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Benfica is the most decorated club in Portugal, holding the records for most Primeira Liga, Taça de Portugal, and Taça da Liga titles, three of the four most important competitions in the country (the other being Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira). Moreover, Benfica is the only club to have won four consecutive editions of Taça de Portugal ...
The members of Benfica (called sócios), along with Benfica houses (such as Benfica de Macau), filiations (e.g. Benfica de Luanda) and delegations (e.g. Lusitano), elect the club president for a four-year term (three years until 2010) [128] [129] [130] by voting in each candidate list, thus forming the highest governing body of the club ...
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]
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.
Sport Lisboa e Benfica is a Portuguese professional football club based in Lisbon whose involvement in European competition dates back to the 1950s. As champions of Portugal, Benfica were supposed to participate in the inaugural edition of the European Cup in 1955, but they were not invited by the organizers.
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.
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 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.