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Football team

Benfica

Club · Portugal · Primeira Liga

«The Eagles»

381 Matches
249 wins
71 draws
61 losses
836–347 Goals
+489 Difference
2.2 Scored per game
Form W 31 Aug · Home Estoril · 2:1 W 5 Sep · Away Marítimo · 3:0 W 9 Sep · Away Moreirense · 4:0 W 13 Sep · Home GIL Vicente · 3:1 W 16 Sep · Away AC Milan · 2:0 L 20 Sep · Away FC Porto · 1:3

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

Fixtures and results
20 Sep Primeira Liga FC Porto A 1:3 L
16 Sep UEFA Europa League AC Milan A 2:0 W
13 Sep Primeira Liga GIL Vicente H 3:1 W
9 Sep Primeira Liga Moreirense A 4:0 W
5 Sep Primeira Liga Marítimo A 3:0 W
31 Aug Primeira Liga Estoril H 2:1 W

Standing

UEFA Europa League
# Team M W L Goals Pts
5 Union Saint-Gilloise 1 1 0 3:0 3
6 Ferencvárosi TC 1 1 0 3:1 3
7 Benfica 1 1 0 2:0 3
8 Bayer Leverkusen 1 1 0 2:0 3
9 OFI Crete 1 1 0 2:0 3
Full table

Team statistics

matches counted in total: 381
381 Matches
249 wins
71 draws
61 losses
836–347 Goals
+489 Difference
2.2 Scored per game
Match outcomes matches counted in total: 381
249wins: 249 · 65% 71draws: 71 · 18% 61losses: 61 · 16%
wins losses
Scored and conceded last matches
31 Aug · Home Estoril · 2:1
5 Sep · Away Marítimo · 3:0
9 Sep · Away Moreirense · 4:0
13 Sep · Home GIL Vicente · 3:1
16 Sep · Away AC Milan · 2:0
20 Sep · Away FC Porto · 1:3
scored — above the line conceded — below the line
Metric Total Home Away
Matches 381 198 183
Scored 836 487 349
Conceded 347 175 172
Scored per game 2.2 2.5 1.9
Conceded per game 0.9 0.9 0.9
Difference +489 +312 +177

Key players

by appearances over the last year
Samuel Dahl Defender 34 Matches Anatoliy Trubin Goalkeeper 34 Matches Vangelis Pavlidis Forward 34 Matches Andreas Schjelderup Forward 33 Matches Heorhii Sudakov Midfielder 32 Matches Leandro Barreiro Martins Midfielder 31 Matches Enzo Barrenechea Midfielder 31 Matches Tomás Lemos Araújo Defender 30 Matches

Squad of Benfica

by appearances over the last year
Number Player Position Age Matches
26 SE Samuel Dahl Defender 23 34
1 UA Anatoliy Trubin Goalkeeper 25 34
14 GR Vangelis Pavlidis Forward 27 34
21 NO Andreas Schjelderup Forward 22 33
10 UA Heorhii Sudakov Midfielder 24 32
18 LU Leandro Barreiro Martins Midfielder 26 31
5 AR Enzo Barrenechea Midfielder 25 31
44 PT Tomás Lemos Araújo Defender 24 30
25 AR G. Prestianni Midfielder 20 29
11 BE Dodi Lukebakio Forward 29 29
24 PT Samuel Soares Goalkeeper 24 29
27 PT Rafa Silva Midfielder 33 28
16 PT Manu Silva Midfielder 25 27
72 PT Anisio Forward 18 24
6 DK Alexander Hartmann Bah Defender 28 24
20 CO Richard Ríos Midfielder 26 24
17 BA Amar Dedić Defender 24 22
9 Franjo Ivanović Forward 22
4 António João Pereira de Albuquerque Tavares Defender 22
8 Fredrik Aursnes Midfielder 21
30 AR Nicolás Otamendi Defender 38 19
62 PT J. Neto Defender 18 15
2 FR Clément Lenglet Defender 31 13
13 PL Jakub Kamiński Forward 24 13
22 CO Jhon Durán Forward 22 12
58 PT Daniel Banjaqui Defender 18 8
15 CV Sidny Lopes Cabral Defender 24 8
3 Alessandro Circati Defender 7
84 João Pedro Seno Luís Rêgo Forward 7
7 Bruma Forward 7
36 João Maria Lobo Alves Palhinha Gonçalves Midfielder 6
73 PT Miguel Figueiredo Midfielder 18 6
64 J. Oliveira Defender 6
50 PT Diogo Ferreira Goalkeeper 19 6
77 PT Gonçalo Moreira Midfielder 20 5
33 BR Gabriel Indio Defender 18 5
86 PT Diogo Prioste Midfielder 22 5
34 Souffian El Karouani Defender 4
58 Daniel Banjaqui Defender 4
30 K. Echeverri Midfielder 4

Fixtures of Benfica

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

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