Sport Lisboa e Benfica is a Portuguese professional football club 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 they were not invited by the organizers.

SL Benfica was the Portuguese soccer club with the🌜 highest market value as of September 2024, reaching a total worth of nearly 345 million euros. The second most valuable🌜 club in the country that month was FC Porto, worth roughly 284 million euros. In third place, Sporting CP was🌜 worth almost 242 million euros.