Carlos Manuel Brito Leal Queiroz - International Matches as Coach


The outstanding Portuguese coach coached six national teams (Portugal, United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Iran, Colombia and Egypt) for (in total) 236 international matches and thereby belongs to the select company of coaches with 100 or more international matches. All matches are friendlies unless stated otherwise.


Born: 1- 3-1953
Country: Mozambique (Portuguese citizen) 
Matches as Coach:		  236	(W129-D65-L42 – GF368-GA177 – %68.43)
Matches as Coach for Portugal: 	   49	(W 26-D16-L 7 – GF 76-GA 26 – %69.39)
Matches as Coach for UA Emirates:  19	(W 10-D 2-L 7 – GF 31-GA 37 – %57.89)
Matches as Coach for South Africa: 24	(W 10-D 8-L 6 – GF 24-GA 19 – %58.33)
Matches as Coach for Iran: 	  107	(W 64-D28-L15 – GF192-GA 69 – %72.90)
Matches as Coach for Colombia: 	   18	(W  9-D 5-L 4 – GF 22-GA 17 – %63.88)
Matches as Coach for Egypt: 	   19	(W 10-D 6-L 3 – GF 23-GA  9 – %68.42)
Age First Match: 38 yr 187 d	    4- 9-1991 vs. Austria 1-1
Age Last Match:  69 yr 273 d	   29-11-2022 vs. United States 0-1
National Team Career: 31 yr  86 d

Caps    Date    Venue           Opponent       Score    Competition 

Coach for Portugal
first tenure
  1    4- 9-91	Oporto  	Austria 	1-1
  2   11- 9-91	Oporto  	Finland 	1-0	European Ch. Qual.
  3   12-10-91	Luxembourg 	Luxembourg	1-1
  4   16-10-91	Rotterdam	Netherlands	0-1	European Ch. Qual.
  5   20-11-91	Lisboa  	Greece  	1-0	European Ch. Qual.
  6   15- 1-92	Torres Novas	Spain   	0-0
  7   12- 2-92	Faro    	Netherlands	2-0
  8   31- 5-92	New Haven	Italy   	0-0	US Cup
  9    3- 6-92	Chicago 	United States	1-0	US Cup
 10    7- 6-92	Foxborough	Ireland  	0-2	US Cup
 11    2- 9-92	Linz    	Austria 	1-1
 12   14-10-92	Glasgow 	Scotland	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
 13   11-11-92	Saint-Ouen	Bulgaria	2-1
 14   24- 1-93	La Valletta	Malta   	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 15   10- 2-93	Faro    	Norway  	1-1
 16   24- 2-93	Oporto  	Italy   	1-3	World Cup Qualifier
 17   31- 3-93	Bern    	Switzerland	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
 18   28- 4-93	Lisboa  	Scotland	5-0	World Cup Qualifier
 19   19- 6-93	Oporto  	Malta   	4-0	World Cup Qualifier
 20    5- 9-93	Tallinn 	Estonia 	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
 21   13-10-93	Oporto  	Switzerland 	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 22   10-11-93	Lisboa  	Estonia 	3-0	World Cup Qualifier
 23   17-11-93	Milano  	Italy   	0-1	World Cup Qualifier
second tenure
 24   20- 8-08	Aveiro  	Faroe Islands	5-0	
 25    6- 9-08	La Valletta	Malta   	4-0	World Cup Qualifier
 26   10- 9-08	Lisboa  	Denmark 	2-3	World Cup Qualifier
 27   11-10-08	Stockholm	Sweden  	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
 28   15-10-08	Braga   	Albania 	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
 29   19-11-08	Brasília	Brazil  	2-6	
 30   11- 2-09	Faro-Loulé	Finland 	1-0	
 31   28- 3-09	Oporto  	Sweden  	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
 32   31- 3-09	Lausanne	South Africa	2-0	
 33    6- 6-09	Tiranë  	Albania 	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
 34   10- 6-09	Tallinn 	Estonia 	0-0	
 35   12- 8-09	Vaduz   	Liechtenstein	3-0	
 36    5- 9-09	København	Denmark 	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
 37    9- 9-09	Budapest	Hungary 	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 38   10-10-09	Lisboa  	Hungary 	3-0	World Cup Qualifier
 39   14-10-09	Guimarães	Malta   	4-0	World Cup Qualifier
 40   14-11-09	Lisboa  	Bosnia-Herzeg.	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 41   18-11-09	Zenica  	Bosnia-Herzeg.	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 42    3- 3-10	Coimbra 	China   	2-0	
 43   24- 5-10	Covilhã 	Cape Verde Isl.	0-0	
 44    1- 6-10	Covilhã 	Cameroon	3-1	
 45    8- 6-10	Johannesburg	Mozambique	3-0	
 46   15- 6-10	Port Elizabeth	Ivory Coast	0-0	World Cup
 47   21- 6-10	Cape Town	North Korea	7-0	World Cup
 48   25- 6-10	Durban  	Brazil  	0-0	World Cup
 49   29- 6-10	Cape Town	Spain   	0-1	World Cup 

