The
Portugal national football team represents
Portugal in
association football and is controlled by the
Portuguese Football Federation, the governing body for
football in Portugal. Portugal's home ground is the
Estádio Nacional in
Oeiras (however, many recent games have been played at the
Estádio da Luz), and their most recent head coach is
Fernando Santos. Their first World Cup appearance, in the
1966 FIFA World Cup, saw them reach the semi-finals, losing 2–1 at
Wembley to the eventual world champions,
England, and defeating the
Soviet Union 2–1 to claim a third-place finish. The next two times Portugal qualified for the World Cup were
1986 and
2002, going out in the first round both times. In the 1986 tournament, players
went on strike over prize money and refused to train between their first and second games.