Founded on 28 February 1904, asSport Lisboa, Benfica is one of the "Big Three" clubs in Portugal that havenever been relegated from Primeira Liga, along withrivals Sporting CP andFC Porto. Benfica are nicknamedAs Águias (The Eagles), for the symbol atop the club's crest, andOs Encarnados (The Reds), for the shirt colour. Since 2003, their home ground has been theEstádio da Luz, which replaced the larger,original one, built in 1954. Benfica is the most supported Portuguese club and the European club with the highest percentage of supporters in its own country. In 2006, Benfica had an estimated 14 million supporters worldwide,[2][3][4] and in February 2025 it reached 400,000 club members, making themthe largest sports club in the world by membership.[5] The club's anthem, "Ser Benfiquista", refers toBenfica supporters, who are calledbenfiquistas. "E pluribus unum" ("Out of many, one") is the club's motto;Águia Vitória, the mascot.
On 28 February 1904, after afootball training session that day, the Catataus Group and members of Associação do Bem met at Farmácia Franco onRua Direita deBelém with the goal of forming a social and cultural football club calledSport Lisboa, composed of Portuguese players only.[14][15] Twenty-four people attended the meeting,[b] includingCosme Damião. In that meeting, José Rosa Rodrigues was appointedclub president, along with Daniel dos Santos Brito as secretary andManuel Gourlade as treasurer. The founders decided that the club's colours would be red and white and that thecrest would be composed of an eagle, the motto "E pluribus unum" and afootball.[16][17][18] Sport Lisboa played their first ever match on 1 January 1905, scoring their first goal.[19] Despite important victories, such as the ones against Carcavelos and then-rivalsInternacional,[20] the club suffered from poor operating conditions, namely the football dirt field ofTerras do Desembargador.[21] As a result, eight players moved toSporting CP in May 1907, threatening Sport Lisboa's existence,[22] and later startingthe rivalry between the two clubs.[18][23]
On 13 September 1908, Sport Lisboa acquired Grupo Sport Benfica by mutual agreement and changed its name toSport Lisboa e Benfica. Despite the merger, they continued their respective club operations. For Sport Lisboa, they maintained the football team, the shirt colours, the eagle symbol and the motto. For Grupo Sport Benfica, they maintained the fieldCampo da Feiteira,[21] the main directors and the club's house. Both clubs determined that the foundation date should coincide with Sport Lisboa's because it was the most recognized club and quite popular inLisbon due to its football merits. In regard to the crest, abicycle wheel was added to Sport Lisboa's to representcycling, the most important sport of Grupo Sport Benfica. Furthermore, the two entities of the newly named club had simultaneous members who helped stabilize operations, which later increased the success of the merger.[18]
However, problems with the club's rented field (Campo da Feiteira) remained. Benfica moved to their first football grass field,Campo de Sete Rios, in 1913. Four years later, after refusing an increase in rent, they relocated toCampo de Benfica. Finally, in 1925, they moved to their own stadium, theEstádio das Amoreiras, playing there fifteen years before moving to theEstádio do Campo Grande in 1940.[21] ThePortuguese league began in 1934, and after finishing third in its first edition, Benfica won the next three championships in a row (1935–36,'36–37,'37–38) – the club's firsttri, achieved byLippo Hertzka.[24] Throughout the 1940s, Benfica would win three more Primeira Liga (1941–42,'42–43,'44–45) and four Taça de Portugal (1940,'43,'44,'49), with coachJános Biri achieving the firstdouble (dobradinha) for the club in 1943.[25]
During the 1970s, with presidentBorges Coutinho, Benfica continued dominatingPortuguese football, as they won six Primeira Liga titles (1970–71,'71–72,'72–73,'74–75,'75–76,'76–77) and two Taça de Portugal (1970,'72). In1971–72, Benfica reached thesemi-finals of the European Cup, where they were eliminated byAjax ofJohan Cruyff. Managed byJimmy Hagan thefollowing season, Benfica became the first club in Portugal to win the league without defeat,[51] winning 28 matches – 23 consecutively – out of 30, and drawing 2. They scored 101 goals, and Eusébio was again crownedEurope's top scorer, 2 goals short of his record (42). From October 1976 to September 1978, Benfica were unbeaten in the league for 56 matches.[52][53] This decade was also marked by Benfica's admission of foreign players into the team, becoming the last Portuguese club to do so, in 1979.[15][18]
