List of S.L. Benfica records and statistics

This article includes records and statistics from the professional Portuguese football team S.L. Benfica.

Honours

Main article: List of S.L. Benfica honours

Benfica have won many domestic and European honours. They have a record 35 Primeira Liga titles, a record 28 Championship of Portugal/Portuguese Cup, a record 6 Portuguese League Cup, and 5 Portuguese SuperCup titles. In European competitions, they have been crowned European champions, winning the European Cup twice in a row in 1961 and in 1962 and have been finalists five times, a record they share with Bayern Munich. In addition, they were runners-up twice in the Intercontinental Cup and twice in the UEFA Cup. This makes Benfica the most rewarded Portuguese club in terms of domestic titles (74) and overall titles (76).

The honours below only include recognized titles by UEFA and FIFA, who exclude the Latin Cup.

Domestic (75)

• Primeira Liga (35): 1935–36, 1936–37, 1937–38, 1941–42, 1942–43, 1944–45, 1949–50, 1954–55, 1956–57, 1959–60, 1960–61, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1980–81, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1986–87, 1988–89, 1990–91, 1993–94, 2004–05, 2009–10, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16 (record)
• Taça de Portugal (25): 1939–40, 1942–43, 1943–44, 1948–49, 1950–51, 1951–52, 1952–53, 1954–55, 1956–57, 1958–59, 1961–62, 1963–64, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1971–72, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1982–83, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1992–93, 1995–96, 2003–04, 2013–14 (record)
• Taça da Liga (7): 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16 (record)
• Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira (5): 1980, 1985, 1989, 2005, 2014
• Campeonato de Portugal (3): 1929–30, 1930–31, 1934–35

European (2)

• European Cup / UEFA Champions League (2): 1960–61, 1961–62

Players

Main article: List of S.L. Benfica players

Benfica's record appearance-maker is Nené, who made 575 appearances over the course of his career; the second player with more appearances is António Veloso with 538. Eusébio is the club's top goalscorer with 474 goals in his 15 years with the club. Ten players have made more than 400 appearances, including four members of the 1961 European Cup-winning team. Other than Eusébio, only two players have scored more than 300 goals for the club.

Most official appearances

As of 2 May 2016

This is a list of the highest number of official appearances for the club. Current players are marked in bold.

Ranking	Nationality	Name	Matches	Years	Ref
1	Portugal	Nené	575	1968–1986
2	Portugal	Veloso	538	1980–1995
3	Portugal	Mário Coluna	525	1954–1970
4	Portugal	Humberto Coelho	498	1968–1975 1977–1984
5	Portugal	Shéu	487	1972–1989
6	Brazil	Luisão	474	2003–
7	Portugal	Manuel Bento	465	1972–1990
8	Portugal	António Simões	447	1961–1975
9	Portugal	Eusébio	440	1960–1975
10	Portugal	Cavém	415	1954–1970

Top european appearances

As of 6 March 2016

This is a list of the highest number of official appearances for the club in European competitions. Current players are marked in bold.

Ranking	Nationality	Name	Matches	Years	Ref
1	Brazil	Luisão	117	2003–
2	Portugal	Veloso	77	1980–1995
3	Paraguay	Óscar Cardozo	76	2007–2014
4	Portugal	Eusébio	75	1960–1975
	Portugal	Nené		1968–1986
6	Uruguay	Maxi Pereira	74	2007–2015
7	Portugal	Humberto Coelho	71	1968–1975 1977–1984
8	Portugal	António Simões	67	1961–1975
9	Portugal	Nuno Gomes	66	1997–2002 2002–2011
10	Portugal	Shéu	62	1972–1989
	Argentina	Nicolás Gaitán		2010–

All time topscorers

As of 18 May 2014

This is a list of the highest number of official goals for the club.

Ranking	Nationality	Name	Years	Matches	Goals
1	Portugal	Eusébio	1960–1975	440	473
2	Portugal	José Águas	1950–1963	384	374
3	Portugal	Nené	1968–1986	575	360
4	Portugal	José Torres	1959–1971	259	226
5	Portugal	Arsénio	1943–1955	298	218
6	Portugal	Rogério Pipi	1942–1954	320	211
7	Portugal	Julinho	1942–1953	200	205
8	Portugal	José Augusto	1959–1969	368	175
9	Paraguay	Óscar Cardozo	2007–2014	293	172
10	Portugal	Nuno Gomes	1997–2002 2002–2011	398	166

Top scorers in the Primeira Liga

As of 18 May 2014

This is a list of the highest number of official goals for the club in the Primeira Liga.

