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	Season Best 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

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 was 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. After the 3rd sold out attendance, against F.C. Barreiro, the team owner decided that that was the right time to make some rebuilding again. Works started at 15-06-2010. The stadium acomodate now 30.000 souls...

NEC Benfica Stadium

Actually, the stadium is made up of:

• 17.815 Terraces
• 7.136 Basic Seats
• 4.349 Seats under roof
• 700 Seats in VIP boxes

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
Colombia		Real Bogota FC	10-02-2010	Challenge
Norway		Superiority FC	17-02-2010	Challenge
Austria		FC Sunny Wien	24-02-2010	Challenge
United States of America		Rockie FC	03-03-2010	Challenge
Oceania		Fortuna Düsseldorf FC	10-03-2010	Challenge
Hungary		teglagyar	17-03-2010	Challenge
Canada		ASHccheck	24-03-2010	Challenge
Scotland		Dinamo Div	31-03-2010	Challenge
FYR Macedonia		Mirkovci	07-04-2010	Forum Contact
Panama		Furia Verdolaga	14-04-2010	Challenge
Armenia		FC Real Forever	28-04-2010	AFFF Lottery
Serbia		Labudnjaca-Vajska	05-05-2010	Challenge
South Africa		Sparklings	12-05-2010	KFFF Lottery
Ireland		Top Dogs FC	26-05-2010	Match for Kits
Malta		Malta Stars	02-06-2010	Match for Kits
Kazakhstan		FC Necromancer	09-06-2010	AFFF Lottery

Country Visited	Flag	Team Name	Date	Origin
Italy		martinez's eleven	05-05-2009	Challenge
Portugal		juv. acad. pessegueirense	27-05-2009	Challenge
Serbia		F.K. Železničar	03-06-2009	Challenge
Turkey		Ks.aTTacK	10-06-2009	Challenge
Spain		Berberechos S.A.	08-07-2009	Challenge

Total number of flags attained in away matches: 5 of 124.
Total number of flags attained in home matches: 43 of 124.

Achievements

Team Achievements

	Date	Achievement	Points
	26-03-2009	Bought player	10
	27-03-2009	Scouted a new player	10
	23-04-2009	Player's skill increased	10
	02-05-2009	The money on your account exceeded 500.000 €	5
	09-05-2009	Sold player	10
	14-07-2009	Sold a youth player	10
	24-10-2009	Total TSI of the squad exceeded 30.000	5
	23-11-2009	Team was ranked amongst the top 25.000	5
	25-01-2010	Fan club size exceeded 1.000 members	5

Match Achievements

	Date	Achievement	Points
	01-02-2009	Home-grown lineup	25
	08-04-2009	Played international friendly match	35
	21-06-2009	Team reached an average match rating of weak	4
	16-05-2010	Team reached at least 40 stars in a match	15

Manager Achievements

	Date	Achievement	Points
	26-03-2009	Wrote a forum post	10
	13-05-2009	Wrote a press announcement	10

Special Awards

	Date	Achievement	Points
	- - -	Team has 0 expenses (deleted achievement)	15

Total 16 of 30 possible achievements
Total 144 of 983 possible points

Federations

NunoEspadinha and Sport NEC Benfica are proud members of the following HT Federations.

AFFF

• Achievement & Flagchasers Friendly Federation - AFFF

This Federation was founded on the 10th of May 2007 and has over 290 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.

KFFF

• Kits and Friendlies For Free - KFFF

KFFF is a federation where you can get kits for your team. You can also get nice friendly games vs teams from rare or semi-rare countries like Bahrain, Brunei, Armenia, Salvador, Nigeria, Chinese Taipei, Jamaica, South Africa, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and much more via competitions or lotteries in this federation!

FSLB

• Federação Sport Lisboa e Benfica - FSLB

This federation is made by Sport Lisboa e Benfica fans. The main objective is to talk about the club every day aspects, being football or every other sport. It's also a friendly place, where people now each other and where some real events are scheduled from times to times: lunches, live football meetings, etc.

OgoLLogO

• Federação Portuguesa de Logos HT - OgoLLogO

In this federation you can request for free a logo/emblem for your team. It's composed by a dynamic group of designers and the rest of the logo requesters. It has a very good atmosphere and a forum where you can discuss a lot of different topics and questions.

Hatsticks

• Hatsticks - Hatsticks

The official federation that makes the HT World Cup virtual stickers albuns. Counting more than 1100 members, this is the place where people debates all the issues around these virtual collections. A lot of fun and the priceless secret codes hunting are the major features of this group.

External links

• Official AFFF Site