Portugal Davis Cup team


The Portugal men's national tennis team represents Portugal in Davis Cup tennis competition and is governed by the Federação Portuguesa de Ténis.
Portugal competes in the Europe/Africa Zone Group I in 2017, after being promoted from Group II in the 2015 season. They have never played in the World Group, but reached the World Group play-offs in 1994 and 2017.

History

Portugal competed in its first Davis Cup in 1925. Their first opponent was Italy, who won 4–1.
Portugal's most successful moment came in 1994 after defeating Great Britain 4–1 in the Group I of the Europe/Africa Zone and qualifying to the World Group play-offs. The team led by João Cunha e Silva, Nuno Marques and Emanuel Couto lost, however, to Croatia 4–0.

Current team (2024">2024 Davis Cup">2024)

Recent performances

Here is the list of all match-ups since 1981, when the competition started being held in the current World Group format.

Statistics

Since 1981
;Record
  • World Group: 0 times
  • WG Play-off: 2 time
  • Europe/Africa Zone Group I: 21 times
  • Europe/Africa Zone Group II: 11 times
;Home and away record
  • Performance at home : 32–24
  • Performance away : 13–38
  • Total: 45–62
;Head-to-head record
  • 3–0
  • 3–0
  • 2–0
  • 2–0
  • 2–1
  • 2–1
  • 2–1
  • 2–1
  • 2–2
  • 1–0
  • 1–0
  • 1–0
  • 1–0
  • 1–0
  • 1–0
  • 1–0
  • 1–0
  • 1–0
  • 1–1
  • 1–1
  • 1–1
  • 1–1
  • 1–1
  • 1–1
  • 1–1
  • 1–1
  • 1–1
  • 1–2
  • 1–2
  • 1–2
  • 0–1
  • 0–1
  • 0–2
  • 0–4
  • 0–4
  • 0–4
;Record against continents
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Record: 14–3 Record: 0–0 Record: 27–34 Record: 0–0 Record: 0–0 Record: 0–0

;Record by decade:
  • 1981–1989: 7–9
  • 1990–1999: 10–10
  • 2000–2009: 11–12
  • 2010–2019: 13–6