Cosme Damião, the "father" of Benfica, highly interested in the new sport, obtained the official rules from France, in 1916, translated to Portuguese by Raúl de Oliveira, then director of the newspaper O Mundo Desportivo.

This new generation was dominated by world class greats such as Fernando Adrião, José Vaz Guedes, Amadeu Bouçós, Júlio Rendeiro, Francisco Velasco, António Ramalhete, Manuel Carrello, Passos Viana, the 'Spiderman'/'Homem Aranha' goalkeeper Alberto Moreira and the great world class-genius António Livramento.

The growing emergence of Spain, Italy and Argentina resulted in a more competitive decade for the international scene of roller hockey.

This explains why Portugal was capable of winning only one World Cup title in this decade, precisely in 1982 as hosts of the event and beating Spain 5–2 in the final in one of the most memorable editions of the tournament.

The great Portuguese team was made up of "last chance talents" of ongoing veterans such as goalkeeper António Ramalhete, Cristiano Pereira and Chana, who had won the title of 1974.

A new generation would emerge in the upcoming years but was unable to win the title of World Champions, managing 3rd place in the editions of 1984, 1986 and 1988.

The new decade witnessed Portugal winning their 11th title in the Rink Hockey World Championship after a nine years hiatus, when they defeated surprise finalists the Netherlands by 7–0 at Oporto in 1991.

The main protagonists of this time were Filipe Santos, Guilherme Silva, José Carlos Califórnia, Luís Ferreira, Paulo Almeida, Paulo Alves, Pedro Alves, Rui Lopes, Tó Neves and Vítor Fortunato The first decade of the 21st century has been dominated by Spain on a World and European level in international rink hockey.

In 2005, Portugal disappointed when Argentina won the event for the fourth time, defeating Spain in the final, and leaving them with 3rd place.

Adopting the nickname of "Os Ursos" ("The Bears"), Portugal was seen as a major contender for the 2009 World Championship title, but lost in the semi-final to Argentina (3-1), once again finishing 3rd place, after an 8–3 win over Brazil.

Portugal was also unfortunate at the 2011 Rink Hockey World Championship, once again finishing in 3rd place, being eliminated by Argentina in the semi-final by 4-3 and defeating Mozambique by 9-2 for the bronze medal.