Coach for United Arab Emirates
  1   16- 9-98	Dubai    	Libya   	5-1	
  2   27- 9-98	Doha     	Sudan   	4-1	Arab Cup
  3   29- 9-98	Doha     	Qatar   	1-2	Arab Cup
  4    1-10-98	Doha     	Kuwait  	1-4	Arab Cup
  5   17-10-98	Abu Dhabi 	Sudan   	2-1	International Tourn.
  6   19-10-98	Abu Dhabi 	Syria   	1-0	International Tourn.
  7   21-10-98	Abu Dhabi 	Lebanon 	1-0	International Tourn.
  8   30-10-98	Manama   	Bahrain 	1-0	Gulf Cup
  9    3-11-98	Manama   	Oman    	3-2	Gulf Cup
 10    5-11-98	Manama   	Qatar   	0-0	Gulf Cup
 11    8-11-98	Manama   	Saudi Arabia	0-1	Gulf Cup
 12   12-11-98	Manama   	Kuwait  	1-4	Gulf Cup
 13   25-11-98	Singapore	Singapore	4-0	
 14    2-12-98	Songkhla	North Korea 	3-3 [1]	Asian Games
 15    7-12-98	Bangkok 	Kuwait  	0-5	Asian Games
 16    9-12-98	Bangkok 	South Korea	1-2	Asian Games
 17   11-12-98	Bangkok		Japan U-21 	1-0 [*]	Asian Games
 18   20- 8-99	Amman    	Lebanon 	2-0	Pan Arab Games
 19   23- 8-99	Al Quaisma 	Palestine	0-1	Pan Arab Games 

[1] UA Emirates won 4-1 on penalty kicks.
[*] Not full A for FIFA.

Coach for South Africa
  1    7-10-00  Johannesburg	France  	0-0	N. Mandela Cup
  2   16-12-00  Johannesburg    Liberia		2-1	African Cup Qual.
  3   25- 4-01  Perugia         Italy           0-1
  4   13- 1-01  Bellevue-Harel  Mauritius       1-1   	African Cup Qual.
  5   27- 1-01  Rustenburg      Burkina Faso	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
  6   25- 2-01  Blantyre        Malawi          2-1	World Cup Qualifier
  7   24- 3-01  Port Elizabeth  Mauritius	3-0	African Cup Qual.
  8   29- 4-01  Maputo          Mozambique      3-0	COSAFA Cup
  9    5- 5-01  Johannesburg    Zimbabwe	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
 10    3- 6-01  Monrovia        Liberia        	1-1	African Cup Qual.
 11   17- 6-01  Durban          Congo-Brazz.    0-0	African Cup Qual.
 12    1- 7-01  Ouagadougou     Burkina Faso    1-1	World Cup Qualifier
 13   14- 7-01  Durban          Malawi		2-0	World Cup Qualifier
 14   21- 7-01  Blantyre        Malawi          0-1	COSAFA Cup
 15   15- 8-01  Stockholm       Sweden          0-3
 16   10-11-01  Johannesburg    Egypt    	1-0   
 17   15- 1-02  Mmabatho        Angola		1-0
 18   20- 1-02  Ségou           Burkina Faso    0-0	African Nations Cup
 19   24- 1-02  Ségou           Ghana   	0-0	African Nations Cup
 20   30- 1-02  Ségou           Morocco 	3-1	African Nations Cup
 21    3- 2-02  Kayès          	Mali            0-2	African Nations Cup
 22   20- 3-02	Pistoia 	Saudi Arabia	0-1
 23   27- 3-02	Radès   	Georgia 	1-4
 24   30- 3-02  Gaborone        Botswana        0-0 [1]	COSAFA Cup

[1] South Africa won 5-4 on penalty kicks.

