1993–94 S.L. Benfica season

The season that celebrated its 90th anniversary was also one of the club most tumultuous periods in recent history. In the summer, Paulo Sousa, João Pinto and António Pacheco unilaterally terminated their contracts, claiming unpaid salaries. While Pinto was successfully resigned with a pay increase, both Sousa and Pacheco never went back on their decision, subsequently moving to Lisbon rivals Sporting CP.

Sousa had been a frequent starter for Benfica, playing 35 games in the previous season and having joined the club as a 16-year-old.{{sfn|Tovar|2012|p=523}} Pacheco was utilized more as a substitute, but had still amassed over 160 league games for Benfica.{{sfn|Tovar|2012|p=738}} The players' "betrayal" and the increase in tension between the old rivals was labelled "Hot Summer of 1993", a clever throwback to the troubled times of the PREC, the post revolution in 1975.{{cite web|title=Verão Quente... de 1993!|trans-title=Hot Summer...of 1993|url=http://seistofosseverdade.blogspot.pt/2008/02/vero-quente-de-1993.html|work=Se isto fosse verdade|language=pt|date=29 February 2008|access-date=3 September 2015}}{{cite news|title=Verão quente de 93: Raptos, esconderijos e muito suspense|trans-title=Hot Summer of 1993: Kidnappings, hideouts and a lot of suspense|url=http://planetaslbenfica.blogspot.pt/2013/06/verao-quente-de-93-raptos-esconderijos.html|work=Planeta Benfica|language=pt|date=22 June 2013|access-date=3 September 2015}}

With almost no new signings, and having lost Sousa, Pacheco and Paulo Futre, the team led by Toni was not seen as favourite in the title race.{{sfn|Tovar|2012|p=524}} The season opened with the 1993 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, and with a win for both sides, a third match would be necessary.{{sfn|Tovar|2012|p=530}} In the league, Benfica started by sharing points with Porto in O Clássico, but then tied again against much easier opponents, like Estoril and Beira-Mar; both clubs that played a crucial role in the previous season's title race.{{sfn|Tovar|2012|p=520}} On the late part of September, the first win in the Primeira Liga kick-started a series of consecutive wins that helped the club climb from eighth in the league to first.{{sfn|Tovar|2012|p=525}} A big loss in Setúbal served as warning, with the Lisbon-side then adding more consecutive wins, opening a three-point gap by the New Year.{{sfn|Tovar|2012|p=526}}

In the first month of 1994, the club lost points against Gil Vicente and was eliminated from the Taça de Portugal by Belenenses,{{sfn|Tovar|2012|p=529}} though this was not enough to stop their momentum, continuing to defend their first place with consecutive wins.{{sfn|Tovar|2012|p=527}} In early March, with successive draws in the league and a hard-fought 4–4 draw in the quarter-finals of the Cup Winners' Cup,{{cite web|title=Recorde o 4-4 entre Benfica e Bayer Leverkusen|trans-title=Remember the 4-4 between Benfica and Bayer Leverkusen|url=http://www.publico.pt/desporto/noticia/recorde-o-44-entre-benfica-e-bayer-leverkusen-1578161|work=Publico.pt|language=pt|date=20 December 2012|access-date=3 September 2015}} the club look like would be surpass by Sporting on the title race, with the distance now reduced to just one point.{{sfn|Tovar|2012|p=527}} A loss against Salgueiros in April put both clubs equal on points, while in the European stage, the club was defeated by Parma in the semi-finals.{{sfn|Tovar|2012|p=529}}{{cite news|title=Benfica-2 Parma-1 de 1994|trans-title=Benfica 2-1 Parma in 1994|url=http://memoriagloriosa.blogspot.pt/2007/10/benfica-2-parma-1-de-1994.html|work=Memória Gloriosa|language=pt|date=22 October 2007|access-date=3 September 2015}}

