Club facts: Benfica
Monday, August 1, 2022
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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 Champions League unless indicated otherwise)
2022/23: quarter-finals
2021/22: quarter-finals
2020/21: UEFA Europa League round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round)
2019/20: UEFA Europa League round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage)
2018/19: UEFA Europa League quarter-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage)
2017/18: group stage
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)
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 Champions League (group stage to final only)
Biggest home win
3-0 three times, most recently v Barcelona
29/09/21, group stage
Biggest away win
1-6: Maccabi Haifa v Benfica
02/11/22, group stage
Heaviest home defeat
0-4: Benfica v Bayern München (see above)
Heaviest away defeat
5-0: Basel v Benfica
27/09/17, group stage