Benfica Quiz Questions and Answers

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Round 1

  1. As of the 2024-25 season, which club had won the most Primeira Liga titles in Portuguese football history?
  2. In which year was Benfica founded?
  3. João Félix left Benfica in 2019 in a €126m deal — which club signed him?
  4. Which Premier League club signed striker Darwin Núñez from Benfica in 2022?
  5. In which city does Benfica play its home matches?
  6. Which bird features on Benfica's crest and appears as their matchday mascot?
  7. Which Hungarian coach led Benfica to back-to-back European Cup triumphs in 1961 and 1962?
  8. The famous 'Guttmann curse' supposedly dooms Benfica to no European trophy for how long?
  9. Benfica won their 38th league title in 2022-23 under which German head coach?
  10. Defender Rúben Dias joined which club from Benfica in 2020?
Answers — round 1
  1. Benfica — Benfica lead the way with a record 38 Portuguese top-flight titles, ahead of Porto and Sporting.
  2. 1904 — Sport Lisboa e Benfica was founded on 28 February 1904 in Lisbon.
  3. Atlético Madrid — Atlético Madrid paid Benfica a club-record €126m for the teenage forward in 2019.
  4. Liverpool — Liverpool signed Darwin Núñez from Benfica in June 2022 in a deal that could rise beyond £80m.
  5. Lisbon — Benfica are based in Lisbon, Portugal's capital.
  6. Eagle — An eagle sits atop the Benfica crest, and a live eagle named Vitória flies before home games.
  7. Béla Guttmann — Béla Guttmann masterminded Benfica's 1961 and 1962 European Cup wins over Barcelona and Real Madrid.
  8. 100 years — Béla Guttmann reportedly declared Benfica would not be European champions again for 100 years after a pay dispute in 1962.
  9. Roger Schmidt — Roger Schmidt guided Benfica to the 2022-23 Primeira Liga crown in his first season in charge.
  10. Manchester City — Manchester City signed Rúben Dias from Benfica in 2020 and he was named their Player of the Season.

Round 2

  1. Sven-Göran Eriksson led Benfica to the 1990 European Cup final, where they lost 1-0 to which club?
  2. Ángel Di María moved to Real Madrid in 2010 from which club?
  3. Benfica lost the 2013 Europa League final to which English side?
  4. Mário Coluna, captain of Benfica's 1960s European Cup winners, was famously nicknamed what?
  5. Which Italian coach ended Benfica's 11-year league drought by winning the 2004-05 Primeira title?
  6. Benfica lost the 1963 European Cup final 2-1 to AC Milan — which forward scored both Milan goals?
  7. Benfica striker Miklós Fehér tragically collapsed and died during a 2004 match against which Portuguese club?
  8. Who holds Benfica's club record for most official appearances, made across 18 seasons from 1968 to 1986?
  9. When Benfica set a Guinness World Record for most paid-up members of a sports club in 2006, roughly how many members did they have?
  10. Benfica lost the 1965 European Cup final 1-0 at the San Siro to which Italian club?
Answers — round 2
  1. AC Milan — A Frank Rijkaard goal gave AC Milan a 1-0 win over Eriksson's Benfica in the 1990 European Cup final.
  2. Benfica — Di María spent three seasons at Benfica before his 2010 move to Real Madrid.
  3. Chelsea — Branislav Ivanović's stoppage-time header won the 2013 Europa League final 2-1 for Chelsea against Benfica.
  4. The Sacred Monster — Coluna was known as 'O Monstro Sagrado' (The Sacred Monster) and captained the 1961 and 1962 European Cup sides.
  5. Giovanni Trapattoni — Giovanni Trapattoni delivered Benfica's first league title in 11 years in 2004-05.
  6. José Altafini — Brazilian-born José Altafini scored twice as AC Milan came from behind to beat Benfica 2-1 in the 1963 final.
  7. Vitória de Guimarães — The Hungarian forward collapsed from cardiac arrest against Vitória de Guimarães in January 2004.
  8. Nené — Nené spent 18 years at Benfica and holds the club's all-time appearance record.
  9. 160,000 — Benfica were recognised by Guinness on 9 November 2006 for having around 160,000 paying members (160,398), the most of any sports club at the time, surpassing Manchester United's previous mark.
  10. Inter — Inter beat Benfica 1-0 on their home San Siro turf to lift the 1965 European Cup.

Round 3

  1. Benfica lost the 2014 Europa League final on penalties to which Spanish club?
  2. Which former Benfica and Portugal playmaker became the club's president in 2021?
  3. What is the name of Benfica's home stadium, rebuilt in 2003?
  4. Who is Benfica's all-time record goalscorer?
  5. Benfica contest the fierce Lisbon derby, 'O Derby', against which club?
  6. Enzo Fernández left Benfica in January 2023 for a British-record fee — which club signed him?
  7. Benfica won their first European Cup in 1961 by beating which club 3-2 in the final?
  8. Eusébio won the Golden Boot at which World Cup, scoring nine goals including four in one quarter-final comeback?
  9. Eusébio was born in Lourenço Marques and joined Benfica in 1960 from a club in which then-Portuguese territory?
  10. Which club signed goalkeeper Ederson from Benfica in 2017?
Answers — round 3
  1. Sevilla — Sevilla beat Benfica 4-2 on penalties after a goalless 2014 Europa League final in Turin.
  2. Rui Costa — Rui Costa, a Benfica youth product and ex-Portugal star, was elected club president in October 2021.
  3. Estádio da Luz — Benfica play at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon, rebuilt in 2003 ahead of Euro 2004.
  4. Eusébio — Eusébio scored more than 470 goals for Benfica between 1961 and 1975, the most in club history.
  5. Sporting CP — Sporting CP are Benfica's city rivals, and their meetings are known simply as the Lisbon derby.
  6. Chelsea — Chelsea paid around £106.8m, a British record at the time, to sign Enzo Fernández from Benfica.
  7. Barcelona — Benfica beat Barcelona 3-2 in Bern to win the 1961 European Cup, their first.
  8. 1966 — Eusébio's nine goals at the 1966 World Cup in England — four of them against North Korea — carried Portugal to third place.
  9. Mozambique — Eusébio scored 77 goals in 42 games for Sporting de Lourenço Marques in Mozambique before Benfica brought him to Lisbon.
  10. Manchester City — Manchester City paid around £35m in June 2017 to sign Ederson from Benfica.

