Gabriel Brás
Portuguese footballer, born 2004
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Gabriel Costa Brás (born 25 March 2004) is a Portuguese footballer who plays as a centre back for Porto B and the Portugal national under-21 team.
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| Full name | Gabriel Costa Brás | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 25 March 2004 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Centre back | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Porto B | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 73 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2017 | Varzim | ||||||||||||||||
| 2017–2024 | Porto | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023– | Porto B | 57 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2019 | Portugal U15 | 4 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2019–2020 | Portugal U16 | 12 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021–2022 | Portugal U18 | 12 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022–2023 | Portugal U19 | 13 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023–2024 | Portugal U20 | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2024– | Portugal U20 | 3 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 22:11, 10 December 2025 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 22:11, 10 December 2025 (UTC) | |||||||||||||||||
He joined the youth ranks of Porto in 2017 from local club Varzim, and made his debut for Porto B in Liga Portugal 2 in 2023, later becoming captain. He represented Portugal from under-15 to under-21 international level, and was chosen in the Team of the Tournament at the 2023 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, in which his team were runners-up.
Club career
Born in Póvoa de Varzim in the Porto metropolitan area, Brás was raised in neighbouring Vila do Conde.[1] He started playing football at local club Varzim before joining the youth ranks of Porto in 2017, and signing his first professional contract aged 16 in June 2020.[1] In January 2023, while an under-19 player, his contract was extended by an undisclosed length.[2]
Brás was added to the Porto B team in Liga Portugal 2 for 2023–24. He made his debut on 13 August in a goalless home draw with Tondela,[3] and on 2 September, he headed his first goal to equalise in a 2–1 loss away to Mafra, as his team lost for the first time in the fourth fixture.[4] In December, first-team manager Sérgio Conceição called up Brás and fellow reserve defender Romain Correia for a Taça da Liga match against Leixões, as David Carmo had been sent in the opposite direction.[5]
On 2 December 2024, captain Brás headed the last-minute winner against Oliveirense.[6] Thirteen days later, he suffered an injury in a goalless home draw with Feirense on 15 December 2024, and was ruled out for over a month.[7] In June 2025, first-team manager Martín Anselmi called him up for the 28-man squad for the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup in the United States.[8]
International career
Brás played with the Portugal under-15 team at a tournament in Austria in 2019, scoring in a 2–1 loss to the hosts on 29 April.[9] On 6 February 2020, he equalised in a 3–1 home win over Colombia in Vila Real de Santo António for the under-16 team.[10] He was the captain of the under-18 team at the football at the 2022 Mediterranean Games in Algeria.[11]
At the 2023 UEFA European Under-19 Championship in Malta, Brás scored the opening goal of the tournament within four minutes of a 2–0 group win over Poland.[12] Three days later he added another in a 5–1 win over Italy at the National Stadium, Ta' Qali.[13] The two teams met again in the final which Italy won by a single goal; Brás was named in the Team of the Tournament.[14]
On 11 October 2024, on his second cap for the under-21 team, Brás scored a header in a 3–1 win away to the Faroe Islands, in 2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification.[15] A year and three days later in his next game, he contributed a goal to a record 11–0 win away to Gibraltar in the next qualification cycle.[16]