S.L. Benfica Juniors

Benfica Juniors
Full name Sport Lisboa e Benfica "Juniors"
Ground Caixa Futebol Campus
Ground Capacity 2,720
President Luís Filipe Vieira
Manager João Tralhão
League U19 Championship
2015–16 6th
Website Club home page
Active departments of
Sport Lisboa e Benfica
Football Football B Football U-19
Futsal Roller hockey Basketball
Handball Volleyball Athletics
Swimming Rugby union Table tennis
Billiards Canoeing

Sport Lisboa e Benfica "Juniors" (Portuguese: Juniores) is the under-19 football team that belongs to the youth department of Portuguese club S.L. Benfica.

Domestically, Benfica have won a record 23 Campeonato Nacional de Juniores. Internationally, they won the Blue Stars/FIFA Youth Cup in 1996, and in the 2013–14 season they reached the UEFA Youth League final (the only Portuguese team to do so) and were distinguished for "Best implementation of the UEFA Youth League values".[1] On 21 October 2015, Benfica set the biggest UEFA Youth League win, beating Galatasaray away 11–1.[2]

There are other main development teams below under-19, completing the club's youth academy: 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.[3]

Players

Current squad

As of 28 September 2016[4][5][6]

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

No. Position Player
Portugal GK Daniel Azevedo
Portugal GK Diogo Garrido
Portugal GK Fábio Duarte (captain)
Portugal DF Diogo Cabral
Portugal DF Diogo David
Portugal DF Diogo Santos
Netherlands DF Godfried Frimpong
Portugal DF Jorge Silva
Portugal DF Nuno Gonçalves
Portugal DF Ricardo Araújo
Portugal DF Ricardo Mangas
Portugal DF Rodrigo Borges
Portugal MF André Oliveira
Portugal MF Bruno Lourenço
Portugal MF David Tavares
Portugal MF Diogo Mendes
Portugal MF Diogo Pinto
No. Position Player
Portugal MF Filipe Soares
Portugal MF Florentino Luís
Portugal MF Gedson Fernandes
Portugal MF João Félix
Portugal MF Jorge Pereira
Argentina MF Manuel Hidalgo
Portugal MF Zidane Banjaqui
Guinea-Bissau FW Abduramane Sani
Portugal FW Aires Sousa
Portugal FW João Filipe
Portugal FW João Oliveira
Portugal FW José Gomes
Portugal FW Mésaque Djú
Portugal FW Nuno Santos
Poland FW Przemysław Macierzyński (on loan from Lechia Gdańsk)
Portugal FW Tiago Dias
Brazil FW Vinícius Ferreira

Out on loan

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

No. Position Player
Portugal DF Alfa Semedo Esteves (at Vilafranquense until 30 June 2017)[7]
Netherlands MF Jordan van der Gaag (at Estoril Praia)
No. Position Player
Portugal FW Edi Semedo (at Estoril Praia)
Brazil FW Leonardo Natel Vieira (at São Paulo until 30 June 2017)[8]

Technical staff

Position Staff
Team manager José Henrique
Head coach João Tralhão
Assistant coach Pedro Valido
Luís Tralhão
Goalkeepeing coach Miguel Miranda

Last updated: 1 October 2015
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Honours

Domestic competitions

Winners (23): 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 (record)

European competitions

Winners: 1996
Runners-up: 1997, 2014
Runners-up: 2014

Juvenis A

Winners (17): 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

Iniciados A

Winners (9): 1978–79, 1981–82, 1984–85, 1988–89, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2013–14, 2015–16

References

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