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Sport Lisboa e Benfica (), commonly known as Benfica, is a professional
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, Portugal, that plays in the
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(LPB), where they are the current champions. Founded in 1927, it is the senior representative side of the basketball section of multi-sports club
S.L. Benfica (), commonly known as Benfica, is a professional football club based in Lisbon, Portugal, that competes in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football. Founded on 28 February 1904, as ''Sport Lisboa'', Benfica is one of the " ...
. In June 2007, the club decided to leave the professional top league, then known as LCB, and join the
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. From 2008 onwards, they returned to the LPB after the federation took control of the competition. Benfica is the most successful Portuguese club, having the record for most championships (31),
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s (15), and other national competitions plus the Supertaça da Lusofonia, totalling 86 trophies. It is also the Portuguese team that advanced the furthest in the European top club championship, now known as
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. Some of their most memorable moments were European victories against clubs that have won the Euroleague, such as
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. Along with its several youth teams, which play in their respective top division championships, Benfica also has a developmental basketball team, Benfica B, that plays in the Proliga, the second highest tier in Portugal.


History


Early years

Created on 20 March 1927, the basketball team followed the steps of many other sports that were supported by the club, achieving great success almost immediately. The team established itself as a main contender by the 1940s and during the whole 1960s gained the status of championship favourite and was already the club with the most titles won. By this time the club had won eight
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s and eight
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s. This dominating spell decreased the following decade until the early 1980s. During this time span, Benfica would win only two championships, in the 1969–70 and the 1974–75 season, but won four national cups, the second most prestigious Portuguese tournament, in 1969–70, 1971–72, 1972–73 and 1973–74. After these years, Benfica again dominated the national scene.


Golden years

The most successful period of the club was between 1985 and 1995. In eleven seasons, the team won ten national titles, seven of which in a row, five national cups, five league cups and six
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s, achieving the best season ever by a Portuguese basketball team in 1994–95 winning the Portuguese League, Portuguese League Cup, Portuguese Super Cup, Portuguese Basketball Cup and finishing the European Champions' Cup in the Top 16. One of the highlight from that European Champions' Cup season was a 22-point victory (102–80) against
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in Lisbon on 12 January 1995. Benfica also made successful international campaigns in the other seasons considering the budget the team had compared with other European big teams. Some of the most successful of those campaigns include the 1993–94, when Benfica was close to reach the Top 8, and for a third season in a row Benfica managed to reach the Top 16 again in the European Champions' Cup, in 1995–96, grabbing a win against
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, the eventual champions.


Decline in the late 1990s

This period was followed by a dark era in which Benfica was internally overshadowed by Ovarense,
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. Even though this period is considered to be a dark one, Benfica did manage to reach the LPB final once as well as winning Super Cups and finishing runners-up in the national cup and in the league cup. Also noteworthy is an away win against
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, in the 1996–97 EuroCup, the same season the Spaniards won the competition. The team finally decided to withdraw from the top tier and applied for the second league, the
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, which was the highest division run by the
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. However the first division was folded and the LPB (league) was again being overviewed by the national federation. This allowed the team to make a comeback to the main league.


Revival in the late 2000s

After more than a decade without any titles and in the same season Benfica had made a return to the first league, the 2008–09 season, the team won the Portuguese League, with a perfect score of 100% wins during the regular season, becoming the second team in the world to do so, after
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in the 1970s, and thrashing Ovarense 4–0 in the best-of-four game final. Benfica won the championship again the following season with a 91% winning record in the regular stage and a 4–1 final against Porto. The recent success brought the team to participate in the
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, thus marking the end of a mid-term long hiatus from Portuguese clubs in European basketball competitions. The following year, Benfica won the League Cup and the Super Cup but did not renew the championship as it lost 4–3 in the final to Porto.