Ranking	Nationality	Name	Years	Matches	Goals
1	Portugal	Eusébio	1960–1975	313	317
2	Portugal	José Águas	1950–1963	281	290
3	Portugal	Nené	1968–1986	421	262
4	Portugal	Arsénio	1943–1955	224	154
5	Portugal	Julinho	1942–1953	143	153
6	Portugal	José Torres	1959–1971	169	151
7	Portugal	Rogério Pipi	1942–1954	212	126
8	Portugal	Nuno Gomes	1997–2002 2002–2011	293	125
9	Portugal	José Augusto	1959–1969	248	114
10	Paraguay	Óscar Cardozo	2007–2014	175	112

Top scorers in Europe

As of 18 May 2014

This is a list of the highest number of official goals for the club in UEFA competitions.

Ranking	Nationality	Name	Years	Matches	Goals
1	Portugal	Eusébio	1960–1975	75	57
2	Paraguay	Óscar Cardozo	2007–2014	76	34
3	Portugal	Nené	1968–1986	75	28
4	Portugal	José Augusto	1959–1969	60	26
5	Portugal	Nuno Gomes	1997–2002 2002–2011	66	23
6	Portugal	José Torres	1959–1971	35	21
7	Portugal	José Águas	1950–1963	21	17
8	Brazil	Isaías	1990–1995	31	13
9	Portugal	Simão Sabrosa	2001–2007	40	12
10	Portugal	João Vieira Pinto	1992–2000	44	11

Historical goals in the Primeira Liga

As of 15 May 2016, Benfica have scored 5,555 goals in the Primeira Liga.

Goal	Name	Date	Match
1	Alfredo Valadas	20 January 1935	Benfica 1–0 Vitória de Setúbal
100	Alfredo Valadas	31 January 1937	Benfica 10–2 Leixões
500	Joaquim Teixeira	6 February 1944	Benfica 6–1 Salgueiros
1,000	Rosário	1949–50	Vitória de Guimarães 3–5 Benfica
1,500	José Águas	1956–57	Benfica 6–0 CUF
2,000	Yaúca	17 November 1963	Benfica 4–2 Belenenses
2,500	Artur Jorge	27 September 1970	Benfica 4–0 Boavista
3,000	Vítor Martins	13 February 1977	Benfica 6–1 Estoril
3,500	Nené	18 March 1984	Farense 2–7 Benfica
4,000	Sergei Yuran	7 December 1991	Benfica 3–0 Beira-Mar
4,500	Karel Poborský	14 February 2000	Vitória de Setúbal 1–2 Benfica
5,000	David Suazo	2 November 2008	Vitória de Guimarães 1–2 Benfica
5,500	Jonas	20 December 2015	Benfica 3–1 Rio Ave

Overall topscorers by season

Season	Name	Goals
1906–07	António José Rodrigues (?)	1 (?)
1907–08	Eduardo Corga	4
1908–09	António Meireles	6
1909–10	Cosme Damião (?)	6 (?)
1910–11	Artur José Pereira (?)	1 (?)
1911–12	(?)	(?)
1912–13	(?)	(?)
1913–14	Álvaro Gaspar	14
1914–15	Herculano Santos (?)	15 (?)
1915–16	Francisco Pereira	6
1916–17	Alberto Rios (?)	4 (?)
1917–18	Artur Augusto	2
1918–19	Jesus Crespo (?)	6 (?)
1919–20	Artur Augusto	7
1920–21	Jesus Crespo (?)	4 (?)
1921–22	Alberto Augusto (?)	2 (?)
1922–23	Jesus Crespo (?)	3 (?)
1923–24	Jesus Crespo	5
1924–25	Jorge Tavares	4
1925–26	Simões	14
1926–27	Américo Antunes	7
1927–28	Mário Carvalho (?)	10 (?)
1928–29	Vítor Silva	11
1929–30	Vítor Silva	14
1930–31	Vítor Silva	14
1931–32	Octávio Policardo	13
1932–33	Vítor Silva	17
1933–34	Torres	7
1934–35	Valadas	23
1935–36	Valadas	24
1936–37	Rogério	32
1937–38	Espírito Santo	35
1938–39	Espírito Santo	23
1939–40	Rodrigues	44
1940–41	Rodrigues	31
1941–42	Rodrigues	25
1942–43	Julinho	37