Financial trouble in the early 1980s[57] and a large investment on players throughout that decade started to deteriorate the club's finances underJorge de Brito's presidency.[58][59] The rampant spending and a questionable signing policy (over 100 players duringManuel Damásio's term)[60] further aggravated the problem.[61][62] Soon after, with presidentJoão Vale e Azevedo, Benfica was in huge debt and sometimes unable to pay taxes and player salaries.[63][64][65] From 1994 to 2003, Benfica had eleven coaches,[29] won the1995–96 Taça de Portugal, suffered their biggest defeat in European competitions,7–0 to Celta de Vigo in 1999,[66] had their lowest ever league finish, asixth place in 2000–01, and were absent from European competition in2001–02 and'02–03,[18] the first time since 1958–59. Back in 2000, club members had approved the construction of thenew Estádio da Luz shortly after the election ofManuel Vilarinho.[67]
In2003–04, with presidentLuís Filipe Vieira, Benfica ended their longest silverware drought by winning theTaça de Portugal.[68] The following year, Benfica won their firstleague title since 1994,[69] and theSupertaça Cândido de Oliveira.[70] After that and until 2009, when Benfica won their firstTaça da Liga – thus becoming the first club to win all major Portuguese competitions – they did not win any trophies and finished fourth in the2007–08 league. In Europe, Benfica had three consecutive appearances in the group stage of theUEFA Champions League, with their best result being a quarter-final stage in2005–06 after eliminating then European championsLiverpool on 3–0 aggregate.[71][72]
Benfica's crest is composed of an eagle, as a symbol of independence, authority and nobility, positioned atop a shield with red and white colours, symbolizing bravery and peace respectively; the motto"E pluribus unum" ("Out of many, one"), defining union between all members; and the club's initials, "SLB", over a football – all this superimposed on a bicycle wheel representing one of the club's first sports, cycling.[17][102]
The club has had four main crests since its inception in 1904. The origin of the current crest goes back to 1908, when Sport Lisboa absorbed Grupo Sport Benfica. Afterwards, the shape of the crest was changed in 1930 and 1999. The most significant of the latest changes were the modification and repositioning of the eagle and the reduction of the wheel's size.[103]
Since the2008–09 season, Benfica football shirts have displayed threestars above the crest, with each star representing ten league titles won by the club. In2010–11 and 2011–12, however, the shirts displayed commemorative crests with one and two stars respectively, the former in the 50-year celebration of their first European Cup and the latter to celebrate their second consecutive European Cup.[104][105]
1904–1908 (Sport Lisboa)
1906–1908 (Grupo Sport Benfica)
1908–1930
1930–1999
Evolution of the Benfica shirt from 1904 until the 1970s
José da Cruz Viegas was the person responsible for the selection of Benfica's kit in 1904. Red and white colours were chosen for being the ones that stood out better to players' eyes. One year after its inception, the club opted for red shirts with white collars, pockets and cuffs,[106] combined with white shorts and black socks.[107] Benfica's white alternative kit was officially used for the first time in 1944–45, whenSalgueiros, who also wore red, were promoted to the first division.[108]
Benfica have always worn red shirts; for that reason, in Portugal, Benfica and their supporters (benfiquistas) were nicknamedVermelhos (Reds). This changed in 1936 with the start of theSpanish Civil War: the PortugueseEstado Novo'sCensorship Commission censored the word "vermelhos" because thePopular Front communists in Spain were also known by that name. From then on, Benfica became known asEncarnados – word similar to "reds", but with a different connotation.[109][110]
During the club's first decades, Benfica played mostly on rented fields. Their first own stadium was the Estádio das Amoreiras, built and opened in 1925, where they played until 1940. A year later, they moved to the Estádio do Campo Grande, a rented municipal stadium, before relocating to their second home ground thirteen years later.[21][34]
From 1954 to 2003, Benfica played at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon, the largest stadium in Europe and third largest in the world in terms of capacity – 120,000 – from 1985 to 1987.[55][56] It was demolished between 2002 and 2003, and the new Estádio da Luz was finalized in 2003, with a construction cost of €162 million, roughly €25 million more than planned.[111]
Like its predecessor, the Estádio da Luz is officially named Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica. AUEFA category four stadium,[112][113] it hosted several matches ofUEFA Euro 2004, including thefinal, and was the venue for the UEFA Champions League finals in2014 and2020.[114][115] Built with a seating capacity of 65,647,[116][117] the stadium currently has 68,100 seats.[1]
A panorama of Benfica's home ground,Estádio da Luz, on 30 July 2009
