Estadio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica

The ground carries two names: Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica on paper, Estádio da Luz everywhere else, inherited from the 1954 ground that stood here until 2003.

HOK Sport Venue Event, with Damon Lavelle as architect, produced the design; construction cost €160 million, of which €22,596,688 came from the Portuguese government against the deadline of UEFA Euro 2004. Benfica opened it on 25 October 2003 with a 2–1 win over Nacional, and the tournament arrived: three group matches, a quarter-final, and on 4 July 2004 the final, in which Greece beat Portugal 1–0.

Two Champions League finals have followed. On 24 May 2014 Real Madrid beat Atlético Madrid 4–1 after extra time; on 23 August 2020 the ground took the final at short notice from Istanbul, along with quarter-finals and semi-finals of the restarted competition, and Bayern Munich beat Paris Saint-Germain 1–0.

Not all of it has been football. Part of the north stand was set alight by Sporting supporters after a derby in November 2011. On 30 August 2008, during a match against Porto, a spectator came onto the pitch and struck an assistant referee with a bottle.