Benfica entered the Lisbon derby on 14 May with just a one-point advantage in the league table, knowing that a loss would cost them first place. João Pinto had one of his best performances with Benfica, scoring a hat-trick that effectively ended the title race in his club's favour.{{sfn|Tovar|2012|p=524}} Only a few days later, away against Braga, the club secured its 30th league title, celebrating with the fans at the sold out Estádio Primeiro de Maio.{{sfn|Tovar|2012|p=528}}{{cite news|title=Época 1993/94|trans-title=1993/94 Season|url=http://gloria-vermelha.blogspot.pt/2005/06/poca-199394-desempenhocampeonato-da-1.html|work=Glória Vermelha|language=pt|access-date=3 September 2015}}

Carlos Mozer, an undisputed starter during the season, narrated the events in the club almanac: "We won the title with great difficulty, because Sporting had a young but good team, while Porto had the experience. At Benfica, our squad was strong. There were veterans like William, Veloso and Isaías, that taught the younger ones, like Rui Costa or João Pinto; who still had the will and pace to run all game. The coach was Toni, who I knew back from 1989. Benfica did not start well, and amassed three straight draws. Then he started winning in a awful manner. We did not play well, but we were winning games, until the notorious game in Alvalade, the 6–3. Everybody said that Sporting was going to win, because they had a younger team, and we were older; so we would not endure the difficult terrain. When everything looked like to be on their favour; we, with great calm and experience, reversed the game with a great performance from João Pinto. In that season, I also remember the campaign in the Cup Winners' Cup. We reach the semi-finals, after that crazy 4–4 in Leverkusen. We were drawn against Parma, and the Italians were always difficult. We won in the Estádio da Luz, but there, in Italy; I was sent-off early, on the 20th minute, with a double yellow. The first was fair, the second was not. If with eleven players was already hard, with one less, it was even harder."{{sfn|Tovar|2012|p=524}}

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|referee = José Pratas

|result = W

}}

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|round = 33

|date = 25 May 1994

|time = 20:30

|team1 = Benfica

|score = 0–0

|report = https://www.foradejogo.net/match.php?match=199415400013307

|team2 = Vitória Guimarães

|goals1 =

|goals2 =

|location = Lisbon

|stadium = Estádio da Luz

|attendance = 120,000

|referee = Carlos Valente

|result = D

}}

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|round = 34

|date = 2 June 1994

|time = 20:00

|team1 = Boavista

|score = 1–0

|report = https://www.foradejogo.net/match.php?match=199415400013407

|team2 = Benfica

|goals1 = Ricky {{goal|80}}

|goals2 =

|location = Porto

|stadium = Estádio do Bessa

|attendance = 30,000

|referee = António Rola

|result = L

}}

{{main|1993–94 Taça de Portugal}}

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|round = {{Tooltip|Fourth Rd|Fourth round}}

|date = 5 December 1993

|time = 18:00

|team1 = Benfica

|score = 4–0

|report = https://www.foradejogo.net/match.php?match=1994154500196231

|team2 = Estoril

|goals1 = Yuran {{goal|19}}
Aílton {{goal|58}}
Andrade {{goal|68|o.g.}}
Paneira {{goal|84}}

|goals2 = Litos {{sentoff|2|44|54}}

|location = Lisbon

|stadium = Estádio da Luz

|attendance = 20,000

|referee = Vítor Pereira

|result = W

}}

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|round = {{Tooltip|Fifth Rd|Fifth round}}

|date = 23 December 1993

|time = 19:45

|team1 = União da Madeira

|aet = yes

|score = 1–5

|report = https://www.foradejogo.net/match.php?match=1994154500195041

|team2 = Benfica

|goals1 = Bosančić {{goal|65|pen.}}

|goals2 = Isaías {{goal|37}}
Águas {{goal|94}}
Rui Costa {{goal|95}}
Aílton {{goal|101||109}}

|location = Funchal

|stadium = Estádio dos Barreiros

|attendance = 8,000

|referee = Veiga Trigo

|result = w

}}

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|round = {{Tooltip|Sixth Rd|Sixth round}}