Round 4

  1. Renato Sanches left Benfica in 2016, aged 18, to join which club?
  2. Gonçalo Ramos left Benfica in August 2023 for which club?
  3. In which year did Eusébio win the Ballon d'Or as European Footballer of the Year?
  4. Eusébio was the first player to win which award, claiming its inaugural edition in 1968?
  5. Benfica retained the European Cup in 1962, beating Real Madrid 5-3 despite which opponent scoring a hat-trick?
  6. As European champions, Benfica lost the 1962 Intercontinental Cup to which Brazilian club?
  7. Which coach led Benfica to the club's first-ever fourth consecutive league title, in 2016-17?
  8. In 2013-14 Benfica became the first Portuguese club to win the domestic treble of league, Taça de Portugal and Taça da Liga. Who was the coach?
  9. José Mourinho took his first head coach job at Benfica in September 2000, replacing which German?
  10. Bernardo Silva left Benfica in 2014 for which club, initially on a season-long loan?
Answers — round 4
  1. Bayern Munich — Bayern Munich agreed an initial €35m in May 2016; weeks later Sanches was named the best young player of Euro 2016.
  2. Paris Saint-Germain — PSG took Ramos on loan with an obligation to buy in a package worth up to €80m, and made the move permanent that November.
  3. 1965 — Eusébio took the 1965 award; he had finished runner-up in 1962 and would be runner-up again in 1966.
  4. The European Golden Boot — Eusébio's 42 league goals in 1967-68 won the first ever European Golden Boot; he claimed it a second time in 1973.
  5. Ferenc Puskás — Puskás scored three times in Amsterdam, but Eusébio struck twice in four second-half minutes to win it for Benfica.
  6. Santos — Pelé scored a hat-trick at the Estádio da Luz as Santos won the second leg 5-2 and the tie 8-4 on aggregate.
  7. Rui Vitória — Rui Vitória's side clinched the 'tetra' with a 5-0 win over Vitória de Guimarães, a first in Benfica's 113-year history.
  8. Jorge Jesus — Jorge Jesus swept all three domestic trophies in 2013-14, winning the Taça da Liga without conceding a single goal.
  9. Jupp Heynckes — Mourinho succeeded Jupp Heynckes four rounds into the season and quit that December when a newly elected president refused him a contract extension.
  10. Monaco — Monaco loaned him in August 2014 and bought him outright for about €16m the following January.

Round 5

  1. Nuno Gomes left Benfica in 2000 for a €17m move to which Italian club, after starring at Euro 2000?
  2. Benfica's training centre and youth academy, opened in 2006, sits in which town across the Tagus from Lisbon?
  3. In the 2005-06 Champions League, Benfica knocked out which reigning European champions in the round of 16?
  4. Which Brazilian centre-back joined Benfica from Cruzeiro in 2003 and stayed until 2018, playing over 500 official games?
  5. Benfica lost the 1988 European Cup final on penalties after a goalless draw in Stuttgart. Who beat them?
  6. Ahead of the 1990 European Cup final, Eusébio prayed at Béla Guttmann's grave to plead for the curse to be lifted. In which city is that grave?
  7. Benfica went through the entire 1972-73 league season unbeaten under which English manager?
  8. Goalkeeper Jan Oblak left Benfica in 2014 to join which club?
  9. When David Luiz joined Chelsea from Benfica in January 2011, which midfielder went to Benfica as part of the deal?
  10. Benfica's founding in 1904 was led by which man, whose name the club's museum now carries?
Answers — round 5
  1. Fiorentina — Fiorentina signed him that summer; their financial collapse allowed him to return to Benfica as a free agent in 2002.
  2. Seixal — The Seixal campus — for years named Caixa Futebol Campus after its sponsor — turned out João Félix, Rúben Dias and Gonçalo Ramos among many others.
  3. Liverpool — Benfica won 1-0 in Lisbon and 2-0 at Anfield to eliminate the holders and reach a first quarter-final in 11 years.
  4. Luisão — Luisão made 538 official appearances across 15 seasons in Lisbon and captained the side through the 2013-17 title run.
  5. PSV Eindhoven — PSV won the shoot-out 6-5, completing a treble of the Eredivisie, the Dutch Cup and the European Cup.
  6. Vienna — Guttmann died in Vienna in 1981 and is buried in the Jewish section of the city's Zentralfriedhof — Benfica lost the final the next day regardless.
  7. Jimmy Hagan — Hagan's side won 28 and drew 2 of their 30 games and scored 101 goals — the first unbeaten league title in Portugal.
  8. Atlético Madrid — Atlético Madrid paid €16m for Oblak in 2014, a Spanish record for a goalkeeper at the time, following Benfica's domestic treble season.
  9. Nemanja Matić — Nemanja Matić moved to Lisbon in the David Luiz deal, grew into a star there, and Chelsea bought him back in 2014.
  10. Cosme Damião — Cosme Damião, then 18, gathered the group of young sports enthusiasts who founded the club in Lisbon's Belém district in February 1904.

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