Benfica
Club · Portugal · Primeira Liga
«The Eagles»
Benfica open the new Primeira Liga season from a stadium that has only just reopened. Estádio da Luz was rebuilt and handed back to the club in July 2025, now holding 68,100 inside the Lisbon ground that has carried the Benfica name for decades.
The club itself goes back further, to 28 February 1904, when it started out as Sport Lisboa. Red and white have stayed the colours since, and the eagle on the crest is where the nickname The Eagles comes from — supporters call the shirt itself Os Encarnados.
Benfica's two European Cup wins came in successive finals: 1960/61 against Barcelona, 3-2, and 1961/62 against Real Madrid, 5-3. Eusébio was already on the books by the second of those. He went on to score 473 goals in 440 appearances for the club. In 1965 he won the Ballon d'Or, a season no one else at Benfica has since matched.
No other Portuguese club has won more than Benfica's 38 league titles or 26 Portuguese Cups. Sporting, across the city, and Porto remain the fixtures that carry the most weight, the Lisbon derby and O Clássico still shaping how a season is judged.
What Benfica have not done since 1962 is win in Europe again. Five more European Cup finals were lost in the years that followed, and all three finals reached in the UEFA Cup and Europa League — 1982, 2012, 2013 — ended the same way.
Latest results
All matches| 27 Aug | UEFA Europa League |
Aarhus GF
A
|
3:1 | W |
| 20 Aug | UEFA Europa League |
Aarhus GF
H
|
3:1 | W |
| 17 Aug | Primeira Liga |
Casa Pia AC
A
|
7:0 | W |
| 13 Aug | UEFA Europa League |
Heart of Midlothian
A
|
1:1 | D |
| 9 Aug | Primeira Liga |
Académico Viseu
H
|
2:2 | D |
| 6 Aug | UEFA Europa League |
Heart of Midlothian
H
|
6:1 | W |
Standing
Primeira Liga| # | Team | M | W | D | L | Goals | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 |
 GIL Vicente
|
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3:0 | 6 |
| 7 |
 Estrela da Amadora
|
3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7:6 | 5 |
| 8 |
Benfica
|
2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9:2 | 4 |
| 9 |
 Nacional
|
4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6:6 | 4 |
| 10 |
 Guimaraes
|
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3:4 | 3 |
Team statistics
matches counted: 375| Metric | Total | Home | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matches | 375 | 196 | 179 |
| Scored | 821 | 482 | 339 |
| Conceded | 342 | 173 | 169 |
| Scored per game | 2.2 | 2.5 | 1.9 |
| Conceded per game | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.9 |
| Difference | +479 | +309 | +170 |
Key players
by appearances over the last year
Vangelis Pavlidis
Forward
30 Matches
Anatoliy Trubin
Goalkeeper
30 Matches
Samuel Dahl
Defender
30 Matches
Andreas Schjelderup
Midfielder
29 Matches
Enzo Barrenechea
Midfielder
28 Matches
Heorhii Sudakov
Midfielder
28 Matches
Leandro Barreiro Martins
Midfielder
27 Matches
Tomás Lemos Araújo
Defender
26 Matches
Squad of Benfica
by appearances over the last year| Number | Player | Position | Age | Matches | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 |  |
Vangelis Pavlidis |
Forward | 27 | 30 |
| 1 |  |
Anatoliy Trubin |
Goalkeeper | 25 | 30 |
| 26 |  |
Samuel Dahl |
Defender | 23 | 30 |
| 21 |  |
Andreas Schjelderup |
Midfielder | 22 | 29 |
| 5 |  |
Enzo Barrenechea |
Midfielder | 25 | 28 |
| 10 | |
Heorhii Sudakov |
Midfielder | 23 | 28 |
| 18 |  |
Leandro Barreiro Martins |
Midfielder | 26 | 27 |
| 44 | |
Tomás Lemos Araújo |
Defender | 24 | 26 |
| 24 | |
 Samuel Soares |
Goalkeeper | 24 | 25 |
| 20 |  |
 Richard Ríos |
Midfielder | 26 | 25 |
| 11 |  |
 Dodi Lukebakio |
Midfielder | 28 | 24 |
| 25 | |
 G. Prestianni |
Midfielder | 20 | 24 |
| 17 |  |
 Amar Dedić |
Defender | 24 | 24 |
| 4 |  António João Pereira de Albuquerque Tavares |
Defender | 24 | ||
| 9 |  Franjo Ivanović |
Forward | 24 | ||
| 27 | |
 Rafa Silva |
Midfielder | 33 | 22 |
| 6 |  |
 Alexander Hartmann Bah |
Defender | 28 | 21 |
| 16 | |
 Manu Silva |
Midfielder | 25 | 21 |
| 30 |  Nicolás Otamendi |
Defender | 21 | ||
| 72 | |
 Anisio |
Forward | 18 | 18 |
| 8 |  Fredrik Aursnes |
Midfielder | 18 | ||
| 62 | |
 J. Neto |
Defender | 18 | 13 |
| 84 |  João Pedro Seno Luís Rêgo |
Forward | 9 | ||
| 58 | |
 Daniel Banjaqui |
Defender | 18 | 8 |
| 64 |  J. Oliveira |
Defender | 8 | ||
| 15 |  Sidny Lopes Cabral |
Defender | 8 | ||
| 2 |  |
 Clément Lenglet |
Defender | 31 | 7 |
| 13 |  |
 Jakub Kamiński |
Midfielder | 24 | 7 |
| 7 |  Bruma |
Forward | 7 | ||
| 50 | |
 Diogo Ferreira |
Goalkeeper | 19 | 7 |
| 86 | |
 Diogo Prioste |
Midfielder | 22 | 7 |
| 22 | |
 Jhon Durán |
Forward | 22 | 6 |
| 73 | |
 Miguel Figueiredo |
Midfielder | 18 | 6 |
| 68 | |
 João Miguel Fins Veloso |
Midfielder | 21 | 6 |
| 33 |  |
 Gabriel Indio |
Defender | 18 | 5 |
| 39 |  Henrique Pereira Araújo |
Forward | 5 | ||
| 3 |  Rafael Obrador Burguera |
Defender | 5 | ||
| 66 |  Joshua Liam Wynder |
Defender | 4 | ||
| 77 | |
 Gonçalo Moreira |
Midfielder | 20 | 3 |
| 67 |  R. Rego |
Forward | 3 |
Fixtures of Benfica
-
27 Aug
Aarhus GF
A
3:1
W
-
20 Aug
Aarhus GF
H
3:1
W
-
17 Aug
Casa Pia AC
A
7:0
W
-
13 Aug
Heart of Midlothian
A
1:1
D
-
9 Aug
Académico Viseu
H
2:2
D
-
6 Aug
Heart of Midlothian
H
6:1
W
-
30 Jul
FC St. Gallen
H
5:0
W
-
24 Jul
CF Os Belenenses
H
5:1
W
Honours of Benfica
- Primeira Liga 1935, 1936, 1937, 1941, 1942, 1944, 1949, 1954, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1993, 2004, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2022 38
- Taça de Portugal 1939, 1942, 1943, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1963, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1992, 1995, 2003, 2013, 2016 26
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League 1960, 1961 2
- Taça Latina 1950 1
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League 1962, 1964, 1967, 1987, 1989 5
- UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League 1982, 2012, 2013 3