|date = 30 January 1994

|time = 20:30

|team1 = Os Belenenses

|score = 2–1

|report = https://www.foradejogo.net/match.php?match=1994154500105011

|team2 = Benfica

|goals1 = Airez {{goal|11}}
Luiz Gustavo {{goal|30}}

|goals2 = Pinto {{goal|6}}

|location = Lisbon

|stadium = Estádio do Restelo

|referee = Vítor Pereira

|result = L

}}

{{main|1993–94 European Cup Winners' Cup}}

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|round = First leg

|date=15 September 1993

|time= 19;45

|team1=Benfica {{flagicon|POR}}

|score=1–0

|report= https://www.foradejogo.net/match.php?match=1994300000298131

|team2={{flagicon|POL}} GKS Katowice

|goals1=Águas {{goal|88}}

|goals2=

|stadium=Estádio da Luz, Lisbon

|attendance=10,000{{cite web|title=Benfica - GKS Katowice|url=http://www.worldfootball.net/report/ec-der-pokalsieger-1993-1994-1-runde-sl-benfica-gks-katowice/}}

|referee=Karl Finzinger

|result= W

}}

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|round = Second leg

|date=29 September 1993

|time= 19;45

|team1=GKS Katowice {{flagicon|POL}}

|score=1–1

|aggregatescore=1–2

|report=https://www.foradejogo.net/match.php?match=1994300000298132

|team2={{flagicon|POR}} Benfica

|goals1=Kucz {{goal|45}}

|goals2=Paneira {{goal|70}}

|stadium=Stadion GKS Katowice, Katowice

|referee=Aron Schmidhuber

|attendance= 7,000{{cite web|title=GKS Katowice - Benfica|url=http://www.worldfootball.net/report/ec-der-pokalsieger-1993-1994-1-runde-gks-katowice-sl-benfica/}}

|result= D

}}

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|round = First leg

|date=20 October 1993

|time= 19;45

|team1=Benfica {{flagicon|POR}}

|score=3–1

|report=https://www.foradejogo.net/match.php?match=1994300000297051

|team2={{flagicon|BUL}} CSKA Sofia

|goals1=Rui Costa {{goal|27||37}}
Schwarz {{goal|90}}

|goals2=Andonov {{goal|60}}

|stadium=Estádio da Luz, Lisbon

|attendance=40,000{{cite web|title=Benfica - CKSA Sofia|url=http://www.worldfootball.net/report/ec-der-pokalsieger-1993-1994-2-runde-sl-benfica-cska-sofia/}}

|referee= Patrick Kelly

|result = W

}}

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|round = Second leg

|date=3 November 1993

|time=19;45

|team1=CSKA Sofia {{flagicon|BUL}}

|score=1–3

|aggregatescore=6–2

|report=https://www.foradejogo.net/match.php?match=1994300000297052

|team2={{flagicon|POR}} Benfica

|goals1=Andonov {{goal|56}}

|goals2=Rui Costa {{goal|32}}
Pinto {{goal|73}}
Yuran {{goal|88}}

|stadium=Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia

|attendance=20,000{{cite web|title=CSKA Benfica|url=http://www.worldfootball.net/report/ec-der-pokalsieger-1993-1994-2-runde-cska-sofia-sl-benfica/}}

|referee=Rune Pedersen

|result = W

}}

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|round = First leg

| date = {{Start date|1994|3|1|df=y}}

| time = 21:15

| team1 = Benfica {{flagicon|POR}}

| team2 = {{flagicon|GER}} Bayer Leverkusen

| score = 1–1

| goals1 = Isaías {{goal|90}}

| goals2 = Happe {{goal|66}}

| stadium = Estádio da Luz, Lisbon

| attendance = 80,000{{cite web |url=http://www.worldfootball.net/spielbericht/ec-der-pokalsieger-1993-1994-viertelfinale-sl-benfica-bayer-leverkusen/ |title=SL Benfica vs Bayer Leverkusen |publisher=Worldfootball.net |access-date=23 March 2012}}

| referee = Pierluigi Pairetto (Italy)

| report = https://web.archive.org/web/20040513202140/http://www.uefa.com/Competitions/ECWC/AllTimeStatistics/season%3D1993/Round%3D138/match%3D50463/index.html

