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Opened on 25 October 2003 with an exhibition match between Benfica and Uruguayan club Nacional, it replaced the original Estádio da Luz, which had 120,000 seats. The seating capacity of the new stadium is currently set at 64,642. [3] The stadium was designed by HOK Sport Venue Event (now Populous) and had a construction cost of €162 million. [1]
Estádio da Luz (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɨˈʃtaðiu ðɐ ˈluʃ], Stadium of Light), officially named Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica, was a multi-purpose stadium located in Lisbon, Portugal. It was used mostly for football matches and hosted the home matches of S.L. Benfica and the Portugal national team .
Stadium Capacity City Tenants Notes Image 1: Estádio da Luz: 64,642 [1]: Lisbon: S.L. Benfica: UEFA Category 4: 2: Estádio José Alvalade: 50,095: Lisbon: Sporting ...
São Domingos de Benfica (Portuguese pronunciation: [sɐ̃w duˈmĩɡuʒ ðɨ βɐ̃jˈfikɐ]) is a freguesia (civil parish) and district of Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. Located in northern Lisbon, São Domingos de Benfica is east of Benfica, south of Carnide, west of Alvalade, and north of Campolide. The population in 2011 was 33,043, [1] [2]
Benfica moved to their first football grass field, Campo de Sete Rios, in 1913. Four years later, after refusing an increase in rent, they relocated to Campo de Benfica. Finally, in 1925, they moved to their own stadium, the Estádio das Amoreiras, playing there fifteen years before moving to the Estádio do Campo Grande in 1940. [20]
The Club World Cup opens June 15, 2025, at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. It concludes July 13 with the final at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
The 2024–25 Sport Lisboa e Benfica season is the club's 121st season in existence and its 91st consecutive season in the top flight of Portuguese football.Domestically, Benfica will play in the Primeira Liga, and will also compete in the Taça da Liga and Taça de Portugal.
The supporters of Benfica, who are called benfiquistas, have played an important part in the club's growth during its 120-year existence. One of those cases was in the early days of the construction of the original Estádio da Luz, when club president Joaquim Ferreira Bogalho asked them for free concrete to build the stadium.