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Enzo Fernández left Benfica in January 2023 for a British-record fee — which club signed him?
WhyChelsea paid around £106.8m, a British record at the time, to sign Enzo Fernández from Benfica. -
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In which city does Benfica play its home matches?
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Which coach led Benfica to the club's first-ever fourth consecutive league title, in 2016-17?
WhyRui Vitória's side clinched the 'tetra' with a 5-0 win over Vitória de Guimarães, a first in Benfica's 113-year history. -
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Which Hungarian coach led Benfica to back-to-back European Cup triumphs in 1961 and 1962?
WhyBéla Guttmann masterminded Benfica's 1961 and 1962 European Cup wins over Barcelona and Real Madrid. -
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Benfica went through the entire 1972-73 league season unbeaten under which English manager?
WhyHagan's side won 28 and drew 2 of their 30 games and scored 101 goals — the first unbeaten league title in Portugal. -
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In which year did Eusébio win the Ballon d'Or as European Footballer of the Year?
WhyEusébio took the 1965 award; he had finished runner-up in 1962 and would be runner-up again in 1966. -
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Eusébio was the first player to win which award, claiming its inaugural edition in 1968?
WhyEusébio's 42 league goals in 1967-68 won the first ever European Golden Boot; he claimed it a second time in 1973. -
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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?
WhyBenfica 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. -
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Nuno Gomes left Benfica in 2000 for a €17m move to which Italian club, after starring at Euro 2000?
WhyFiorentina signed him that summer; their financial collapse allowed him to return to Benfica as a free agent in 2002. -
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Benfica lost the 1965 European Cup final 1-0 at the San Siro to which Italian club?
WhyInter beat Benfica 1-0 on their home San Siro turf to lift the 1965 European Cup. -
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Benfica lost the 1988 European Cup final on penalties after a goalless draw in Stuttgart. Who beat them?
WhyPSV won the shoot-out 6-5, completing a treble of the Eredivisie, the Dutch Cup and the European Cup. -
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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?
WhyJorge Jesus swept all three domestic trophies in 2013-14, winning the Taça da Liga without conceding a single goal. -
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Sven-Göran Eriksson led Benfica to the 1990 European Cup final, where they lost 1-0 to which club?
WhyA Frank Rijkaard goal gave AC Milan a 1-0 win over Eriksson's Benfica in the 1990 European Cup final. -
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When David Luiz joined Chelsea from Benfica in January 2011, which midfielder went to Benfica as part of the deal?
WhyNemanja Matić moved to Lisbon in the David Luiz deal, grew into a star there, and Chelsea bought him back in 2014. -
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As European champions, Benfica lost the 1962 Intercontinental Cup to which Brazilian club?
WhyPelé scored a hat-trick at the Estádio da Luz as Santos won the second leg 5-2 and the tie 8-4 on aggregate. -
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Benfica striker Miklós Fehér tragically collapsed and died during a 2004 match against which Portuguese club?
WhyThe Hungarian forward collapsed from cardiac arrest against Vitória de Guimarães in January 2004. -
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Benfica lost the 1963 European Cup final 2-1 to AC Milan — which forward scored both Milan goals?
WhyBrazilian-born José Altafini scored twice as AC Milan came from behind to beat Benfica 2-1 in the 1963 final. -
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In the 2005-06 Champions League, Benfica knocked out which reigning European champions in the round of 16?
WhyBenfica won 1-0 in Lisbon and 2-0 at Anfield to eliminate the holders and reach a first quarter-final in 11 years. -
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Benfica's training centre and youth academy, opened in 2006, sits in which town across the Tagus from Lisbon?
WhyThe Seixal campus — for years named Caixa Futebol Campus after its sponsor — turned out João Félix, Rúben Dias and Gonçalo Ramos among many others. -
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Benfica's founding in 1904 was led by which man, whose name the club's museum now carries?
WhyCosme 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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In which year was Benfica founded?
WhySport Lisboa e Benfica was founded on 28 February 1904 in Lisbon. -
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Which former Benfica and Portugal playmaker became the club's president in 2021?
