Association football team

football club
Sport Lisboa e Benfica “ B “, normally known as Benfica B, is a portuguese professional football team based in Seixal. Founded in 1999, dissolved in 2006, and restarted in 2012, it is the reserve team of portuguese clubhouse S.L. Benfica. They play in the Liga Portugal 2, holding home matches at Benfica Campus ‘s independent pitch.

During the 2012–13 season, Benfica B played home matches at the Estádio district attorney Luz until February, when they moved to Estádio district attorney Tapadinha to prevent excessive wear of the stadium ‘s grass. [ 1 ] In 2013–14, they moved permanently to their own trail ground, capable of receiving professional league matches. As a substitute team, Benfica B can not play in the lapp division as the club ‘s main team, frankincense being ineligible for forwarding to the Primeira Liga. furthermore, they can not enter domestic cup competitions such as the Taça de Portugal and Taça da Liga .

history [edit ]

As Benfica sought a way to provide play prison term for their young person and reserve players, they created a B team in 1999. The team officially started competing in the 1999–2000 season, with their first gear equal played away against Portimonense S.C. ( 2–2 ) in late August. [ 2 ] After three seasons in the Portuguese Second Division, they suffered delegating to the Terceira Divisão, where they would spend three years, [ 3 ] before achieving forwarding to the Portuguese Second Division in 2005. In May of the follow year, the dining table of directors extinguished the side, which returned to bodily process shortly after as share of the Liga Intercalar. As part of this competition, the team ‘s best league end was a second gear place, behind Estoril B, in the South Zone of the 2010–11 temper. Before the end of the 2011–12 football season in Portugal, seven Primeira Liga clubs announced their interest in creating a modesty team to fill the six vacancies available in the Segunda Liga ( now Liga Portugal 2 ) for the 2012–13 campaign. [ 4 ] Of those seven clubs, six were selected to take contribution in the competition : Benfica, Braga, Marítimo, Porto, Sporting CP and Vitória de Guimarães. [ 5 ] LPFP, who organize the master 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 approaching season. [ 6 ] In addition, LPFP besides required them to follow newly rules regarding player choice, in which each B team must have a team with a minimum of ten players formed at the baseball club ‘s academy and with an age between 15 and 21 years, and a utmost of three players above 23 years previous. LPFP besides decided that reserve teams are ineffective 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 formally announced that the B teams of six Primeira Liga clubs would compete in the 2012–13 Segunda Liga, a decisiveness that increased the total of teams from 16 to 22 and the phone number of matches from 30 to 42. [ 7 ]

In 2014, Benfica B were invited to play in the first Premier League International Cup. On 29 May 2015, they played a friendly against F.C. United of Manchester in Broadhurst Park ‘s official opening match. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] On 26 May 2019, they played a practice match against Liverpool in Marbella, Spain, five days before the latter ‘s Champions League final. [ 10 ]

Players [edit ]

stream squad [edit ]

As of 1 September 2021[11][12][13]

notice : Flags indicate home team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Out on loan [edit ]

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Coaching staff [edit ]

Position Name
Head coach Nélson Veríssimo
Assistant coaches Pedro Valido
Marco Pimenta
Goalkeeping coach Gonçalo Simões
Analyst coaches Tiago Maia
Gonçalo Marques
Personal trainers Nuno Matias
Jan Schimpchen

last updated : 22 September 2020
Source : [ 22 ]

Records and statistics [edit ]

Season-to-season record [edit ]

Champions Relegated

managerial statistics [edit ]

As of match played 22 May 2021. Only competitive matches are counted, including those in the Premier League International Cup.

Honours [edit ]

Winners: 2004–05

References [edit ]