The supporters of Benfica are known asbenfiquistas. They singthe club's anthem at the start of every home match and sometimes during the match.[119] They call the clubO Glorioso (The Glorious One),[2][15] hence thechant "Glorioso SLB". In some countries, since 1952, Benfica has had supporters' clubs known asCasas do Benfica (Benfica houses), places for cultural, social and sport interaction amongbenfiquistas.[120][17] In recent years,benfiquistas have celebrated league titles with the team at theMarquis of Pombal Square in Lisbon.[121][122]
Benfica is the most popular club in Portugal[123] and has always been seen as the working-class club of Portugal.[124] According to a study published in 2006 byprofessors Luís Reto and Jorge de Sá, with the stamp of approval byInstituto Nacional de Estatística and Secretaria de Estado das Comunidades, Benfica has approximately 14 million supporters worldwide: over 5.5 million in Europe (4.7 in Portugal); over 6 million in Mozambique (3.8) and Angola (2.7); over 1 million in the United States and Canada; and the remainder in Brazil, Venezuela, theCaribbean,Indochina, China, Australia, and India.[2][3][4] According to a study performed for UEFA in 2012, Benfica is the European club with the highest share of football supporters in its own country (47%).[123]
In the 2022–23 season, Benfica had an average home attendance of 57,108 in the Portuguese league, the highest average of the competition and current record at the Estádio da Luz, with an average occupancy of 89.12%.[125][126] The highest home attendance record was set in 2016–17; 64,519 spectators saw Benfica's 5–0 win overVitória de Guimarães in the season's last match at Da Luz.[127]
Members
The members of Benfica (sócios), along with club affiliates, elect the club president and other governing bodies for a four-year term by voting in each candidate list. Members may also participate and vote in other general assemblies, submit proposals, take part in discussions, be elected to governing bodies, be designated for positions or functions at the club, and so forth. A member (effective or corresponding) is entitled to a number of votes depending on membership years: over 1 year and up to 5 years, 3 votes; over 5 and up to 10, 10 votes; over 10 and up to 25, 20 votes; over 25, 50 votes. An affiliated club (e.g.Benfica de Luanda) is entitled to 20 votes.[17]
In 2003, the club implemented mandatoryelectronic voting,[128] a voting method that has been criticized by members of Benfica, including presidential candidates, and outsiders.[129][130][131] In 2025, new statutes were approved by 91% of the votes of 8241 members. Notable changes include: optional electronic voting; separate lists; asecond-round election if necessary; remuneration of board members; a maximum of three consecutive mandates per governing body; minimum requirements of 15 years of continuous membership as an effective member and age of 35 for candidates to preside over a governing body; new elections in case anannual report is voted down twice; removal of votes from Benfica Houses.[17][132]
On 9 November 2006, Benfica set theGuinness World Record for "the most widely supported football club", with 160,398 paid-up members.[133] In 2014, according to a study by Movimento Por Um Futebol Melhor, Benfica had 270,000 members and was the biggest club in the world in membership terms.[134][135] On 31 March 2015, Benfica reported having 246,401 members.[136] After a scheduled renumbering (done at least every ten years)[137] by the club in August 2015, the number decreased to 156,916.[138] By 9 October 2021, Benfica had over 250,000 members, of which 115,681 were eligible to vote in club elections that day.[139] With 400,000 members in February 2025, Benfica became once againthe largest sports club in the world by membership.[5]
Benfica has rivalries with Sporting CP and FC Porto, with whom it forms the "Big Three", Portugal's most decorated clubs. None of them have beenrelegated from the Portuguese league since its establishment in 1934.[140][141]
As Lisbon-based clubs, Benfica and Sporting have shared a rivalry for over a century; it all started in 1907, when eight prominent Benfica players defected to Sporting.[124] Any match between both teams is known asdérbi de Lisboa ("Lisbon derby"),dérbi eterno ("eternal derby"),dérbi da Segunda Circular, ordérbi dos dérbis ("derby of the derbies").[142] It is the most importantfootball derby in Portugal[124] and is followed in Europe, Africa, the Americas, and wherever thePortuguese diaspora is.[142]
The rivalry between Benfica and FC Porto, which started with afriendly match on 28 April 1912, comes about as Lisbon andPorto are the largest Portuguese cities, respectively. Benfica and Porto are the two most decorated clubs in Portuguese football, with Benfica currently being the most decorated team overall.[54] Any match between the two sides is calledO Clássico (The Classic).[143]
