Sport Lisboa e Benfica was founded in Lisbon as Sport Lisboa and merged a few years later with Grupo Sport Benfica, giving it the name by which it is known. It is the most successful Portuguese club, with a record number of national league titles, and plays at the Estádio da Luz, the Stadium of Light. It won the European Cup in 1961 and 1962 under the Hungarian coach Béla Guttmann, with the Mozambican-born striker Eusébio, known as the Black Panther, as its star. Since then it has lost several European finals. The eagle is its emblem, and a live eagle named Vitória flies over the pitch before home matches. Its rivalry with Porto and Sporting dominates Portuguese football.
Before and after
- 1904Origins of Enduro
- 18 January 1904Birth of Cary Grant
- from 8 February 1904 to 5 September 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 15 February 1904Publication of Madama Butterfly
- 28 February 1904Founding of S.L. Benfica
- 20 March 1904Birth of B.F. Skinner
- 6 April 1904Birth of Kurt Georg Kiesinger
- 8 April 1904Entente Cordiale
- 22 April 1904Birth of J. Robert Oppenheimer
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