Sport NEC Benfica

Sport NEC Benfica is a Portuguese Hattrick club based in the Lisbon region. The club was founded on the 30th of January 2009 by NunoEspadinha, under the name Sport Million e Benfica. The 26th Portuguese Season was finishing at that time and the actual name of the club was choosed right after, on 5 of May. NEC stands for Nuno Espadinha Correia, the team owner's name.

Sport NEC Benfica (859313)

HT-User: NunoEspadinha Country: Portugal Region: Lisboa Prize shelf: Arena: NEC Benfica Stadium Fan club: NEC Benfica Boys Owner Website: Hattrick Kits

Club History

Global Season	Portugese Season	League	Taça de Portugal	Goals	Team Top Scorer
42	30	?? in VIII.377	1st Round	- - -	- - -
41	29	3rd in VIII.377	Did Not Compete	62 - 18	Mamede Santos - 8
40	28	1st in IX.731	Did Not Compete	111 - 3	Mamede Santos - 22
39	27	1st in X.1912	Did Not Compete	76 - 7	Mamede Santos - 15
38	26	3rd in X.1912	Did Not Compete	27 - 6	Matias Ligorne - 6

The owner of the club had another Hattrick team in the past, but the serious assumption of the game started in 2009.

Sport NEC Benfica started it's carrer in the end of Portuguese Season 25. The 3rd finishing position on Season 26 was the prize for the basis work started at that time... It was the beginning for a fantastic Season 27 where the team conquered 13 wins, ascending to the first place and the deserved promotion to the Division IX. That was the first Championship title for the NEC Benfica team. The 3 Top Scorers of the season where Sport NEC Benfica players: Mamede Santos got the first prize with 15 goals, followed by Matias Ligorne with 12 and Olivier Degreave, counting 9.

Division IX was a transition period and, incredibly or not, the team showed a fantastic consistency... the final results where the major proof: First place (Second consecutive title) and promotion, 14 wins, an amazing goal average of 111-3... and the 7 (!!!) first Top Scorers of the League - Mamede Santos (22), Jorge Carvão (14), Matias Ligorne (13), Daniel Gonçalves (12), Emílio Vale (9), Emídio Puim (8) and Hugo Gyldenfeldt (8). Bruno Torres was also in the Top 10 with 7 goals scored.

Season 29 represented a big challenge after two consecutive promotions. The team was breathing confidence and the number of fans was increasing day after day. NunoEspadinha always defended the supported growth of the club, so this was a season to get the feet well grounded. Some new players arrived and some others departed... Some young ones ascended to the main team, also. The finishing position was the expected one: a 3rd place, just 3 points behind the first classified team, and heads up for the next season.

Club Colours

Actual Kits

First Kits

Special Kits

Sport NEC Benfica originally wore a green kit with gold trim as their home kit and a white kit with gold trim as their away kit, as most teams without supporter wear.

In July 2009 NunoEspadinha became supporter so a completly new world opened it's doors to the team. A very simple red and white kit became the first personalized one, being the away kit mainly white. Obviously, the influence from the historical portuguese club Sport Lisboa e Benfica is present on the team kits and will always be. The black socks are the remembrance of the first kit used by Benfica back in 1904, year of it's foundation.

Some time after, improved kits were presented to the team fans... Being NunoEspadinha a long time lover of all that involves game graphics, these new kits were a massive improvement to the basic initial ones. Of course that red and white dominated the Home kit design, while the black color present on the Away one is exactly the same as the SL Benfica wears at the 2009/2010 official Portuguese Season. The main sponsor on the back of the shirts is "Sagres", the portuguese beer that is also the favourite one of the team owner.

A very nice conversion of the team logo was made by Eminence and was added to the team kits as soon as it was finished. Honouring this great work NunoEspadinha designed a special kit, completly white, where the logo appears very clear. This kit is used by the team in some special events.

New versions of the kits are already prepared for the next season. A lot of Hattrick Benfica fans already saw them and the reactions were fantastic.

Club Emblem

Sport NEC Benfica

First emblem

Sport NEC Benfica first showed their club emblem to the world in Season 27.
The first emblem is dated from 03-09-2009 and was designed by Mister_CH. It was a simple design but already had most of the elements wanted by NunoEspadinha.

On the making was the official design, which was unveiled on 26 of the same September, 2009. The main colours were red, white and black to match the team kits.
The logo is composed, at the center, by the Benfica Centenarium eagle and lettering. The background transports us to the Sport Liboa e Benfica cathedral, known as Estádio da Luz (Stadium of Light). The logo was designed by ArYus, an esteemed logomaker from Portugal and founder of the OgoLLogO Federation. NunoEspadinha requested that the artist design a modern emblem which portrayed an image related to Benfica, but containing NEC Benfica club name as well as keeping the club colours.

