---
title: "Create Team"
method: POST
path: "/v3/portals/{portalId}/teams"
tags: ["Portal Teams"]
---

# Create Team

`POST /v3/portals/{portalId}/teams`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://global.api.konghq.com`
- URL: `https://global.api.konghq.com/v3/portals/{portalId}/teams`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP bearer
  - HTTP bearer
  - HTTP bearer
  - HTTP bearer

Creates a developer team in a portal. Developers can be added to teams to provide RBAC access to API products. Teams can be assigned roles that grant permissions to perform an action on a resource.

## Request body

- PortalCreateTeamRequest: Details about a team to create.
  - `name` string, required: The name of the team.
  - `description` string: The description of the team.
  - `can_own_applications` boolean: Whether the team is allowed to own applications
  - `konnect_managed` boolean: Whether the team's membership is managed by Konnect instead of being synced from an identity provider's team mappings. Set to `false` (default) to let identity provider team mappings keep syncing members into this team. Set to `true` to manage membership directly in Konnect and prevent identity provider team mappings from syncing to this team.

## Response `201`

Details about a team of developers in a portal.

- PortalTeamResponse: Details about a developer team.
  - `id` string, uuid, required
  - `name` string, required: The name of the team.
  - `description` string, required: The description of the team.
  - `created_at` string, date-time, required
  - `updated_at` string, date-time, required
  - `can_own_applications` boolean: Whether the team is allowed to own applications.
  - `konnect_managed` boolean: Whether the team's membership is managed by Konnect instead of being synced from an identity provider's team mappings. Set to `false` (default) to let identity provider team mappings keep syncing members into this team. Set to `true` to manage membership directly in Konnect and prevent identity provider team mappings from syncing to this team.

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad Request
- `401`: Unauthorized
- `403`: Forbidden
- `404`: Not Found

## Changes

- **2026-10-15** `7aab863a6daa`: 1 breaking, 2 warning
  - added `#/components/schemas/InvalidParameterMinimumTime, #/components/schemas/InvalidParameterMaximumTime` to the `invalid_parameters/items/` response property `oneOf` list for the response status `400`
  - added the new `key_invalid` enum value to the `invalid_parameters/items/oneOf[#/components/schemas/InvalidParameterStandard]/rule` response property for the response status `400`
  - added the new `unique` enum value to the `invalid_parameters/items/oneOf[#/components/schemas/InvalidParameterStandard]/rule` response property for the response status `400`
- **2026-09-25** `68d43091b84d`: 3 warning
  - added the new `400.00` enum value to the `status` response property for the response status `400`
  - added the new `403.00` enum value to the `status` response property for the response status `403`
  - added the new `404.00` enum value to the `status` response property for the response status `404`
- **2026-09-21** `1fe64030316b`: 2 info
  - added the new optional request property `konnect_managed`
  - added the optional property `konnect_managed` to the response with the `201` status
- …earlier changes not shown

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/kong/apis/konnect-api-go-sdk/changes/v3/portals/:portalId/teams/post.md)

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