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Starting XI
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Team honours
- National
- Portuguese League (I Divisão, I Liga, Superliga, Liga): 31
Winners: 1935/36 1936/37 1937/38 1941/42 1942/43 1944/45 1949/50 1954/55 1956/57 1959/60 1960/61 1962/63 1963/64 1964/65 1966/67 1967/68 1968/69 1970/71 1971/72 1972/73 1974/75 1975/76 1976/77 1980/81 1982/83 1983/84 1986/87 1988/89 1990/91 1993/94 2004/05;
Runners-up (24):
- Portuguese Cup: 24
Winners: 1939/40 1942/43 1943/44 1948/49 1950/51 1951/52 1952/53 1954/55 1956/57 1958/59 1961/62 1963/64 1968/69 1969/70 1971/72 1979/80 1980/81 1982/83 1984/85 1985/86 1986/87 1992/93 1995/96 2003/04
Runners-up (9):
- Former Portuguese Championship (between 1921–1922 and 1937–1938): 3
Winners: 1929/30 1930/31 1934/35
- SuperCup Cândido de Oliveira: 4
Winners: 1979/80 1984/85 1988/89 2005/06
Runners-up (10):
- European
European Champions Cup: 2
Winners: 1961, 1962;
Runners-up (5) 1963, 1965, 1968, 1988, 1990
UEFA Cup: 0
Runners-up (1): 1983
Historical Results
Historical results
Benfica-7 Madrid Football Club-0 in 1913: Still not known by the royal name, the Spanish side traveled to Portugal, after being invited to play against Lisbon clubs. In January 26th, despite being in his dawn of international games, Benfica would achieve one of the heaviest defeats ever of Real Madrid's international historic record.
Benfica-12 FC Porto-2 in 1943: in the 5th round of the 1942\43 national championship, FC Porto suffered their biggest defeat ever in the championships. Julinho scored four times, Manuel da Costa, Valadas and Teixeira twice and Francisco Ferreira one. Alfredo scored and own goal. At half time, the score was 4-0. Benfica would eventually win the title in the end.
Benfica-7 Sporting-2 in 1946: The longest series of consecutive defeats (5) against the historical rival ended in style, in the 18th round of the 1945\46 championship. Both Arsénio and Mário Rui achieved a hat-trick while Rogério scored one goal. It was the first time in History either team scored more than 5 goals against the other.
Benfica-2 Girondins Bordeux-1 in 1950: Breaking an unprecedent four years hiatus by winning the 1949\50 national league championships, the club played the recently formed Latin Cup, held in Portugal, in the national stadium. Surpassing Lazio in semi-finals, Benfica met the French champions, Bordeux, in the final game. The final 3-3 result after extra time obliged both teams to play another game, one week later. In June 18th, 1950, Benfica won 2-1, with a goal from Julinho, on the 146th minute, after a late tie in the regular time. The game was added 30 minutes scheduled in extra time which didn't produce any goals, followed by a 10-minute extra period until one of the teams scored the winning goal. With 266 minutes in total, this was easily one of the longest finals in Football History. It was the very first international success of Benfica as well as the Portuguese football.
Benfica-3 Barcelona-2 in 1961: For the first time, Benfica reached an European Cup final in 60/61. Their opposition was the giant and highly favorited Barcelona. Benfica defeated Barca 3-2, becoming the first club to win the European Cup besides Real Madrid, who had won the previous 5 finals.
Benfica-5 Real Madrid-3 in 1962: In 61/62 Benfica reached the European Cup final again, in one of the most anticipated finals of all time: The current champions against the former 5 times winners Real Madrid. With Eusebio on one side and Di Stefano on the other. The game was a very emotional one, with Benfica coming from 2-0 and 3-2 down to beat Real Madrid 5-3 and becoming European champions for the second time in a row. Eusebio scored 2 goals in this historic victory.
Benfica-5 Real Madrid-1 in 1965: Game for the 1/4 finals of the 64/65 Champions Cup's season and Benfica demolished the Spanish giants, with Eusebio scoring 2 goals.
Ajax-1 Benfica-3 in 1969: Counting for the first leg of 1968\69 Champion's Cup´ quarter-finals, Benfica won in a heavily snowed field, beating Johan Cruijff ´s side with a great performance. This win is historically significant, as Benfica was the first club in Europe to be able to defeat the Amsterdam team in his homeland for UEFA competitions, and was the only European club to achieve such success for a long time: Ajax wouldn't lose another European match at home until September 1981, in the first round of 1981\82 Cup Winners' Cup edition, when Tottenham Hotspur beat them 2-1. Despite the important victory, Benfica didn't secure the two goals advantage, losing by the same score in the return match in Lisbon, and by 0-3 after extra time in Paris, in the decision match, not managing to follow to the semi-final for the sixth time in nine years.
