Inês Pereira

Inês Pereira
Personal information
Full name	Inês Teixeira Pereira
Date of birth	26 May 1999 (age 22)
Place of birth	Lisbon, Portugal
Height	168 cm (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team	Servette
Number	12
Youth career
2006–2012	AC Cacém
2002–2013	1º Dezembro
2013–2014	CAC
Senior career*
Years	Team
2014–2016	G.D. Estoril Praia
2016–2021	Sporting CP
2021-	Servette
National team‡
2015	Portugal U16
2015	Portugal U17
2016-2017	Portugal U19
2018–	Portugal
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 00:57, 22 August 2021 (UTC); ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 00:57, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

Inês Teixeira Pereira (born 26 May 1999) is a Portuguese footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Swiss side Servette. She has appeared for the Portugal women's national team.

Club career[]

After starting her career in the Campeonato Nacional Feminino with G.D. Estoril Praia, Pereira returned to her home city of Lisbon with Sporting CP where she signed in the summer of 2016.^[1]

At the end of each of her first two seasons at the club, Sporting were crowned champions and Pereira became a regular in the first team with the team winning 36 of her 40 starts during her five seasons at the club.^[2] When the team failed to secure Champions League football at the end of the 2020-21 season, Pereira chose to sign for Swiss champions Servette where she instantly became the number one goalkeeper and kept back-to-back clean sheets in the club's first two qualification fixtures of the Champions League campaign.^[3]

International career[]

Pereira has been capped for the Portugal national team, appearing for the team during the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifying cycle.^[4] Pereira also started and kept a clean sheet for Portugal in the decisive qualification game for UEFA Women's Euro 2022; however, her team were eliminated 1-0 on aggregate and failed to qualify for the tournament.^[5]