Benfica vs Manchester United (UCL Live) (Time: 2:45 PM ET/ 12:45AM GMT +6)

Sport Lisboa e Benfica
(Portuguese pronunciation: [spɔɾ liʒˈboɐ i bɐ̃ȷ̃ˈfikɐ]), commonly known as Benfica, is a Portuguese sports club based in Lisbon, Portugal. It is best known for the professional football team playing in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football. Benfica are the current Portuguese champions, having won four consecutive league titles.
Founded on 28 February 1904 as Sport Lisboa, Benfica is one of the "Big Three" clubs in Portugal that have never been relegated from the Primeira Liga – the other two are rivals Sporting CP and FC Porto. The Benfica team is nicknamed Águias (Eagles) for the symbol atop the club's crest, and Encarnados (Reds) for the shirt colour. Since 2003, their home ground has been the Estádio da Luz, which replaced the original one, built in 1954. Benfica is the most supported Portuguese club, with an estimated 14 million supporters worldwide, and the European club with the highest percentage of supporters in its own country. By the end of 2016, Benfica had 184,264 paying members. The club's official anthem, "Ser Benfiquista", refers to its supporters who are called benfiquistas. Benfica is honoured in three Portuguese Orders: those of Christ, of Merit and of Prince Henry.
With 79 domestic titles and 81 titles overall won – 82 including the Latin Cup – Benfica is the most decorated club in Portugal.^[2]^[3] They have won a record 36 Primeira Liga titles, a record 29 Campeonato de Portugal/Taça de Portugal, a record 7 Taça da Liga and 7 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, and are the only club to have won all of these competitions. Internationally, Benfica won back-to-back European Cups, in 1961 and 1962, a unique feat in Portuguese football. In addition, they were runners-up at the Intercontinental Cup in 1961 and '62, at the European Cup in 1963, '65, '68, '88 and '90, and at the UEFA Cup/Europa League in 1983, 2013 and '14. They have reached ten European finals, a domestic record that ranked seventh all-time among UEFA clubs in 2014.^[4] Furthermore, they hold the European record for the most consecutive wins in domestic league and the record for the longest unbeaten run in Primeira Liga, in which they became the first undefeated champions, in 1972–73.^[5]
Benfica was ranked twelfth in the FIFA Club of the Century award,^[6] and ranked ninth in "Europe's Club of the Century" by IFFHS.^[7] As of the end of the 2016–17 season, Benfica is ranked ninth in the UEFA club coefficient rankings – the best position of a Portuguese club^[8]^[9] – and has the second most participations in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League.^[10]

Primeira Liga

Winners (36) – record: 1935–36, 1936–37, 1937–38, 1941–42, 1942–43, 1944–45, 1949–50, 1954–55, 1956–57, 1959–60, 1960–61, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1980–81, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1986–87, 1988–89, 1990–91, 1993–94, 2004–05, 2009–10, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17

Campeonato de Portugal / Taça de Portugal

Winners (29) – record: 1929–30, 1930–31, 1934–35, 1939–40, 1942–43, 1943–44, 1948–49, 1950–51, 1951–52, 1952–53, 1954–55, 1956–57, 1958–59, 1961–62, 1963–64, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1971–72, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1982–83, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1992–93, 1995–96, 2003–04, 2013–14, 2016–17

Taça da Liga

Winners (7) – record: 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16

Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira

Winners (7): 1980, 1985, 1989, 2005, 2014, 2016, 2017

European competitions

European Cup

Winners (2): 1960–61, 1961–62

Other competitions

Latin Cup

Winners (1): 1950

Doubles

Primeira Liga and Taça de Portugal

11 – record: 1942–43, 1954–55, 1956–57, 1963–64, 1968–69, 1971–72, 1980–81, 1982–83, 1986–87, 2013–14, 2016–17

Primeira Liga and Taça da Liga

4 – record: 2009–10, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16

European Double

1: 1960–61

Trebles

Primeira Liga, Taça de Portugal and Taça da Liga

1 – record: 2013–14

Primeira Liga, Taça de Portugal and Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira

2 – record: 1980–81, 2016–17

Manchester United Football Club
is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. Nicknamed "the Red Devils", the club was founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to its current stadium, Old Trafford, in 1910.
Manchester United have won a record 20 League titles, 12 FA Cups, 5 League Cups and a record 21 FA Community Shields. The club has also won three UEFA Champions Leagues, one UEFA Europa League, one UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, one UEFA Super Cup, one Intercontinental Cup and one FIFA Club World Cup. In 1998–99, the club became the first in the history of English football to achieve the treble of the Premier League, the FA Cup and the UEFA Champions League.^[3] In 2016–17, by winning the UEFA Europa League, they became one of five clubs to have won all three main UEFA club competitions. In addition, they became the only professional English club to have won every ongoing honour available to the first team that is organised by a national or international governing body.
The 1958 Munich air disaster claimed the lives of eight players. In 1968, under the management of Matt Busby, Manchester United became the first English football club to win the European Cup. Alex Ferguson won 38 trophies as manager, including 13 Premier League titles, 5 FA Cups and 2 UEFA Champions Leagues, between 1986 and 2013,^[4]^[5]^[6] when he announced his retirement. José Mourinho is the club's current manager, having been appointed on 27 May 2016.
Manchester United was the highest-earning football club in the world for 2015–16, with an annual revenue of €689 million,^[7] and the world's most valuable football club in 2017, valued at £2.86 billion.^[8] As of June 2015, it is the world's most valuable football brand, estimated to be worth $1.2 billion.^[9]^[10] After being floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1991, the club was purchased by Malcolm Glazer in May 2005 in a deal valuing the club at almost £800 million, after which the company was taken private again, before going public once more in August 2012, when they made an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange. Manchester United is one of the most widely supported football clubs in the world,^[11]^[12] and has its strongest rivalries with Liverpool, Manchester City and Leeds United.

Milestones

1981