Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Benfica ta lashe taken Turai na farko a 1961, inda ta doke Barcelona ta lashe Kofin Turai, kuma ta ci nasara ta riƙe taken a shekara mai zuwa bayan ta doke Real Madrid. Bayan haka, sun bayyana a cikin karin fina-finai biyar (1963, 1965, 1968, 1988 da 1990) amma sun kasa dawo da taken. Wadannan asarar karshe da aka yi a jere an danganta su da sanannen la'anar da manajan Hungary Béla Guttmann ya yi a shekarar 1962. Benfica kuma sun buga a cikin uku &lt; a href="UEFA%20Europa%20League"&gt; UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League&lt;/a&gt; wasan karshe (1983
, 2013 da 2014), rasa duka uku.