S.L. Benfica in European football

S.L. Benfica is the second most successful Portuguese football team in UEFA competitions, with two titles, and the best-ranked in the UEFA club ranking (sixth), being the only Portuguese team to have been ranked first.^[1]

Benfica is the only Portuguese team to have won two European Champion Clubs' Cup consecutively (in 1961 and 1962). In addition, they were runners-up at the European Cup (in 1963, 1965, 1968, 1988 and 1990) and at the UEFA Cup/Europa League (in 1983, 2013 and 2014). Benfica is the Portuguese team with the most UEFA finals played (10), which ranks seventh all-time among UEFA clubs.^[2] Furthermore, Benfica is the Portuguese team with the most European Cup finals played (7), with three consecutive finals, and the most Europa League finals played (3), with two consecutive finals.

These are the matches of Benfica in European football:

European Cup/UEFA Champions League

UEFA Champions League match

Season	Round	Opposition	Score
1957–58	Preliminary Round	Sevilla	1–3 (A) 0–0 (H)
1960–61	Preliminary Round	Hearts	2–1 (A) 3–0 (H)
	First Round	Újpest Dózsa	6–2 (H) 1–2 (A)
	Quarter-Final	AGF Aarhus	4–1 (A) 3–1 (H)
	Semi-Final	Rapid Wien	3–0 (H) 1–1 (A)
	Final	Barcelona	3–2 (N)
1961–62	First Round	Austria Wien	1–1 (A) 5–1 (H)
	Quarter-Final	Nuremberg	1–3 (A) 6–0 (H)
	Semi-Final	Tottenham Hotspur	3–1 (H) 1–2 (A)
	Final	Real Madrid	5–3 (N)
1962–63	First Round	IFK Norrköping	1–1 (A) 5–1 (H)
	Quarter-Final	Dukla Prague	2–1 (H) 0–0 (A)
	Semi Final	Feyenoord	0–0 (A) 3–1 (H)
	Final	Milan	1–2 (N)
1963–64	Preliminary Round	Lisburn Distillery	3–3 (A) 5–0 (H)
	First Round	Borussia Dortmund	2–1 (H) 0–5 (A)
1964–65	Preliminary Round	Aris Bonnevoie	5–1 (A) 5–1 (H)
	First Round	La Chaux-de-Fonds	1–1 (A) 5–0 (H)
	Quarter-Final	Real Madrid	5–1 (H) 1–2 (A)
	Semi-Final	Győri ETO	1–0 (A) 4–0 (H)
	Final	Internazionale	0–1 (A)
1965–66	Preliminary Round	Stade Dudelange	8–0 (A) 10–0 (H)
	First Round	Levski Sofia	2–2 (A) 3–2 (H)
	Quarter-Final	Manchester United	2–3 (A) 1–5 (H)[3]
1967–68	First Round	Glentoran	1–1 (A) 0–0 (H)[4]
	Second Round	Saint-Étienne	2–0 (H) 0–1 (A)
	Quarter-Final	Vasas	0–0 (A) 3–0 (H)
	Semi-Final	Juventus	2–0 (H) 1–0 (A)
	Final	Manchester United	1–4 (N)[5]
1968–69	First Round	Valur	0–0 (A) 8–1 (H)
	Second Round	Bye
	Quarter-Final	Ajax	3–1 (A) 1–3 (H)[6]
1969–70	First Round	KB	2–0 (H) 3–2 (A)
	Second Round	Celtic	0–3 (A) 3–0 (H)[7]
1971–72	First Round	Wacker Innsbruck	4–0 (H) 3–1 (A)
	Second Round	CSKA Sofia	2–1 (H) 0–0 (A)
	Quarter-Final	Feyenoord	0–1 (A) 5–1 (H)
	Semi-Final	Ajax	0–1 (A) 0–0 (H)
1972–73	First Round	Malmö FF	0–1 (A) 4–1 (H)
	Second Round	Derby County	0–3 (A) 0–0 (H)
1973–74	First Round	Olympiacos	1–0 (H) 1–0 (A)
	Second Round	Újpest Dózsa	1–1 (H) 0–2 (A)
1975–76	First Round	Fenerbahçe	7–0 (H) 0–1 (A)
