Martim Mota da Costa (born 27 September 2002) is a Portuguese

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player for

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and the Portuguese national team.

Career

Costa started playing handball at Colégio dos Carvalhos, a private school south of

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together with his brother, Francisco Costa. In 2017 he Switched to FC Portos youth team. Between 2018 and 2020 he was loaned to

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, a team from his hometown. In his first season he won the Portuguese second division, scoring 227 in 30 matches and was promoted to

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. In his second season, his first in the top flight, he scored 225 goals in 26 matches. In the 2020/2021 he played for the Porto first team, where he won the Portuguese Championship and the Portuguese Supercup. After a season at Porto he joined

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, which was coached by his father, Ricardo Costa. His brother also played at the club. Here he won the

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in 2022, 2023 and 2024 and the Portuguese Supercup in 2023, and the Portuguese championship in 2024.

National team

Costa debuted for the Portuguese national team in a World Cup qualification match against Netherlands. After losing the home match 30:33, Costa lead his team to an 35:28 win, scoring 10 goals and securing the qualification. His brother debuted in the same match. His first major international tournament was the

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, where Portugal finished 13th. At the

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he was joint top scorer, together with Danish

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, with 54 goals. At the 2025 World Championship he scored the winning goal against Germany with 5 seconds left in extra time to take Portugal to their first ever World Championship semifinal. They lost the semifinals to Denmark and the third place playoff to France.

Honours

Porto * Portuguese League **Champion: 2020–21 *

**Winner: 2020–21 Sporting CP * Portuguese League **Champion: 2023–24 *

**Winner: 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24 * Portuguese Super Cup **Winner: 2023, 2024

Individual awards

* All-Star centre back of the

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* All-Star left back of the

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*Top scorer of the European Championship: 2024 (54 goals) * All-Star left back of the

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* All-Star right back of the Youth World Championship:

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Personal life

He is the older brother of handball player Francisco Costa. His father, Ricardo Costa, is a former handball player and the coach of

Sporting CP Sporting Clube de Portugal (), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP or simply Sporting (particularly within Portugal), or as Sporting Lisbon in other countries,

References

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