|result = D

}}

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|round = Second leg

| date = {{Start date|1994|3|15|df=y}}

| time = 20:30

| team1 = Bayer Leverkusen {{flagicon|GER}}

| team2 = {{flagicon|POR}} Benfica

| score = 4–4

|aggregatescore=5–5

| goals1 = Kirsten {{goal|24||80}}
Schuster {{goal|57}}
Hapal {{goal|82}}

| goals2 = Xavier {{goal|59}}
Pinto {{goal|60}}
Kulkov {{goal|78||85}}

| stadium = Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion, Leverkusen

| attendance = 21,000{{cite web |url=http://www.worldfootball.net/spielbericht/ec-der-pokalsieger-1993-1994-viertelfinale-bayer-leverkusen-sl-benfica/ |title=Bayer Leverkusen vs SL Benfica |publisher=Worldfootball.net |access-date=23 March 2012}}

| referee = James McCluskey (Scotland)

| report = https://web.archive.org/web/20040513202144/http://www.uefa.com/Competitions/ECWC/AllTimeStatistics/season%3D1993/Round%3D138/match%3D50464/index.html

|result = D

}}

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|round = First leg

| date = {{Start date|1994|3|29|df=y}}

| time = 21:00

| team1 = Benfica {{flagicon|POR}}

| team2 = {{flagicon|ITA}} Parma

| score = 2–1

| goals1 = Isaías {{goal|11}}
Rui Costa {{goal|60}}

| goals2 = Zola {{goal|13}}

| stadium = Estádio da Luz, Lisbon

| attendance = 80,000{{cite web |url=http://www.worldfootball.net/spielbericht/ec-der-pokalsieger-1993-1994-halbfinale-sl-benfica-parma-fc/ |title=SL Benfica vs Parma AC |publisher=Worldfootball.net |access-date=21 March 2012}}

| referee = Bernd Heynemann (Germany)

| report = https://web.archive.org/web/20040513203833/http://www.uefa.com/Competitions/ECWC/AllTimeStatistics/season%3D1993/Round%3D139/match%3D50545/index.html

|result = w

}}

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|round = Second leg

|date = {{Start date|1994|4|13|df=y}}

| time = 17:45

| team1 = Parma {{flagicon|ITA}}

| team2 = {{flagicon|POR}} Benfica

| score = 1–0

|aggregatescore = 2–2

| goals1 = Sensini {{goal|74}}

| goals2 = Mozer {{sentoff|2|0|33}}

| stadium = Stadio Ennio Tardini, Parma

| attendance = 21,500{{cite web |url=http://www.worldfootball.net/spielbericht/ec-der-pokalsieger-1993-1994-halbfinale-parma-fc-sl-benfica/ |title=Parma AC vs SL Benfica |publisher=Worldfootball.net |access-date=21 March 2012}}

| referee = Mario van der Ende (Netherlands)

| report = https://web.archive.org/web/20040104180823/http://www.uefa.com/Competitions/ECWC/AllTimeStatistics/season%3D1993/Round%3D139/match%3D50546/index.html

|result = L

}}

{{cite book|author1=António Manuel Morais|author2=Carlos Perdigão|author3=João Loureiro|author4=José de Oliveira Santos|title=Benfica: 90 Anos de História|date=1994|publisher=SOGAPAL|page=261|language=pt}}

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|round =

|date = 31 July 1993

|time =

|team1 = Manchester United

|score = 0–1

|report =

|team2 = Benfica

|goals1 =

|location = Manchester

|stadium = Old Trafford

|attendance =

|referee =

|result = W

}}

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|round =

|date = 3 August 1993

|time =

|team1 = Benfica

|score = 2–1

|report =

|team2 = Cruzeiro

|goals1 =

|goals2 =

|location = Lisbon

|stadium = Estádio da Luz

|attendance =

|referee =

|result = W

}}

{{Football box collapsible

|round = Pepsi Cup

|date = 18 August 1993

|time =

|team1 = Benfica

|score = 2–1

|report =

|team2 = Barcelona

|goals1 = Rui Águas {{goal|49}}
Aílton Delfino {{goal|72}}

|goals2 = {{goal|55}} Romário

|location = Lisbon

|stadium = Estádio da Luz

|attendance =

|referee =

|result = W

}}

The squad for the season consisted of the players listed in the tables below, as well as staff member Toni(manager){{cite web|title=Squad 1993-94|url=http://www.worldfootball.net/teams/sl-benfica/1994/2/|publisher=worldfootball.net}}{{sfn|Tovar|2012|p=531}}