WhyRui Costa, a Benfica youth product and ex-Portugal star, was elected club president in October 2021. -
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Mário Coluna, captain of Benfica's 1960s European Cup winners, was famously nicknamed what?
WhyColuna was known as 'O Monstro Sagrado' (The Sacred Monster) and captained the 1961 and 1962 European Cup sides. -
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Benfica won their 38th league title in 2022-23 under which German head coach?
WhyRoger Schmidt guided Benfica to the 2022-23 Primeira Liga crown in his first season in charge. -
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Benfica lost the 2014 Europa League final on penalties to which Spanish club?
WhySevilla beat Benfica 4-2 on penalties after a goalless 2014 Europa League final in Turin. -
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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?
WhyGuttmann 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. -
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Which Italian coach ended Benfica's 11-year league drought by winning the 2004-05 Primeira title?
WhyGiovanni Trapattoni delivered Benfica's first league title in 11 years in 2004-05. -
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Goalkeeper Jan Oblak left Benfica in 2014 to join which club?
WhyAtlético Madrid paid €16m for Oblak in 2014, a Spanish record for a goalkeeper at the time, following Benfica's domestic treble season. -
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Which Brazilian centre-back joined Benfica from Cruzeiro in 2003 and stayed until 2018, playing over 500 official games?
WhyLuisão made 538 official appearances across 15 seasons in Lisbon and captained the side through the 2013-17 title run. -
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Bernardo Silva left Benfica in 2014 for which club, initially on a season-long loan?
WhyMonaco loaned him in August 2014 and bought him outright for about €16m the following January. -
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José Mourinho took his first head coach job at Benfica in September 2000, replacing which German?
WhyMourinho succeeded Jupp Heynckes four rounds into the season and quit that December when a newly elected president refused him a contract extension. -
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Benfica won their first European Cup in 1961 by beating which club 3-2 in the final?
WhyBenfica beat Barcelona 3-2 in Bern to win the 1961 European Cup, their first. -
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The famous 'Guttmann curse' supposedly dooms Benfica to no European trophy for how long?
WhyBéla Guttmann reportedly declared Benfica would not be European champions again for 100 years after a pay dispute in 1962. -
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Benfica retained the European Cup in 1962, beating Real Madrid 5-3 despite which opponent scoring a hat-trick?
WhyPuskás scored three times in Amsterdam, but Eusébio struck twice in four second-half minutes to win it for Benfica. -
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Benfica lost the 2013 Europa League final to which English side?
WhyBranislav Ivanović's stoppage-time header won the 2013 Europa League final 2-1 for Chelsea against Benfica. -
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Who holds Benfica's club record for most official appearances, made across 18 seasons from 1968 to 1986?
WhyNené spent 18 years at Benfica and holds the club's all-time appearance record. -
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Benfica contest the fierce Lisbon derby, 'O Derby', against which club?
WhySporting CP are Benfica's city rivals, and their meetings are known simply as the Lisbon derby. -
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Eusébio was born in Lourenço Marques and joined Benfica in 1960 from a club in which then-Portuguese territory?
WhyEusébio scored 77 goals in 42 games for Sporting de Lourenço Marques in Mozambique before Benfica brought him to Lisbon. -
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Defender Rúben Dias joined which club from Benfica in 2020?
WhyManchester City signed Rúben Dias from Benfica in 2020 and he was named their Player of the Season. -
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Eusébio won the Golden Boot at which World Cup, scoring nine goals including four in one quarter-final comeback?
WhyEusébio's nine goals at the 1966 World Cup in England — four of them against North Korea — carried Portugal to third place. -
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Gonçalo Ramos left Benfica in August 2023 for which club?
WhyPSG took Ramos on loan with an obligation to buy in a package worth up to €80m, and made the move permanent that November. -
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Who is Benfica's all-time record goalscorer?
WhyEusébio scored more than 470 goals for Benfica between 1961 and 1975, the most in club history. -
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Which club signed goalkeeper Ederson from Benfica in 2017?
