S.L. Benfica (youth)

Juniores do Benfica

Full name	Juniores do Sport Lisboa e Benfica
Nickname(s)	As Águias (The Eagles) Os Encarnados (The Reds)
Ground	Benfica Campus
Ground Capacity	2,720
President	Rui Costa
Head coach	Filipe Coelho (domestic league) Luís Araújo (UEFA Youth League)
League	Campeonato Nacional de Juniores
2021–22	1st (champions)
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Active departments of Sport Lisboa e Benfica
Football	Futsal	Basketball
Roller hockey	Handball	Volleyball
Rugby union	Athletics	Swimming
Table tennis	Billiards	Canoeing

Juniores do Sport Lisboa e Benfica (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈnjɔɾɨʒ ðu sɨˈpɔɾ liʒˈβoɐ i βɐ̃jˈfikɐ]) are the under-19 team of Portuguese football club S.L. Benfica. They hold home matches at Benfica Campus, the club's training ground and youth academy in Seixal.

Benfica's under-19s have won a record 25 Campeonato Nacional de Juniores (current champions), one Blue Stars/FIFA Youth Cup (1996), one UEFA Youth League (2021–22) and one Under-20 Intercontinental Cup (2022). Benfica hold UEFA Youth League records for the biggest win in a final, 6–0 against Red Bull Salzburg, most final appearances (4, joint-record with Chelsea) and most games played (70). They were distinguished for "Best implementation of the UEFA Youth League values" in 2013–14.

There are other development teams below under-19, completing Benfica's youth system: Juvenis "A" and "B"; Iniciados "A" and "B"; Infantis "A", "B", "C" and "D"; Benjamins "A" and "B"; and Traquinas "A". In 2015, Benfica received the Globe Soccer award for Best Academy of the year.

Players

Current players

As of 14 September 2022

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

No. Position Player GK André Gomes GK André Moreira GK Diogo Ferreira GK Marcel Mendes GK Rodrigo Anjos DF Diogo Spencer DF Francisco Machado DF Guilherme Montóia DF Henrique Sá DF Hugo Faria DF João Conceição DF João Fonseca DF João Pereira DF João Tomé (B) DF José Sampaio DF Júlio Gil DF Leandro Santos DF Mario Tudose DF Tiago Coser DF Vladimir Mendes DF Žan Jevšenak (B) MF Alamara Djabi MF Cher Ndour (B)

No. Position Player MF Diogo Prioste MF Hugo Félix MF João Neves (B) MF João Veloso MF Nuno Félix MF Paul Okon-Engstler MF Rafael Luís MF Tiago Reisinho FW Diego Moreira (B) FW Franculino Djú FW Gustavo Varela FW Iuri Moreira FW Ivan Lima FW Jelani Trevisan FW João Rêgo FW José Marques FW Luís Semedo (B) FW Karel Mustmaa FW Kyanno Silva FW Miguel Constantinescu FW Ricardo Marques FW Rodrigo Rêgo

Key

B = current Benfica B player

Notable players

The following is a list of players who (have) represented Benfica's first-team in a minimum of 25 matches, or (have) reached 25 caps at full international level while at Benfica or another club. Over 1,000 players have come through Benfica's youth ranks, but only a small part of them played for the main team. In some occasions, graduates debuted for the first-team but left Benfica before reaching 25 matches and went on representing their national team at full international level. Those who meet the aforementioned criteria are listed below. (Time periods below correspond to when players joined Benfica youth.)

Pre-1960

• Albino
• Santana
• Humberto Fernandes
• António Mendes
• Serra
• Fernando Cruz
• José Henrique
• Simões

1960s

• Diamantino Costa
• Vítor Martins
• Artur Correia
• Nené
• Humberto Coelho
• João Alves

1970s

• António Bastos Lopes
• Shéu
• Rui Jordão
• Eurico Gomes
• Cavungi
• Alberto Fonseca
• Fernando Chalana
• José Luís
• Jorge Silva
• Diamantino
• Rui Costa

1980s

• Samuel
• António Fonseca
• José Carlos
• Kenedy
• Paulo Sousa
• Paulo Madeira
• Rui Bento
• Bruno Basto
• Maniche

1990s

• Pedro Henriques
• Edgar
• Hugo Leal
• Bruno Aguiar
• José Sousa
• João Pereira
• Diogo Luís
• Sílvio
• Manuel Fernandes
• José Moreira

