S.L. Benfica B

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Benfica B
Full name Sport Lisboa e Benfica "B"
Founded 1999–2006, 2012–
Ground Caixa Futebol Campus
Ground Capacity 2,720
Owner S.L. Benfica
President Luís Filipe Vieira
Manager Hélder Cristóvão
League Segunda Liga
2014–15 6th
Website Club home page

Sport Lisboa e 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 S.L. Benfica. They play in the Segunda Liga, holding home games at the Caixa Futebol Campus.

During the 2012–13 season, they played the home games at the Estádio da Luz until February 2013, when they moved to Estádio da Tapadinha to prevent excessive wear of the stadium's grass.[1] In 2013–14, Benfica B moved permanently to their own training ground now capable of receiving professional league matches. As a reserve team they cannot play in the same division as the main team, thus being ineligible for promotion. They are also not permitted to enter cup competitions such as the Taça de Portugal and Taça da Liga.

History

As Benfica sought a way to provide playing time for their youth players and reserves it created this B team in 1999, it officially started competing in the 1999–2000 season. After three seasons in the Portuguese Second Division, it suffered relegation to the Portuguese Third Division, where it would spend a further three years.[2] The team achieved 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 Liga Intercalar. As part of the Liga Intercalar, the club's best league position saw them finish 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 in the Primeira Liga announced there interest in constructing a B team to fill the six vacant places available to compete in the Segunda Liga for the 2012–13 season.[3] Of those seven, the six clubs which were selected to take part in the competition were the B teams of Benfica, Porto, Sporting CP, Braga, Marítimo and Vitória de Guimarães.[4]

The LPFP who organizes the professional football tiers in Portugal announced that for the clubs to compete next season they would have to pay €50,000 to register themselves in the league.[5] In addition the LPFP would also require the clubs to follow new rules regarding player selection in which each 'B' team must have a squad of a minimum of ten players who were formed at the club's academy as well as having an age requirement between 15 and 21 years old. The LPFP also went on to saw that the clubs are unable to compete in cup competitions as well as gaining promotion due to the possibility of playing the senior team. Each 'B' team may have 3 players above 23 years old.

In late May 2012, it was officially announced that the six Primeira Liga clubs' B teams would compete in the 2012–13 Segunda Liga which would increase the number of teams in the league from 16 to 22 as well as increasing the number of games needed to play in one season from thirty games to forty two games.[6]

File:Benfica B v FCUM.jpg
Starting line-up of Benfica B for a friendly game against F.C. United of Manchester in May 2015.

In 2014, they were invited to play in the Premier League International Cup. On 29 May 2015, Benfica B played a friendly against F.C. United of Manchester in Broadhurst Park's official opening match.[7][8]

Season to season

Season Division Place
1999–00 III 13th
2000–01 III 9th
2001–02 III 18th
2002–03 IV 3rd
2003–04 IV 5th
2004–05 IV 1st
2005–06 III 11th
2012–13 II 7th
2013–14 II 5th
2014–15 II 6th

Honours

  • Winners: 2004–05

Players

Current squad

As of 9 January 2016[9][10]

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

No. Position Player
8 Netherlands MF Bilal Ould-Chikh
10 Costa Rica MF Marvin Loría
14 Sweden DF Victor Lindelöf
23 Morocco MF Adel Taarabt
40 Portugal MF João Teixeira
51 Portugal FW Dálcio
53 Cape Verde GK Thierry Graça
54 Uruguay MF Juan San Martín
55 Portugal MF Gilson Costa
56 Belgium DF Alexis Scholl
57 Poland MF Paweł Dawidowicz
58 Uruguay MF Jim Varela
59 Montenegro FW Oliver Šarkić
60 Portugal DF Pedro Rebocho
61 Mozambique FW Clésio Baúque
62 Portugal FW Bruno Rodrigues
63 Portugal DF João Nunes (captain)
64 Paraguay FW Francisco Vera
No. Position Player
66 Portugal DF Rúben Dias
73 Portugal DF Ricardo Carvalho
75 Portugal DF Alexandre Alfaiate
77 Portugal FW Sancidino Silva
79 Russia DF Vitali Lystsov
80 Uruguay MF Elbio Álvarez
81 Portugal FW Filipe Ferreira
84 Portugal FW Diogo Gonçalves
85 Portugal MF Renato Sanches
86 Portugal GK André Ferreira
87 Portugal GK Miguel Santos
88 Portugal MF Pedro Rodrigues
90 Portugal MF João Carvalho
95 Portugal DF Yuri Ribeiro
96 Portugal DF João Lima
99 Portugal FW Hildeberto Pereira
Portugal FW Flávio Silva

Out on loan

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

No. Position Player
52 Portugal GK Bruno Varela (at Real Valladolid until 30 June 2016)
65 Portugal DF Fábio Cardoso (at Paços de Ferreira until 30 June 2016)
67 Portugal MF Hélder Costa (at Monaco until 30 June 2016)
74 Portugal FW Romário Baldé (at Tondela until 30 June 2016)
Uruguay DF Gianni Rodríguez (at Peñarol)
No. Position Player
Cape Verde MF Kévin Oliveira (at Sporting da Covilhã until 30 June 2016)
Spain MF Lolo (at Cádiz until 30 June 2016)
São Tomé and Príncipe FW Harramiz Soares (at Farense until 30 June 2016)
Austria FW Kevin Friesenbichler (at Austria Wien until 30 June 2016)

Personnel

Technical staff

Position Staff
Head coach Hélder Cristóvão
Assistant coach André Sousa
Nuno Alves
Nikola Popovic
Nélson Veríssimo
Nuno Alves
Goalkeeping coach Ricardo Pereira

Last updated: 1 October 2015
Source: S.L. Benfica

Former managers

References

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External links

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