WhyManchester City paid around £35m in June 2017 to sign Ederson from Benfica. -
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Renato Sanches left Benfica in 2016, aged 18, to join which club?
WhyBayern Munich agreed an initial €35m in May 2016; weeks later Sanches was named the best young player of Euro 2016. -
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Which bird features on Benfica's crest and appears as their matchday mascot?
WhyAn eagle sits atop the Benfica crest, and a live eagle named Vitória flies before home games. -
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What is the name of Benfica's home stadium, rebuilt in 2003?
WhyBenfica play at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon, rebuilt in 2003 ahead of Euro 2004. -
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Which Premier League club signed striker Darwin Núñez from Benfica in 2022?
WhyLiverpool signed Darwin Núñez from Benfica in June 2022 in a deal that could rise beyond £80m. -
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João Félix left Benfica in 2019 in a €126m deal — which club signed him?
WhyAtlético Madrid paid Benfica a club-record €126m for the teenage forward in 2019.
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About Benfica
Benfica were founded in Lisbon in 1904 and have spent the 122 years since setting the standard in Portuguese football: a record 38 Primeira Liga titles as of 2026, two European Cups, and a production line of talent the rest of Europe shops from every summer. Home is the Estádio da Luz, rebuilt for Euro 2004 and still the loudest ground in Portugal on derby night. This quiz covers the lot — the Béla Guttmann and Eusébio years, the curse that supposedly followed them, the record title hauls, the €100m-plus sales, and the strange 2025-26 campaign in which Benfica went all 34 league games unbeaten and somehow still finished third. Whether you stand with the ultras in the Curva Sul or admire O Glorioso from a distance, there's a run of questions here with your name on it.
The defining stretch remains 1961 and 1962. On 31 May 1961, Guttmann's side beat Barcelona 3-2 at the Wankdorf Stadium in Bern, ending Real Madrid's five-year monopoly on the European Cup. A year later in Amsterdam they beat Madrid themselves, 5-3, a 20-year-old Eusébio striking twice to out-duel a Ferenc Puskás hat-trick in one of the greatest finals ever played. Then Guttmann, refused a pay rise, walked out — and legend holds he swore Benfica would not win another European final for a hundred years. Eight finals since, eight defeats: the European Cups of 1963, 1965 and 1968, the 1983 UEFA Cup, the 1988 and 1990 European Cup finals against PSV and Milan, and the Europa League finals of 2013 and 2014. Eusébio even prayed at Guttmann's grave before the 1990 final in Vienna. Milan won 1-0.
Expect plenty on the sales that fund the machine: João Félix's €126m move to Atlético Madrid in 2019 remains the club-record sale as of 2026, Chelsea triggered Enzo Fernández's €121m release clause in January 2023 barely six months after he arrived from River Plate, and Darwin Núñez joined Liverpool in 2022 for an initial €75m that could rise to €100m with add-ons. Manager questions run from Guttmann to José Mourinho — appointed in September 2025, gone to Real Madrid by June 2026 and replaced by Marco Silva — and the boardroom features too: Rui Costa won re-election as president in November 2025 with more than 93,000 members voting, a world record for a club election. Cult heroes from Mário Coluna to Luisão get their due. The difficulty climbs steadily: early questions ask which stadium Benfica call home and who their two great rivals are; later ones want scorers, dates and clause values from memory.
What separates Ball IQ from a list of pub-quiz questions is that every answer is explained. Get one wrong and you don't just see the correct option — you learn why: the context behind Guttmann's exit, how the 1962 final swung after Puskás's hat-trick, why Enzo's release clause made Benfica the selling club every sporting director studies. It turns a quiz into the fastest way to genuinely deepen your Benfica knowledge, whether you're a lifelong sócio or building your football education one club at a time. You can start right now: a set of sample Benfica questions is free to play in your browser, no download or sign-up needed. When you're ready for the full question bank — plus daily challenges to protect your streak and real-time multiplayer to settle arguments with Porto- and Sporting-supporting friends — the complete experience lives in the Ball IQ app for iPhone.
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Enzo Fernández left Benfica in January 2023 for a British-record fee — which club signed him?
