Gabriel Brás
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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) | |||||||||||||||||
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.
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.
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]