2016–17 S.L. Benfica season

Benfica
2016–17 season
President Luís Filipe Vieira
Manager Rui Vitória
Stadium Estádio da Luz
Primeira Liga 1st
Taça de Portugal Fifth round
Taça da Liga Third round
Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira Winners
UEFA Champions League Group stage
Top goalscorer League: Pizzi (5)
All: Pizzi (7)
Highest home attendance 58,637[1]
Benfica 4–0 Feirense
(2 October 2016)
Lowest home attendance 30,942
Benfica 6–0 Marítimo
(19 November 2016)
Average home league attendance 55,174[2]
Home colours
Away colours
← 2015–16
All statistics correct as of 2 December 2016.

The 2016–17 season is Sport Lisboa e Benfica's 113th season in existence and the club's 83rd consecutive season in the top flight of Portuguese football. It started on 7 August 2016 with the Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira match, and will conclude in May 2017.

Benfica play in the Primeira Liga as three-time defending champions, after being crowned for a record 35th time in the previous campaign. Internationally, the team play in the UEFA Champions League.

Players

Squad information

N
 P
 Nat.
 Name
 Age
 Since
 App
 Goals
 Ends
 Transfer fee
 Notes
1 GK Brazil Ederson M. 23 2015 30 0 2020 Undisclosed Originally from youth system
Second nation: Portugal
2 CB Argentina Lisandro 27 2014 39 5 2021 Undisclosed
3 LB Spain Grimaldo 21 2016 (Winter) 18 2 2021 €2.12M
4 CB Brazil Luisão (captain)35 2003 488 45 2017 Undisclosed Second nation: Portugal
5 DM Serbia Fejsa 28 2013 78 2 2019 Undisclosed
7 CM Greece Samaris 27 2014 87 2 2019 €10M
8 MF Portugal André Horta 20 2016 10 1 2021 Free Originally from youth system
9 ST Mexico Raúl 25 2015 57 16 2020 €21.8M
10 ST Brazil Jonas 32 2014 85 68 2018 Free Second nation: Italy
11 ST Greece Mitroglou 28 2015 61 31 2020 €7.47M Second nation: Germany
12 GK Brazil Júlio César 37 2014 72 0 2018 Free
13 GK Portugal Paulo Lopes 38 2012 10 0 2018 Free Originally from youth system
14 CB Sweden V. Lindelöf 22 2014 44 1 2020 Youth system Promoted from Benfica B
15 RW Peru Carrillo D. 25 2016 12 1 2021 €6.61M
17 MF Serbia Živković 20 2016 2 0 2021 Free
18 RW Argentina Salvio 26 2012 181 43 2019 €13.5M Played as a loanee in the 2010–11 season
19 LB Portugal Eliseu 33 2014 84 4 Undisclosed Second nation: Cape Verde
20 FW Portugal G. Guedes 20 2014 59 9 2021 Youth system Promoted from Benfica B
21 CM Portugal Pizzi 27 2014 98 19 2019 €14M
22 MF Argentina F. Cervi 22 2016 16 5 2022 €5.74M
27 MF Portugal Rafa 23 2016 5 0 2021 €16.4M
28 MF Colombia G. Celis 23 2016 5 0 2021 €2.28M
33 CB Brazil Jardel (VC)30 2011 (Winter) 170 11 2020 Undisclosed Second nation: Portugal
34 RB Portugal A. Almeida 26 2012 138 0 2018 Undisclosed
37 MF Brazil Danilo 20 2016 2 1 2017 Loan
51 RB Portugal N. Semedo 23 2015 37 3 2021 Undisclosed Second nation: Cape Verde
Promoted from Benfica B
  • Last updated: 3 December 2016
  • Source: [3]
  • Ordered by squad number.

Transfers

In

N
 P
 Nat.
 Name
 Age
 Moving from
 Type
 Transfer
window		 Ends
 Transfer
fee		 Ref.
22 MF Argentina Franco Cervi 21 Argentina Rosario Central Transfer Summer 2022 €5.74M Benfica NaM
11 FW Greece Konstantinos Mitroglou 28 England Fulham Transfer Summer 2020 €7.47M Benfica NaM
8 MF Portugal André Horta 19 Portugal Vitória de Setúbal Transfer Summer 2021 Undisclosed Benfica
16 DF Croatia Branimir Kalaica 18 Unattached Transfer Summer 2021 Free Benfica
15 MF Peru André Carrillo 25 Unattached Transfer Summer 2021 €6.61M Benfica NaM
23 MF Colombia Guillermo Celis 23 Colombia Junior Transfer Summer 2021 €2.28M Benfica NaM
17 MF Serbia Andrija Živković 19 Unattached Transfer Summer 2021 Free Benfica
23 MF Argentina Oscar Benítez 23 Argentina Lanús Transfer Summer 2021 €3.3M Benfica DN
37 MF Brazil Danilo 20 Portugal Braga Loan Summer 2017 Free Benfica
27 MF Portugal Rafa 23 Portugal Braga Transfer Summer 2021 €16.4M Benfica

