Sport Lisboa e Benfica "B", commonly known as Benfica B, is a Portuguese professional

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team based in

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. Founded in 1999, dissolved in 2006, and restarted in 2012, it is the

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of Portuguese club

S.L. Benfica Sport Lisboa e Benfica (), commonly known as Benfica, is a professional association football, football club based in Lisbon, Portugal, that competes in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football league system, Portuguese footba ...

. They play in the

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, holding home matches at

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' main pitch. During the 2012–13 season, Benfica B played home matches at the

Estádio da Luz The Estádio da Luz (), officially named Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica, is a multi-purpose stadium located in Lisbon, Portugal. It is used mostly for association football matches, hosting the home games of Portuguese club S.L. Benfica, its ...

until February, when they moved to

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to prevent excessive wear of the stadium's grass. In 2013–14, they moved permanently to their own training ground, capable of receiving professional league matches. As a reserve team, Benfica B cannot play in the same division as the club's main team, thus being ineligible for promotion to the

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. Moreover, they cannot enter domestic cup competitions such as the

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and

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. Since 2018–19, Benfica have an under-23 team playing in Liga Revelação.

History

As Benfica sought a way to provide playing time for their youth and reserve players, they created a B team in 1999. The team officially started competing in the 1999–2000 season, with their first match played away against

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(2–2) in late August. After three seasons in the

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, they suffered relegation to the

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, where they would spend three years, before achieving promotion to the Portuguese Second Division in 2005. In May of the following year, the board of directors extinguished the side, which returned to activity shortly after as part of the

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. As part of this competition, the team's best league finish was a second place, behind Estoril B, in the South Zone of the 2010–11 season. Before the end of the 2011–12 football season in Portugal, seven

clubs announced their interest in creating a reserve team to fill the six vacancies available in the Segunda Liga (now Liga Portugal 2) for the 2012–13 campaign. Of those seven clubs, six were selected to take part in the competition: Benfica,

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, Marítimo,

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and

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, who organize the professional football tiers in Portugal, announced that the clubs would have to pay €50,000 to register themselves at the league in order to compete in the upcoming season. In addition, LPFP also required them to follow new rules regarding player selection, in which each B team must have a squad with a minimum of ten players formed at the club's academy and with an age between 15 and 21 years, and a maximum of three players above 23 years old. LPFP also decided that reserve teams are unable to compete in cup competitions and to gain promotion to the Primeira Liga due to the possibility of playing against their club's first team. In late May 2012, it was officially announced that the B teams of six Primeira Liga clubs would compete in the 2012–13 Segunda Liga, a decision that increased the number of teams from 16 to 22 and the number of matches from 30 to 42. Benfica B v FCUM

In 2014, Benfica B were invited to play in the first Premier League International Cup. On 29 May 2015, they played a friendly against

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's official opening match. On 26 May 2019, they played a practice match against

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, Spain, five days before the latter's

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Players

Current squad

Out on loan

Coaching staff

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Tiago Vaz

Records and statistics

Season-to-season record

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, 17 , , - , 2015–2016 , II , 19th , 46 , 15 , 10 , 21 , 59 , 64 , 55 , Sancidino Silva , 6 , , - , 2016–2017 , II , 4th , 42 , 18 , 9 , 15 , 56 , 58 , 63 , Heriberto Tavares , 11 , , - , 2017–2018 , II , 13th , 38 , 14 , 7 , 17 , 54 , 60 , 49 , Heriberto Tavares , 14 , , - , 2018–2019 , II , 4th , 34 , 15 , 7 , 12 , 47 , 42 , 52 , Chris Willock , 11 , , - , 2019–2020 , II , , 24 , 7 , 7 , 10 , 31 , 35 , 28 , Daniel dos Anjos , 8 , , - , 2020–2021 , II , 8th , 34 , 12 , 8 , 14 , 53 , 43 , 44 ,

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Managerial statistics

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Honours

: Winners: 2004–05

Notes

References

External links

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