The emblem will suffer a small change in a near future, where the date of the club foundation will be added.

Arena

NEC Benfica Stadium

Sport NEC Benfica play their home games at the NEC Benfica Stadium. When first built, the stadium had a capacity of 12.000.

During the Season 28, expansion work boosted the capacity to 18.555. These works finished on 20-10-2009.

The stadium is actually made up of:

• 10.348 Terraces
• 4.068 Basic Seats
• 3.686 Seats under roof
• 453 Seats in VIP boxes

The first sold out attendance was against FC Dragao on 20-03-2010 (Season 29). Sport NEC Benfica won 4-2 in a League match on that occasion. The stadium has sold out once more since that game, on 29-05-2010 - already Season 30. It was again a League match, this time against AC Expert, and the final result was a victory by 3-1. More attendances like these are expected for the near future and another expansion is being study by the team responsables.

Current Squad

Squad Number	Position	Nationality	Name	Date Joined	Previous Club	Transfer Fee	Junior Team
1	GK		Volodymyr Shireryuk	30-01-2009	- - -	- - -
2	DEF		Tiago Catraio	30-01-2009	- - -	- - -
3	DEF		Ivo Fachada	06-05-2009	La Benzinho Team	2.000 €
4	DEF		Emídio Puim	30-01-2009	- - -	- - -
5	DEF		Olivier Degraeve	26-03-2009	les collègues de marseille	16.500 €
6	MID		Bruno Torres	30-01-2009	- - -	- - -
7	WING		Emílio Vale	30-01-2009	- - -	- - -
8	MID		Hugo Gyldenfeldt	21-04-2009	TSV Bierden	26.003 €
9	FOR		Matias Ligorne	30-01-2009	- - -	- - -
10	WING		Daniel Gonçalves	30-01-2009	- - -	- - -
11	FOR		Jorge Carvão	30-01-2009	- - -	- - -
12	DEF		Acácio Piedade	21-03-2010	.Clube Oriental Lisboa.	313.000 €
13	MID		Basílio Reis Nunes	05-01-2010	F.C.Switch Hunedoara	15.000 €
14	MID		Steve Crisp	21-03-2010	Ante unes	296.000 €
15	WING		Iván Barbarie	06-05-2009	lacigonya	2.000 €
16	MID		Amílcar Borrego	30-01-2009	- - -	- - -
17	WING		Herman Calabaça	30-01-2009	- - -	- - -
18	WING		Kimmo Hankaniemi	21-03-2010	Misty Pitch F.C.	214.000 €
19	FOR		Mamede Santos	30-01-2009	- - -	- - -
20	FOR		Casimiro Silva Figueiredo	05-01-2010	TukuL_GondronG	33.000 €
21	FOR		Wouter Cauwenbergh	21-03-2010	ojo con los resultados	250.000 €
24	GK		Pedro Vidal Correia	15-02-2010	- - -	- - -
25	FOR		Luís Marvão	30-01-2009	- - -	- - -
26	DEF		Roland Spong	17-02-2010	*Loirinhos Fc*	29.000 €
27	MID		Miguel Marco Barroso	16-03-2010	- - -	- - -
29	FOR		Dominik Karolkiewicz	14-01-2010	Skrzaty Domowe	51.000 €
30	FOR		Kasper Łata	14-01-2010	felidan	55.000 €
31	FOR		Jouni Sundberg	21-03-2010	Deportivo Madestry	416.000 €
-	COACH		Lucca Massy	07-05-2009	- - -	- - -

Academy

The Sport NEC Benfica Youth Academy is a project for the future. The team owner and club responsables think that it's still not the right time for such a investment.
Anyway, the club invests 20.000 € every week in it's Junior Team... That bet in the young players already gave some good results in the past, being one of them the goalkeeper Pedro Vidal Correia, which conquered a place in the main team since February 2010.

Silvestre Carocha was the first member of the Junior Team to get a full time contract, on 27-03-2009.

