Club facts: Benfica
Tuesday, August 1, 2023
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SL Benfica
Formed: 1904
Nickname: As Águias (The Eagles)
UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets)
European Cup (2): 1961, 1962, (1963), (1965), (1968), (1988), (1990)
UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League: (1983), (2013), (2014)
Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets)
League title: 38 (2023)
Portuguese Cup: 26 (2017)
Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise)
2022/23: UEFA Champions League quarter-finals
2021/22: UEFA Champions League quarter-finals
2020/21: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round)
2019/20: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage)
2018/19: quarter-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage)
2017/18: UEFA Champions League group stage
2016/17: UEFA Champions League round of 16
2015/16: UEFA Champions League quarter-finals
2014/15: UEFA Champions League group stage
2013/14: runners-up (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage)
Records
UEFA club competition
Biggest home win
10-0: Benfica v Stade Dudelange
05/10/65, European Cup preliminary round second leg
Biggest away win
0-8: Stade Dudelange v Benfica
30/09/65, European Cup preliminary round first leg
Heaviest home defeat
1-5: Benfica v Manchester United
09/03/66, European Cup quarter-finals second leg
0-4: Benfica v Bayern München
20/10/21, UEFA Champions League group stage
Heaviest away defeat
7-0: Celta Vigo v Benfica
25/11/99, UEFA Cup third round first leg
UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League
Biggest home win
5-0: Benfica v Everton
22/10/09, group stage
Biggest away win
0-5: Izola v Benfica
30/09/92, first round second leg
Heaviest home defeat
1-3: Benfica v Bayern München
05/12/95, third round second leg
0-2: Benfica v Galatasaray
06/11/08, group stage
Heaviest away defeat
7-0: Celta Vigo v Benfica (see above)