Coach for Iran
first tenure
  1   17- 7-11	Tehran  	Madagascar	1-0	
  2   23- 7-11	Tehran  	Maldives	4-0	World Cup Qualifier
  3   28- 7-11	Malé		Maldives	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
  4    2- 9-11	Tehran  	Indonesia	3-0	World Cup Qualifier
  5    6- 9-11	Doha    	Qatar   	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
  6    5-10-11	Tehran  	Palestine	7-0	
  7   11-10-11	Tehran  	Bahrain 	6-0	World Cup Qualifier
  8   11-11-11	Manama  	Bahrain 	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
  9   15-11-11	Jakarta		Indonesia	4-1	World Cup Qualifier
 10   23- 2-12	Dubai   	Jordan  	2-2	
 11   29- 2-12	Tehran  	Qatar   	2-2	World Cup Qualifier
 12   18- 4-12	Tehran   	Mauritania	2-0	
 13    2- 5-12	Tehran  	Mozambique	3-0	
 14   27- 5-12	Istanbul	Albania 	0-1	
 15    3- 6-12	Tashkent	Uzbekistan	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 16  12- 6-12	Tehran  	Qatar   	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
 17   15- 8-12	Kecskemét	Tunisia 	2-2	
 18    5- 9-12	Amman   	Jordan  	0-0	
 19   11- 9-12	Beirut  	Lebanon 	0-1	World Cup Qualifier
 20   16-10-12	Tehran  	South Korea	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 21    6-11-12	Tehran  	Tajikistan	6-1	
 22   14-11-12	Tehran  	Uzbekistan	0-1	World Cup Qualifier
 23    9-12-12	Kuwait City	Saudi Arabia	0-0	WAFF Tournament
 24   12-12-12	Kuwait City	Bahrain 	0-0	WAFF Tournament
 25   15-12-12	Kuwait City	Yemen		2-1	WAFF Tournament
 26    6- 2-13	Tehran  	Lebanon 	5-0	Asian Cup Qualifier
 27   26- 3-13	Kuwait City	Kuwait  	1-1	Asian Cup Qualifier
 28   22- 5-13	Muscat  	Oman    	1-3	
 29    4- 6-13	Doha    	Qatar   	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 30   11- 6-13	Tehran  	Lebanon 	4-0	World Cup Qualifier
 31   18- 6-13	Ulsan		South Korea	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 32   15-10-13	Tehran  	Thailand	2-1	Asian Cup Qualifier
 33   15-11-13	Bangkok		Thailand	3-0	Asian Cup Qualifier
 34   19-11-13	Beirut  	Lebanon 	4-1	Asian Cup Qualifier
 35    3- 3-14	Tehran  	Kuwait  	3-2	Asian Cup Qualifier
 36    5- 3-14	Tehran  	Guinea		1-2	
 37   18- 5-14	Kapfenberg	Belarus  	0-0	
 38   26- 5-14	Hartberg	Montenegro	0-0	
 39   30- 5-14	Hartberg	Angola		1-1	
 40    8- 6-14	São Paulo	Trinidad/Tobago	2-0	
 41   16- 5-14	Curitiba	Nigeria		0-0	World Cup
 42   21- 6-14	Belo Horizonte	Argentina	0-1	World Cup
 43   25- 6-14	Salvador	Bosnia-Herzeg.	1-3	World Cup
 44   18-11-14	Tehran  	South Korea	1-0	
 45    4- 1-15	Wollongong	Iraq		1-0	
 46   11- 1-15	Melbourne	Bahrain 	2-0	Asian Nations Cup
 47   15- 1-15	Sydney  	Qatar   	1-0	Asian Nations Cup
 48   19- 1-15	Brisbane	UA Emirates	1-0	Asian Nations Cup
 49   23- 1-15	Canberra	Iraq	 	3-3 [1]	Asian Nations Cup
 50   26- 3-15	St. Pölten	Chile   	2-0	
 51   31- 3-15	Stockholm	Sweden  	1-3	
 52   11- 6-15	Tashkent	Uzbekistan	1-0	
 53   16- 6-15	Dashoguz	Turkmenistan	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
