidata, OpenFootball, WikipediaUpdated 15 Oct 2026, 17:31 BSTItem Q16236952

What is held

Caps and goals per national team as Wikidata records them on each spell. Match-by-match international caps are not held. openfootball's tournament files hold results and scorers' names but no team sheets, so a player's tournament matches cannot be tied to this profile without matching on names, which the archive does not do.

Senior national team

Senior national team spells
Team	Dates	Caps	Goals
Portugal men's national football team	2021 – present	37	2

Youth national teams

Youth and under-age national teams, kept apart from senior caps
Team	Dates	Caps	Goals
Portugal national under-18 football team	2011 – 2011	2	0
Portugal national under-19 football team	2013 – 2013	14	1
Portugal national under-20 football team	2015 – 2015	2	0

Source: Wikidata (CC0), member of sports team (P54) with matches (P1350) and goals (P1351). A dash means not held, not zero.

Caps by year

Senior caps and goals per year, according to the player's English Wikipedia article.
Team	Year	Caps	Goals
Portugal	2021	12	2
Portugal	2022	6	0
Portugal	2023	6	0
Portugal	2024	9	0
Portugal	2025	4	0
Portugal	2026	3	0
Total		40	2

Includes data from Wikipedia (“João Palhinha”, revision 1380461147, read 16 Oct 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikipedia is edited by volunteers; the archive treats it as a secondary source and checks it against its own records where it can.