Portuguese top-flight club Belenenses, decimated by a Covid-19 outbreak, asked Thursday for their next match to be postponed after last weekend's game with Benfica was called off when they were reduced to just six players.... more »
Ukraine striker Roman Yaremchuk moved from Ghent to Benfica on Saturday in a deal worth 17 million ($20 million) euros, the Portuguese giants announced.... more »
Double former European Cup winners Benfica confirmed on Friday the resignation of their longest-standing president Luis Filipe Vieira after he was arrested last week on suspicion of fraud.... more »
Joao Mario has signed a five-year contract with Benfica the Lisbon club announced on Tuesday, a day after Inter Milan terminated the Portugal midfielder's contract.... more »
The Portuguese authorities on Thursday raided several FC Porto premises as part of an investigation into suspected tampering with a Covid-19 test on one of its players, the club announced.... more »
Plans to allow some fans back into stadiums to watch the final round of the Portuguese football league on May 19 have been ditched, Liga Portugal announced Monday.... more »
Sporting Lisbon will have to wait at least one more day to celebrate their first league title in nearly two decades after rivals Porto hammered lowly Farense 5-1 on Monday.... more »
Sporting Lisbon are finally poised to turn their productive youth system into trophies as a team filled with youngsters stand one match from ending the club's 19-year wait for a league title.... more »
Sporting Lisbon coach Ruben Amorim was handed a new contract reportedly worth up to 30 million euros ($36 million) on Friday as reward for taking the club to the brink of a first Portuguese title in almost 20 years.... more »
It was a very good weekend for Atletico Madrid and Bayern Munich as they extended their leads at the top in Spain and Germany respectively, but it remains tight at the top in France and Italy while Portugal's sleeping giants claimed silverware.... more »
Real Madrid hope to put an embarrassing midweek cup exit behind them, while Andre Villas-Boas's future is under scrutiny at Marseille and AC Milan look to keep their rivals in the rearview mirror with Zlatan Ibrahimovic back from injury.... more »
A dispute has broken out between two of Portuguese football's big guns over the handling of coronavirus cases as Benfica reported a raft of positive tests on Tuesday, including Jan Vertonghen and Gian-Luca Waldschmidt.... more »
Police in Portugal have raided Benfica football club as part of a corruption investigation linked to player transfers, the two-time European champions and investigators confirmed on Monday.... more »
Benfica said they have agree to loan Brazilian striker Carlos Vinicius, the top scorer in the Portuguese league last season, to Tottenham for a season.... more »
Argentine left-back Marcos Acuna has signed for Europa League champions Sevilla on a four-year deal from Sporting Lisbon, the Spanish club said Monday.... more »