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Chelsea. Chelsea paid around £106.8m, a British record at the time, to sign Enzo Fernández from Benfica.
In which city does Benfica play its home matches?
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Lisbon. Benfica are based in Lisbon, Portugal's capital.
Which coach led Benfica to the club's first-ever fourth consecutive league title, in 2016-17?
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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.
Which Hungarian coach led Benfica to back-to-back European Cup triumphs in 1961 and 1962?
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Béla Guttmann. Béla Guttmann masterminded Benfica's 1961 and 1962 European Cup wins over Barcelona and Real Madrid.
Benfica went through the entire 1972-73 league season unbeaten under which English manager?
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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.
In which year did Eusébio win the Ballon d'Or as European Footballer of the Year?
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1965. Eusébio took the 1965 award; he had finished runner-up in 1962 and would be runner-up again in 1966.
Eusébio was the first player to win which award, claiming its inaugural edition in 1968?
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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.
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?
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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.
Nuno Gomes left Benfica in 2000 for a €17m move to which Italian club, after starring at Euro 2000?
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Fiorentina. Fiorentina signed him that summer; their financial collapse allowed him to return to Benfica as a free agent in 2002.
Benfica lost the 1965 European Cup final 1-0 at the San Siro to which Italian club?
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Inter. Inter beat Benfica 1-0 on their home San Siro turf to lift the 1965 European Cup.
Benfica lost the 1988 European Cup final on penalties after a goalless draw in Stuttgart. Who beat them?
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PSV Eindhoven. PSV won the shoot-out 6-5, completing a treble of the Eredivisie, the Dutch Cup and the European Cup.
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?
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Jorge Jesus. Jorge Jesus swept all three domestic trophies in 2013-14, winning the Taça da Liga without conceding a single goal.
Sven-Göran Eriksson led Benfica to the 1990 European Cup final, where they lost 1-0 to which club?
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AC Milan. A Frank Rijkaard goal gave AC Milan a 1-0 win over Eriksson's Benfica in the 1990 European Cup final.
When David Luiz joined Chelsea from Benfica in January 2011, which midfielder went to Benfica as part of the deal?
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Nemanja Matić. Nemanja Matić moved to Lisbon in the David Luiz deal, grew into a star there, and Chelsea bought him back in 2014.
As European champions, Benfica lost the 1962 Intercontinental Cup to which Brazilian club?
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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.
Benfica striker Miklós Fehér tragically collapsed and died during a 2004 match against which Portuguese club?
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Vitória de Guimarães. The Hungarian forward collapsed from cardiac arrest against Vitória de Guimarães in January 2004.
Benfica lost the 1963 European Cup final 2-1 to AC Milan — which forward scored both Milan goals?
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José Altafini. Brazilian-born José Altafini scored twice as AC Milan came from behind to beat Benfica 2-1 in the 1963 final.
In the 2005-06 Champions League, Benfica knocked out which reigning European champions in the round of 16?
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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.
Benfica's training centre and youth academy, opened in 2006, sits in which town across the Tagus from Lisbon?
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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.
Benfica's founding in 1904 was led by which man, whose name the club's museum now carries?
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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.
In which year was Benfica founded?
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1904. Sport Lisboa e Benfica was founded on 28 February 1904 in Lisbon.
Which former Benfica and Portugal playmaker became the club's president in 2021?
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Rui Costa. Rui Costa, a Benfica youth product and ex-Portugal star, was elected club president in October 2021.
Mário Coluna, captain of Benfica's 1960s European Cup winners, was famously nicknamed what?
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The Sacred Monster. Coluna was known as 'O Monstro Sagrado' (The Sacred Monster) and captained the 1961 and 1962 European Cup sides.
Benfica won their 38th league title in 2022-23 under which German head coach?
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Roger Schmidt. Roger Schmidt guided Benfica to the 2022-23 Primeira Liga crown in his first season in charge.
Benfica lost the 2014 Europa League final on penalties to which Spanish club?
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Sevilla. Sevilla beat Benfica 4-2 on penalties after a goalless 2014 Europa League final in Turin.
