All the numbers behind the success of Lisbon's "Águias".
✅ Transfers Balance
22/23 €148m
21/22 €25m
20/21 -€33m
19/20 €175m
18/19 €46m
❗ TOT €361m in 5 years ❗
✅ Record Departures
João Félix €127m ➡ Club Atlético de Madrid
Enzo Fernández €121m ➡ Chelsea Football Club
Darwin Núñez €80m ➡ Liverpool Football Club
Rúben Dias €71m ➡ Manchester City Football Club
Ederson €40m ➡ Manchester City Football Club
✅ Record Arrivals
Enzo Fernández €44m ⬅ Club Atlético River Plate
Darwin Núñez €34m ⬅ UD Almería
Raúl Jiménez €22m ⬅ Club Atlético de Madrid
Sport Lisboa e Benfica has the potential to spend heavily on young talent.
❓ And now ❓
Sport Lisboa e Benfica continues to have great players.
Seven of them have a market valuation of more than €20m.
✅ Most valuable player and <20 y.o. player
1. Gonçalo Ramos €40m
2. Antonio Silva €25m
✅ Total Market value of the roster
Sport Lisboa e Benfica €313m
FC Porto €279m
Sporting Clube de Portugal. €234m
✅ Wages Top 5 player
David Neres €2.1m
Joao Mario €2m
O. Vlachodimos €1.8m
Julian Draxler €1.5m
Gonçalo Guedes €1.35m
☑ Benfica maintains a salary level that makes it easy to transfer its players to richer clubs.
☑ The current most valuable players don't have top wages.
✅ Deloitte Money League Ranking 2023
With €197m in 2022, Sport Lisboa e Benfica has the 24th biggest turnover in Europe.
✅ UEFA Champions League
Despite the fact that the Portuguese league is not one of the Top 5 in Europe, Sport Lisboa e Benfica is certainly a competitor to the big clubs when it comes to signing players.
But the club is also successful on the pitch since it just played in the quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League.
👉 In 7 years ( 2016-2023)
☑ 3 times in the quarterfinals
☑ once in the round of 16
✅ Academy
Value of Benfica B ⏩ €36m
☑ More than Ligue 1 AC Ajaccio ⏩ €27m
☑ More than Reading Football Club and the other six teams in UK Championship ❗
☑ Four times finalists of the UEFA Youth League in the last 8 years.
I will write more about the academy in the coming weeks.
✅ Final Thoughts
Sport Lisboa e Benfica has an explosive combination of:
1. One of the best academies in the world
2. Economic power that makes possible the signing of top talent
3. The guarantee of always playing in European Cups
The result is a successful player-trading strategy without, however, giving up competing on the pitch against the best teams in Europe.
👉 That's why year after year Sport Lisboa e Benfica always has important players and is always an important name in European football.
🇵🇹 Muito bem!
data: TransferMarkt
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