	Second Round	Újpest Dózsa	5–2 (H) 1–3 (A)
	Quarter-Final	Bayern Munich	0–0 (H) 1–5 (A)
1976–77	First Round	Dynamo Dresden	0–2 (A) 0–0 (H)
1977–78	First Round	Torpedo Moscow	0–0 (H) 0–0 (A)[8]
	Second Round	B 1903	1–0 (H) 1–0 (A)
	Quarter-Final	Liverpool	1–2 (H)[3] 1–4 (A)
1981–82	First Round	Omonia	3–0 (H) 1–0 (A)
	Second Round	Bayern Munich	0–0 (H) 1–4 (A)
1983–84	First Round	Linfield	3–0 (H) 3–2 (A)
	Second Round	Olympiacos	0–1 (A) 3–0 (H)
	Quarter-Final	Liverpool	0–1 (A) 1–4 (H)[3]
1984–85	First Round	Red Star Belgrade	2–3 (A) 2–0 (H)
	Second Round	Liverpool	1–3 (A) 1–0 (H)
1987–88	First Round	Partizani Tirana	4–0 (H)[9]
	Second Round	AGF Aarhus	0–0 (A) 1–0 (H)
	Quarter-Final	Anderlecht	2–0 (H) 0–1 (A)
	Semi-Final	Steaua Bucureşti	0–0 (A) 2–0 (H)
	Final	PSV	0–0 (N)[10]
1989–90	First Round	Derry City	2–1 (A) 4–0 (H)
	Second Round	Budapest Honvéd	2–0 (A) 7–0 (H)
	Quarter-Final	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	1–0 (H) 3–0 (A)
	Semi-Final	Marseille	1–2 (A) 1–0 (H)[4]
	Final	Milan	0–1 (N)
1991–92	First Round	Hamrun Spartans	6–0 (A) 4–0 (H)
	Second Round	Arsenal	1–1 (H) 3–1 (A)[11]
	Group B	Dynamo Kyiv	0–1 (A) 5–0 (H)
		Barcelona	0–0 (H) 1–2 (A)
		Sparta Prague	1–1 (H) 1–1 (A)
1994–95	Group C	Hajduk Split	0–0 (A) 2–1 (H)
		Anderlecht	3–1 (H) 1–1 (A)
		Steaua Bucureşti	2–1 (H) 1–1 (A)
	Quarter-Final	Milan	0–2 (A) 0–0 (H)
1998–99	Second Qualifying Round	Beitar Jerusalem	6–0 (H) 2–4 (A)
	Group F	Kaiserslautern	0–1 (A) 2–1 (H)
		PSV	2–1 (H) 2–2 (A)
		HJK Helsinki	0–2 (A) 2–2 (H)
2003–04	Third Qualifying Round	Lazio	1–3 (A) 0–1 (H)[3]
2004–05	Third Qualifying Round	Anderlecht	1–0 (H) 0–3 (A)
2005–06	Group D	Lille	1–0 (H) 0–0 (A)
		Manchester United	1–2 (A) 2–1 (H)
		Villarreal	1–1 (A) 0–1 (H)[3]
	Round of 16	Liverpool	1–0 (H) 2–0 (A)
	Quarter-Final	Barcelona	0–0 (H) 0–2 (A)
2006–07	Third Qualifying Round	Austria Wien	1–1 (A) 3–0 (H)
	Group F	Copenhagen	0–0 (A) 3–1 (H)
		Manchester United	0–1 (H)[3] 1–3 (A)
		Celtic	0–3 (A) 3–0 (H)
2007–08	Third Qualifying Round	Copenhagen	2–1 (H) 1–0 (A)
	Group D	Milan	1–2 (A) 1–1 (H)
		Shakhtar Donetsk	0–1 (H)[3] 2–1 (A)
		Celtic	1–0 (H) 0–1 (A)
2010–11	Group B	Hapoel Tel Aviv	2–0 (H) 0–3 (A)
		Schalke 04	0–2 (A) 1–2 (H)
		Lyon	0–2 (A) 4–3 (H)
2011–12	Third Qualifying Round	Trabzonspor	2–0 (H) 1–1 (A)
	Play-off Round	FC Twente	2–2 (A) 3–1 (H)
	Group C	Manchester United	1–1 (H) 2–2 (A)
		Oțelul Galați	1–0 (A) 1–0 (H)
		Basel	2–0 (A) 1–1 (H)
	Round of 16	Zenit St. Petersburg	2–3 (A) 2–0 (H)
	Quarter-Final	Chelsea	0–1 (H) 1–2 (A)
2012–13	Group G	Celtic	0–0 (A) 2–1 (H)
		Barcelona	0–2 (H) 0–0 (A)
		Spartak Moscow	1–2 (A) 2–0 (H)
2013–14	Group C	Paris Saint-Germain	0–3 (A) 2–1 (H)
		Olympiakos	1–1 (H) 0–1 (A)
		Anderlecht	2–0 (H) 3–2 (A)
2014–15	Group C	Zenit St. Petersburg	0–2 (H) 0–1 (A)
		Bayer Leverkusen	1–3 (A) 0–0 (H)
		Monaco	0–0 (A) 1–0 (H)