 54    3- 9-15	Tehran  	Guam		6-0	World Cup Qualifier
 55    8- 9-15	Bangalore	India		3-0	World Cup Qualifier
 56    8-10-15	Muscat  	Oman    	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
 57   13-10-15	Tehran  	Japan		1-1	
 58   12-11-15	Tehran  	Turkmenistan	3-1	World Cup Qualifier
 59   17-11-15	Dededo		Guam		6-0	World Cup Qualifier
 60   24- 3-16	Tehran  	India		4-0	World Cup Qualifier
 61   29- 3-16	Tehran  	Oman    	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
 62    2- 6-16	Skopje		Macedonia	3-1	
 63    7- 6-16	Tehran  	Kyrgyzstan	6-0	
 64    1- 9-16	Tehran  	Qatar   	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
 65    6- 9-16	Shenyang	China   	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
 66    6-10-16	Tashkent	Uzbekistan	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 67   11-10-16	Tehran  	South Korea	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 68   10-11-16	Shah Alam	Papua N. Guinea	8-1	
 69   15-11-16	Paroi		Syria   	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
 70   23- 3-17	Doha    	Qatar   	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 71   28- 3-17	Tehran  	China   	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 72    4- 6-17	Podgorica	Montenegro	2-1	
 73   12- 6-17	Tehran  	Uzbekistan	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
 74   31- 8-17	Seoul   	South Korea	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
 75    5- 9-17	Tehran  	Syria   	2-2	World Cup Qualifier
 76    5-10-17	Tehran  	Togo		2-0	
 77   10-10-17	Kazan   	Russia  	1-1	
 78    9-11-17	Graz		Panama		2-1	
 79   13-11-17	Nijmegen	Venezuela	1-0	
 80   17- 3-18	Tehran  	Sierra Leone	4-0	
 81   23- 3-18	Radès   	Tunisia 	0-1	
 82   27- 3-18	Graz		Algeria 	2-1	 
 83   18- 5-18	Tehran		Uzbekistan	1-0	
 84   28- 5-18	Istanbul	Turkey		1-2	
 85    8- 6-18	Moskva		Lithuania	1-0	
 86   15- 6-18	St. Peterburg	Morocco		1-0	World Cup
 87   20- 6-18	Kazan		Spain		0-1	World Cup
 88   25- 6-18	Saransk		Portugal	1-1	World Cup
 89   10- 9-18	Tashkent	Uzbekistan	1-0 	
 90   16-10-18	Tehran  	Bolivia 	2-1	
 91   15-11-18	Tehran  	Trinidad/Tobago	1-0	
 92   20-11-18	Doha    	Venezuela	1-1	
 93   24-12-18	Doha    	Palestine	1-1	
 94   31-12-18	Doha    	Qatar   	2-1	
 95    7- 1-19	Abu Dhabi	Yemen   	5-0	Asian Nations Cup
 96   12- 1-19	Abu Dhabi	Vietnam 	2-0	Asian Nations Cup
 97   16- 1-19	Dubai   	Iraq    	0-0	Asian Nations Cup
 98   20- 1-19	Abu Dhabi	Oman    	2-0	Asian Nations Cup
 99   24- 1-19	Abu Dhabi	China   	3-0	Asian Nations Cup
100   28- 1-19	Al-Ain  	Japan   	0-3	Asian Nations Cup
second tenure
101   23- 9-22	St. Pölten	Uruguay 	1-0	
102   27- 9-22	Maria Enzersdf.	Senegal 	1-1	
103   10-11-22	Tehran  	Nicaragua	1-0	
104   16-11-22	Al-Rayyan	Tunisia 	0-2	
105   21-11-22	Doha    	England 	2-6	World Cup
106   25-11-22	Al-Rayyan	Wales   	2-0	World Cup
107   29-11-22	Doha    	United States	0-1	World Cup

