S.L. Benfica

S.L. Benfica

Full name	Sport Lisboa e Benfica
Founded	28 February 1904
Ground	Estádio da Luz Lisbon, Portugal
Capacity	65,647
Chairman	Rui Costa
Manager	Roger Schmidt
League	Primeira Liga
2018/19	Primeira Liga, 1st
Home colours Away colours

Sport Lisboa e Benfica, simply known as Benfica or SLB, is a professional football team from Portugal. It is based in the capital city of Portugal, Lisbon. The team plays their home games at Estádio da Luz.

Benfica has won 37 Portuguese Leagues, 29 Portuguese Cups, 7 League Cups, 8 Portuguese Supercups and 2 UEFA Champions League titles. They also reached 5 Champions League finals, 3 Europa League finals and 2 Intercontinental Cup finals. They are the most successful team in the Primeira Liga and its fanbase is the biggest in Portugal, being traditionally very popular among workclass Lisbon suburbs and around the world among the portuguese diaspora, especially in its ex-colonies.

Players

First-team squad

As of 6 October 2020

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK Belgium Mile Svilar 2 DF Brazil Gilberto 3 DF Spain Álex Grimaldo 5 DF Belgium Jan Vertonghen 7 MF Brazil Everton 8 MF Brazil Gabriel 9 FW Uruguay Darwin Núñez 10 FW Germany Luca Waldschmidt 11 MF Argentina Franco Cervi 14 FW Switzerland Haris Seferović 17 MF Portugal Diogo Gonçalves 18 DF France Jean-Clair Todibo (on loan from Barcelona) 19 MF Portugal Chiquinho 21 MF Portugal Pizzi

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 MF Greece Andreas Samaris 27 MF Portugal Rafa Silva 28 MF Germany Julian Weigl 30 DF Argentina Nicolás Otamendi 33 DF Brazil Jardel (captain) 34 DF Portugal André Almeida (vice-captain) 37 FW Argentina Facundo Ferreyra 38 MF Brazil Pedrinho 49 MF Morocco Adel Taarabt 71 DF Portugal Nuno Tavares 77 GK Brazil Helton Leite 88 FW Portugal Gonçalo Ramos 97 DF Portugal Ferro 99 GK Greece Odysseas Vlachodimos

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 84 DF Portugal Tomás Tavares (at Alavés until 30 June 2021) 95 FW Brazil Carlos Vinícius (at Tottenham Hotspur until 30 June 2021) — MF Guinea-Bissau Alfa Semedo (at [ Reading until 30 June 2021) — DF Portugal Pedro Pereira (at Crotone until 30 June 2021) — MF Brazil Caio (at Sharjah until 30 June 2021) — MF Portugal David Tavares (at Moreirense until 30 June 2021) — MF Croatia Filip Krovinović (at West Bromwich Albion until 30 June 2021)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF Portugal Florentino (at Monaco until 30 June 2021) — MF Portugal Gedson Fernandes (at Tottenham Hotspur until 30 June 2021) — MF Portugal Jota (at Real Valladolid until 30 June 2021) — MF Argentina Óscar Benítez (at Delfín) — FW Venezuela Jhonder Cádiz (at Nashville SC until 30 June 2021) — FW Colombia Yony González (at LA Galaxy until 31 December 2020)

Retired numbers

No.	Player	Position	Benfica debut	Last match
29	Miklós Fehér	FW	24 August 2002	25 January 2004

On 27 January 2004, Benfica retired squad number 29 in memory of Miklós Fehér, who had died while playing for them two days earlier.

Honours

Main article: List of S.L. Benfica honours

Domestic

• Primeira Liga

Winners (37) – record: 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, 2009–10, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2018–19

• Taça de Portugal

Winners (26) – record: 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, 2013–14, 2016–17

• Taça da Liga

Winners (7) – record: 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16

• Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira

Winners (8): 1980, 1985, 1989, 2005, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019

• Campeonato de Portugal

Winners (3): 1929–30, 1930–31, 1934–35

European

• European Cup

Winners (2): 1960–61, 1961–62

Other

• Latin Cup

Winners (1): 1950

Doubles

• Primeira Liga and Taça de Portugal

11 – record: 1942–43, 1954–55, 1956–57, 1963–64, 1968–69, 1971–72, 1980–81, 1982–83, 1986–87, 2013–14, 2016–17

• Primeira Liga and Taça da Liga

4 – record: 2009–10, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16

• Taça de Portugal and Taça da Liga

1 – shared record: 2013–14

• European Double

1: 1960–61