Season	Name	Goals
1943–44	Julinho	31
1944–45	Joaquim Teixeira	37
1945–46	Rogério Pipi	24
1946–47	Arsénio	29
1947–48	Julinho	26
1948–49	Corona	23
1949–50	Julinho	31
1950–51	Arsénio	35
1951–52	José Águas	34
1952–53	José Águas	35
1953–54	José Águas	23
1954–55	José Águas	26
1955–56	José Águas	31
1956–57	José Águas	33
1957–58	José Águas	31
1958–59	José Águas	29
1959–60	José Águas	30
1960–61	José Águas	43
1961–62	Eusébio	29
1962–63	Eusébio	38
1963–64	Eusébio	46
1964–65	Eusébio	48
1965–66	Eusébio	37
1966–67	Eusébio	42
1967–68	Eusébio	50
1968–69	Eusébio	29
1969–70	Eusébio	25
1970–71	Artur Jorge	37
1971–72	Artur Jorge	33
1972–73	Eusébio	42
1973–74	Eusébio	19
1974–75	Mário Moinhos	18
1975–76	Nené	34
1976–77	Nené	27
1977–78	Nené	21
1978–79	Nené	28
1979–80	Nené	36

Season	Name	Goals
1980–81	Nené	32
1981–82	Nené	37
1982–83	Nené	32
1983–84	Nené	27
1984–85	Michael Manniche	28
1985–86	Michael Manniche	21
1986–87	Rui Águas	20
1987–88	Rui Águas	18
1988–89	Vata	18
1989–90	Mats Magnusson	40
1990–91	Rui Águas	26
1991–92	Isaías	17
1992–93	Isaías	17
1993–94	João Pinto	18
1994–95	Edílson	17
1995–96	João Pinto	23
1996–97	João Pinto	16
1997–98	Nuno Gomes	22
1998–99	Nuno Gomes	34
1999–00	Nuno Gomes	20
2000–01	Pierre van Hooijdonk	24
2001–02	Mantorras	13
2002–03	Simão	18
2003–04	Simão	15
2004–05	Simão	22
2005–06	Nuno Gomes	17
2006–07	Simão	16
2007–08	Óscar Cardozo	22
2008–09	Óscar Cardozo	17
2009–10	Óscar Cardozo	38
2010–11	Óscar Cardozo	23
2011–12	Óscar Cardozo	28
2012–13	Óscar Cardozo	33
2013–14	Lima	21
2014–15	Jonas	31
2015–16	Jonas	36

Award winners

Ballon d'Or

While playing for Benfica, Eusébio won the Ballon d'Or in 1965, when the award recognized Europe's Best Player.

• Eusébio – 1965

European Golden Shoe

Eusébio was the inaugural winner of the European Golden Shoe, in 1968, an award which he won for a second time in 1973.

• Eusébio (43 goals)  – 1967–68
• Eusébio (40 goals)  – 1972–73

Benfica's Player of the Year

The Cosme Damião Award - Footballer of the Year is an yearly award presented by Benfica to its players.

Year	Winner
2006	Simão Sabrosa
2007	Rui Costa
2008	Kostas Katsouranis
2009	Luisão
2010	Fábio Coentrão
2011	Pablo Aimar
2012	Maxi Pereira
2013	Not awarded
2014	Nicolás Gaitán
2015	Jonas

Transfers

Highest transfer fees paid

This lists transfer fees paid by Benfica, only the top 10 is listed. Transfer fee is displayed in Euro and Pound sterling.

Ranking	Nationality	Name	Transfer Fee (€)	Transfer Fee (£)	From	Date
1	Portugal	Pizzi	€14M	£10.3M	Atlético Madrid	31 July 2013
2	Argentina	Eduardo Salvio	€13.5M	£10.5M	Atlético Madrid	31 July 2012
3	Portugal	Simão	€12M	£7.2M	Barcelona	31 May 2001
4	Paraguay	Óscar Cardozo	€11.2M	£7.5M	Newell's Old Boys	21 June 2007
5	Greece	Andreas Samaris	€10M	£7.9M	Olympiacos	22 August 2014
6	Netherlands	Ola John	€9M	£7.2M	Twente	24 May 2012
7	Spain	Roberto	€8.5M	£6.9M	Atlético Madrid	25 June 2010
8	Argentina	Nicolás Gaitán	€8.4M	£7.3M	Boca Juniors	3 May 2010
9	Brazil	Ramires	€7.5M	£6.5M	Cruzeiro	21 May 2009
10	Spain	Javi García	€7M	£6M	Real Madrid	21 July 2009

Highest transfer fees received

This lists transfer fees received by Benfica, only the top 10 is listed. Transfer fee is displayed in Euro and Pound sterling.

