S.L. Benfica
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Sport Lisboa e Benfica commonly known as Benfica or simply SLB, is a Portuguese sports club based in Lisbon.
Founded on 28 February 1904, Benfica is one of the "Três Grandes" (Big Three) football clubs in Portugal. The club's official anthem is "Ser Benfiquista". Benfica is the world's most supported football club and the twenty-first richest football club in terms of revenue, with an annual turnover of €102.5 million.[1]
Benfica is the most successful football club in Portuguese competitions, with 67 titles, and the second most successful overall, with 70 titles.
Domestically, Benfica holds a record of 32 Primeira Liga titles, a record of 24 Taça de Portugal (and 4 consecutively), a record of 4 Taça da Liga (totally and consecutively), 3 Campeonato de Portugal and 4 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira. Benfica has the distinction of being the first in the history of the Primeira Liga to have completed an entire 30 game season unbeaten (in 1972–73) and the only one to do it twice (in 1977–78).
Internationally, Benfica was the first and only Portuguese club to win 2 European Cups consecutively, in 1961 and 1962, and one Latin Cup. In addition, the club was runner-up in the 1961 and 1962 Intercontinental Cups, in the 1962–63, 1964–65, 1967–68, 1987–88 and 1989–90 European Cups, and in the 1982–83 UEFA Cup. Benfica holds the Portuguese record of 8 European finals played.
Benfica was one of the founding members of the Primeira Liga in 1933 and it has never been relegated from the first division of Portuguese football.
Sport Lisboa e Benfica
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