Past players

Name	Nationality	Date Joined	Buying Fee	Previous Club	Transfer Date	Transfer Fee	Destination Club
Juliano Tambor		30-01-2009	- - -	- - -	- - -	- - -	*Ex-Coach*
Andrea Draetta		23-04-2009	- - -	- - -	- - -	- - -	*Ex-Coach*
Artur Grácio		30-01-2009	- - -	- - -	- - -	- - -	*Player fired*
Silvestre Carocha		27-03-2009	- - -	- - -	- - -	- - -	*Player fired*
Aarão Matos		01-07-2009	- - -	- - -	- - -	- - -	*Player fired*
Hektor Hjort		27-03-2009	1.000 €	Partihallers BK	- - -	- - -	*Player fired*
Mark Janssen		27-03-2009	1.000 €	Blue White Army	09-05-2009	1.000 €	Glorioso SLM
Carlos Gaspar		22-04-2009	- - -	- - -	14-07-2009	1.000 €	Macedo_city
Ricardo Poeira		31-07-2009	21.000 €	Penteas_team	03-01-2010	797.000 €	Borel United FC
Frederico Chaves		30-01-2009	- - -	- - -	17-01-2010	3.000 €	Guiness FC
Benevenuto Tereso		30-01-2009	- - -	- - -	20-02-2010	16.000 €	SV Huse
Antenor Sustelo		30-01-2009	- - -	- - -	12-04-2010	15.000 €	Moldavian's Lords
Roberto Silva		01-07-2009	6.000 €	U.D.Belmonte	15-04-2010	310.000 €	TSKA BUCURESTI01
Átila Aires		30-01-2009	- - -	- - -	27-04-2010	1.000 €	KS PrivateTeam

Honours

Global Season	Portuguese Season	Competition Result	Trophy
39	27	1st in X.1912
40	28	1st in IX.731

The club won their first title in Portuguese Season 27 when they won Division X.1912. 13 consecutive wins were the key to the Title.
Portuguese striker Mamede Santos claimed the league Top Goalscorer award with 15 goals.

One season later Sport NEC Benfica added a second winners trophy to their collection when the won Division IX.731 conquering a 100% record, winning all 14 league games.
Again portuguese striker Mamede Santos claimed the league Top Goalscorer award, this time with 22 goals.

Records and Statistics

Hall of Fame

For the time being, there are still no players in the Sport NEC Benfica Hall of Fame.

Most Appearances

• Below is a list of the 20 players with the most appearances for Sport NEC Benfica, as of June 08, 2010:

Place	Nation	Player	Appearances
1		Mamede Santos	75
2		Emílio Vale	74
3		Volodymyr Shireryuk	73
4		Tiago Catraio	71
5		Emídio Puim	71
6		Daniel Gonçalves	71
7		Jorge Carvão	67
8		Matias Ligorne	67
9		Bruno Torres	63
10		Hugo Gyldenfeldt	60
11		Amílcar Borrego	58
12		Iván Barbarie	57
13		Olivier Degraeve	57
14		Herman Calabaça	56
15		Ivo Fachada	49
16		Luís Marvão	47
16		Átila Aires	40
18		Antenor Sustelo	39
19		Frederico Chaves	35
20		Roberto Silva	34

Most Goals

• Below is a list of the Sport NEC Benfica 20 players with the most goals in their careers, as of June 08, 2010:

Place	Nation	Player	Goals
1		Mamede Santos	55
2		Hugo Gyldenfeldt	38
3		Matias Ligorne	36
3		Daniel Gonçalves	35
5		Jouni Sundberg	34
6		Jorge Carvão	29
7		Wouter Cauwenbergh	28
8		Emídio Puim	19
8		Emílio Vale	19
10		Olivier Degreave	15
11		Bruno Torres	14
11		Iván Barbarie	14
13		Kimmo Hankaniemi	13
14		Amílcar Borrego	10
15		Tiago Catraio	9
16		Casimiro Silva Figueiredo	8
17		Steve Crisp	7
18		Dominik Karolkiewicz	6
19		Roland Spong	5
19		Ivo Fachada	5

Flag Collection

Sport NEC Benfica have been seriously chasing flags since Portuguese Season 27. The team owner is mostly interested in hosting matches... travels will come in the future.

• Below is a chart of their Hosted International Friendlies. Sometimes, more than one team from the same country played at the NEC Benfica Stadium - This table consists only on the first team hosted from each country, because these were the matches that counted for the flag conquer.
  

This big list is increasing it's size every week that passes, since NunoEspadinha continues to schedule a lot of friendly matches with new countries...