{{small|Note 1: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.}}

{{small|Note 2: Players with squad numbers marked ‡ joined the club during the 1992-93 season via transfer, with more details in the following section.}}

{{Efs start|Primeira Divisão|Taça de Portugal|Cup Winners' Cup|Supertaça}}

{{Efs player|no=1|nat=POR|name=Silvino|pos=GK|1|0|3|-3|0|0|0|0}}

{{Efs player|no=1|nat=POR|name=Neno|pos=GK|33|-24|0|0|8|-10|0|-1}}

{{Efs player|no=2|nat=POR|name=António Veloso|pos=DF|21|0|2|0|5|0|2|0}}

{{Efs player|no=2|nat=POR|name=Abel Xavier|pos=DF|25|1|0|0|8|1|0|0}}

{{Efs player|no=2|nat=POR|name=Abel Silva|pos=DF|12|0|3|0|0|0|2|0}}

{{Efs player|no=3{{Sup|‡}}|nat=YUG|name=Jovo Simanić|pos=DF|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0}}

{{Efs player|no=4|nat=POR|name=Nuno Afonso|pos=DF|1|0|0|0|0|0|0|0}}

{{Efs player|no=4|nat=POR|name=Hélder|pos=DF|32|2|3|0|6|0|2|0}}

{{Efs player|no=4|nat=BRA|name=William|pos=DF|8|1|0|0|5|0|0|0}}

{{Efs player|no=5|nat=BRA|name=Carlos Mozer|pos=DF|29|3|3|0|7|0|2|0}}

{{Efs player|no=5|nat=SWE|name=Stefan Schwarz|pos=MF|23|1|2|0|6|1|0|0}}

{{Efs player|no=6|nat=RUS|name=Vasili Kulkov|pos=MF|21|2|2|0|3|2|0|0}}

{{Efs player|no=7|nat=POR|name=Vítor Paneira|pos=MF|32|6|3|1|8|1|2|0}}

{{Efs player|no=8|nat=POR|name=João Pinto|pos=MF|34|15|2|1|8|2|2|0}}

{{Efs player|no=9|nat=POR|name=Rui Águas|pos=FW|25|6|3|1|4|1|2|1}}

{{Efs player|no=9|nat=RUS|name=Sergei Yuran|pos=FW|20|4|2|1|5|1|2|0}}

{{Efs player|no=10|nat=POR|name=Rui Costa|pos=MF|34|5|3|1|8|4|2|0}}

{{Efs player|no=11|nat=BRA|name=Isaías|pos=MF|26|13|1|1|8|2|2|0}}

{{Efs player|no=11{{Sup|‡}}|nat=BRA|name=Aílton Delfino|pos=FW|28|11|3|3|2|0|0|0}}

{{Efs player|no=11|nat=POR|name=César Brito|pos=FW|15|1|1|0|5|0|2|0}}

{{Efs player|no=12{{Sup|‡}}|nat=POR|name=Paulo Santos|pos=GK|1|-1|0|0|0|0|0|0}}

{{Efs player|no=16|nat=RUS|name=Aleksandr Mostovoi|pos=MF|0|0|0|0|0|0|1|0}}

{{Efs player|no=17|nat=POR|name=Pedro Henriques|pos=DF|1|0|0|0|0|0|0|0}}

{{Efs player|no=18|nat=POR|name=Hernâni Neves|pos=FW|1|0|1|0|2|0|1|0}}

{{Efs player|no=22|nat=POR|name=Daniel Kenedy|pos=DF|14|0|2|0|2|0|0|0}}

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{{Reflist}}

Bibliography

• {{cite book | last=Tovar |first=Rui Miguel | title=Almanaque do Benfica| publisher=Lua de Papel |location=Portugal| year=2012| isbn=978-989-23-2087-8 }}

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