Founding of S.L. Benfica

Date: February 28, 1904 • Location: Rome, Italy

The most successful football club in Portugal, S.L. Benfica (first team pictured), was founded in Lisbon as Sport Lisboa.

Association football, commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each who mostly use their feet to kick an inflated ball around a pitch.