Liga Portugal · POR · Round 18

Rio Ave
0 - 2 Full time
Benfica

Estádio do Rio Ave Futebol Clube · Vila do Conde

Lineups

Rio Ave3-4-3
CM1Miszta
FP23Petrasso
JB32Brabec
NA6Abbey
JT20Tome
AN5⚽↓72'Ntoi
BA10↓80'Aguilera
NA3↓72'Athanasiou
AL11↓72'Luiz
C9Clayton
DS18↓80'Spikic
AT1Trubin
AD17Dedic
TA44Araujo
NO30Otamendi
SD26Dahl
LB18⚽Barreiro
FA8Aursnes
GP25↓78'Prestianni
GS10↓90'Sudakov
AS21↓62'Schjelderup
VP14Pavlidis
Benfica4-2-3-1

Rio Ave substitutes

80 Ole Pohlmann 6.1 ↑72'
44 Tamas Nikitscher 6.3 ↑72'
19 Antonis Papakanellos 5.9 ↑72'
54 Giorgos Liavas 6.4 ↑80'
7 Diogo Bezerra 6.3 ↑80'
22 Kevin Chamorro
4 Jonathan Panzo
77 Omar Richards
14 Karem Zoabi

Coach: Sotiris Sylaidopoulos · Unavailable: Theofanis Bakoulas (injury)

Benfica substitutes

15 Sidny Lopes Cabral 6.5 ↑62'
84 Joao Rego 6.0 ↑78'
16 Manu Silva ↑90'
50 Diogo Ferreira
4 Antonio Silva
62 Jose Neto
5 Enzo Barrenechea
27 Bruma
9 Franjo Ivanovic

Coach: José Mourinho · Unavailable: Henrique Araujo (injury), Richard Rios (injury), Samuel Soares (injury), Alexander Bah (injury), Joao Veloso (injury), Dodi Lukebakio (injury)

Match events

16'Leandro Barreiro assist: Georgiy Sudakov 0 - 1⚽
25'Andreas-Richardos Ntoi (own goal) 0 - 2⚽
Second half
59'Andreas Schjelderup
62'↑ Sidny Lopes Cabral ↓ Andreas Schjelderup⇄
66'Andreas-Richardos Ntoi
72'↑ Antonis Papakanellos ↓ Nikolaos Athanasiou⇄
72'↑ Tamas Nikitscher ↓ Andreas-Richardos Ntoi⇄
72'↑ Ole Pohlmann ↓ Andre Luiz⇄
78'↑ Joao Rego ↓ Gianluca Prestianni⇄
80'↑ Diogo Bezerra ↓ Dario Spikic⇄
80'↑ Giorgos Liavas ↓ Brandon Aguilera⇄
90'↑ Manu Silva ↓ Georgiy Sudakov⇄
90+1'Samuel Dahl

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Match details

CompetitionLiga Portugal
Kick-off (UTC)Saturday, 17 January 2026, 20:30 UTC — shown in your local time at the top of this page
StatusFinished

Line-ups, match events and the head-to-head record for this fixture are shown on this page where the data feed publishes them.

Head to head

2Rio Ave wins5Draws29Benfica wins

36 past meetings on record. Biggest Rio Ave win: Benfica 5–0 Rio Ave (2024). Biggest Benfica win: Rio Ave 0–3 Benfica (2020).

23 Sep 2025Benfica 1 - 1 Rio AveLiga Portugal
16 Mar 2025Rio Ave 2 - 3 BenficaLiga Portugal
27 Oct 2024Benfica 5 - 0 Rio AveLiga Portugal
17 May 2024Rio Ave 1 - 1 BenficaLiga Portugal
14 Jan 2024Benfica 4 - 1 Rio AveLiga Portugal
2 Apr 2023Rio Ave 0 - 1 BenficaLiga Portugal
8 Oct 2022Benfica 4 - 2 Rio AveLiga Portugal
1 Mar 2021Benfica 2 - 0 Rio AvePrimeira Liga
18 Oct 2020Rio Ave 0 - 3 BenficaPrimeira Liga
17 Jun 2020Rio Ave 1 - 2 BenficaPrimeira Liga
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14 Jan 2020Benfica 3 - 2 Rio AveCup
2 Nov 2019Benfica 2 - 0 Rio AvePrimeira Liga
12 May 2019Rio Ave 2 - 3 BenficaPrimeira Liga
6 Jan 2019Benfica 4 - 2 Rio AvePrimeira Liga
15 Sep 2018Benfica 2 - 1 Rio AveLeague Cup Grp. A
3 Feb 2018Benfica 5 - 1 Rio AvePrimeira Liga
13 Dec 2017Rio Ave 3 - 2 BenficaCup
26 Aug 2017Rio Ave 1 - 1 BenficaPrimeira Liga
7 May 2017Rio Ave 0 - 1 BenficaPrimeira Liga
21 Dec 2016Benfica 2 - 0 Rio AvePrimeira Liga
24 Apr 2016Rio Ave 0 - 1 BenficaPrimeira Liga
20 Dec 2015Benfica 3 - 1 Rio AvePrimeira Liga
21 Mar 2015Rio Ave 2 - 1 BenficaPrimeira Liga
31 Oct 2014Benfica 1 - 0 Rio AvePrimeira Liga
10 Aug 2014Benfica 0 - 0 Rio AveSuper Cup
18 May 2014Benfica 1 - 0 Rio AveCup
7 May 2014Benfica 2 - 0 Rio AveLeague Cup
7 Apr 2014Benfica 4 - 0 Rio AveLiga ZON Sagres
1 Dec 2013Rio Ave 1 - 3 BenficaLiga ZON Sagres
30 Mar 2013Benfica 6 - 1 Rio AveLiga ZON Sagres
11 Nov 2012Rio Ave 0 - 1 BenficaLiga ZON Sagres
29 Apr 2012Rio Ave 2 - 2 BenficaLiga ZON Sagres
16 Dec 2011Benfica 5 - 1 Rio AveLiga ZON Sagres
8 May 2011Rio Ave 1 - 2 BenficaLiga ZON Sagres
26 Jan 2011Rio Ave 0 - 2 BenficaCup
18 Dec 2010Benfica 5 - 2 Rio AveLiga ZON Sagres