Matilde Faria: José Mourinho's Wife, Age and Origin

Matilde Faria, known to everyone as Tami, is the wife of José Mourinho, who has been head coach of Real Madrid since July 2026. She was born in Angola when it was still a Portuguese colony, came to Portugal after Angola's decolonisation, met Mourinho as a teenager in Setúbal and married him in 1989. They have two children, Matilde and José Mário.

Tami is one of the most discreet partners in football. We could not find a single press interview she has given, and her name rarely appears in the news. In this guide, OhMyFootball separates what is documented about Matilde Faria from what is only repeated on copy-paste websites, and brings her story up to date for November 2026.

Who is José Mourinho's wife?

José Mourinho's wife is Matilde Faria, nicknamed Tami. According to his English Wikipedia biography, the couple met when they were teenagers in Setúbal, the coastal town south of Lisbon where Mourinho was born, and they married in 1989. The Spanish outlet The Objective wrote in April 2026 that he has shared his life with her since the age of 17.

That makes Tami the woman who knew Mourinho long before he was "The Special One". When they married, he was in his mid-twenties and far from famous: he was working as a physical education teacher, before coaching Vitória de Setúbal's youth team in the early 1990s and later becoming Bobby Robson's interpreter and assistant at Sporting, Porto and Barcelona. Some websites claim they married "before they turned 18", which is wrong, since Mourinho was born in January 1963.

How long have they been married? They married in 1989, so 2026 marks 37 years of marriage, and no separation has ever been announced.

Who is Matilde Faria?

Matilde Faria is a Portuguese woman best known as José Mourinho's wife and the mother of his two children. She has followed his career from Portugal to London and Madrid, while keeping her own life out of the spotlight.

She does not have a Wikipedia article of her own. What reliable information exists about her comes mostly from the "Personal life" section of her husband's Wikipedia page, a handful of newspaper reports (ABC and El País in Spain, Correio da Manhã in Portugal), and the World Food Programme, where she was given an ambassador role in 2014.

Matilde Faria origin and nationality

Matilde Faria was born in Angola, in southern Africa, when it was a Portuguese colony. English Wikipedia says she was born into a wealthy family during the Angolan War of Independence and was repatriated to Portugal after decolonisation. The Spanish daily ABC gave a slightly different version in 2016: her father had gone to Angola to make his fortune, lost it and had to return to Lisbon, and the family's situation later recovered enough for them to spend their summers in Setúbal, Mourinho's hometown.

So what is Matilde Faria's nationality? She is Portuguese: ABC describes her that way, and we found no source saying she has ever held Angolan citizenship. Many websites call her "Angolan", but that only reflects her place of birth.

Matilde Faria age and birthday

Matilde Faria's date of birth has never been confirmed by a reliable source. Many websites give 14 August 1965, which would make her 61 in 2026, but we could not trace that date to an official record or an interview, so treat it as unconfirmed. Other sites give different years.

What is documented is that she was born during the Angolan War of Independence, which lasted from 1961 to 1974, and that she was a teenager when she met Mourinho. Her husband was born on 26 January 1963, so he turned 63 in January 2026.

The zodiac personality descriptions you may find elsewhere are based on that unconfirmed birthday, so we have left them out.

How José Mourinho and Tami met

The two met as teenagers in Setúbal, where Tami's family spent their summers, according to ABC. In January 2019, El País described Tami as Mourinho's first teenage girlfriend. Claims that they were classmates at the same high school, or that they were friends for years before dating, have no reliable source.

They married in 1989. The exact date and venue of the wedding have never been made public. At the time, Mourinho was still a physical education teacher. ABC put it this way in 2016: he does not take a step without consulting his faithful "squire", and has not since the days when he was a simple PE teacher.

Matilde Faria and José Mourinho's children

How many children do José Mourinho and Matilde Faria have? Two: a daughter and a son.

Matilde Faria Mourinho Félix, born in November 1996. Her father wished her a happy 24th birthday on Instagram on 4 November 2020 (the post above), so she turned 30 in November 2026. She is a jewellery designer: she studied at the London College of Fashion and launched her sustainable fine jewellery brand, MATILDE, in 2020, according to HELLO! magazine. In October 2024 she married British property consultant Danny Graham at the family estate in Azeitão, near Setúbal, in a private ceremony with security at the gates, as reported by Correio da Manhã. She had been dating him since 2016.
José Mário, born in February 2000. Mourinho marked his 21st birthday on Instagram in early February 2021 (post below). Like his grandfather Félix Mourinho, a former Portugal goalkeeper, he played in goal as a boy: he trained with a youth team in Madrid while his father coached Real Madrid, then signed a one-year youth deal with Fulham in 2015 and a youth scholarship there in 2016. We could not find any record of him playing professional football since.

Older articles described the daughter as a fashion model and tied her to One Direction's Niall Horan. Those stories were tabloid gossip around 2015 and were never confirmed. Her career is in jewellery, and her husband is Danny Graham.

According to Portugal's Diário de Notícias, both children attended St Peter's International School in Palmela, near Setúbal, until November 2007, when Mourinho moved them to another school after an incident that his spokesman linked to a month of insults aimed at his 11-year-old daughter.

Tami on camera: the mother's day video

Tami almost never speaks in public, which is why this short video stands out. In March 2021, her daughter's brand MATILDE published it on its official YouTube channel: the founder and her mother, "also Matilde", talk about the inspirations behind the Amor bracelet and the Blossom ring they designed together for UK Mother's Day. It is the only recording of Tami talking that we could find.

Matilde Faria charity work and the World Food Programme

The one public role Tami has taken on is humanitarian. On 19 May 2014, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) appointed José Mourinho as an Ambassador Against Hunger in London. The UN's own video record of the announcement says that his wife Matilde was being appointed at the same time as a WFP Special Ambassador for school feeding programmes.

