Benfica will be hosting an open practice for club members on Saturday July 6, 2019 at 10:30am at their Seixal caixa futebol campus. The practice will take place at campus #1 on a first come first serve basis. Club members are able to acquire tickets at a variety of locations from July 4 at 9am to July 5 at 9pm. This will be the clubs first open practice to club members for the 2019/20 season.
Benfica have officially opened their training camp yesterday in Lisbon with 23 players reporting for physicals. Benfica will have more players join by the end of the week as players finish off their holidays due to international duties after the season. Benfica will be playing five pre-season games before facing Sporting in the Super Cup on August 4. Benfica will have their presentation game at home on July 10 and will play one more game in Portugal before leaving for North America to participate in the International Champions Cup.
Benfica pre-season schedule
July 10/19 vs Anderlecht
July 13/19 vs Academica
July 20/19 vs Chivas
July 25/19 vs Fiorentina
July 28/19 vs AC Milan
Benfica have re-acquired midfielder Chiquinho from Moreirense for €4.5M and sign him for five seasons. Benfica acquired the 23 year old midfielder in the summer of 2018 from Academica for €600,000 and then released him to join Moreirense with first option to buy if the Northern club were to sell the player. Chiquinho had a break out season playing for Moreirense, his first in the Portuguese league and appeared in all 34 league games. Chiquinho scored eight times while setting up seven goals last season and was the runner up to player of the month on two occasions, while also finishing third on another.
