Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Sport Lisboa e Benfica (; ), commonly known as simply Benfica or SLB, is a Portuguese multi-sports club based in Lisbon, Portugal.
Read More at Wikipedia ›Benfica has completed the signing of Twente winger Ola John for an undisclosed fee.
John will join the Portuguese side on a five-year deal after establishing himself as a first-team regular for Twente over the past two seasons.The 20-year-old has scored eight goals in 46 league matches for Twente, while also appearing the Europa League.A Dutch Under-21 international, John will now get the chance to take part in the Champions League with Benfica, which qualified for the group stage of the competition after finishing second to FC Porto in the Portuguese Liga....It took less than one week for FC Porto to return to the top of the Portuguese Liga as the club claimed a 2-0 win over Olhanense, while Braga, which had gone top las...
Benfica moved to the top of the Portuguese 0 win at Uniao Leiria.Benfica and FC Porto entered the weekend level on 33 points, but after Porto was held to a 0-0 draw ...
Benfica kept pace with FC Porto at the 0 win at the Estadio dos Barreiros.Oscar Cardozo's late goal in the 85th minute gave Benfica the lead, as the visitors capital...
Benfica agreed to a deal with Uniao Leiria to sign forward Jorge Djaniny, who will make the switch this summer.Djaniny, 20, will sign a five-year deal with Benfica. ...
Benfica and Argentina midfielder Pablo year contract extension Thursday through the 2012-13 season.Aimar, 32, joined Benfica from Spain's Real Zaragoza in 2008 and h...
Benfica signed forward Yannick Djalo on a year deal Tuesday.Djalo, 25, had been out of contract since the summer, but joins the Portuguese leaders for the second hal...
Benfica midfielder Javi Garcia has been ruled out for the first leg of the club's Champions League round of 16 encounter with Zenit St Petersburg on Wednesday.Garcia...
Chelsea's passage into the semifinals of the Champions League wasn't secure until stoppage time on Wednesday at Stamford Bridge.But a goal from substitute Raul Meire...
FC Porto retained its league title over the weekend with a 2-0 win at Maritimo combined with Benfica's 2-2 draw at Rio Ave.Porto secured its win on Saturday after tw...
Benfica kept pace with FC Porto at the top 0 win.Javi Garcia's goal a few minutes before halftime put Benfica in the lead, and the home side had to survive Oscar Car...
Manchester United escaped Lisbon with a up opened their Champions League season with a 1 draw at Benfica on Wednesday.Oscar Cardozo opened the scoring for Benfica, b...
Benfica midfielder Nicolas Gaitan has extended his stay at the club by another year, tying him to the Lisbon outfit until 2016.The 23-year-old has established himsel...
Valencia has signed Sporting Lisbon defender Joao Pereira, the club announced.The 28-year-old will join Valencia for a fee of $4.6 million, and he will feature in th...
Benfica failed to unseat FC Porto atop the Portuguese Liga this season, but the club did lock up second place on Saturday with a 1-0 home win against Uniao Leiria.Br...
Portugal manager Bento has selected two uncapped players, Custodio and Miguel Lopes, to his final 23-man roster for next month's Euro 2012 finals.Custodio and Lopes ...
Four year ago in Moscow Chelsea came within inches of lifting its first Champions League title, only for John Terry's penalty kick to crash off the post.The Blues lo...
FC Porto completed another dominant season in the Portuguese Liga on Saturday as Kleber scored a hat trick in a 5-2 Porto victory at Rio Ave.Porto has won the last t...
Salomon Kalou helped Chelsea jump out to a first-leg lead in the Champions League quarterfinals on Tuesday as the Ivory Coast international scored in the 75th minute...
Nicolas Gaitan and Bruno Cesar minute span of the second half Sunday and Benfica defeated Pacos 1, to join Braga on the heels of Portuguese Liga leader FC Porto.Paco...
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