2000s

• Miguel Vítor
• Bernardo Silva
• Nélson Oliveira
• Gonçalo Guedes
• Bruno Varela
• Renato Sanches
• João Cancelo
• Jota
• Diogo Gonçalves
• Rúben Dias
• Ederson
• Gedson Fernandes

2010s

• Florentino
• André Gomes
• Ferro
• Victor Lindelöf
• Gonçalo Ramos
• João Félix
• Nuno Tavares

Coaching staff

Position	Staff
Head coach	Filipe Coelho
Assistant coaches	Vítor Couto Luís Tralhão
Goalkeeping coach	João Regino
Observation coach	Tiago Martins
Fitness coach	Hugo Zagalo

Last updated: 18 July 2022
Source:

Competitive record

UEFA Youth League

As of match played 2 November 2022

Note: Benfica score is always listed first.

Season	Round	Opponent	Home	Away
2013–14	GS	Anderlecht	3–0	6–3
		Paris Saint-Germain	1–1	4–1
		Olympiacos	0–0	0–1
	R16	Austria Wien	4–1	N/A
	QF	Manchester City	N/A	2–1
	SF	Real Madrid	4–0
	F	Barcelona	0–3
2014–15	GS	Zenit Saint Petersburg	0–0	1–5
		Bayer Leverkusen	4–1	3–2
		Monaco	3–0	1–0
	R16	Liverpool	2–1	N/A
	QF	Shakhtar Donetsk	1–1 (aet) (4–5 p)	N/A
2015–16	GS	Astana	8–0	5–0
		Atlético Madrid	1–1	2–1
		Galatasaray	2–0	11–1
	R16	FK Viagem Příbram	N/A	1–1 (aet) (5–4 p)
	QF	Real Madrid	N/A	0–2
2016–17	GS	Beşiktaş	0–0	3–0
		Napoli	2–0	3–2
		Dynamo Kyiv	1–2	1–2
	PO	Midtjylland	N/A	1–1 (aet) (6–5 p)
	R16	PSV Eindhoven	N/A	1–1 (aet) (5–4 p)
	QF	CSKA Moscow	N/A	2–0
	SF	Real Madrid	4–2
	F	Red Bull Salzburg	1–2
2017–18	GS	CSKA Moscow	5–1	0–2
		Basel	0–0	2–2
		Manchester United	2–2	1–1
2018–19	GS	Bayern Munich	3–0	2–2
		AEK Athens	3–0	3–1
		Ajax	3–3	0–3
	PO	Montpellier	N/A	1–2
2019–20	GS	RB Leipzig	2–1	3–0
		Zenit Saint Petersburg	1–0	7–1
		Lyon	1–2	3–2
	R16	Liverpool	4–1	N/A
	QF	Dinamo Zagreb	3–1
	SF	Ajax	3–0
	F	Real Madrid	2–3
2020–21	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
2021–22	GS	Dynamo Kyiv	1–0	0–4
		Barcelona	4–0	3–0
		Bayern Munich	4–0	2–0
	R16	Midtjylland	N/A	3–2
	QF	Sporting CP	N/A	4–0
	SF	Juventus	2–2 (4–3 p)
	F	Red Bull Salzburg	6–0
2022–23	GS	Maccabi Haifa	0–1	6–2
		Juventus	2–3	1–1
		Paris Saint-Germain	0–1	3–2

Honours

• Portuguese Championship

Winners (25) – record: 1943–44, 1944–45, 1948–49, 1950–51, 1954–55, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1967–68, 1969–70, 1971–72, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1977–78, 1984–85, 1987–88, 1988–89, 1999–00, 2003–04, 2012–13, 2017–18, 2021–22

• Blue Stars/FIFA Youth Cup

Winners: 1996

• UEFA Youth League

Winners: 2021–22

• Under-20 Intercontinental Cup

Winners – record: 2022

Other youth honours

Juvenis (under-17)

• Portuguese Championship

Winners (19): 1963–64, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1982–83, 1989–90, 1990–91, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1995–96, 1996–97, 2000–01, 2007–08, 2010–11, 2012–13, 2014–15, 2017–18, 2018–19

Iniciados (under-15)

• Portuguese Championship

Winners (10): 1978–79, 1981–82, 1984–85, 1988–89, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2016–17

Infantis (under-13)

• Portuguese Championship

Winners (3) - shared record: 1988–89, 1989–90, 1995–96

External links

• Departamento de Formação
• How Benfica became a global figurehead in player development – These Football Times (2017)