Benfica Juniors

Full name	Sport Lisboa e Benfica Juniors
Nicknames	As Águias (The Eagles) Os Encarnados (The Reds)
Ground	Benfica Campus
Capacity	2,644
President	Rui Costa
Head coach	Luís Araújo
League	Campeonato Nacional de Juniores
2024–25	Champions
Website	www.slbenfica.pt/pt-pt/futebol/formacao
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Active departments ofS.L. Benfica
Football Football B Football U19 Football (women's) Futsal Roller hockey Basketball Handball Volleyball Athletics Swimming Rugby union Table tennis Billiards Canoeing
Closed departments
Archery Beach soccer Cycling

Sport Lisboa e Benfica "Juniors" (Portuguese:Juniores), commonly known asBenfica Juniors, is the under-19football team comprised in the youth department of Portuguese clubS.L. Benfica. They play their home matches at theBenfica Campus, the club'straining ground andyouth academy inSeixal.^[1][2]

Benfica's under-19s have won a record 26Campeonato Nacional de Juniores, oneBlue Stars/FIFA Youth Cup (1996), oneUEFA Youth League (2021–22) and oneUnder-20 Intercontinental Cup (2022). Benfica hold UEFA Youth League records for the biggest win in a final, 6–0 againstRed Bull Salzburg, most final appearances (4, joint-record withChelsea) and most games played (70).^[3] They were distinguished for "Best implementation of the UEFA Youth League values" in2013–14.^[4]

There are other development teams below under-19, completing Benfica's youth system:Juvenis "A" and "B";Iniciados "A" and "B";Infantis "A", "B", "C" and "D";Benjamins "A" and "B"; andTraquinas "A". In 2015, Benfica received theGlobe Soccer award for Best Academy of the year.^[5]

As of 3 September 2023^[6][7]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  POR André Moreira — GK  POR Diogo Ferreira — GK  POR João Fidalgo — GK  POR André Gomes(B) — DF  POR Guilherme Peixoto — DF  POR Kevin Pinto — DF  POR Diogo Rocha — DF  POR Guilherme Gaspar — DF  POR Rui Silva — DF  POR Gonçalo Oliveira — DF  POR Leandro Martins — DF  POR João Pereira — DF  SVN Žan Jevšenak(B) — DF  POR Diogo Spencer(B) — DF  POR João Tomé(B) — DF  POR João Conceição(U23) — DF  POR João Fonseca(U23) — DF  POR Leandro Santos(U23) — DF  BRA Tiago Coser(U23) — DF  POR Vladimir Mendes(U23) — MF  POR Martim Ferreira — MF  POR Rodrigo Pires — MF  POR André Gomes

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  POR Tiago Pinto — MF  POR Diogo Prioste(B) — MF  POR Hugo Félix(B) — MF  POR Nuno Félix(B) — MF  POR Rafael Luís(B) — MF  AUS Paul Okon-Engstler(U23) — MF  POR João Veloso(U23) — FW  POR Francisco Neto — FW  POR Guilherme Afonso — FW  ISL Stigur Thordarson — FW  POR Olívio Tomé — FW  POR Jair Monteiro — FW  BRA Gustavo Ferreira — FW  BEL Jelani Trevisan — FW  POR João Rêgo(B) — FW  POR Gustavo Varela(B) — FW  POR José Marques(B) — FW  POR Ricardo Nóbrega(U23) — FW  POR Ivan Lima(U23) — FW  EST Karel Mustmaa(U23) — FW  NED Kyanno Silva(U23) — FW  POR Rodrigo Rego(U23)

Key

B = currentBenfica B player; U23 = player for Benfica'sunder-23 team

Over 1,000 players have come through Benfica'syouth ranks, but only a small part of them played for the club's first-team. The list below includes former youth players who represented the main team in a minimum of 25 matches, or those that reached 25caps at full international level. In some occasions, graduates debuted for the first-team but left Benfica before reaching 25 matches and went on representing their national team at full international level. Those players are also listed. (Time periods below correspond to when players joined Benfica youth.)

