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Sport Lisboa e Benfica is a Portuguese professional football team based in Lisbon, whose involvement in European competition dates back to the 1950s. As champions of Portugal, Benfica were supposed to participate in the inaugural edition of the European Cup in 1955, but for political reasons they did not. Two years later, they made their European debut against Sevilla in the European Cup, on 19 September 1957. Benfica won their first European title in 1961, defeating Barcelona to win the European Cup, and successfully retained the title in the following year, after beating Real Madrid. Since then, they appeared in five more finals – 1963, '65, '68, '88 and '90 – but failed to reconquer the title. Benfica have also played in three UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League finals – 1983, 2013 and '14 – losing all three. These consecutive final losses have been attributed to a famous curse by Hungarian manager Béla Guttmann in 1962. With 10 appearances, they hold the Portuguese record for most appearances in UEFA competition finals, and the 34 participations in the Champions League (formerly the European Cup) are only surpassed by Real Madrid. Additionally, they are the second most successful Portuguese team in UEFA competitions with two titles, and occupy the seventh place at the all-time club ranking. Brazilian defender Luisão holds the club record for appearances in Europe, with 113 matches, while former Portuguese striker Eusébio is the club's leading European goalscorer, with 57 goals. Benfica's biggest European win is 10–0, which came against Stade Dudelange for the 1965–66 European Cup, and their 18–0 aggregate win constitutes a European Cup record. ==Background== The first continental competition organised by UEFA was the European Cup in 1955. Conceived by Gabriel Hanot, the editor of ''L'Équipe'', as a competition for winners of the European national football leagues, it is considered the most prestigious European football competition.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Football's premier club competition )〕 That year, Benfica had won the Primeira Divisão, but the fascist regime selected Sporting CP to take part in the first edition. Another club competition, the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, was established in 1955 and contested in parallel with the European Cup. It eventually came under the auspices of UEFA in 1971, which rebranded it to UEFA Cup. Since the 2009–10 season, the competition has been known as the UEFA Europa League. In 1957, Benfica won the league title and assured their European debut in the 1957–58 European Cup. In the following years, UEFA created additional club competitions. The first, the Cup Winners' Cup, was inaugurated in 1960 for the winners of domestic cup competitions. Established in 1973, the UEFA Super Cup was originally a match played between the winners of the European Cup and the Cup Winners' Cup. Since 2000, it has been contested by the winners of the Champions League (formerly the European Cup) and the Europa League (formerly the UEFA Cup).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Club competition winners do battle )〕 The Intercontinental Cup was a competition for the winners of the European Cup (the later UEFA Champions League) and its South American equivalent, the Copa Libertadores. Established in 1960, the Intercontinental Cup was jointly organised by UEFA and the Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol (CONMEBOL). It ran until 2004, when it was replaced by the FIFA Club World Cup, which includes the winners of all six continental confederations' premier club competitions. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「S.L. Benfica in European football」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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