In April 2016, ABC reported that Tami had visited the Zaatari camp for Syrian refugees in northern Jordan as a WFP volunteer, handing out snacks to the children there. The newspaper added that she had never given an interview and had turned down money from the Italian gossip press, and that a group of fans once launched a tongue-in-cheek petition to have her beatified for putting up with her outspoken husband.

Older versions of this article said she "travelled all over the world" for the WFP. We could only document the 2014 appointment and the 2016 Jordan visit.

Her influence on Mourinho's career

Tami stays out of the headlines, but she has weighed on at least one big decision. After leaving Chelsea in 2007, Mourinho was in the running for the England job and did not take it. In June 2014, he explained why, as reported by AFP:

It was the right decision. My wife was right. She told me not to take it.

— José Mourinho

Mourinho has repeatedly put his family first in interviews; his Wikipedia biography quotes him saying that the "most important thing is my family and being a good father". In 2013, he had a tattoo dedicated to his family done on his left wrist: British papers reported at the time that it showed his wife's name and the nicknames of their two children, Tita and Zuca, and the tattoo artist later told the Mirror that her name appears as "Tami", her nickname.

Is José Mourinho still married?

Yes. As far as is publicly known, José Mourinho and Matilde Faria are still married, and no separation has ever been announced. In April 2026, The Objective wrote that the couple "are still together".

Their marriage has not been free of gossip. In December 2018, shortly after Mourinho was sacked by Manchester United, the British tabloid The Sun published photos and claims about an alleged long relationship with another woman, as El País reported at the time. In November 2019, The Sun pointed out that he had appeared on British television without his wedding ring; his camp replied that he had got up very early that Sunday and simply forgotten his ring and his watch. We could not find any public comment from Tami on those stories.

The family has long divided its time between London and Portugal. ABC wrote in 2016 that Tami had settled in London when Mourinho returned to Chelsea in 2013, and El País reported that during his Manchester United years he lived in a hotel in Manchester while the family stayed at their London home. The Mourinhos also own the Quinta de Catralvos estate in Azeitão, where their daughter got married.

Who is José Mourinho?

José Mário dos Santos Mourinho Félix was born on 26 January 1963 in Setúbal, Portugal. His father, Félix Mourinho, was a goalkeeper for Belenenses and Vitória de Setúbal who played for Portugal. After a modest playing career, José became Bobby Robson's interpreter and assistant at Sporting, Porto and Barcelona in the 1990s, then started his own coaching career in 2000.

He is one of the most successful coaches in history, with two Champions League titles (Porto in 2004, Inter in 2010) and league titles in Portugal, England, Italy and Spain. His coaching career, in order:

2000: Benfica
2001 to 2002: União de Leiria
2002 to 2004: Porto, winning the UEFA Cup and the Champions League
2004 to 2007: Chelsea, two Premier League titles
2008 to 2010: Inter Milan, the 2010 treble
2010 to 2013: Real Madrid, the 2011/12 La Liga title
2013 to 2015: Chelsea again, the 2014/15 Premier League
2016 to 2018: Manchester United, the 2017 Europa League
2019 to 2021: Tottenham Hotspur
2021 to 2024: Roma, the 2022 Europa Conference League
2024 to August 2025: Fenerbahçe
September 2025 to June 2026: Benfica, unbeaten in the league but third in the table
July 2026 onwards: Real Madrid again, on a contract until 30 June 2029

His Chelsea leaders have their own family stories on OhMyFootball: captain John Terry and his wife Toni, and Frank Lampard, who played for Mourinho in both Chelsea spells and is married to TV presenter Christine Lampard.

Real Madrid announced his return on 11 June 2026, after paying Benfica his release clause, and he officially started on 13 July 2026. The club presented him in a closed-door ceremony on 18 August 2026. That brings Mourinho back to Madrid 13 years after his first spell there, at the club where Zinedine Zidane, husband of Véronique Zidane, won three Champions League titles in a row as coach.

The summer of 2026 also brought a Netflix documentary series. Mourinho, a three-part series directed by Joe Pearlman, was released on 11 August 2026, with new interviews with former players and colleagues such as Didier Drogba, John Terry, Frank Lampard, Iker Casillas and Sir Alex Ferguson. Netflix's announcement does not list Tami among the contributors.

Matilde Faria does not have a public Instagram account that we could verify, and The Objective wrote in April 2026 that her social media profiles are private. Accounts using her name should be treated with caution. José Mourinho is on Instagram as @josemourinho, where he occasionally posts family moments such as his children's birthdays. Their daughter posts as @matildefmf.

Quick facts about Matilde Faria

Full name: Matilde Faria, known as Tami
Husband: José Mourinho, Real Madrid head coach since July 2026
Married: 1989 (37 years in 2026)
Born: in Angola, then a Portuguese colony; exact date unconfirmed
Nationality: Portuguese
Teenage years: in Portugal, spending summers in Setúbal
Children: Matilde (born 1996) and José Mário (born 2000)
Public role: WFP Special Ambassador for school feeding, appointed in 2014
Social media: no verified public account

Frequently asked questions about Matilde Faria

Who is José Mourinho's wife?

José Mourinho's wife is Matilde "Tami" Faria. They met as teenagers in Setúbal, Portugal, and married in 1989.

Where is Matilde Faria from? What is her ethnicity?

Matilde Faria was born in Angola when it was a Portuguese colony and moved to Portugal after decolonisation. Her family was Portuguese, and she is Portuguese by nationality.

How old is Matilde Faria?

Her date of birth has not been confirmed by a reliable source. The 14 August 1965 date found on many websites would make her 61 in 2026. Her husband José Mourinho is 63.