Meet the Futsal Champions League finalists: SL Benfica
Four past winners will go head to head in the UEFA Futsal Champions League finals at Demirchyan Arena SCC in Yerevan, Armenia on 3 and 5 May. On May 3 Benfica - Palma Futsal will start the semi-final matchday1, later the same day Barça will face Sporting CP.
Benfica, is a professional futsal team based in Lisbon, Portugal, that plays in the Liga Portuguesa de Futsal. Since its creation in 2001, the team has been a constant challenger for the domestic championship, and they won at least one trophy per season between 2005 and 2013. In 2006–07 and 2011–12, Benfica won all Portuguese competitions at the time. Benfica became the first Portuguese team to win the UEFA Futsal Champions League (then "UEFA Futsal Cup"), in 2010, and were ranked first in the competition's ranking two years later. Benfica are vying to join Portuguese rivals Sporting on two titles. Runners-up in 2003/04 and winners in 2009/10 as hosts, they have lost four semi-finals since their home Lisbon triumph.