In 2008, Benfica launched its own sports-oriented television network,Benfica TV (BTV for short), the first channel by a Portuguese club,[144] and has operated it since.[145][146] Its premium channel broadcasts Benfica's live matches at home in the Primeira Liga,Benfica B home matches in theLigaPro,[147]under-19 team home matches, and the club's other sports matches, including youth categories.[148] Until 2016, it broadcast three seasons of the EnglishPremier League,[149] and one season of the ItalianSerie A and FrenchLigue 1.[150] In January 2020, Benfica launchedBenfica Play (BPlay for short), anover-the-top media service featuring exclusive content such as interviews with current and former Benfica players and behind-the-scenes video from matchdays and training sessions.[151][152]
Moreover, the club publishes the weekly newspaperO Benfica every Friday since 28 November 1942. It contains information about everything in the club in the form of news and articles (mostly the former). By 2005, it had a circulation of close to 10,000.[153][154] From 6 December 2007 to 11 July 2017, Benfica published the quarterly magazineMística. Free of charge for Benfica members,[155] it comprised interviews with players and personnel of the club, reports about the club's history and recent events, news, opinion pieces, overviews of the club's sports, with football being its main focus, and a section dedicated to club members.[156] Its last edition, number 33, had a circulation of 115,602 inmainland Portugal.[157]O Benfica Ilustrado was the club's first magazine; it was launched on 1 October 1957 as a monthly supplement to the newspaperO Benfica.[158]
The Museu Benfica – Cosme Damião, located near the stadium, was inaugurated on 26 July 2013 and opened to the public three days later.[159] Named after Cosme Dasmião, one of the club's founders, it was considered the Best Portuguese Museum of 2014 by the Portuguese Association of Museology.[160][161]
Finances and ownership
On 10 February 2000, under the presidency of João Vale e Azevedo, Benfica created Sport Lisboa e Benfica – Futebol,SAD (a public limited sports company)[162] with an initialequity of €75 million.[65][163][164] There were five major reasons for creating an autonomous entity to manage the Benfica team: participation in professional football competitions at domestic and international level; development of football players; exploitation of TV rights onopen andclosed channels; management of the players' image rights; exploitation of the Benfica brand by the professional football team and at sporting events.[165]
Benfica SAD entered thePSI-20 on 21 May 2007 with an initial stock value of €5 on 15,000,001shares.[166] Later in June that year,Joe Berardo launched an unsuccessfultakeover bid of €3.50 per share for 60% of Benfica SAD.[167][168][169] Following the general assembly of 23 December 2009, the SAD increased its €75 million equity to €115 million by absorbing Benfica Estádio,[170] to come out oftechnical insolvency.[171]
On 31 July 2014, the SAD completed the acquisition ofBenfica Stars Fund by spending roughly €28.9 million for 85% of units, thus purchasing the remaining economic rights of nine players.[172][173] Later in April, Benfica andAdidas renewed their previous ten-season contract of 2003 until 2021, for around €4.5 million per year.[174] In May 2015,Emirates airline signed a three-year sponsorship deal worth up to €30 million to become Benfica's main jersey sponsor.[175][176] Then in December, Benfica sold the TV rights of their first-team home matches as well as Benfica TV's broadcasting and distribution rights toNOS in a three-year deal, receiving €40 million per season, with the option to extend the contract to a maximum of ten seasons, totalling €400 million.[177][178] Days later, Luís Filipe Vieira said the money from the latter contract would be used to lower Benfica's debt.[179]
By June 2017, Benfica had earned €617 million from player transfers since the 2010–11 season, more than any other club in the world.[180] In September 2018, Benfica SAD reported a profit of €20.6 million and a revenue of €206.2 million. Moreover, they reported a record equity of €86.8 million:assets of €485.1 million andliabilities of €398.3 million.[181] It was the first time since 2010–11 that the debt was below €400 million.[182] In January 2019, Benfica remained the only Portuguese club ever to appear in theDeloitte Football Money League, being ranked as the world's 30th highest commercial revenue generating football club in 2017–18, with a revenue of €150.7 million.[183] In May 2019, Benfica was ranked by Brand Finance as the 40th most valuable football brand.[184]
