Martim Fernandes
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| Full name | Martim Moreira Moutinho Fernandes[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 18 January 2006[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Valongo, Portugal | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Right-back | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Porto | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 52 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2015–2017 | Valonguense | ||||||||||||||||
| 2017–2024 | Porto | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022– | Porto B | 36 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023– | Porto | 48 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | Portugal U16 | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022–2023 | Portugal U17 | 14 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023 | Portugal U19 | 7 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2025– | Portugal U21 | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 18:56, 26 April 2026 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 19:29, 18 November 2025 (UTC) | |||||||||||||||||
Martim Moreira Moutinho Fernandes (born 18 January 2006) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Primeira Liga club Porto.
Born in Valongo, Porto District, Fernandes joined FC Porto's academy aged 11.[2] On 18 January 2022, his 16th birthday, he signed his first professional contract.[3]
Fernandes made his senior debut with the B team on 7 August 2022, starting a 1–0 Liga Portugal 2 home loss against S.C. Covilhã, and at 16 years and six months became their youngest ever debutant in the division, breaking Rui Pedro's record by four months.[2] On 28 September 2023, he was named Porto's Young Athlete of the Year[4] and, the following month, was included in The Guardian's: Next Generation 2023 list of outstanding talents.[5]
On 20 October 2023, Fernandes played his first competitive match with the main squad, as a 73rd-minute replacement for João Mário in the 2–0 away win over GD Vilar de Perdizes in the third round of the Taça de Portugal.[6][7] He scored his first professional goal on 17 March 2024, helping Porto's reserves to a 1–1 draw at C.D. Feirense.[8]
With starting right-back João Mário injured, Fernandes was surprisingly picked by manager Sérgio Conceição for an important match against rivals Sporting CP on 29 April 2024; in the 40th minute of his Primeira Liga bow, he made a long run forward and assisted Pepê for Porto's second goal, but the hosts eventually conceded a 2–2 draw.[9][10] He went on to start the remaining three league matches of the season,[11][12][13] being a used substitute in the Portuguese Cup final, a 2–1 victory over the same opposition.[14]
Following a collision with S.L. Benfica's Sidny Lopes Cabral in the Portuguese Cup quarter-finals on 14 January 2026, Fernandes played more than 70 minutes with a broken nose; Porto won 1–0 at the Estádio do Dragão to go through.[15][16] He scored his first goal for the first team 12 days later, the second in a 3–0 home defeat of Gil Vicente F.C. where he was voted player of the match.[17]
International career
Fernandes was part of the Portugal under-17 squad at the 2019 UEFA European Championship.[18] He then represented the under-19s in the 2023 European Championship, where they finished runners-up; in the final against Italy, he had a second-half chance to equalise Michael Kayode's winner, but Davide Mastrantonio saved it to keep the score at 1–0.[19][20]
On 10 October 2025, Fernandes earned his first cap at under-21 level, featuring 59 minutes of a 3–0 home win over Bulgaria in the 2027 UEFA European Championship qualifiers.[21][22]