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In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Vieira and the second or paternal family name is Ferreira.

Luís Filipe Vieira
Vieira in 2007
Born	Luís Filipe Vieira Ferreira (1949-06-22) 22 June 1949 (age 75) São Domingos de Benfica, Lisbon, Portugal
Nationality	Portuguese
Occupation	Real estate businessman
Known for	President of S.L. Benfica
Spouse	Vanda Vieira
Children	Tiago Vieira Sara Vieira

Luís Filipe Vieira Ferreira (born 22 June 1949) is a Portuguese real estate businessman and the current president of S.L. Benfica.

Alverca

Vieira began his career in football as president of Futebol Clube de Alverca for a couple of years, at a time when Mantorras was a promising player at the Alverca side, and Alverca was an affiliated and satellite club for parent club S.L. Benfica. Mantorras was later transferred to Benfica.

Benfica

2003–2006

On 31 October 2003, Vieira was elected by the club's associate members (sócios) as the 33rd president of S.L. Benfica, defeating Jaime Antunes and Guerra Madaleno, and succeeding Manuel Vilarinho. Vieira was committed to bring Benfica back to its European glory by becoming European Champions. Months later, Benfica won its first trophy in eight years, the Portuguese Cup with José Antonio Camacho as coach.

In 2005, Vieira stated "If Benfica does not have 300,000 members until October, I will resign". In the 2004–05 season, the club won the Portuguese League with Giovanni Trapattoni as manager, ending an eleven-year drought. In the 2005–06 season, he hired Ronald Koeman as manager with whom Benfica won one Portuguese Super Cup and reached the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League, knocking out defending champions Liverpool. In 2006, Benfica reached 160,000 paying associate members, and was recognized by the Guinness World Records as the largest sports club in the world by number of registered paying associates.

2006–2009

On 27 October 2006, Vieira ran uncontested and was re-elected for a second term by getting 95.6% of the votes. For the 2006–07 season, he hired manager Fernando Santos with whom Benfica did not win any title. Santos was sacked after one match in the following season, being replaced by Camacho, who returned to the club. In September 2006, Vieira stated "Benfica's debt does not scare anyone, let Benfica get to 2011 and you will see that Benfica will be a European colossus, not to say worldwide". In May 2007, Benfica - Futebol, S.A.D. started to be listed on the Portuguese stock exchange Euronext Lisbon.

2009–2012

On 3 July 2009, a total number of 20,672 votes were cast in the presidential elections and Vieira was re-elected with 91.74% of the votes, defeating Bruno Carvalho who got 2.98%. Before winning the elections, he promised a more winning term. In his previous one, Benfica never achieved better than a third place and a League Cup. In his third term, with Jorge Jesus as manager, he won the Portuguese League in the first year, plus another League Cup, but in the following two seasons, the team only managed to retain the League Cup, coming second place in those two years. In 2012 Benfica reached the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League.

2012–present

On 28 September 2012, Vieira became the second president to have the year's accounts flunked in members voting, after Manuel Damásio in 1997. The club presented an €11 million loss, despite heavy earnings in the UEFA Champions League and through sales of players such as Fábio Coentrão and Roberto. Vieira was asked to resign by Benfica members.

On 13 October 2012, he ran for a fourth term and announced the intention to win three Portuguese League, achieve one European final in football, and win a total of 50 titles in other sports. He also promised to broadcast Benfica home games on Benfica TV, therefore not renewing the club's contract with Olivedesportos. On 26 October 2012, Vieira was reelected with 83.02% of votes, defeating Rui Rangel who got 13.83%.

On 7 December 2012, he surpassed Bento Mântua as the president with more days in charge of the club. In 2013, Benfica finished second in the league and were runners-up in the Portuguese Cup and UEFA Europa League. Manager Jesus was contested but remained at the club for two more seasons. In 2014, the club achieved an unprecedented treble of Portuguese League, Portuguese Cup and League Cup, and were again runners-up in the UEFA Europa League. His term in the 2014–15 season was particularly successful in different sports as Benfica won a total 64 titles: 1 international, 41 national and 22 regional.

On 27 October 2016, without opponents, he was reelected for a fifth term, receiving 95.52% of votes, that is 12,503 voters in a total of 13,257.