In May 2020, thePortuguese Securities Market Commission denied Benfica's takeover bid of 28.06% of Benfica SAD for €5 a share because the funding source was the SAD itself.[185] By September 2021, Benfica owned the majority of the SAD'sshare capital, 63.65%, of which 40% belonged directly to the club, holder of all category A shares, and 23.65% to itsholding company, BenficaSGPS, holder of category B shares.[186] The remaining percentage pertains to shareholders who may only own B shares.[187]
In May 2025, United States-based company Lenore Sports Partners acquired a 5.24% minority stake in Benfica SAD.[188][189] A market filing indicated the shares included stock previously seized from former president Luís Filipe Vieira and auctioned, with the transaction notified to Portugal's CMVM securities regulator.[190]
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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Nuno Catarino Humberto Coelho Domingos D'Almeida Lima Manuel Henriques de Brito José Francisco Gandarez Tomás Barroso Mónica Sabrosa José Martinez Taboada
Statue of Benfica's all-time top scorer,Eusébio (473 goals)
Nené is the Benfica player with the most official appearances (575).[196] Eusébio is the club's all-time top goalscorer,[197] with 473 goals in 440 competitive matches.[198] He is also Benfica's top scorer in UEFA club competitions, with 56 goals.[66]Luisão is the player with the most trophies won (20), the captain with the most matches and has the most appearances in European matches.[66][199]
Cosme Damião is the longest-serving coach (18 consecutive years).[200] Otto Glória is the coach with the most league titles won (4) and the most trophies won (9) before the advent of the league cup.[201][202] Jorge Jesus is the coach with the most trophies won (10: 3 leagues, 1 cup, 5 league cups, 1 super cup).[203] Rui Vitória is the coach with the highest percentage of wins in the domestic league with a minimum 34 matches played (85.29%).[204]
Collective
Benfica became the first team in Portuguese league history to complete two seasons without defeat, namely the 1972–73 and'77–78[205] seasons. In the former, as unbeaten champions, they achieved two records: 58 points in 30 matches, the most ever obtained (96.7% efficiency), and the largest difference of points ever between champions and runners-up (18 points) in a two-points-per-win system.[206] In the2015–16 campaign, Benfica amassed 88 points in 34 matches and set the club's points record since the league is contested by 18 teams.[207][208] Benfica's record for the lowest number of goals conceded in the Primeira Liga was achieved in 1988–89 with coachToni: 15 goals in 38 matches.[51]
Furthermore, Benfica hold the European records for themost consecutive wins in domestic league (29), between 1971–72 and '72–73,[209] and the longest unbeaten run in all competitions since the advent of European competition – 48 matches from December 1963 to 14 February 1965. The latter record ranks third overall.[210]
In the1965–66 European Cup, Benfica scored 18 goals againstStade Dudelange and achieved thehighest goal margin on aggregate in European Cup[211] and their biggest win in UEFA competitions.[66] In the UEFA Europa League, Benfica was the first club to reach two finals consecutively, thelatter without defeat.[212] As of the 2022–23 season, Benfica have 42 appearances in the UEFA Champions League (formerly the European Cup) and 21 participations in the UEFA Europa League (formerly the UEFA Cup). Additionally, they have appearances in now-defunct competitions: 7 in theUEFA Cup Winners' Cup and 2 in the Intercontinental Cup.[66] By October 2017, Benfica were the 5th highest-scoring team in UEFA competition history, with 655 goals in 405 matches (1.62 per match).[213]
W = Winners; RU = Runners-up; SF = Semi-finals; QF = Quarter-finals; R16 = Round of 16; R32 = Round of 32; GS = Group stage; 3R = Third round; 5R = Fifth round; 3Q = Third qualifying round
Benfica have won a record 38 Primeira Liga,[234] a record 26 Taça de Portugal (including a record 4 consecutively),[235] a record 8 Taça da Liga[85][236] (including a record 4 consecutively), 10 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira[237] and 3 Campeonato de Portugal (including a record 2 consecutively)[235] – totalling 85 domestic trophies. Internationally, they have won 2 consecutive European Cups and 1 Latin Cup – totalling 88 trophies. Therefore, in terms of overall trophies, Benfica is the most decorated club in Portuguese football.[6][238][239][d]
In 2014, Benfica achieved the first ever treble of Primeira Liga, Taça de Portugal and Taça da Liga.[241][242] Benfica was the first club to win the Primeira Liga and Taça da Liga double, moreover, a record four times. Benfica is the only club in Portugal to have successfully defended every major domestic title (Campeonato de Portugal, Primeira Liga, Taça de Portugal, Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira and Taça da Liga). In addition, Benfica are the only Portuguese team to have become back-to-back European champions.
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