Team guide: Portugal

Portugal are the only team to qualify with a perfect record, winning all ten of their games to reach the final tournament for the first time since 2007, when they finished third.

It will be their seventh finals, with their best performance coming in 1994 when a side featuring Luís Figo and Rui Costa were runners-up to Italy, and Rui Jorge's side will hope to go one better in the Czech Republic after making amends for missing out on the 2013 finals, sweeping aside the Netherlands 7-4 on aggregate in the play-offs.

"What we've done is amazing but totally deserved for these players, who will have the opportunity to play on a very important stage," said Rui Jorge. "We have a strong team but I wouldn't say we're favourites. Our first goal will be to get through the group stage and earn a spot at the Olympics in Brazil."

Coach: Rui Jorge
Born 27/03/73
Jorge succeeded Oceano Cruz in November 2010. The one-time FC Porto, Rio Ave, Sporting and Belenenses left-back made 45 appearances for his country, including one at UEFA EURO 2004 on home soil and three at the FIFA World Cup two years earlier.

Tournament record
2015: runners-up
2013: did not qualify
2011: did not qualify
2009: did not qualify
2007: group stage
2006: group stage
2004: third place
2002: group stage
2000: did not qualify
1998: did not qualify
1996: quarter-finals
1994: runners-up
1992: did not qualify
1990: did not qualify
1988: did not qualify
1986: did not qualify
1984: did not qualify
1982: did not enter
1980: did not qualify
1978: did not qualify

2015 qualifying (including play-off)
P10 W10 D0 L0 F29 A10 
Top scorer: Ricardo (5)
Ever presents: Paulo Oliveira, Ricardo

Portugal U21s capped at senior level
Rafa (3), Ivan Calaveiro (2), Raphael Guerreiro (2), Paulo Oliveira (1), Bernardo Silva (1)

Players with previous U21 final tournament experience
None

Most capped player
All-time: 30 Manuel Fernandes
Current: 23 Paulo Oliveira, Sérgio Oliveira

Leading scorer
All-time: 16 Hugo Almeida
Current: 7 Ivan Cavaleiro, Ricardo

Biggest wins
Final tournament: 
5-0: Portugal v Germany, 27/06/2015
2015 semi-finals, Ander Stadium, Olomouc

Qualifying
8-1: Portugal v Armenia, 19/08/97
Qualifying group stage, Estádio António Coimbra Da Mota, Estoril
7-0: Portugal v Cyprus, 05/06/01
Qualifying group stage, Municipal de Abrantes, Abrantes
7-0: Portugal v Malta, 18/06/93
Qualifying group stage, Primeiro de Maio, Braga

Heaviest defeats
Final tournament
3-1: Italy v Portugal, 05/06/04
Semi-finals, Ruhrstadion, Bochum
3-1: Sweden v Portugal, 28/05/04
Group stage, Carl-Benz-Stadion, Mannheim
0-2: Portugal v Serbia and Montenegro, 25/05/06
Group stage, Estádio Cidade de Barcelos, Barcelos
0-2: Portugal v Switzerland, 20/05/02
Group stage, Hardturm, Zurich

Qualifying
6-0: Italy v Portugal, 02/12/87
Qualifying group stage, Leonardo Garilli, Piacenza