Country Hosted	Flag	Team Name	Date	Origin
Portugal		mucifal st	25-02-2009	Challenge
Belgium		FC de supporters	08-04-2009	Challenge
Italy		Interpersempre	20-05-2009	Challenge
Spain		FCBarcelona United	17-06-2009	Challenge
Chile		Los Comparishis	24-06-2009	Challenge
Uruguay		foxdos	01-07-2009	Challenge
Israel		FC Vultures	15-07-2009	Challenge
Argentina		El academico sj	22-07-2009	Challenge
Bosnia & Herzegovina		Mostar NDBL	29-07-2009	Challenge
Poland		Zadziory z mysiej nory	05-08-2009	Challenge
Romania		Nottingham Hood	02-09-2009	Challenge
Germany		Eurofighter04	09-09-2009	Challenge
Czech Republic		zenga team	16-09-2009	Challenge
Croatia		HNK S.Brod	23-09-2009	Challenge
Sweden		Cibbas Allstar	30-09-2009	Challenge
Brazil		Ernandes FC	07-10-2009	Challenge
Turkey		Kum Adaları	21-10-2009	Challenge
Switzerland		Hendorra FC	11-11-2009	Challenge
Luxembourg		V.I.F.T	25-11-2009	Challenge
Mexico		CF Monterrey	02-12-2009	Challenge
England		The Mighty Imps	16-12-2009	Challenge
France		RCPSG	23-12-2009	Challenge
The Nederlands		fritsiej	30-12-2009	Challenge
Russia		boniki	13-01-2010	Challenge
Venezuela		Mamoyoyo F.C.	20-01-2010	Challenge
Finland		FC Jigi	27-01-2010	Challenge
Peru		Injertos de S. Borja	03-02-2010	Challenge
33	21		12		1
32	20		11		2
31	19		4		5
30	18		3		5

Total number of flags attained in away matches: 42 of 120.

Total number of flags attained in home matches: 19 of 120.

Achievements

Team Achievements

	Date	Achievement	Points	How common
	04/12/2006	Pulled a youth player	10	1231756
	09/12/2006	Sold player	10	950909
	14/12/2006	Bought player	10	1146885
	29/12/2006	Player's skill increased	10	1231178
	22/03/2007	Fan club size reached 1016 members	5	440180
	02/04/2007	Team was ranked 401	40	50792
	16/06/2007	Cash is king	5	400712
	14/07/2007	Rebought a youth player	10	16400
	17/07/2007	Sold a youth player	10	22774
	16/02/2008	Squad total TSI reached 36140	5	252622

Match Achievements

	Date	Achievement	Points	How common
	03/01/2007	Played international friendly match	10	844394
	10/01/2007	Youthful lineup	35	2819
	21/02/2007	Veteran lineup	35	1153
	20/05/2007	Team reached an average match rating of weak	4	381157
	24/06/2007	Academy lineup	35	228
	04/07/2007	Home-grown lineup	25	749452
	17/01/2008	Team reached 33,5 stars in a match	10	373314

Manager Achievements

	Date	Achievement	Points	How common
	25/02/2007	Wrote a press announcement	10	181918
	25/02/2007	Wrote a conference post	10	511446
	15/06/2007	Founded federation, received 145 members	20	66

Special Awards

	Date	Achievement	Points	How common when achieved
	04/08/2007	Dishonest Squad	15	10
	11/08/2007	Honest Squad	15	4
	01/09/2007	Nasty Squad	15	12
	15/09/2007	Nice Squad	15	27

Total 369 of 1260 possible points

Federations

Kelenehan and LFS Corinthians are proud members of the following HT Federations.

• Achievement & Flagchasers Friendly Federation (AFFF)

Kelenehan is the founder and President of the Achievement & Flagchasers Friendly Federation (AFFF) AllianceID: 61597. This Federation was founded on the 10th of May 2007 and has over 330 members from 84 nations. The Federation aims to help all flag fans to find friendlies with teams from other nations and to help members find achievements. The federation is limited to 6 members from each HT nation.

• Paddy says: BUY IRISH!© (PSBI)

Following the ideas the initial founder had for this federation; a long-term effort to improve the irish national squads by insuring that all irishmen get their training, and on home ground! PSBI is also a federation where you can discuss tactics, post requests, locate irish players via scout reports, participate in the annual youth pull challenge or just talk shite. If your federation thinks that they got what it takes, challenge us! Contact Philler or our PFCO KieranQ.

• Friends around the World (FATW)

Friends around the World is a federation that represents managers who plan to play Hattrick for a long time and who strive to play in the Top Divisions and Hattrick Masters. Each manager represents their country and only a maximum of 3 managers per country will be accepted.

• Small_Countries_Federation (SMACOFED)

All teams from countries of under 1500 active users are welcome with no limit on the number of teams per small country and no exceptions made for teams from larger countries. Join us to arrange friendlies, share tips and experiences from the perspective of playing in a small country and don't forget to join in with the conference!

External links

• LFS Corinthians Official site
• Lenehan Financial Services
• Official AFFF Site
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