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Stadium Capacity City Tenants Notes Image 1: Estádio da Luz: 64,642 [1]: Lisbon: S.L. Benfica: UEFA Category 4: 2: Estádio José Alvalade: 50,095: Lisbon: Sporting ...
Cardiff City were the eventual winners of the tournament with victories over Celtic and Vitória. The Estádio Algarve was also the temporary home ground of the Gibraltar national football team around the mid-2010s. [3] It will once again host Gibraltar from March 2023 while improvements are made to the Victoria Stadium. [4]
The Estádio da Luz (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɨˈʃtaðju ðɐ ˈluʃ]), officially named Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica, is a multi-purpose stadium located in Lisbon, Portugal. It is used mostly for association football matches, hosting the home games of Portuguese club Benfica , its owner.
Benfica (locally [bɐ̃jˈfikɐ]) is a freguesia (civil parish) and district of Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. Located in northern Lisbon, Benfica is west of São Domingos de Benfica, Carnide, and Campolide, north of Belém, Ajuda, and Alcântara, and directly east of Lisbon's border with Amadora. The population in 2011 was 36,985, [1] [2]
Estádio da Luz (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɨˈʃtaðiu ðɐ ˈluʃ], Stadium of Light), officially named Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica, was a multi-purpose stadium located in Lisbon, Portugal. It was used mostly for football matches and hosted the home matches of S.L. Benfica and the Portugal national team .
On 25 March 1919, Benfica played the first night football game in Portugal, with 1000 candles helped by 18 reflectors. But by 1923, the Municipality of Lisbon wanted to build a road to link Estrada de Benfica to Estrada Nacional, crossing the place where the field was located (the street was only built in 1997, 74 years later).
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.
The Pavilhão da Luz Nº 1, currently known as Pavilhão Fidelidade for sponsorship reasons, is the main arena (or pavilion) of Portuguese multi-sport club S.L. Benfica.It has a full capacity of 2,400 seats and is mainly used by the basketball, futsal and roller hockey departments of the club.