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SL Benfica

much like most multi-sports clubs well known for their football sections, SL Benfica are enormously successful. Their numbers speak for themselves : other than winning a phonograph record 37 Primeira Liga titles and more than 20 Taça de Portugal trophies, they have besides claimed two consecutive european Cups in 1961 and 1962. Thanks to their reputation of a propertyless team, Benfica are by far the most popular portuguese club, both in the country and global. Along with the two early members of the Portuguese “ Big Three ” – Porto and Sporting – Benfica have never been relegated from the top trajectory .

Basic facts

Founded : 1904
country : Portugal
City : lisbon

Home grounds

Campo district attorney Feiteira ( 1906–1908 )
Campo de Sete Rios ( 1913–1917 )
Estádio hyrax Amoreiras ( 1917–1923 )
Campo de Benfica ( 1925–1940 )
Estádio do Campo Grande ( 1940–1953 )
Estádio district attorney Luz ( 1954–2003 )
Estádio district attorney Luz ( 2003– )

Main trophies

Primeira Liga : 37
Taça de Portugal : 28
european cup : 2
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Primeira Liga : 1935–36, 1936–37, 1937–38, 1941–42, 1942–43, 1944–45, 1949–50, 1954–55, 1956–57, 1959–60, 1960–61, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1980–81, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1986–87, 1988–89, 1990–91, 1993–94, 2004–05, 2009–10, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19
Taça de Portugal : 1929–30, 1930–31, 1934–35, 1939–40, 1942–43, 1943–44, 1948–49, 1950–51, 1951–52, 1952–53, 1954–55, 1956–57, 1958–59, 1961–62, 1963–64, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1971–72, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1982–83, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1992–93, 1995–96, 2003–04, 2013–14, 2016–17
european cup : 1960–61, 1961–62

Prominent players

Eusébio, José Torres, Costa Periera, Joaquim, Santana, Jose Aguas, Mário Coluna, Nené, Mats Magnusson, Stefan Schwarz, Jonas Thern, Karel Poborský, Rui Costa, Nuno Gomes, Javier Saviola, Ángel Di María, Pablo Aimar, David Luiz, Óscar Cardozo, João Félix

Club records

Most games played : Nené ( 575 )
top goalscorer : Eusébio ( 473 )
Benfica team 1904

History

The club was founded in 1904, under the name of Sport Lisboa ; the same year, they merged with Grupo Sport Benfica and changed their name to Sport Lisboa e Benfica.

Shortly after the Portuguese league was officially formed in 1934, Benfica emerged as its most dominant allele team, clinching three straight titles from 1936 to 1938. By the end of the 50s, their trophy cabinet was home to 9 Primeira Liga titles and 10 Taça de Portugal trophies.

Benfica match 1936

Becoming a big club in European football

It was, however, in the 60s where Benfica started making a name for itself on the european phase. Led by the incredible Eusébio, Benfica were the beginning team to halt Real Madrid ‘s streak of five consecutive european Cup victories, claiming the trophy for themselves in 1961. They repeated as champions the follow year, while besides making three more finals throughout the decade. Domestically, Benfica destroyed the opposition and stormed to 8 Primeira Ligas and 3 Taça de Portugals by the end of the decade. In 1965, Eusébio made history by becoming the entirely player to win a Ballon d’Or while playing for a portuguese clubhouse.

The following two decades saw Porto and Sporting ripen into contenders, but Benfica remained the phone number one club in the area. In the menstruation from 1970 to 1996, Benfica claimed 13 Primeira Liga titles and 10 Taça de Portugal trophies. At the same prison term, further european success was proving baffling, even after the golf club made a huge fiscal push towards the end of the 80s. While that did result in two european Cup finals ( 1988 and 1990 ), PSV Eindhoven and AC Milan would finally prove excessively strong.

The rampant spend last caught up with the club in the mid-90s. The fiscal crisis that followed saw Benfica drop off the map for a while, and the club ended the hundred with a couple of disappointing mid-table finishes.

After a drought that lasted eight years, the club last won their twenty-fourth Taça de Portugal by defeating Porto in the final examination. Since then, Benfica have claimed an extra four Primeira Liga titles and one Taça de Portugal trophy, cementing their reappearance to the big stage.

In thes 2013-2014 season Benfica won the “ treble ”, including Primeira Liga, Taça de Portugal and Taça district attorney Liga ( the latter founded vitamin a recently as in 2007 ), for the first time .
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Logo

Benfica logo Benfica has change logo several times over the years with minor modifications. The red and white crest and the eagle haves been visible on all. The background was added in 1908 after a unite with Grupo Sport Benfica ) Between the eagle and the crest the motto of the clubhouse “ E pluribus unum ” can be read in Latin, which in English means “ Out of many, one ” .

SL Benfica timeline

1904 The clubhouse is established ( as Sport Lisboa ).
1904 Sport Lisboa unify with Grupo Sport Benfica and change identify to Sport Lisboa vitamin e Benfica.
1925 The club motivate to their first own stadium, Estádio das Amoreiras.
1936 First time national league champions.
1940 First time Taça de Portugal champions.
1954 The club move to the Estádio district attorney Luz stadium.
1961 Eusebio play his first temper for the team.
1961 Become the first team in Portugal to win the european Cup.
1971 Winning their first Double ( Primeira Liga and Taça de Portugal ).
1973 The baseball club become the beginning ever to win the lead national league without a get the better of ( 28 wins and 2 draw ).
1981 Winning their first Treble ( Primeira Liga, Taça de Portugal and Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira ).
2003 The club be active to the new Estádio district attorney Luz stadium.
2009 First fourth dimension Taça district attorney Liga champions.
2019 João Félix is sold to Atlético Madrid for an €126 million fee, a modern club transfer record.

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