Benfica-5 Feyenoord-1 in 1972: In the first hand, Benfica had lost 0-1 to Feyenoord, but in the return leg, Benfica were able to win 5-1, with 3 goals scored in the last 10 minutes.
Benfica-6 FCPorto-0 in 1972: Game for the 1/4 finals of the Portuguese Cup. And it was one of the biggest victories of Benfica over rivals FCPorto.
Benfica-5 Sporting-0 in 1978: A very famous victory of Benfica over the all-time-rivals Sporting Lisbon. At half-time Benfica were already winning 5-0.
AS Roma-1 Benfica-2 in 1983: A magnificent victory in Italy over a great Roma team that became Italian champions that year, and reached the Champions cup final in the following year.
Benfica-5 Sporting-0 in 1986: Game for the 1/4 finals of the Portuguese Cup and Benfica were able to equal the victory of 1978.
Benfica-2 Steaua-0 in 1988: 2ª hand of the semi-finals of the Champions Cup of the 87/88 season. With an astonishing attendance of 120.000, Benfica won 2-0 at Gheorghe Hagi's Steaua and reached the final.
Benfica-1 Marseille-0 in 1990: 2ª hand of the semi-finals of the Champions Cup of the 89/90 season. In France, Benfica had lost 1-2 and in this game, Benfica scored the winning goal, only five minutes to the end, in a polemic goal. Vata scored with his hand, which wasn't spotted by the official.
Arsenal-1 Benfica-3 in 1991: Game for the 2º round of the Champions Cup. After a 1-1 draw at Lisbon, the teams drew again in London after 90 minutes. However, Benfica were able to score 2 goals in extra-time and eliminated the English champions from the most important competition in Europe.
Leverkusen-4 Benfica-4 in 1994: One of the most emotional matches of Benfica history. A total of eight goals in the end of this game, as Benfica got the passport to the semi-finals of the Cup winners Cup.
Sporting-3 Benfica-6 in 1994: In the game that decided the 93/94 championship, Benfica made one of the best performances of all times, winning in an astonishing way in the home of their arch-rivals.
Sporting-1 Benfica-4 in 1998: Another famous victory of Benfica over Sporting.
Benfica-2 Manchester United-1 in 2005: For the first time, Benfica were able to defeat Man Utd, gaining the right to play the next round of the Champions League, and even more impressive: leaving Man Utd out of European competitions for the season.
Liverpool-0 Benfica-2 in 2006: Benfica is one of the few European clubs that can proudly say that were able to defeat Liverpool at Anfield. A historical victory.
Notable former players
Squad changes 2006/07 season
In:
David Luiz (Vitória) - 1M€ for 50%
Marc Zoro (Messina) - free transfer
Fábio Coentrão (Rio Ave) - 1M€
Oscar Cardozo (Newell's Old Boys) - 9M € for 80%
Manuel Fernandes (Everton) - back from loan
Gonzalo Bergessio (Racing) - 1,5M €
Hans-Jorg Butt (Leverkusen) - free transfer
Angel Dí María (Rosario Central) - 5M € for 80%
Andrés Díaz (Rosario Central) - 1M € for 50%
Sretenovic (Rad Belgrado) - free transfer
Freddy Adu (Real Salt Lake) - 1,5M €
Luís Filipe (Braga) - 500m €
Out:
Simão - Atlético de Madrid (20 M € more two players)
Manduca - AEK Athens
Beto - FC Sion
João Coimbra (loan) - Nacional da Madeira
Pedro Correia (loan) - Desportivo das Aves
Kaz Patafta (loan) - Melbourne Victory
Anderson
Paulo Jorge (loan) - Malaga
Karagounis - free
Current Squad
GK: Quim, Moreira, Hans-Jorg Butt
RB: Nélson, Luís Filipe
LB: Léo, Miguelito
DC: Luisão, David Luiz, Zoro, Sretenovic, Miguel Vítor*
MDC: Petit, Romeu Ribeiro*
MC: Katsouranis, Manuel Fernandes, Nuno Assis, Andrés Díaz
MAD: Manú**
MAE: Fábio Coentrão
MAC: Rui Costa, Freddy Adu
A: Mantorras, Nuno Gomes, Oscar Cardozo, Bergessio, Angel Di María, Yu Dabao*
* ex-youth squad, will do the pre-season, don't know if they'll stay in the first team or not
** probably gonna be sold