Out

N
 P
 Nat.
 Name
 Age
 Moving to
 Type
 Transfer
window		 Transfer
fee		 Source
85 MF Portugal Renato Sanches 18 Germany Bayern Munich Transfer Summer €35M+€45M
variables		 Bayern Munich Benfica
— FW Uruguay Jonathan Rodríguez 22 Mexico Santos Laguna Transfer Summer Undisclosed Santos Laguna
24 MF Italy Bryan Cristante 21 Italy Pescara Loan Summer Undisclosed Pescara
28 DF Portugal Sílvio 28 Spain Atlético Madrid Loan return Summer — Atlético Madrid
— MF Venezuela Jhon Murillo 20 Portugal Nacional Loan Summer Undisclosed Nacional
— FW Portugal Daniel Candeias 28 Turkey Alanyaspor Loan Summer Undisclosed Alanyaspor
38 FW Portugal Nuno Santos 21 Portugal Vitória de Setúbal Loan Summer Undisclosed Vitória de Setúbal
— DF Brazil Luís Felipe 25 Brazil Oeste Loan Summer Undisclosed FPF
— FW Brazil Derley 28 Mexico Chiapas Loan Summer Undisclosed Maisfutebol
32 FW Portugal Bebé 26 Spain Eibar Transfer Summer €0.75M Eibar Record
— DF Brazil César 23 Portugal Nacional Loan Summer Undisclosed Nacional
10 MF Argentina Nicolás Gaitán 28 Spain Atlético Madrid Transfer Summer €25M Atlético Madrid
— MF Brazil Diego Lopes 22 Brazil América Loan Summer Undisclosed globoesporte
— MF Germany Hany Mukhtar 21 Denmark Brøndby Loan Summer Undisclosed Brøndby
31 FW Brazil Victor Andrade 20 Germany TSV 1860 Munich Loan Summer Undisclosed TSV 1860 Munich
— MF Serbia Filip Đuričić 24 Italy Sampdoria Loan Summer Undisclosed Sampdoria
— FW Austria Kevin Friesenbichler 22 Austria Austria Wien Loan Summer Undisclosed Austria Wien
— MF Venezuela Jhon Murillo 20 Portugal Tondela Loan Summer Undisclosed Tondela
— MF Portugal Hélder Costa 22 England Wolverhampton Wanderers Loan Summer Undisclosed Wolverhampton Wanderers
40 MF Portugal João Teixeira 22 England Wolverhampton Wanderers Loan Summer Undisclosed Wolverhampton Wanderers
— MF Argentina Luis Fariña 25 Greece Asteras Tripolis Loan Summer Undisclosed Asteras Tripolis
— DF Canada Steven Vitória 29 Poland Lechia Gdańsk Transfer Summer Undisclosed Benfica Lechia Gdańsk
27 DF Brazil Marçal 27 France Guingamp Loan Summer Undisclosed Guingamp
— MF Netherlands Ola John 23 England Wolverhampton Wanderers Loan Summer Undisclosed Wolverhampton Wanderers
30 MF Brazil Talisca 22 Turkey Beşiktaş Loan Summer €2M Beşiktaş zerozero
— FW Portugal Nélson Oliveira 25 England Norwich City Transfer Summer Undisclosed Norwich City
39 MF Morocco Mehdi Carcela-González 27 Spain Granada Transfer Summer Undisclosed Granada
25 FW Portugal Rui Fonte 26 Portugal Braga Transfer Summer Undisclosed Braga
23 MF Argentina Oscar Benítez 23 Portugal Braga Loan Summer Undisclosed Braga

Technical staff

Position Name
Head coach Rui Vitória
Assistant coach Arnaldo Teixeira
Minervino Pietra
Sérgio Botelho
Marco Pedroso
Fitness coach Paulo Morão
Goalkeeping coach Luís Esteves
Physiotherapist Telmo Firmino
Paulo Rebelo
Doctor Bento Leitão
António Martins
Technical coordinator Shéu
Goalkeaper formation coordinator Hugo Oliveira

Last updated: 21 July 2016
Source: [4][5]

