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Benfica

Value$886MHeartbreak#2028.8Top TeamLisbon

Lisbon, Lisbon · Portugal · Primeira Liga

League titles
38
last 2023
Major cups
77
last 2025
Top-2 finishes
69
Top-4 finishes
91

Power-ranking history

Rank (1 = best)1113Score (per-season normalised)0.00.51.059/6069/7079/8089/9099/0009/1019/20

Title chances

This side's chance in each title race we forecast, frozen and scored like every forecast here.

Full odds: Europa League · Primeira Liga · every title race

Who controls the club

The entity that holds control today, one per franchise; co-controllers and minority holders are listed, never summed.

How this is measured

Exactly one control entity is recorded per franchise, so a portfolio can never count a club twice. Co-controllers and minority holders are shown as published and carry no weight in any total.

The chip names the evidence. Sourced: a primary source is linked (league, club, filing or tier-one outlet). Cross-checked: matched against the ownership-change sweep. Contested: disputed or mid-sale. Rows are reviewed weekly.

Stakes are as published, often only “majority”, and are not pro-rated. A record of control is not a claim about anyone’s intent or conduct.

Who controls the clubSport Lisboa e Benfica (members' club, 150,000+ socios)
Sport Lisboa e Benfica (members' club, 150,000+ socios)members' association· 63.65-66.98% of the SAD
Sourcedas of 16 Jun 2026

Minority holders: Jose Antonio dos Santos (~13.67%), Lenore Sports Partners (~5.1%)

Entrepreneur Equity Partners agreed in April 2026 to buy Jose Antonio dos Santos's and Grupo Valouro's 16.38% of the SAD (CMVM filing 27 Apr, ECO; Bloomberg 28 Apr reported EUR 10 to 11 a share). The deal lapsed: on 16 Jun 2026 Benfica told the market the fund had withdrawn, by mutual consent, over the SAD statutes' non-compete rules (ECO, RTP). Dos Santos keeps his stake and club control is unchanged.

Sport Lisboa e Benfica (members' club, 150,000+ socios) on the owners board →

Greatest games

Benfica's top matches by the club Game Score: closeness, stakes, quality and upset over one unified rating of league and European play. H, A and N mark home, away and a neutral venue; a ★ is a curated all-time classic (tap it for the model's own score).All-time board.

1
1962-05-02 · European Cup · Final
89.0
game score
2
1965-05-27 · European Cup · Final
82.7
game score
3
1990-05-23 · European Cup · Final
79.7
game score
4
2013-05-15 · Europa League · Final
77.1
game score
5
2004-05-16 · Taça de Portugal · O Clássico · Final
76.9
game score
6
1963-05-22 · European Cup · Final
76.3
game score
7
1968-05-29 · European Cup · Final
76.1
game score
8
1961-05-30 · European Cup · Final
75.9
game score
9
1988-05-25 · European Cup · Final
75.7
game score
10
1969-02-19 · European Cup · Quarterfinals · 2nd leg, agg 4-4
75.1
game score

Footprint

Tiers played
L1
Top-flight (L1) seasons
93
First season
1935
Most recent season
2026

The Heartbreak Index28.8 · #20

The Tortured · European Cup, 1962

28.8
Heartbreak
#20
of 1,138 clubs
#4
in Football
28.8
agony
The clocks
  • Champions-league since 19626.0
  • League title since 20230.0
  • Major trophy since 20250.0
Priced pangs
  • The Guttmann Curse · 1990 · 1.00 pangs
    Béla Guttmann, sacked in 1962: 'not in a hundred years will Benfica win a European Cup.' Eusébio prayed at his grave in Vienna before the 1990 final, held in Vienna. Benfica lost 1-0. Eight European finals lost since the curse. Prices the folklore of the standing curse at its most vivid moment, not any individual's death.
Heaviest wounds

league runner-up, 2025 · league runner-up, 2024 · lost the national cup final, 2025 · lost the national cup final, 2021

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Season-by-season

Most recent season first. Covers Primeira Liga only. Rows tagged "national playoff" are pre-modern formats where the workbook records only playoff participants, not round-robin standings.

2027
Primeira Liga (1) · P2● live
9 P · 7-1-1 · 26:8 · +18
22
pts
2026
Portuguese Liga (1) · P3
34 P · 23-11-0 · 74:25 · +49
80
pts
CLEL
2025
Portuguese Liga (1) · P2
34 P · 25-5-4 · 84:28 · +56
80
pts
TaçaLg CupCLCL
2024
Portuguese Liga (1) · P2
34 P · 25-5-4 · 77:28 · +49
80
pts
CLELCL
2023
Portuguese Liga (1) · P1★
34 P · 28-3-3 · 82:20 · +62
87
pts
CLCL
2022
Portuguese Liga (1) · P3
34 P · 23-5-6 · 78:30 · +48
74
pts
Lg CupCLCL
2021
Portuguese Liga (1) · P3
34 P · 23-7-4 · 69:27 · +42
76
pts
TaçaCLELCL
2020
Portuguese Liga (1) · P2
34 P · 24-5-5 · 71:26 · +45
77
pts
TaçaCLELCL
2019
Portuguese Liga (1) · P1★
34 P · 28-3-3 · 103:31 · +72
87
pts
CLELCL
2018
Portuguese Liga (1) · P2
34 P · 25-6-3 · 80:22 · +58
81
pts
CLCL
2017
Portuguese Liga (1) · P1★
34 P · 25-7-2 · 72:18 · +54
82
pts
TaçaCLCL
2016
Portuguese Liga (1) · P1★
34 P · 29-1-4 · 88:22 · +66
88
pts
Lg CupCLCL
Domestic Cup Finals

Most recent first. Every domestic cup final the club has played, including losses. Scheduled finals (date not yet passed) are flagged.

2025
Taça de Portugal
Runner-up
2025
Taça da Liga
Won
2025
Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
Won
2023
Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
Won
2022
Taça da Liga
Runner-up
2021
Taça de Portugal
Runner-up
2020
Taça de Portugal
Runner-up
2020
Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
Runner-up
2019
Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
Won
2017
Taça de Portugal
Won
2017
Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
Won
2016
Taça da Liga
Won
European competition appearances

Most recent first. One row per entry showing the deepest round reached. A Cup Winner badge marks tournaments the club won: gold for the European Cup / Champions League, silver for every other UEFA or Intercontinental trophy.

2025-26
Champions League(CL)
Group stage
2024-25
Champions League(CL)
Round of 16
2024-25
FIFA Club World Cup(FCWC)
Round of 16
2023-24
Champions League(CL)
Group stage
2023-24
Europa League(EL)
Quarter-final
2022-23
Champions League(CL)
Quarter-final
2021-22
Champions League(CL)
Quarter-final
2020-21
Champions League(CL)
Qualifying
2020-21
Europa League(EL)
Group stage
2019-20
Champions League(CL)
Group stage
2019-20
Europa League(EL)
Group stage
2018-19
Champions League(CL)
Group stage