Rui Silva

Goalkeeper, Portugal

Club football at Sporting Clube de Portugal.

Sourced facts, dated and on the record. Squad membership, and his club when a source names one. Nothing invented; we don’t make players up.

At a glance

age
31
sourced with the squad
position
Goalkeeper
Portugal
club
Sporting Clube de Portugal
football-data.org
club tier
1848
ClubElo strength
our board
#193
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
3014′
34 appearances

On the pitch

Minutes on the pitch for Portugal. The goals come or they do not; we log either.

goals
0
assists
0
caps
2
minutes
135′

goals and assists from our captured match events · caps and minutes from the appearance record

Sourced

squad: Portugal · Goalkeeperfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
club: Sporting Clube de Portugalfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29

Sourced context, nothing more. It never touches a call.

Our rating · the working

the board →

1896 ±45

his quality rating: club, age and measured output. The board orders by this plus his World Cup form, less a discount for how much we can measure him.

How the number is builtopenclose

1917 full roster Elo (+20 from national-team results)

the ± is how settled the number is, more minutes, tighter band

Tier 2, lineups + results, how rich the evidence is, not just how much

potential ~1919 ±45 a projection, not a measurement: room left on the goalkeeper age curve

Where he starts (his team’s strength, we refuse to invent what we haven’t measured) plus two fixed nudges make the quality rating above; the last line is what national-team results have added since, taking it to his full roster Elo.

starts at Portugal's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point: 1899
age curve at 31 (goalkeepers' curve)measured from the open archive by our own study (defenders: the published literature's shape), never fitted to our calls: -3
individual skill termour club xG models haven't seen enough of him for a confident read, so nothing is added, never guessed: +0
quality rating · club, age + measured output: 1896
form: national-team results, 34 appearances3014 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI: +20
full roster Elo · with results: 1917

Rating trend

+45 over 35 updates

Seeded from his team’s rating, then moved by the matches he actually played. A shadow signal, it never touches a live call.

Where the +20 was earned

The earned line, opened up by competition. World Cup finals count 1.5×, qualifiers and cups 1×, friendlies and club football half, so a tournament night moves him most.

international friendlies2 apps · 135′: -1
club football32 apps · 2879′: +21

His latest nights

2026-06-06international friendlies · 45′ · team result only▲ +1
2026-05-16club football · 90′ · team result only▲ +2
2026-05-11club football · 90′ · team result only▲ +3
2026-05-04club football · 90′ · team result only▲ +2
2026-04-29club football · 90′ · team result only▼ −4

Each night’s move blends his team’s result with his own match stats, saves for keepers, tackles and duels for defenders, creation for midfielders, finishing up front. “Team result only” marks games where the feed carried no player stats.

A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2026-06-06. The skill term comes from our own xG models over the open archive; the rest is earned, recorded per appearance, auditable, never back-filled. It never moves a live call.

The notebook

The lines a beat writer keeps, except every one of ours is read off the ledger above, auditable to the night. Nothing invented.

standing
#193 of 1424 rated players on our board.
best night
His best night in our ledger: +5 in one sitting, club football, 2025-12-23.
vs his seed
The folded nights have added +20 to the number he seeded with, he has outplayed his own prior.

What he’d cost · our estimate

€4.8m–€19m ≈ €9.5m

Not a figure from any valuation site; we don’t republish those. Our own model: the level he plays at, what we’ve measured of him, his age and his role. A band, not a point: we can’t see contract length or release clauses, the two biggest real drivers, so we say so.

The workingopenclose

reference feea mid-tier-club, peak-age forward of average measured skill: €8m
club tier 1848the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays: ×3.46
ageage 31, past the fee-peak, value falls ~18% a year: ×0.82
goalkeeper fee factorstrikers set the market's top; midfield runs close; defence and goal at the record books' discounts: ×0.43
individual skillour xG model has no confident read on him, priced on club, age and role only, so the band is wide: ×1.00
our estimate: ≈ €9.5m

fee-model v3 priors (panel-anchored, 2026-06), calibrated against our reported fees. The band is roughly two-in-three likely; contract length and release clauses are data we don’t hold. Context only, it never touches a call.

The fee record · sourced

2025-07-01Real Betis → Sporting CPundisclosed
2025-01-14Real Betis → Sporting CPloan
2021-07-01Granada CF → Real Betisfree
2017-01-27Nacional → Granada CFundisclosed

Reported moves, dated and attributed (api-football.com), news facts, not a valuation site’s estimates. It never touches a call.

In our coverage · Portugal’s record

at Colombia0–0Missed it
v Uzbekistan5–0Called it
v DR Congo1–1Missed it

The newsroom’s calls on Portugal. Team-level, never dressed up as a player stat.