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?
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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.
Which Italian coach ended Benfica's 11-year league drought by winning the 2004-05 Primeira title?
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Giovanni Trapattoni. Giovanni Trapattoni delivered Benfica's first league title in 11 years in 2004-05.
Goalkeeper Jan Oblak left Benfica in 2014 to join which club?
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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.
Which Brazilian centre-back joined Benfica from Cruzeiro in 2003 and stayed until 2018, playing over 500 official games?
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Luisão. Luisão made 538 official appearances across 15 seasons in Lisbon and captained the side through the 2013-17 title run.
Bernardo Silva left Benfica in 2014 for which club, initially on a season-long loan?
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Monaco. Monaco loaned him in August 2014 and bought him outright for about €16m the following January.
José Mourinho took his first head coach job at Benfica in September 2000, replacing which German?
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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.
Benfica won their first European Cup in 1961 by beating which club 3-2 in the final?
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Barcelona. Benfica beat Barcelona 3-2 in Bern to win the 1961 European Cup, their first.
The famous 'Guttmann curse' supposedly dooms Benfica to no European trophy for how long?
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100 years. Béla Guttmann reportedly declared Benfica would not be European champions again for 100 years after a pay dispute in 1962.
Benfica retained the European Cup in 1962, beating Real Madrid 5-3 despite which opponent scoring a hat-trick?
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Ferenc Puskás. Puskás scored three times in Amsterdam, but Eusébio struck twice in four second-half minutes to win it for Benfica.
Benfica lost the 2013 Europa League final to which English side?
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Chelsea. Branislav Ivanović's stoppage-time header won the 2013 Europa League final 2-1 for Chelsea against Benfica.
Who holds Benfica's club record for most official appearances, made across 18 seasons from 1968 to 1986?
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Nené. Nené spent 18 years at Benfica and holds the club's all-time appearance record.
Benfica contest the fierce Lisbon derby, 'O Derby', against which club?
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Sporting CP. Sporting CP are Benfica's city rivals, and their meetings are known simply as the Lisbon derby.
Eusébio was born in Lourenço Marques and joined Benfica in 1960 from a club in which then-Portuguese territory?
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Mozambique. Eusébio scored 77 goals in 42 games for Sporting de Lourenço Marques in Mozambique before Benfica brought him to Lisbon.
Defender Rúben Dias joined which club from Benfica in 2020?
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Manchester City. Manchester City signed Rúben Dias from Benfica in 2020 and he was named their Player of the Season.
Eusébio won the Golden Boot at which World Cup, scoring nine goals including four in one quarter-final comeback?
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1966. Eusébio's nine goals at the 1966 World Cup in England — four of them against North Korea — carried Portugal to third place.
Gonçalo Ramos left Benfica in August 2023 for which club?
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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.
Who is Benfica's all-time record goalscorer?
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Eusébio. Eusébio scored more than 470 goals for Benfica between 1961 and 1975, the most in club history.
Which club signed goalkeeper Ederson from Benfica in 2017?
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Manchester City. Manchester City paid around £35m in June 2017 to sign Ederson from Benfica.
Renato Sanches left Benfica in 2016, aged 18, to join which club?
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Bayern Munich. Bayern Munich agreed an initial €35m in May 2016; weeks later Sanches was named the best young player of Euro 2016.
Which bird features on Benfica's crest and appears as their matchday mascot?
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Eagle. An eagle sits atop the Benfica crest, and a live eagle named Vitória flies before home games.
What is the name of Benfica's home stadium, rebuilt in 2003?
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Estádio da Luz. Benfica play at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon, rebuilt in 2003 ahead of Euro 2004.
Which Premier League club signed striker Darwin Núñez from Benfica in 2022?
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Liverpool. Liverpool signed Darwin Núñez from Benfica in June 2022 in a deal that could rise beyond £80m.
João Félix left Benfica in 2019 in a €126m deal — which club signed him?
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Atlético Madrid. Atlético Madrid paid Benfica a club-record €126m for the teenage forward in 2019.
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