As of match played 2 November 2022

Note: Benfica score is always listed first.

Season	Round	Opponent	Home	Away
2013–14	GS	Anderlecht	3–0	6–3
		Paris Saint-Germain	1–1	4–1
		Olympiacos	0–0	0–1
	R16	Austria Wien	4–1	—
	QF	Manchester City	—	2–1
	SF	Real Madrid	4–0
	F	Barcelona	0–3
2014–15	GS	Zenit Saint Petersburg	0–0	1–5
		Bayer Leverkusen	4–1	3–2
		Monaco	3–0	1–0
	R16	Liverpool	2–1	—
	QF	Shakhtar Donetsk	1–1 (aet)(4–5p)	—
2015–16	GS	Astana	8–0	5–0
		Atlético Madrid	1–1	2–1
		Galatasaray	2–0	11–1
	R16	FK Viagem Příbram	—	1–1 (aet)(5–4p)
	QF	Real Madrid	—	0–2
2016–17	GS	Beşiktaş	0–0	3–0
		Napoli	2–0	3–2
		Dynamo Kyiv	1–2	1–2
	PO	Midtjylland	—	1–1 (aet)(6–5p)
	R16	PSV Eindhoven	—	1–1 (aet)(5–4p)
	QF	CSKA Moscow	—	2–0
	SF	Real Madrid	4–2
	F	Red Bull Salzburg	1–2
2017–18	GS	CSKA Moscow	5–1	0–2
		Basel	0–0	2–2
		Manchester United	2–2	1–1
2018–19	GS	Bayern Munich	3–0	2–2
		AEK Athens	3–0	3–1
		Ajax	3–3	0–3
	PO	Montpellier	—	1–2
2019–20	GS	RB Leipzig	2–1	3–0
		Zenit Saint Petersburg	1–0	7–1
		Lyon	1–2	3–2
	R16	Liverpool	4–1	—
	QF	Dinamo Zagreb	3–1
	SF	Ajax	3–0
	F	Real Madrid	2–3
2020–21	Cancelled due to theCOVID-19 pandemic in Europe
2021–22	GS	Dynamo Kyiv	1–0	0–4
		Barcelona	4–0	3–0
		Bayern Munich	4–0	2–0
	R16	Midtjylland	—	3–2
	QF	Sporting CP	—	4–0
	SF	Juventus	2–2 (4–3p)
	F	Red Bull Salzburg	6–0
2022–23	GS	Maccabi Haifa	0–1	6–2
		Juventus	2–3	1–1
		Paris Saint-Germain	0–1	3–2

• Portuguese Championship^[76]
  • Winners (26) – record: 1943–44, 1944–45, 1948–49, 1950–51, 1954–55, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1967–68, 1969–70, 1971–72, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1977–78, 1984–85, 1987–88, 1988–89, 1999–00, 2003–04, 2012–13, 2017–18, 2021–22, 2024–25
• UEFA Youth League
  • Winners:2021–22
• Under-20 Intercontinental Cup
  • Winners:2022
• Blue Stars/FIFA Youth Cup^[77][78]
  • Winners: 1996

Juvenis (under-17)

• Portuguese Championship^[76]

Winners (22) – record: 1963–64, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1982–83, 1989–90, 1990–91, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1995–96, 1996–97, 2000–01, 2007–08, 2010–11, 2012–13, 2014–15, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2022–23, 2023–24, 2024–25

Iniciados (under-15)

• Portuguese Championship^[76]

Winners (13): 1978–79, 1981–82, 1984–85, 1988–89, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2022–23, 2023–24, 2024–25

Infantis (under-13)

• Portuguese Championship^[76]

Winners (3) – shared record: 1988–89, 1989–90, 1995–96

• Departamento de Formação(in Portuguese, English, Spanish, and French)
• How Benfica became a global figurehead in player development –These Football Times (2017)

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