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| Full name | Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica |
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| Address | Av.Eusébio da Silva Ferreira, 1500-313 |
| Location | Lisbon, Portugal |
| Coordinates | 38°45′10″N9°11′05″W / 38.7527°N 9.1847°W /38.7527; -9.1847 |
| Public transit |  Azul atAlto dos Moinhos Azul atColégio Militar/Luz |
| Owner | Benfica |
| Operator | Benfica |
| Executive suites | 156 |
| Capacity | 68,100[2] |
| Record attendance | 65,400(25 October 2003) S.L. Benfica 2–1Nacional (Uruguay) |
| Field size | 105 x 68 m |
| Surface | Grass |
| Scoreboard | Yes |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | 2003 |
| Opened | 25 October 2003 |
| Construction cost | €160 million[1] |
| Architect | HOK Sport (nowPopulous) |
| Tenants | |
| Benfica (2003–present) Benfica B (2003–2006, 2012–2013) Benfica women (2018–present; selected matches) Portugal national football team (selected matches) | |
| Website | |
| slbenfica.pt | |
TheEstádio da Luz (Portuguese pronunciation:[ɨˈʃtaðjuðɐˈluʃ]), officially namedEstádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica, is amulti-purpose stadium located inLisbon, Portugal. It is used mostly forassociation football matches, hosting the home games of Portuguese clubBenfica, its owner.
Opened on 25 October 2003 with an exhibition match between Benfica and Uruguayan clubNacional, it replaced theoriginal Estádio da Luz, which had 120,000 seats. The seating capacity of the new stadium is currently set at 68,100.[3] The stadium was designed byHOK Sport Venue Event (now Populous) and had a construction cost of €160 million,[4] of which €22,596,688 was supported by theGovernment of Portugal for theUEFA Euro 2004.[5]
AUEFA category four stadium and one of thebiggest stadiums by capacity in Europe (the biggest in Portugal), Estádio da Luz hosted several matches of the UEFA Euro 2004, including itsfinal, as well as the2014 and2020 finals of theUEFA Champions League. It was elected the most beautiful stadium of Europe in a 2014 online poll byL'Équipe.[6][7][8] By its fifteenth birthday, Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica Luz had welcomed more than 17 million spectators.[9] The stadium is one of the potential venues for the2030 FIFA World Cup, which Portugal will co-host along with Morocco and Spain.
While theprevious Benfica stadium was also officially named "Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica", both the old and the new stadia are invariably referred to by their unofficial name, Estádio da Luz.Luz is the name of the neighborhood the stadium was built on, on the border between the parishes ofBenfica andCarnide, which itself derives its name from the nearbyIgreja de Nossa Senhora da Luz (Church of Our Lady of Light). This unofficial name caught on soon after the original stadium's construction;[10] the people of Lisbon used to simply call ita Luz ("the Light"). Therefore, the stadium's common name became "Estádio da Luz", which is usually anglicised to "Stadium of Light".[11] This translation, however, could be argued to be inaccurate, sinceLuz refers not to "light" but to the original address of the stadium:Estrada da Luz ("Road of Light").[12][13]
Architect Damon Lavelle,[14] fromHOK Sport Venue Event (now Populous), designed the stadium to focus on light and transparency. Itspolycarbonate roof allows the sunlight to penetrate the stadium in order to illuminate it. The roof, which is supported bytie-beams of four steel arches, seems to float on the underlying tribunes. The arches are 43 metres (141 feet) high and help define the look of the stadium, after having been shaped to be similar to the wavy profile of its three tiers. According to Lavelle, the seating capacity may be increased up from 64,642[15] to 80,000.[16] However, the most realistic option is to expand by selling standing places, which would require a change in the law.[17]
In June 2024, Sport Lisboa e Benfica announced that it would increase the stadium's capacity to nearly 66,000 spectators by adding 950 seats in a row of seats around the stadium reserved for people with motor disabilities.[18]
In July 2025, Benfica concluded renovations and increased the stadium capacity to 68,100 spectators.[3]
Benfica | 2–1 |  Nacional |
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Nuno Gomes 7',47' | Report | Mello 11' |
In the opening match, Benfica beat Uruguayan sideNacional 2–1 with goals fromNuno Gomes, who became the first ever scorer at the Estádio da Luz.
| Portugal | 0–1 |  Greece |
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| Report | Charisteas 57' |
Real Madrid | 4–1 (a.e.t.) | Atlético Madrid |
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| Ramos 90+3' Bale 110'Marcelo 118'Ronaldo 120' (pen.) | Report | Godín 36' |
| Benfica | 5–0 | Vitória de Guimarães |
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| Cervi 11' Jiménez 16'Pizzi 37'Jonas 43',67' (pen.) | Report |
On round 33 of the2016–17 Primeira Liga, in a match where Benfica were crowned national champions for afourth consecutive season (a new achievement for them), Estádio da Luz recorded its best attendance in official matches.[20]
Quarter-finals
| Barcelona | 2–8 |  Bayern Munich |
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| Report |
Final
Paris Saint-Germain | 0–1 | Bayern Munich |
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| Report | Coman 59' |
The followingnational team matches were held in the stadium.
| Date | Team #1 | Result | Team #2 | Round | Attendance |
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| 13 June 2004 |  France | 2–1 |  England | Group B | 62,487 |
| 16 June 2004 |  Russia | 0–2 | Portugal | Group A | 59,273 |
| 21 June 2004 |  Croatia | 2–4 | England | Group B | 57,047 |
| 24 June 2004 | Portugal | 2–2 (6–5 on pen.) | Quarter-finals | 62,564 | |
| 4 July 2004 | 0–1 | Greece | Final | 62,864 |
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| Date | Organizing Entity | Event | Total audience |
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| 7 July 2007 | New 7 Wonders Foundation | New 7 Wonders of the World | 50,000[23] |
| Date | Artist/band | Concert tour | Total audience |
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| 1–2 June 2019 | Ed Sheeran[24] | ÷ Tour | 120,716[25] |
| 26 June 2023 | Rammstein[26] | Rammstein Stadium Tour | 50,000[27] |
| 24–25 May 2024 | Taylor Swift[28] | The Eras Tour | 120,000[29] |
| 26 June 2025 | Imagine Dragons[30] | Loom World Tour | 60,000[31] |
| 26–27 May 2026 | Bad Bunny | Debí Tirar Más Fotos World Tour | |
| 7 July 2026 | Iron Maiden | Run for Your Lives World Tour |
| Date | Organizing Entity | Event | Total audience |
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| 28–30 June 2019 | International Convention of Jehovah's Witnesses | Love Never Fails | 63,390[32] |
| 4 August 2023 | World Youth Day | The Change | 44,000[33] |
| Preceded by | UEFA European Championship Final venue 2004 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | UEFA Champions League Final venue 2014 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | UEFA Champions League Final venue 2020 | Succeeded by |
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