Portugal and Chile have confirmed their starting teams for their meeting in an international friendly in Oeiras on Saturday.
Roberto Martinez’s side are being tipped at contenders at the tournament in the US, Canada and Mexico and, having been paired with Colombia in Group K, are testing themselves against South American opposition before their final tune-up against Nigeria in Leiria on Wednesday.
Chile last appeared at the finals in 2014 and finished bottom in CONMEBOL qualifying, failing to score in their final six matches of the campaign.
In two friendlies in Eden in March, La Roja beat Cape Verde 4-2 before suffering a 4-1 defeat to New Zealand.
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World Cup 2026 friendly: Portugal confirmed team vs Chile
Portugal make seven changes from their 2-0 win away to the USA on April 1, bringing in Nelson Semedo, Ruben Dias, Renato Veiga, Francisco Conceicao, Bernardo Silva, Rafael Leao and Cristiano Ronaldo.
Diogo Dalot, Tomas Araujo, Goncalo Inacio, Francisco Trincao, Pedro Neto move to the bench, as do Goncalo Ramos and Vitinha, joined among the substitutes by Joao Neves and Nuno Mendes a week after the quartet won the Champions League final with Paris Saint-Germain.
Portugal starting XI: Jose Sa, Nelson Semedo, Ruben Dias, Renato Veiga, Joao Cancelo, Francisco Conceicao, Bernardo Silva, Bruno Fernandes, Samu Costa, Rafael Leao, Cristiano Ronaldo
Portugal substitutes: Diogo Costa, Tomas Araujo, Diogo Dalot, Goncalo Ramos, Joao Felix, Goncalo Inacio, Joao Neves, Francisco Trincao, Pedro Neto, Goncalo Guedes, Ruben Neves, Rui Silva, Vitinha, Nuno Mendes, Ricardo Velho
World Cup 2026 warm-up: Chile full line up vs Portugal
Chile make four alterations from that defeat in New Zealand, bringing in Ivan Roman, Agustin Arce, Maximiliano Gutierrez and Gonzalo Tapia.
Right-back Francisco Salinas is out with an ankle sprain and has been replaced in the squad by Fabian Hormazabal.
Chile starting XI: Lawrence Vigouroux, Felipe Faundez, Ivan Roman, Guillermo Maripan, Gabriel Suazo, Felipe Loyola, Agustin Arce, Vicente Pizarro, Maximiliano Gutierrez, Gonzalo Tapia, Dario Osorio
Chile substitutes: Thomas Gillier, Fabian Hormazabal, Igor Lichnovsky, Clemente Montes, Ivan Morales, Lucas Cepeda, Felipe Mendez, Francisco Sierralta, Rodrigo Echeverria, Matias Sepulveda, Lautaro Millan, Nils Reichmuth, Brayan Cortes, Diego Ulloa,
Where to watch Portugal vs Chile: TV channel, live online stream
Kick-off on Saturday is at 18:45 BST (13:45 ET / 10:45 PT), with live coverage in the UK on Amazon Prime PPV, which charges £2.99 for the game.
World Cup 2026 friendly: Portugal vs Chile stats
- The defeat to New Zealand was Chile’s first in six matches including friendlies (W4 D1), having gone winless in six (L4 D2) before beating Peru 2-1 at home in October 2024
- Both matches between the teams during the 21st century have been draws after 90 minutes: 1-1 in a friendly in Leiria in March 2011 and 0-0 in the Confederations Cup in Kazan in June 2017, when Ronaldo and Bernardo were among Portugal’s starters and Chile won on penalties
- Cristiano Ronaldo is appearing at his 12th consecutive major tournament and is the all-time record scorer in men’s internationals, with 143 goals
- The five-time Champions League winner Ronaldo became the first player to score at five World Cup final tournaments by scoring against Ghana in 2022
- Portugal’s 2-0 defeat in Ireland in qualifying in November is their only defeat in 11 matches, although they recovered to beat Armenia 9-1 at home to seal qualification three days later, hitting nine for the second time under Martinez
- They then drew 0-0 in Mexico in March, representing the second time in their last four games they have failed to score, having netted in each of their previous seven matches for a total of 20 goals
- Including friendlies, Portugal have gone more than four hours and 12 minutes without conceding
- The Selecao have not conceded in a friendly in more than five hours and four minutes, although they have one clean sheet in their last five competitive matches
- Bruno Fernandes scored twice in a 4-0 win over Nigeria in Lisbon in Portugal’s only friendly before the 2022 World Cup, proceeding to beat Ghana and Uruguay in the group stage before losing to South Korea in their third match and beating Switzerland in the last 16
- Chile have scored at least twice in each of their last five matches for a total of 11 goals, with all of those matches being friendlies
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