[1] Iran lost 6-7 on penalty kicks.

Coach for Colombia
  1   22- 3-19	Yokohama	Japan   	1-0	Kirin Cup
  2   26- 3-19	Seoul   	South Korea	1-2	
  3    3- 6-19	Bogotá  	Panama  	3-0	
  4    9- 6-19	Lima    	Peru    	3-0	
  5   15- 6-19	Salvador	Argentina	2-0	Copa América
  6   19- 6-19	São Paulo	Qatar   	1-0	Copa América
  7   23- 6-19	Salvador	Paraguay	1-0	Copa América
  8   28- 6-19	São Paulo	Chile    	0-0 [1]	Copa América
  9    6- 9-19	Miami   	Brazil  	2-2	
 10   10- 9-19	Tampa   	Venezuela	0-0	
 11   12-10-19	Alicante	Chile   	0-0	
 12   15-10-19	Lille   	Algeria 	0-3	
 13   15-11-19	Miami   	Peru    	1-0	
 14   19-11-19	Harrison	Ecuador 	1-0	
 15    9-10-20	Barranquilla	Venezuela	3-0	World Cup Qualifier
 16   13-10-20	Santiago	Chile   	2-2	World Cup Qualifier
 17   13-11-20	Barranquilla	Uruguay 	0-3	World Cup Qualifier
 18   17-11-20	Quito   	Ecuador 	1-5	World Cup Qualifier

[1] Colombia lost 4-5 on penalty kicks.

Coach for Egypt
  1    8-10-21	Borg El-Arab	Libya   	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
  2   11-10-21	Benghazi	Libya   	3-0	World Cup Qualifier
  3   12-11-21	Luanda   	Angola  	2-2	World Cup Qualifier
  4   16-11-21	Borg El-Arab	Gabon   	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
  5    1-12-21	Doha    	Lebanon 	1-0	Arab Cup
  6    4-12-21	Doha    	Sudan   	5-0	Arab Cup
  7    7-12-21	Al Wakrah	Algeria 	1-1	Arab Cup
  8   11-12-21	Al Wakrah	Jordan  	3-1	Arab Cup
  9   15-12-21	Doha    	Tunisia  	0-1	Arab Cup
 10   18-12-21	Doha    	Qatar    	0-0 [1]	Arab Cup
 11   11- 1-22	Garoua  	Nigeria 	0-1	African Nations Cup
 12   15- 1-22	Garoua   	Guinea Bissau	1-0	African Nations Cup
 13   19- 1-22	Yaoundé 	Sudan   	1-0	African Nations Cup
 14   26- 1-22	Douala   	Ivory Coast  	0-0 [2]	African Nations Cup
 15   30- 1-22	Yaoundé 	Morocco 	2-1	African Nations Cup
 16    3- 2-22	Yaoundé 	Cameroon  	0-0 [3]	African Nations Cup
 17    6- 2-22	Yaoundé  	Senegal 	0-0 [4]	African Nations Cup
 18   25- 3-22	Cairo   	Senegal 	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 19   29- 3-22	Dakar   	Senegal  	0-1 [5]	World Cup Qualifier

[1] Egypt lost 4-5 on penalty kicks.
[2] Egypt won 5-4 on penalty kicks.
[3] Egypt won 5-4 on penalty kicks.
[4] Egypt lost 3-1 on penalty kicks.
[5] Egypt lost 1-3 on penalty kicks.

NB: the match against Liberia (2-0, 30- 9-21 in Alexandria) was not full A and
    is therefore not included here; Egypt made 10 substitutions.

Total Record

Matches	Won Draw Lost	For-Against     Points	Percentage

    236 129  65  42	368- 177	323	68.43

Types of Matches
Friendlies		 79
World Cup Qualifier	 71
World Cup		 13
African Nations Cup	 11
Asian Nations Cup	 10
Arab Cup		  9
Asian Cup Qualifier	  6
African Cup Qualifier	  5
Gulf Cup		  5
Asian Games		  4
Copa América              4
COSAFA Cup		  3
European Ch. Qualifier	  3
WAFF Tournament		  3
Pan Arab Games		  2
Other Tournaments	  8

Total matches:  	236

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