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The 2020–21 Sport Lisboa e Benfica season was the club's 117th season in existence and its 87th consecutive season in the top flight of Portuguese football.This season, Benfica invested €105 million amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a record investment in Portuguese football. [1]
Sport Lisboa e Benfica (Portuguese pronunciation: [sɨˈpɔɾ liʒˈβoɐ i βɐ̃jˈfikɐ] ⓘ), commonly known as Benfica, is a semi-professional athletics team based in Lisbon, Portugal. Founded in December 1906, it is the senior representative side of the athletics section of multi-sports club S.L. Benfica .
The 2021–22 Sport Lisboa e Benfica season was the club's 118th season in existence and its 88th consecutive season in the top flight of Portuguese football.Domestically, Benfica played in the Primeira Liga, were eliminated in the fifth round of Taça de Portugal, and reached the Taça da Liga final.
The Big Three (Portuguese: Os Três Grandes) is the nickname of the three most successful and biggest football clubs in Portugal. [1] The teams of S.L. Benfica, Sporting CP, both from Lisbon, and of FC Porto, from Porto, have a great rivalry and are usually the main contenders for the Primeira Liga title.
Benfica's under-19s have won a record 25 Campeonato Nacional de Juniores, one Blue Stars/FIFA Youth Cup (1996), one UEFA Youth League and one Under-20 Intercontinental Cup . Benfica hold UEFA Youth League records for the biggest win in a final, 6–0 against Red Bull Salzburg , most final appearances (4, joint-record with Chelsea ) and most ...
The 1996–97 Taça de Portugal began in September 1996. [1] The final was played on 10 June 1997 at the Estádio Nacional. [2] Benfica were the previous holders, having defeated Sporting CP 3–1 in the previous season's final. [3] Boavista defeated cup holders Benfica, 3–2 in the final to win their fifth Taça de Portugal. [4]
Pacheco earned six caps for Portugal in two years, all as a Benfica player. [14] His first appearance was on 15 February 1989, as he came on as a 60th-minute substitute in a 1–1 home draw against Belgium for the 1990 FIFA World Cup qualifiers; [15] in the process, he became the first footballer born in Portimão to represent the national team.
Since the club lacked a field to play, it merged with Grupo Sport Benfica on 13 September 1908, thus being renamed Sport Lisboa e Benfica. [2] Benfica was one of the eight founding members of the Primeira Liga in 1934, and won their first league title in 1935–36, the first of 38 league titles.