European Cup Winners' Cup/UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

Season	Round	Opposition	Score
1970–71	First Round	Olimpija Ljubljana	1–1 (A) 8–1 (H)
	Second Round	Vorwärts Berlin	2–0 (H) 0–2 (A)[12]
1974–75	First Round	Vanløse	4–0 (H) 4–1 (A)
	Second Round	Carl Zeiss Jena	1–1 (A) 0–0 (H)[4]
	Quarter-Final	PSV	0–0 (A) 1–2 (H)[3]
1980–81	Preliminary Round	Altay	0–0 (A) 4–0 (H)
	First Round	Dinamo Zagreb	0–0 (A) 2–0 (H)
	Second Round	Malmö FF	0–1 (A) 2–0 (H)
	Quarter-Final	Fortuna Düsseldorf	2–2 (A) 1–0 (H)
	Semi-Final	Carl Zeiss Jena	0–2 (A) 1–0 (H)
1985–86	First Round	Manchester United	Bye[13]
	Second Round	Sampdoria	2–0 (H) 0–1 (A)
	Quarter-Final	Dukla Prague	0–1 (A) 2–1 (H)[14]
1986–87	First Round	Lillestrøm	2–0 (H) 2–1 (A)
	Second Round	Bordeaux	1–1 (H) 0–1 (A)
1993–94	First Round	GKS Katowice	1–0 (H) 1–1 (A)
	Second Round	CSKA Sofia	3–1 (H) 3–1 (A)
	Quarter-Final	Bayer Leverkusen	1–1 (H) 4–4 (A)[4]
	Semi-Final	Parma	2–1 (H) 0–1 (A)[14]
1996–97	First Round	Ruch Chorzów	5–1 (H) 0–0 (A)
	Second Round	Lokomotiv Moscow	1–0 (H) 3–2 (A)
	Quarter-Final	Fiorentina	0–2 (H)[3] 1–0 (A)

Inter-Cities Fairs Cup/UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League

2012–13 UEFA Europa League quarter-final

Season	Round	Opposition	Score
1966–67	First Round	Bye
	Second Round	Spartak Plovdiv	1–1 (A) 3–0 (H)
	Third Round	Lokomotive Leipzig	1–3 (A) 2–1 (H)
1978–79	First Round	Nantes	2–0 (A) 0–0 (H)
	Second Round	Borussia Mönchengladbach	0–0 (H) 0–2 (A)
1979–80	First Round	Aris Thessaloniki	1–3 (A) 2–1 (H)
1982–83	First Round	Real Betis	2–1 (H) 2–1 (A)
	Second Round	Lokeren	2–0 (H) 2–1 (A)
	Third Round	Zürich	1–1 (A) 4–0 (H)
	Quarter-Final	Roma	2–1 (A) 1–1 (H)
	Semi-Final	Universitatea Craiova	0–0 (A) 1–1 (H)[4]
	Final	Anderlecht	0–1 (A) 1–1 (H)
1988–89	First Round	Montpellier	3–0 (A) 3–1 (H)
	Second Round	Liège	1–2 (A) 1–1 (H)
1990–91	First Round	Roma	0–1 (A) 0–1 (H)[3]
1992–93	First Round	NK Izola	3–0 (H) 5–0 (A)
	Second Round	Vác-Újbuda	5–1 (H) 1–0 (A)
	Third Round	Dynamo Moscow	2–2 (A) 2–0 (H)
	Quarter-Final	Juventus	2–1 (H) 0–3 (A)
1995–96	First Round	Lierse	3–1 (A) 2–1 (H)
	Second Round	Roda JC	1–0 (H) 2–2 (A)
	Third Round	Bayern Munich	1–4 (A) 1–3 (H)[3]
1997–98	First Round	Bastia	0–1 (A) 0–0 (H)
1999–00	First Round	Dinamo Bucureşti	0–1 (H)[3] 2–0 (A)
	Second Round	PAOK	2–1 (A) 1–2 (H)[3][8]
	Third Round	Celta Vigo	0–7 (A) 1–1 (H)
2000–01	First Round	Halmstad	1–2 (A) 2–2 (H)
2003–04	First Round	Louviéroise	1–1 (A) 1–0 (H)
	Second Round	Molde	3–1 (H) 2–1 (A)
	Third Round	Rosenborg	1–0 (H) 1–2 (A)[4]
	Fourth Round	Internazionale	0–0 (H) 3–4 (A)
2004–05	First Round	Dukla Banská Bystrica	3–0 (A) 2–0 (H)
	Group G	Heerenveen	4–2 (H)
		Stuttgart	0–3 (A)
		Dinamo Zagreb	2–0 (H)
		Beveren	3–0 (A)
	Round of 32	CSKA Moscow	0–2 (A) 1–1 (H)
2006–07	Round of 32	Dinamo Bucureşti	1–0 (H) 2–1 (A)
	Round of 16	Paris Saint-Germain	1–2 (A) 3–1 (H)
	Quarter-Final	Espanyol	2–3 (A) 0–0 (H)
2007–08	Round of 32	Nuremberg	1–0 (H) 2–2 (A)
	Round of 16	Getafe	1–2 (H)[3] 0–1 (A)
2008–09	First Round	Napoli	2–3 (A) 2–0 (H)
	Group B	Hertha BSC	1–1 (A)
		Galatasaray	0–2 (H)[3]
		Olympiacos	1–5 (A)
		Metalist Kharkiv	0–1 (H)[3]
2009–10	Play-off Round	Vorskla Poltava	4–0 (H) 1–2 (A)
	Group I	BATE Borisov	2–0 (H) 2–1 (A)
		AEK Athens	0–1 (A) 2–1 (H)
		Everton	5–0 (H) 2–0 (A)
	Round of 32	Hertha BSC	1–1 (A) 4–0 (H)
	Round of 16	Marseille	1–1 (H) 2–1 (A)
	Quarter-Final	Liverpool	2–1 (H) 1–4 (A)
2010–11	Round of 32	Stuttgart	2–1 (H) 2–0 (A)
	Round of 16	Paris Saint-Germain	2–1 (H) 1–1 (A)
	Quarter-Final	PSV Eindhoven	4–1 (H) 2–2 (A)
	Semi-Final	Braga	2–1 (H) 0–1 (A)[14]
2012–13	Round of 32	Bayer Leverkusen	1–0 (A) 2–1 (H)
	Round of 16	Bordeaux	1–0 (H) 3–2 (A)
	Quarter-Final	Newcastle United	3–1 (H) 1–1 (A)
	Semi-Final	Fenerbahçe	0–1 (A) 3–1 (H)
	Final	Chelsea	1–2 (N)
2013–14	Round of 32	PAOK	1–0 (A) 3–0 (H)
	Round of 16	Tottenham Hotspur	3–1 (A) 2–2 (H)
	Quarter-Final	AZ	1–0 (A) 2–0 (H)
	Semi-Final	Juventus	2–1 (H) 0–0 (A)
	Final	Sevilla	0–0 (N)[15]

