SL Benfica
Thursday, June 1, 2017
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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: 36 (2017)
Portuguese Cup: 26 (2017)
Ten-year European record (UEFA Champions League unless indicated otherwise)
2016/17: round of 16
2015/16: quarter-finals
2014/15: group stage
2013/14: UEFA Europa League runners-up (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage)
2012/13: UEFA Europa League runners-up (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage)
2011/12: quarter-finals
2010/11: UEFA Europa League semi-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage)
2009/10: UEFA Europa League quarter-finals
2008/09: UEFA Cup group stage
2007/08: UEFA Cup round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage)
Records
UEFA club competition
• Biggest home win
10-0: Benfica v CS Stade Dudelange
05/10/65, European Champion Clubs' Cup preliminary round second leg
• Biggest away win
0-8: CS Stade Dudelange v Benfica
30/09/65, European Champion Clubs' Cup preliminary round first leg
• Heaviest home defeat
1-5: Benfica v Manchester United FC
09/03/66, European Champion Clubs' Cup quarter-finals second leg
• Heaviest away defeat
7-0: RC Celta de Vigo v Benfica
25/11/99, UEFA Cup third round first leg
UEFA Champions League (group stage to final only)
• Biggest home win
3-0: Benfica v Celtic FC
01/11/06, group stage
• Biggest away win
0-2 three times, most recently v FC Dynamo Kyiv
19/10/16, group stage
• Heaviest home defeat
0-2 three times, most recently v FC Basel 1893
05/12/17, group stage
• Heaviest away defeat
5-0:FC Basel 1893 v Benfica
27/09/17, group stage
UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League
• Biggest home win
5-0: Benfica v Everton FC
22/10/09, group stage
• Biggest away win
0-5: NK Belvedur v Benfica
30/09/92, first round second leg
• Heaviest home defeat
1-3: Benfica v FC Bayern München
05/12/95, third round second leg
0-2: Benfica v Galatasaray AŞ
06/11/08, group stage
• Heaviest away defeat
7-0: RC Celta de Vigo v Benfica (see above)