Futebol Clube do Porto Futebol Clube do Porto, MHIH, OM (), commonly known as FC Porto or simply Porto, is a Portuguese professional sports club based in Porto. It is best known for the professional football team playing in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Port ...

is a Portuguese

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based in

Porto Porto (), also known in English language, English as Oporto, is the List of cities in Portugal, second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon. It is the capital of the Porto District and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto c ...

that is best known for its professional

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team playing in the country's top-tier division, the

Primeira Liga The Primeira Liga (), also known as Liga Portugal Betclic for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Portugal and the highest level of the Portuguese football league system. Organised and supervised by the Liga ...

. Porto played their first match a few days after the club's foundation in 1893, but only began playing competitively in 1911, when they took part and won the first José Monteiro da Costa Cup. Since then, the team has entered and often achieved success in several domestic and international football competitions. This list includes all the players that have made at least 100 competitive appearances for the

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, either as a member of the starting eleven or as a substitute.

João Pinto João Manuel Vieira Pinto (; born 19 August 1971) is a Portuguese retired professional footballer who played mostly as a forward. Blessed with playmaking and goalscoring ability, he made his name mostly at a domestic level and as a key figu ...

, former

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and

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, holds Porto's record for most appearances, having played 587 matches during an uninterrupted senior career of 16 years at the club. He is one of only two players with over 500 first-team appearances; the other is former

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and also captain

Vítor Baía Vítor Manuel Martins Baía, OIH (; born 15 October 1969) is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. One of the most decorated goalkeepers of all time, his career was intimately connected with FC Porto, which h ...

, who appeared in 566 matches in 17 seasons. Four other players have made at least 400 appearances; among them is Aloísio, a former Brazilian

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who holds the team record for most appearances by a foreign player. Fernando Gomes is Porto's top goalscorer, with 347 goals in 455 appearances. The only other club player with more than 300 goals is Pinga, who scored 314 times in 15 consecutive seasons. As of , nine players currently active in the first team have made at least 100 appearances:

Diogo Costa Diogo Meireles da Costa (; born 19 September 1999) is a Portugese professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Primeira Liga club Porto, which he captains. Born in Switzerland, he plays for the Portugal national team. He is consider ...

(goalkeeper, Portugal), João Mário (defender, Portugal),

Iván Marcano Iván Marcano Sierra (; born 23 June 1987) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Primeira Liga club Porto as a central defender. After starting out at Racing de Santander and appearing for the club in La Liga, he went on to spend t ...

(defender, Spain),

Zaidu Sanusi Zaidu Muhammed Sanusi (born 13 June 1997) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Primeira Liga club Porto and the Nigeria national team. He spent his senior career in Portugal, playing in the Primeira Liga with San ...

(defender, Nigeria),

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(defender, Brazil),

Marko Grujić Marko Grujić ( sr-Cyrl, Марко Грујић, ; born 13 April 1996) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Primeira Liga club Porto and the Serbia national team. A native of Belgrade, Grujić started his career w ...

(midfielder, Serbia),

Stephen Eustáquio Stephen Antunes Eustáquio ( ; born 21 December 1996) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Primeira Liga club Porto and vice-captains the Canada national team. After starting out at Nazarenos, he has spent mos ...

(midfielder, Canada),

Galeno Wenderson Rodrigues do Nascimento Galeno (born 21 October 1997), commonly known as Galeno, is a Brazilian professional association football, footballer who plays as a winger (association football), winger for Saudi Pro League club Al-Ahli Saudi ...

(forward, Brazil), Pepê (forward, Brazil).

Table key

*The list is ordered first by year of first appearance, then by total number of appearances. *Players active in the first team have their name shown in ''italics'', and can add to their totals. *Appearances and goals are counted only for first-team competitive matches in the

Taça de Portugal The Taça de Portugal (; ) is an annual association football competition and the premier knockout tournament in Portuguese football. For sponsorship reasons, it has been known as Taça de Portugal Generali Tranquilidade since the 2024–25 seaso ...

(including the predecessor Campeonato de Portugal),

Taça da Liga The Taça da Liga (), known outside Portugal as Portuguese League Cup, is an annual club football competition organised by the Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional (LPFP) for teams competing in the top two tiers of Portuguese football – the ...

Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira The Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira (; English: Cândido de Oliveira Super Cup, or simply Portuguese Super Cup) is an annual Portuguese association football, football match played since 1979 between the winners of the top-tier league (Primeira L ...

, European Cup/UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League,

UEFA Super Cup The UEFA Super Cup is an annual super cup Association football, football match organised by UEFA and contested by the winners of the two main European club competitions: the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League. The competition's offic ...

, and defunct competitions such as Campeonato do Porto,

Cup Winners' Cup The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a European football club competition contested annually by the winners of domestic cup competitions. The competition's official name was originally the European Cup Winners' Cup; it was renamed the UEFA Cup Winne ...

Inter-Cities Fairs Cup The Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, most commonly referred to as the Fairs Cup and sometimes as the European Fairs Cup or Fairs Cities' Cup, was a European football competition played between 1955 and 1971. The Fairs Cup was the idea of FIFA vice-presid ...

, and Intercontinental Cup. *Position – Playing position: GK =

, DF = defender, MF =

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, FW =

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*Club career – First and last calendar years in which the player appeared for the club in any of the competitions listed above. *Appearances – Number of matches played with the club (as starter and substitute) *Goals – Number of goals scored with the club *National team – Country represented by the player at international level during his career with the club. *Caps – Number of international appearances made by a player during his career with the club (n/a = information not available). * – Player is a club record holder.

Players with 100 or more appearances

Footnotes

References

;Bibliography * * ;Citations {{FC Porto, state=autocollapse Players

FC Porto Futebol Clube do Porto, Order of Prince Henry, MHIH, Order of Merit (Portugal), OM (), commonly known as FC Porto or simply Porto, is a Portuguese professional sports club based in Porto. It is best known for the professional association footbal ...

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