Finals

2013 UEFA Europa League final

Year	Competition	Opposing Team	Score	Venue
1961	European Cup	Barcelona	3–2	Wankdorf Stadium, Bern
1962	European Cup	Real Madrid	5–3	Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam
1963	European Cup	Milan	1–2	Wembley Stadium, London
1965	European Cup	Internazionale	0–1	San Siro, Milan
1968	European Cup	Manchester United	1–4 (a.e.t.)	Wembley Stadium, London
1983	UEFA Cup	Anderlecht	1–2	Two-legged
1988	European Cup	PSV	0–0 (a.e.t.) (5–6 p.s.)	Neckarstadion, Stuttgart
1990	European Cup	Milan	0–1	Praterstadion, Vienna
2013	UEFA Europa League	Chelsea	1–2	Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam
2014	UEFA Europa League	Sevilla	0–0 (a.e.t.) (2–4 p.s.)	Juventus Stadium, Torino

Won semi-finals

Year	Competition	Opposing Team	Score	Final venue	Other Semi-finalists
1961	European Cup	Rapid Wien	4–1	Wankdorf Stadium	Barcelona Hamburg
1962	European Cup	Tottenham Hotspur	4–3	Olympisch Stadion	Real Madrid Standard Liège
1963	European Cup	Feyenoord	3–1	Wembley Stadium	Milan Dundee
1965	European Cup	Vasas ETO Györ	5–0	San Siro	Internazionale Liverpool
1968	European Cup	Juventus	3–0	Wembley Stadium	Manchester United Real Madrid
1983	UEFA Cup	Universitatea Craiova	1–1 (a)	two-legged	Anderlecht Bohemians CKD Praha
1988	European Cup	Steaua	2–0	Neckarstadion	PSV Real Madrid
1990	European Cup	Olympique de Marseille	2–2 (a)	Praterstadion	Milan Bayern Munich
2013	UEFA Europa League	Fenerbahçe	3–2	Amsterdam Arena	Chelsea Basel
2014	UEFA Europa League	Juventus	2–1	Juventus Stadium	Valencia Sevilla

Lost semi-finals

Year	Competition	Opposing Team	Score	Final venue	Other Semi-finalists
1972	European Cup	Ajax	0–1	Feijenoord Stadion	Internazionale Celtic
1981	Cup Winners' Cup	Carl Zeiss Jena	1–2	Rheinstadion	Dinamo Tbilisi Feyenoord
1994	Cup Winners' Cup	Parma	2–2 (a)	Idraetsparken	Arsenal Paris Saint-Germain
2011	UEFA Europa League	Braga	2–2 (a)	Aviva Stadium	Porto Villarreal

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