Pre-season and friendlies

  Win   Draw   Loss

Competitions

Overall record

As of match played on 2 December 2016
Performance by competition
Competition Starting round Current position/round Final position/round First match Last match
Primeira Liga N/A 1st — 13 August 2016 21 May 2017
Taça de Portugal Third round Fifth round — 14 October 2016 —
Taça da Liga Third round Third round — 29 December 2016 —
Supertaça N/A — Winners 7 August 2016
UEFA Champions League Group stage Group stage (2nd) — 13 September 2016 —
Statistics by competition
Competition Pld W D L GF GA GD Win%
Primeira Liga 12 9 2 1 27 7 +20 75.00
Taça de Portugal 2 2 0 0 8 1 +7 100.000
Taça da Liga 0 0 0 0 0 0 +0 !—
Supertaça 1 1 0 0 3 0 +3 100.000
UEFA Champions League 5 2 2 1 9 8 +1 40.00
Total 20 14 4 2 47 16 +31 70.00

Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira

Primeira Liga

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Benfica 12 9 2 1 27 7 +20 29 Qualification to Champions League group stage
2 Sporting CP 12 8 3 1 23 10 +13 27
3 Porto 12 7 4 1 20 5 +15 25 Qualification to Champions League play-off round
4 Braga 12 7 2 3 21 12 +9 23 Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round
5 Vitória de Guimarães 12 6 3 3 21 15 +6 21
Updated to match(es) played on 5 December 2016. Source: Liga Portugal
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head away goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Matches won; 7) Goals scored; 8) Play-off.
(Note: The LPFP decided that only criteria 1, 5, 6 and 7 would be applied to establish the classification during the competition.)[8]

Results by round

Round12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334
GroundAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Result W D W W W W W W W D W L                                            
Position 2 4 2 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1                                            

Last updated: 2 December 2016.
Source: thefinalball.com
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Matches

Taça de Portugal

Third round

Fourth round

Fifth round

Taça da Liga

Third round

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification BEN PAÇ VGU VIZ
1 Benfica 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to knockout phase — 29 Dec — 4 Jan
2 Paços de Ferreira 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — — — 11 Jan
3 Vitória de Guimarães 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 Jan 4 Jan — —
4 Vizela 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — — 29 Dec —
First match(es) will be played on December 2016. Source: LPFP
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
  1. 1 2 3 The matches were originally to be played on 30 November, 29 December and 4 January respectively, but were postponed because of Benfica's tight schedule around the original date of matchday 1.[9]

UEFA Champions League

Group stage

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification NAP BEN BES DK
1 Italy Napoli (X) 5 2 2 1 9 7 +2 8 Advance to knockout phase — 4–2 2–3 0–0
2 Portugal Benfica (X) 5 2 2 1 9 8 +1 8 6 Dec — 1–1 1–0
3 Turkey Beşiktaş (X) 5 1 4 0 9 8 +1 7 Transfer to Europa League 1–1 3–3 — 1–1
4 Ukraine Dynamo Kyiv (E) 5 0 2 3 2 6 −4 2 1–2 0–2 6 Dec —
Updated to match(es) played on 23 November 2016. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(E) Eliminated; (X) Assured of at least Europa League, and may advance to knockout phase.

Statistics

Squad statistics

As of match played on 2 December 2016
No. Pos Nat Player TotalPrimeira Liga Taça de Portugal1 Taça da Liga UEFA Champions League
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
1 GK Brazil Ederson 12 -8 7 -3 1 -1 0 0 4 -4
2 DF Argentina Lisandro López 10 3 5+2 3 1 0 0 0 2 0
3 DF Spain Álex Grimaldo 13 2 8 2 1 0 0 0 4 0
4 DF Brazil Luisão 13 1 7 0 3 1 0 0 3 0
5 MF Serbia Ljubomir Fejsa 17 1 11 0 1 0 0 0 5 1
7 MF Greece Andreas Samaris 9 0 1+3 0 1+1 0 0 0 0+3 0
8 MF Portugal André Horta 11 1 6+2 1 1 0 0 0 2 0
9 FW Mexico Raúl Jiménez 12 4 2+5 3 0+2 1 0 0 1+2 0
10 FW Brazil Jonas 2 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
11 FW Greece Konstantinos Mitroglou 16 6 9 4 2+1 2 0 0 4 0
12 GK Brazil Júlio César 8 -8 5 -4 2 0 0 0 1 -4
14 DF Sweden Victor Lindelöf 18 0 11 0 2 0 0 0 5 0
15 MF Peru André Carrillo 11 2 1+8 1+1 1 0 0 0 1 0
17 MF Serbia Andrija Živković 2 0 0+1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
18 MF Argentina Eduardo Salvio 19 5 11+1 2 1+1 0 0 0 4+1 3
19 DF Portugal Eliseu 7 0 3 0 2 0 0 0 2 0
20 FW Portugal Gonçalo Guedes 19 5 10+2 2 1+1 1 0 0 4+1 2
21 MF Portugal Pizzi 20 7 12 5 2+1 2 0 0 5 0
22 MF Argentina Franco Cervi 16 5 7+2 1 3 2 0 0 4 2
27 MF Portugal Rafa Silva 5 0 1+2 0 0+1 0 0 0 0+1 0
28 MF Colombia Guillermo Celis 5 0 0+2 0 1 0 0 0 0+2 0
33 DF Brazil Jardel 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
34 DF Portugal André Almeida 6 0 1+3 0 0 0 0 0 1+1 0
37 MF Brazil Danilo 2 1 0+1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
50 DF Portugal Nélson Semedo 20 2 12 1 3 0 0 0 5 1
70 FW Portugal José Gomes 5 0 0+3 0 1 0 0 0 0+1 0

