--- title: "Where to find swim meet information in Portugal" description: "Find swim meet information on the regional association calendar, the FPN event page, your club’s messages or the live results site. The right source depends on the meet level and how close it is." url: "https://swimtrack.ai/blog/where-meet-information-lives/" lang: "en" author: "SwimTrack" publisher: "SwimTrack" license: "Free to read and quote with attribution to SwimTrack. Not for resale. https://swimtrack.ai/terms/" published: 2026-09-18 pillar: "parent-role" audience: "parent" --- # Where to find swim meet information in Portugal Find swim meet information on the regional association calendar, the FPN event page, your club’s messages or the live results site. The right source depends on the meet level and how close it is. > **Idea in Brief** > - **A meet leaves five documents.** Each answers a different question and tends to arrive at a different time. > - **Start with the meet’s level.** Regional pages, the national page and the live site each carry different stages. > - **Stop when the timing says to stop.** Heat lists often do not exist weeks before the meet. Your club email says only, *“Está no site da associação.”* On your phone, the association site seems to hold a calendar, several PDFs and no obvious programme. A Portuguese meet tends to leave a trail of five documents. First comes the cartaz, or poster. Then come the regulamento, the rules for this meet, and the convite, the invitation file. Closer to the meet, the programa or caderno de provas gives the running order and heats. The resultados close the trail after the swimming ends. Each document answers a different question, so finding the poster can still leave you without a heat. For a regional meet, start on the association’s meet page inside its calendar. For a national meet, use the FPN event page. During the meet, live.swimrankings.net often becomes the most useful place for the programme and results. Your club email may carry all five documents, usually forwarded as the club receives them. Search your inbox with the exact meet name as well as checking the host page. If the club has sent the regulamento but no programme, you may simply be early. The calendar gives the first clue about the season. Based on last season, regional calendars tend to appear in early to mid-October. That timing is an estimate; each association can publish on a different schedule. The regulamento usually arrives weeks before the meet. The programme tends to arrive only days ahead, once entries and heats are ready. Results often appear on the same day as the racing. If you are searching weeks ahead for a heat or lane, stop. The file you need may not exist yet. Two of the largest associations, Lisboa and Norte, publish in a way that other sites and search tools cannot pick up. For meets hosted there, the club email and the club’s Facebook page are the working channel. Not finding a document elsewhere does not prove that no programme has been published. It may sit behind a page that will not open. Use the exact meet name in both places. If it still isn’t there, ask the club whether the latest file has been forwarded. Results can also vanish after a season. The live pages come down after a while, and even the federation’s own link to an old meet can stop working. A saved bookmark then fails although the document once existed. So when a file you want arrives, save your own copy. Then use the programme’s arrival and session times to plan [the morning of the meet](https://swimtrack.ai/blog/the-morning-of-a-meet). --- ### Share it with your swimmer Give them only the part of the document they need: - **Under 12 (you're driving).** *“I found the programme. I’ll tell you when it’s time.”* This works because you’re still handling the logistics. - **12–15 (sharing the wheel).** *“The programme is out. Want me to send it to you?”* This offers the information without forcing it on them. - **16+ (they're driving).** *“I’ve got the link if you need it.”* This leaves the document and race planning in their hands. ### Stay aligned with your coach The coach and club handle entries and know which file is current; you handle finding, saving and reading the public documents. Ask, *“Has the programme been sent yet, or should I wait?”* Then use the answer and leave entries and race details with the club and coach. ### Keep exploring - [The national calendar](https://swimtrack.ai/meets/) — Check upcoming national meets and their FPN event pages. - [The morning of a meet](https://swimtrack.ai/blog/the-morning-of-a-meet) — Plan the hours before racing from the session times. - [What to pack: the meet-day food that actually helps](https://swimtrack.ai/blog/what-to-pack-meet-day-food) — Choose what meet-day food to pack. - [Your swimmer's first meet](https://swimtrack.ai/blog/your-swimmers-first-meet) — Prepare for your swimmer's first meet. ## Related reading - [Swim meet morning routine: breakfast, travel and arrival time](https://swimtrack.ai/blog/the-morning-of-a-meet/) - [First swim meet: what to expect before and between races](https://swimtrack.ai/blog/your-swimmers-first-meet/) - [What to eat before a swim meet: breakfast and small snacks](https://swimtrack.ai/blog/what-to-pack-meet-day-food/) --- SwimTrack — https://swimtrack.ai HTML version of this page: https://swimtrack.ai/blog/where-meet-information-lives/