Rute Costa
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File:Rute Costa Benfica vs Braga 2023.png Costa with Benfica in 2023 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Ana Rute Campos Costa | ||
| Date of birth | 1 June 1994 | ||
| Place of birth | Barcelos, Portugal | ||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[1] | ||
| Position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Benfica | ||
| Number | 66 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2010–2012 | Casa Povo Martim | 1 | (0) |
| 2012–2014 | Boavista F.C. | 4 | (0) |
| 2014–2016 | Clube de Albergaria | 25 | (0) |
| 2016–2020 | Braga | 61 | (0) |
| 2020–2022 | Famalicão | 36 | (0) |
| 2022– | Benfica | 35 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2012 | Portugal U19 | 1 | (0) |
| 2017– | Portugal | 8 | (0) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 18 June 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 17 Feb 2023 | |||
Ana Rute Campos Costa (born 1 June 1994) is a Portuguese footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Benfica of the Campeonato Nacional de Futebol Feminino.
Career
[edit | edit source]Club
[edit | edit source]Costa started her career at Portuguese Second Division's team Casa do Povo de Martim, playing for the club in the 2011–12 season.[2] In the 2015–16 season, while playing for Clube de Albergaria, she kept her 10th clean sheet in February 2016. That season she kept three consecutive clean sheets at the start of the season, and four in a row towards the end of the first phase.[3] In 2016 Costa signed with S.C. Braga.[4][5] Costa was voted the 2017–18 Campeonato Nacional de Futebol Feminino Goalkeeper of the Season in June 2018.[6] In 2018 she extended her contract with Braga.[4] During her four years with Braga, Costa won the Portuguese league, the Taça de Portugal Feminina and the Supertaça de Portugal Feminina once each.[7]
In July 2020 Costa signed for Famalicão on a one-year contract.[7] She subsequently joined Benfica in 2022 on a two-year deal.[8]
International
[edit | edit source]Costa represented Portugal at several levels, starting on 15 March 2012 in a 2-1 defeat against Wales U19 team.[9] On 19 January 2017 Costa debuted for the Portugal senior team in a 1-0 defeat against Northern Ireland.[10] On 6 July 2017 she was called by coach Francisco Neto to represent Portugal at the UEFA Women's Euro 2017, the first time the Portugal national team qualified for a women's football major tournament.[11]
On 30 May 2023, she was included in the 23-player squad for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023.[12]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Costa played volleyball for her entire adolescence and she almost became a professional player. Costa graduated in Sports science and has a Master's degree in her field of study.[5][13][14]
Honours
[edit | edit source]Boavista
- Taça de Portugal de Futebol Feminino: 2012–13
Braga
- Campeonato Nacional: 2018–19
- Taça de Portugal Feminina: 2019–20
- Supertaça de Portugal: 2018
Benfica
- Campeonato Nacional: 2022–23, 2023–24, 2024–25
- Taça de Portugal: 2023–24
- Taça da Liga: 2022–23, 2023–24, 2024–25
- Supertaça de Portugal: 2022, 2023
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Rute Costa at SoccerwayLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Rute Costa at WorldFootball.netLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Rute Costa national team profile at the Portuguese Football Federation (in Portuguese)
- Player's Profile at SC Braga
- 1994 births
- Living people
- Portugal women's international footballers
- Portuguese women's footballers
- Women's association football goalkeepers
- Clube de Albergaria players
- S.C. Braga (women) players
- Campeonato Nacional Feminino players
- People from Nazaré, Portugal
- Footballers from Leiria District
- Boavista F.C. (women) players
- UEFA Women's Euro 2022 players
- UEFA Women's Euro 2017 players
- 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- 21st-century Portuguese sportswomen