Recent years

In the next season Benfica regained the title of Portuguese champion after defeating Porto in their home court Dragão Caixa (53–56) in the last best-of-five series game following a 2–2 playoff tie. Benfica retained the title the following season, having only lost two games, one in the regular season, and the other in the play-off final, which they won 3–1 against
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, both defeats coming only in
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. Overall Benfica won every title except the Cup, losing against Vitória de Guimarães in the final, amassing only three losses in the entire season in all competitions. On 23 May 2014, Benfica defeated Vitória de Guimarães (3–0) and conquered its 25th champions title (third consecutive), completing the domestic treble of League, Portuguese Cup and Hugo dos Santos Cup. In this season they won a total of 4 titles (including the 2013 Super Cup). In the 2014–15 season, Benfica returned to the European competitions, playing in
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where they finished in third place of
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. At domestic level, Benfica won all the five competitions. Starting the 2015–16 season, they won their fifth and fourth consecutive
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, setting a club record of ten consecutive Portuguese trophies won. They achieved the domestic treble of League Cup, Portuguese Cup, and league title the next season. In September 2022, Benfica qualified for the regular season of the
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. It was the first time a Portuguese team entered the regular season of the league.


Results in international competition

Note: Benfica score is always listed first.


Home arenas

Benfica played its home basketball games at the Pavilhão dos Desportos, from 1946 to 1965. The club then played its home games at the Pavilhão da Luz, from 1965 to 2003. Since 2003, Benfica has hosted its home games at the
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, which has a
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of 2,400 people.


Honours


Domestic competitions

* Portuguese League : Winners (31) – record: 1939–40, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1960–61, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1969–70, 1974–75, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1990–91, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2016–17, 2021–22,
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, 2023–24, 2024–25 *
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: Winners (23) – record: 1945–46, 1946–47, 1960–61, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1973–74, 1980–81, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2022–23 * League Cup / Hugo dos Santos Cup : Winners (13) – record: 1989–90, 1990–91, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96, 2010–11, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2023–24 * Portuguese Super Cup : Winners (15) – record: 1985, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2023 * Troféu António Pratas LPB : Winners (5) – record: 2008–09, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2014–15, 2015–16 * Troféu António Pratas Proliga : Winners (1): 2007–08


