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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 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.
Other well known delegations are Sport Luanda e Benfica, Sport Huambo e Benfica, Sport Lubango e Benfica, and Sport London e Benfica F.C. [38] Aside from delegations, Benfica also has Houses (such as S.L. Benfica de Macau ), which are gathering places for fans where they can buy merchandising or tickets, watch the club play, pay member fees ...
The 2024–25 Sport Lisboa e Benfica season is the club's 121st season in existence and its 91st consecutive season in the top flight of Portuguese football. Domestically, Benfica will play in the Primeira Liga, and will also compete in the Taça da Liga and Taça de Portugal. In Europe, Benfica will play in the UEFA Champions League.
The 2022–23 Sport Lisboa e Benfica season was the club's 119th season in existence and its 89th consecutive season in the top flight of Portuguese football.It started on 2 August 2022, with the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League, where Benfica qualified for the group stage, reaching the quarter-finals, and concluded on 27 May 2023.
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. Moreover, they have won 26 Portuguese Cups , 3 Campeonato de Portugal (the predecessor of the Portuguese Cup), plus a number of other more recently established trophies.
Soares was part of the Portugal U20 national team squad in the 1995 FIFA World Youth Championship, partnering Sporting Clube de Portugal's Beto as the nation finished in third position in Qatar. [7] One year before, he helped the under-18 win the 1994 UEFA European Under-18 Championship .
Rui de Gouveia Pinto Rodrigues (17 May 1943 – 23 February 2024) was a Portuguese football player and manager. He played as a centre-back.. Over the course of 17 seasons, Rodrigues amassed Portuguese top division totals of 338 games and 21 goals, representing Académica de Coimbra (two spells), S.L. Benfica and Vitória de Guimarães.