^ Includes Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira

Goalscorers

As of match played on 2 December 2016
Rnk Pos Player League Cup1 League Cup Champions League Total
1 MF Portugal Pizzi 52007
2 FW Greece Konstantinos Mitroglou 42006
3 MF Argentina Eduardo Salvio 20035
MF Argentina Franco Cervi 12025
FW Portugal Gonçalo Guedes 21025
6 FW Mexico Raúl Jiménez 31004
7 DF Argentina Lisandro López 30003
8 DF Spain Álex Grimaldo 20002
DF Portugal Nélson Semedo 10012
10 FW Brazil Jonas 01001
MF Portugal André Horta 10001
MF Peru André Carrillo 10001
MF Brazil Danilo 01001
DF Brazil Luisão 01001
MF Serbia Ljubomir Fejsa 00011
Own goals 20002
Totals 27 11 0 9 47

^ Includes Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira

Clean sheets

As of match played on 2 December 2016

Number of matches inside brackets.

N Player League Cup1 League Cup Champions League Total
1 Brazil Ederson 5 (7)0 (1)0 (0)2 (4)7 (12)
12 Brazil Júlio César 1 (5)2 (2)0 (0)0 (1)3 (8)
Totals 6 (12) 2 (3) 0 (0) 2 (5) 10 (20)

^ Includes Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira

Disciplinary record

N P Nat. Name League Europe Cup League Cup Total Notes
2 DF Argentina Lisandro López 3 1 1 5
21 MF Portugal Pizzi 4 1 5
7 MF Greece Andreas Samaris 2 2 4
1 GK Brazil Ederson 2 1 3
5 MF Serbia Ljubomir Fejsa 2 1 3
50 DF Portugal Nélson Semedo 2 1 3 Cup includes Super Cup
8 MF Portugal André Horta 2 2
12 GK Brazil Júlio César 1 1 2
15 MF Peru André Carrillo 1 1 2
18 MF Argentina Eduardo Salvio 1 1 2
3 DF Spain Álex Grimaldo 1 1 Cup includes Super Cup
4 DF Brazil Luisão 1 1
11 FW Greece Konstantinos Mitroglou 1 1
22 MF Argentina Franco Cervi 1 1
33 DF Brazil Jardel 1 1
37 MF Brazil Danilo 1 1

Last updated: 2 December 2016
Source: LPFP and competitions above.
Ordered by , and
= Number of bookings; = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card; = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.


References

  1. ↑ "Spectators". LPFP. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  2. ↑ "Liga NOS attendance list by club". LPFP. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
  3. ↑ "Plantel Principal" [Main squad]. S.L. Benfica (in Portuguese). Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  4. ↑ "Staff". S.L. Benfica. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  5. ↑ "Staff". thefinalball.com. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  6. ↑ "Sheffield Wednesday vs Benfica". A Bola (in Portuguese) (15,546). 21 July 2016. p. 4.
  7. ↑ Anjos, Vitor (8 October 2016). "Santos arranca empate com Benfica e garante festa para ídolos" [Santos get a draw against Benfica and guarantee party for idols]. Gazeta Esportiva (in Portuguese). Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  8. ↑ "Regulamento das Competições Organizadas pela Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional" [Regulation for the competitions organised by the Portuguese Professional Football League] (PDF). LPFP (in Portuguese). 28 June 2016. p. 10. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  9. ↑ "Comunicado Oficial Nº 109" [Official Announcement No. 109] (PDF). LPFP (in Portuguese). 4 November 2016. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
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