International competitions

* Supertaça da Lusofonia : Winners (1): 2010


Players


Current roster


Retired numbers


Former players

Players who won a league title with Benfica or who were picked in the
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. * Bruce Holland (4 seasons: 1977–81) * Henrique Vieira (11 seasons: 1981–92) *
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(12 seasons: 1984–96) * Mike Plowden (10 seasons: 1985–95) *
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(8 seasons: 1988–96) * Pedro Miguel (11 seasons: 1989–2000) *
José Carlos Guimarães José Carlos Ribeiro de Carvalho Guimarães (born 9 April 1964 in Luanda), known as Zé Carlos, is a former Angolan basketball player and a former coach of the Angola national basketball team. He played as a guard and as a forward. He achieved ...
(4 seasons: 1991–94, 1996–97) * Steve Rocha (4 seasons: 1992–95, 1996–97) * Carlos Seixas (7 seasons: 1992–99) *
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(1 season: 1994–95) * Luís Silva (8 seasons: 1994–99, 2002–05) *
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(8 seasons: 1995–99, 2008–12) * Brian Rewers (1 season: 1997–98) * Mark Acres (1 season: 1997–98) *
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(3 seasons: 1997–99) * Jamie Watson (1 season: 2002–03) *
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(1 season: 2003–04) * Ben Davis (1 season: 2005–06) *
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(3 seasons: 2005–07) *
Carlos Andrade Carlos Eduardo Fernandes Vieira de Andrade (born April 27, 1978) is a former Portuguese basketball player who played as a small forward. Andrade played college basketball in the United States, and had brief spells in Germany and Spain. He is the ...
(7 seasons: 2006–07, 2012–18) *
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(1 season: 2006–07) * Geno Carlisle (1 season: 2006–07) *
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(1 season: 2006–07) *
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(7 seasons: 2006–13) * Edson Ferreira (1 season: 2008–09) * Rahein Brown (1 season: 2008–09) * Seth Doliboa (5 seasons: 2008–09, 2011–2015) * Cristóvão Cordeiro (2 seasons: 2008–10) * João Santos (2 seasons: 2008–10) * Miguel Barroca (2 seasons: 2008–10) * António Tavares (3 seasons: 2008–11) * Ben Reed (4 seasons: 2008–12) *
Diogo Carreira Diogo Carreira (born December 2, 1978) is a retired Portuguese basketball player. A point guard, Carreira spent his entire career in his home-country, being mostly associated with Seixal, Belenenses and Benfica, winning several honours with the ...
(8 seasons: 2008–16) *
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(1 season: 2009–10) * Will Frisby (1 season: 2009–10) *
Elvis Évora Elvis Garcia Monteiro Évora (born 4 February 1978) is a Portuguese former basketball player who played as a center. He played for Porto, from 1998/1999 to 2004/2005. After a season at Iberostar Tenerife, he moved back to Portugal, playing for ...
(4 seasons: 2009–13) *
Heshimu Evans Heshimu Kenyata Evans (born May 8, 1975) is an American-born Portuguese former basketball player, who last played for S.L. Benfica of the Portuguese Basketball League (LPB). Evans, a small forward from Evander Childs High School in The Bronx, wen ...
(4 seasons: 2009–13) * Carlos Ferreirinho (6 seasons: 2010–16) * António Monteiro (1 season: 2011–12) *
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(5 seasons: 2011–16) * Lace Dunn (1 season: 2012–13) *
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(2 seasons: 2013–16) *
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(3 seasons: 2013–15) *
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(4 seasons: 2013–17) *
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(1 season: 2014–15) * Fábio Lima (4 seasons: 2014–15, 2018–21) *
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(1 season: 2015–16) * Marko Loncovic (2 seasons: 2015–17) * Nuno Oliveira (3 seasons: 2015–18) *
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(1 season: 2016–17) * Carlos Morais (2 seasons: 2016–18) *
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(1 season: 2017–18) *
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(1 season: 2020–21)


Head coaches

* Teotónio Lima (12 seasons: 1956–65, 1972–75) * José Curado (3 seasons: 1984–87) * Tim Shea (3 seasons: 1988–91) *
Mário Palma Mário Leonel Faria Borges de Palma (born 27 June 1950) is a Portuguese basketball coach. Career Palma was the coach of Angola at their first appearance at the FIBA Africa Championship, in 1980, finishing in seventh place. He later would be the ...
(6 seasons: 1991–97) *
Carlos Lisboa Carlos Humberto Lehman de Almeida Benholiel Lisboa Santos (born 23 July 1958), known as Carlos Lisboa, is a Portuguese former basketball player who played as a guard and forward. He is considered the greatest Portuguese basketball player of all-t ...
(10 seasons: 1997–99, 2011–17, 2019–21) *
Norberto Alves Norberto Almeida Monteiro Alves (born 19 March 1968) is a Portuguese basketball head coach for S.L. Benfica of the Liga Portuguesa de Basquetebol. Professional career In 2019, Alves guided U.D. Oliveirense to its second national title in league h ...
(2004–06, 2021–present) * Henrique Vieira (5 seasons: 2007–11) * José Ricardo (1 season: 2017–18) * Arturo Álvarez (1 season: 2018–19)


Women's honours

* Portuguese League : Winners (4): 2020–21, 2021–22, 2023–24, 2024–25 *
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: Winners (3): 2020–21, 2021–22, 2023–24 * Federation Cup : Winners (2): 2021–22, 2022–23 * Vítor Hugo Cup : Winners (4): 2019–20, 2022–23, 2023–24, 2024–25 * Portuguese Super Cup : Winners (3): 2021, 2022,Benfica conquista Supertaça de basquetebol feminina
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