Ranking	Nationality	Name	Transfer Fee (€)	Transfer Fee (£)	To	Date	Ref
1	Belgium	Axel Witsel	€40M	£31.7M	Zenit Saint Petersburg	3 September 2012
2	Portugal	Renato Sanches	€35M	£27.6M	Bayern Munich	10 May 2016
3	Portugal	Fábio Coentrão	€30M	£27.1M	Real Madrid	5 July 2011
4	Spain	Rodrigo	€30M	£24.7M	Valencia (Meriton Capital Limited)	31 January 2014
5	Argentina	Ángel Di María	€25M	£20.5M	Real Madrid	28 June 2010
6	Brazil	David Luiz	€25M	£21.4M	Chelsea	31 January 2011
7	Serbia	Nemanja Matić	€25M	£20.8M	Chelsea	15 January 2014
8	Argentina	Enzo Pérez	€25M	£19.4M	Valencia	2 January 2015
9	Brazil	Ramires	€22M	£18.1M	Chelsea	4 August 2010
10	Portugal	Simão	€20M	£13.3M	Atlético Madrid	26 July 2007

Managerial records

Managers with most seasons

No.	Manager	Seasons
1	Cosme Damião	18
2	János Biri	8
3	Otto Glória	7
4	Ribeiro dos Reis Jorge Jesus	6
6	Lippo Hertzka John Mortimore Sven-Göran Eriksson Toni	5

Managers with most games, including wins

No.	Manager	Games	Wins
1	Jorge Jesus	321	225
2	János Biri	272	194
3	Otto Glória	244	158
4	Sven-Göran Eriksson	234	159
5	Toni	215	126

Trophy winners

The table below indicates all managers that won any honours from all possible official titles Benfica could win throughout history. The initials refer to the following honours:

Domestic honours

• PL – the country's top footballing competition, a round-robin tournament
• TP – the main cup competition
• TL – the league cup tournament for teams from the top two tiers, the Primeira Liga and the Liga de Honra
• ST – the super cup that opposes the champion and the cup winner
• CP – precursor of the cup, winner was considered Champion of Portugal
• CL – main competition for Lisbon-based clubs while the cup or championship did not exist

International honours

• EC/UCL – main competition for UEFA clubs, first called European Cup and later as Champions League
• CWC – contested by UEFA national cup winners, later merged with the UEFA Cup
• UC/EL – tournament played by UEFA top teams not eligible for the Champions League, first called UEFA Cup and later rebranded as Europa League
• Latin Cup – Unofficial precursor of the European Cup, contested by the champions of the La Liga, Serie A, Primeira Liga and Ligue 1, organized by the RFEF, FIGC, FPF and FFF.
• FCWC – disputed by club champion of each FIFA confederations
• IC – match played by the club champions of the UEFA and CONMEBOL confederations, later abolished in virtue of the FIFA Club World Cup
• USC – a super cup contested by the Champions League and Cup Winners' Cup winners, later the Champions League and Europa League winners

Name	Period	Trophies													Total
		Domestic						International
		PL	TP	TL	ST	CP	CL	EC/UCL	CWC	UC/EL	LC	FCWC	IC	USC
Cosme Damião	1908–1926	-	-	-	-	-	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8
Arthur John	1929–1931	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
Ribeiro dos Reis	1932–1934 1953	-	1	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
Vítor Gonçalves	1934–1935	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Lipót Hertzka	1935–1939	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3
János Biri	1939–1947	3	3	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7
Ted Smith	1948–1952	1	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	4
Cândido Tavares	1951–1952	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Otto Glória	1954–1959 1968–1970	4	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7
José Valdivieso	1959	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Béla Guttmann	1959–1962	2	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	4
Fernando Caiado	1962	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Fernando Riera	1962–1963 1966–1967	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
Lajos Czeizler	1963–1964	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
Elek Schwartz	1964–1965	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
José Augusto	1970	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Jimmy Hagan	1970–1974	3	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4
Pavić	1974–1975	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Mário Wilson	1975–1976 1979–1980 1995–1996	1	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3
Mortimore	1976–1979 1985–1987	2	2	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5
Lajos Baróti	1980–1982	1	1	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3
Sven-Göran Eriksson	1982–1984 1989–1992	3	1	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5
Pál Csernai	1984–1985	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Toni	1987–1989 1992–1994	2	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3
José Antonio Camacho	2003–2004	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Giovanni Trapattoni	2004–2005	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Ronald Koeman	2005–2006	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Quique Flores	2008–2009	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Jorge Jesus	2009–2015	3	1	5	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10
Rui Vitória	2015–	1	0	1	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
Total	1904–	35	25	7	5	3	10	2	-	-	1	-	-	-	88

See also

• European association football club records