Football business

The US tycoon and investor John Textor told the board of Benfica Football Club (SAD) on Wednesday that he intended to get the club listed on the New York stock exchange. According to Lusa John [...]

Former Benfica president, Luís Filipe Vieira says he doesn’t have the money to pay his debts amounting to €160 million. The ex-football club mogul did so just two weeks before the court deadline [...]

The Lisbon-based Portuguese startup RealFevr has bagged US$1.5 million (€1.2 million) from the sale of non-fungible token (NFT). RealFevr is composed of two dynamic components: the fantasy [...]

Benfica has managed to meet its financial needs by raising the €35 million it needed from a bond issue aimed at small savers, many of them club members and fans. It sold 1,887 bonds despite the [...]

The Portuguese tax payer may have to foot the bill for a €31 million debt to the public bank Caixa Geral de Depósitos taken out by former Benfica football boss Luís Filipe Vieira. The Public [...]

Benfica boss — it’s all over Luís Filipe Vieira, the Benfica boss at the centre of a multimillion euro fraud and tax evasion scandal, has finally officially resigned as president of the football [...]

Luís Filipe Vieira who has temporarily suspended his mandate as president of Benfica Football Club until he clears his name from €100 million fraud and tax evasion charges has been placed under [...]

The Portuguese football boss Luís Filipe Vieira, president of SAD Benfica, has been arrested and quizzed by police investigators over possibly creaming off €2.5 million in commissions as part of [...]